Basics of fine-art photography



The textbook addressed to those who are taking their first steps in photography. The author is more of a practitioner than a theoretician; in addition — the traveler and a supporter of hobo tourism, where, by the way, expensive and bulky photographic equipment is highly undesirable. But this postulate applies not only to long-term expeditions, which including several overseas countries; expensive equipment is the enemy of a novice photographer: after all, you set yourself the goal of creating conceptual artwork, and not showing off professional equipment to friends, right?

The difference between this textbook and many similar ones is that it does not burden the reader with a lot of information and complex terms: the main idea of ​​each article is concentrated in two or three paragraphs, and the intended result can be seen in the author’s works attached to the articles. Experience will come with time, you just need to improve it with constant practice. If your goal is to earn money by mastering the art of photography, just close the page: we are not on the way.

Creator of textbook — Russian photographer/photoartist Viktor Pinchuk, the author of 11 personal exhibitions and art-album "NUances of fantasy". All illustrations are made by the author of textbook.

Content

 * Abstract photography
 * Archaeological photography
 * Candid photography
 * Conceptual photography
 * Documentary photography
 * Exotic (extraordinary) dishes, photography of
 * Experimental photography
 * Genre photography
 * High-key lighting
 * Homeless people photography
 * Humanistic photography
 * Interior photography in hobo tours
 * Macro photography
 * Minimalist photography
 * Narrative photography
 * Necrophoto (photo associated with death)
 * Neosurrealism photography
 * Low-key photography
 * Night photography
 * Nude photography (art)
 * Landscape photography
 * Panoramic photography
 * Pictorialism
 * Portrait photography
 * Realism in photography
 * Reportage photography
 * Retro photo
 * Ruins photography
 * Self-portrait
 * Staged photography
 * Straight (pure) photography
 * Travel photography
 * Street photography
 * Photoart
 * Ethnographic photo genre

Important information

 * /Photo artist/ — who is this and how differs from a photographer.

Personal exhibitions by the textbook author

 * /Egypt and Egyptians/ — Artist's House, Simferopol — 2005, June
 * /Egypt and Egyptians II/ — Simferopol Art Museum — 2006, February
 * /Lights of Moscow/ — Russian Cultural Center, Simferopol — 2006, June
 * /Ethiopia through the eyes of traveler/ — Artist's House, Simferopol — 2006, October
 * /On the roads of India/ — Artist's House, Simferopol — 2007, April
 * /14 days in Mongolia/ — Russian Cultural Center, Simferopol — 2007, October
 * /Uganda: tribes and civilization/ — Artist's House, Simferopol — 2008, June
 * /Tribes of Kenya/ — Central Museum of Taurida, Simferopol — 2012, March
 * /Egypt and Egyptians III/ — Russian Cultural Center, Simferopol — 2012, September
 * /January in Japan/ — Central Museum of Taurida, Simferopol — 2013, October
 * /Hitchhiking across Sudan/ — Museum of Simferopol History — 2014, July
 * /Afghanistan, 2008/ — Crimean Ethnographic Museum — 2023, February