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The ideas factory - Conceptual Photography
Conceptual photography is one of those ways, that you can get your concept across the mind of the viewer using just the contents of a photograph. Conceptual Photography doesn’t need much effort, but just an idea, and you can use any object in front of you to photograph and convey the message. Conceptual Photography is really one of those areas where the creative side of photographer comes in.
The idea factor obviously doesn’t need you to take days and hours thinking about a photograph in order for it to be a great image. This genre is simply where you have to put different types of various things in the field and grab an idea to use that stuff. Indeed Photoshop or other software does come in handy, to give some dramatic effect, but the harder part is capturing and you need to think alot to get something out of it.
The good thing about Conceptual Photography is that it makes healthy use of graphical symbols to represent ideas, movements, moods, anything and everything that the photographer might want to include in the message of their photograph. This experimental photography is amongst the top nowadays and every artist find it more easy to capture simple stuff and bring out a concept of it.
In the end, I would still say conceptual photography is known to be one of the most creative genre of photography. Partly because it is harder as compared to other genres, but mostly because it takes a lot of time and patience to get that perfect conceptual shot.
It's all about an idea. Isn’t it?
Article made by Demortalz
Edited by Demon Mathiel
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