Image Bank - Fine Art

Fine art photography is produced for sale or displayed rather than one that is produced in response to a commercial commission. In basic words it is a photo that looks visually attractive, it's worthy of being framed etc. Most fine art photography will take the form of landscapes or portraiture work. It might also include still-life photography, food photography and wildlife photography, for example. Fine art photography may also look to challenge the idea of what is deemed as 'pretty' or visually attractive. 

I particularly think that colours are an important part of fine art photography - either they're bright and eye-catching, or they are quite dull to produce a very gloomy, specific mood. With the top two images, I think that the use of colour is really important - they are warm, rich tones which really help to catch the attention of any viewer, and would definitely, for example, brighten up any room if it were framed and hung up for everyone to look at. The use of the sun/light in the first picture also looks really effective as it helps to show form - the light creates shadows along the clouds really nicely and would make the photo really stand out if it was framed in a room.

I think that the bottom left photo looks really effective as fine art because it kind of challenges the concept with the use of dark gloomy colours and tones, and also the concept of the pose. Due to the tones in the photo, the pose looks as if the model is drowning, which ordinarily wouldn't be a 'pretty' subject to photograph and frame, but actually it works, because the lighting and the form makes the model look like a 'perfect' image.