Tuesday 28 May 2013

Fantasy -- Annie Leibovitz

Hey there!
Today I'm going to talk about FANTASY!
Probably the best example for a fashion-photographer who works with fantasy-themed photographs is Annie Leibovitz:

Annie Leibovitz is a famous photographer who is not just taking fashion-photographs.
For many years she worked at the music magazine "RollingStone".
She was the one who took the famous cover-picture of John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono just 5 hours before he died.

But let's talk about something happier then John Lennon's death.. let's talk about leibovitz' fashion-photographs!!
Annie Leibovitz takes almost all of her pictures in her fairytale style.
Her shoots look more like a picture out of a movie than a photograph:


Annie Leibovitz usually uses outdoor backgrounds for her pictures because they make it easier to create a mystic atmosphere which exists in all her pictures.

But she can even create her classic atmosphere in indoor pictures:


Well guys.. that's it for today!
I hope you'll visit again.

Friday 24 May 2013

Welcome

Welcome to THE ART OF FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY!
In this Blog I want to show my love for Photography..especially for Fashion Photography.
Maybe I should introduce myself first:
My name is Jonathan..but just call me Johnny!
I'm from Germany but right now I live in Canada and study here..and one of my focuses is fashion design.
You can figure now:

Fashion + Photography = Fashion Photography

Now you know  how I got into Fashion Photography!

In the next posts I'm just going to show you the different styles in which you can take a good fashion-shot, the feeling it can create and i'll introduce some famous Fashion-photographers and their personals styles.
There are many ways to take a picture:

You can take it with flash, with natural light, inside, outside, minimal, retro, in the nature..
and many, many more!
Well, that's it for now.. i hope you'll visit again.
Enjoy!