HOW TO BECOME A FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER?

You wanna paint with light?

Well, the equation is simple. If you understand fashion and know about photography, you are good to go.

But not just that, being a fashion photographer, one requires vision to understand fashion and it’s philosophy so that one can capture the same and showcase in the photograph.

Fashion the photographer knows how to enhance a fashion through their photography.

There could be so many things that can be perceived through photograph which might not be possible by any other means.

Well as there are so many fashion forms around us, and capturing those forms demands different thought processes.

Becoming a fashion photographer demands that responsibility of creating artistic photographs out of the fashion forms so that every element and detail can be very well observed.

Understanding colors being used in the forms and then creating photographs according to the same mood is one of the factors to be considered in fashion photography.

A fashion photographer not just stays with the elements of fashion forms but goes a little beyond to that.

Adding emotions to fashion photographs is another important responsibility of fashion photographers. So many forms are centrally created out of emotions be of any kind.

Now another factor that a person would require to become a fashion photographer, is ‘Practice’.

Practicing without limit is definitely one of the ways to take you further into being a valuable fashion photographer. It could be by any means and anywhere.

There are so many fashion forms that one can mark in the streets. Take the camera out, observe people wearing different fashion forms, try to capture them with different angles and frames.

One could also, bring in moody lights to give feels to the photographs that would definitely enhance the photographs with those fashion forms.

One another method could be engaging a model, creating forms out of leftovers and then targeting a complimenting backdrop. Now it’s good to go and frame your subject and shoot.

Taking inspiration from people doing fashion photography is also one another factor that can help one to be a worth fashion photographer. Observing photographs and learning their composition could be of great help.

In India, we have got multiple cultures that use different forms of fashion and one could catch up a form to photograph it. There could be so many things to bring in the notice of viewers through photographs. The age of form, the patterns, and their indications, the meaning behind all the elements being used in the particular forms can all be very well presented through a photograph and if one does that, he/she becomes worth to be recognized a fashion photographer.

Let’s take it to the comments and talk more about it?

Image courtesy: Raunak Mishra