Documentary photography ideas

Documenting the Lives of People Who Use Drugs through Photography

“There simply are not many grand moments of life, and we surely don’t live life in those moments. No, we live life in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms,…

When you're stuck at home and nothing much is going on, getting photos can be tricky... that's where documentary photography comes in.

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Photo essays are a great way to push your creative skills and become a better photographer. By taking just one photo essay example from this article and trying it for yourself, you'll learn how to tell stories will your camera.

Documentary photography is meant to provide an accurate representation of people, places, and events. The key word here is accurate. While documentary photographs are often impactful and emotion generating they won’t show the wildly distorted angles or colors found in other styles. Monochrome/sepia to create a mood or add emphasis to other features is sometimes done. Vignetting an image, a darkening of the borders of the photograph is another common choice but these two techniques are often…

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Documentary family photography is when a photographer applies a photojournalistic approach in photographing a family. The photographer does not intervene with the scenes in front of her camera at all.

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