Commercial and Advertising photography?

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I wasn't sure where to put this thread so I'm sorry if this is in the wrong header.

I do a photography course at college and the assignment I'm doing says I need to compare Commercial and Industrial photography but by jumping the gun and assuming it meant advertising I've wrote about fashion, food etc and now I'm lost to what commercial photography actually is?
When I've tried to google the difference and try to find things in books about it, it just seems to introduce Advertising or wedding photography... So I'm wondering if someone could explain to me the slight difference and what sort of clients you could get when doing commercial photography, it would help a lot, thank you to the ones who help :)
 
`Commercial` in the literal sense would cover all professional photography - you get paid for it. Possibly what they're after (possibly!) is that commercial in this sense is using photography to promote the items a factory makes to customers, not simply depict it. Industrial photography can depict factories and other places of work, possibly used for instructional purposes, say health and safety issues, or skills training. So my answer would be that Commercial is for selling, industrial is for recording. And it's still your fault if you get a low mark, OK? ;)

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My take on this would be:

Commercial is selling photographs that are a stand alone product in their own right such as weddings, arty stuff to stick on the wall, media stuff, sports etc.

Industrial would be anything where the photography is being used to record or itemise events, parts or products.... in other words photos used to either promote or sell a product, service etc, but the photos are not the product.

Hope that makes sense? :thinking: but I could be talking complete [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER] though :D
 
Thank you both, really helpful! :)
I was getting a bit stressed trying to find what they were so really appreciated! :)
 
I'm an advertising and commercial photographer...

Commercial photography is really any kind of commissioned photography for commercial clients, so that would include product shots, and fashion is just another product.

But basically just about anything for commercial clients as opposed to the public - so wedding photography certainly doesn't qualify - but photographing wedding gowns for a bridal hire shop certainly does.

There's a bit of a smudgy line between advertising and commercial, but I suppose that advertising is a bit less mundane and the budget is usually a fair bit bigger because the intended use is media advertising, which is expensive.

Industrial photography is pretty much a dead definition now, or at least I haven't heard it used for a few years now
 
Garry Edwards said:
I'm an advertising and commercial photographer...

Commercial photography is really any kind of commissioned photography for commercial clients, so that would include product shots, and fashion is just another product.

But basically just about anything for commercial clients as opposed to the public - so wedding photography certainly doesn't qualify - but photographing wedding gowns for a bridal hire shop certainly does.

There's a bit of a smudgy line between advertising and commercial, but I suppose that advertising is a bit less mundane and the budget is usually a fair bit bigger because the intended use is media advertising, which is expensive.

Industrial photography is pretty much a dead definition now, or at least I haven't heard it used for a few years now
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Ah, okay! ...... I did say I could be talking [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER] :lol:

Just out of interest where does wedding photography fit :thinking:
 
Industrial photography certainly does exist, it just filts about under different names now.

Medical (& dental), forensic (police, fire service & coroner), scientific, etc etc. Basically anything that's of record (normally inanimate) or evidential roughly fits the bill.
 
WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY is the art of photographing a day that has cost 2 people £30,000 and then looking back on it all a year later and thinking about how ud heard they'd split up due to financial woes!!!

Hopefully you were paid before this happens!!!
 
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