What is 'normal' photography called?

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You have aerial photography, underwater photography, elevated photography, timelapse photography...........but what do you call 'normal' photography?

I take elevated photography, but also undertake 'normal' photography............but I can't put 'normal' photography on my website :lol:
 
JumboBeef said:
I take elevated photography, but also undertake 'normal' photography
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What's 'normal'?

Portrait, landscape, seascape, candid, street, sport, studio...
 
Not sure there is a specific name for ‘normal’ photography, I maybe proved wrong though :thinking:

Only word I can think of that would suit is ‘conventional’
 
I say the say as DD

Photography also to me covers it all :thumbs:

Tony
 
DiddyDave said:
Nope - all wrong

'Normal' is just "Photography"

Everything else is a sub-division of "Photography", hence needs another word to describe it more specifically

IMHO of course

DD
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:agree::agree:
 
Baz777 said:
Only word I can think of that would suit is ‘conventional’
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I think that works for me, thanks.

Nope - all wrong

'Normal' is just "Photography"

Everything else is a sub-division of "Photography", hence needs another word to describe it more specifically
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The problem is, I can't have two buttons on my website like this:

Elevated Photography Photography


......where as


Elevated Photography Conventional Photography

....works for me.
 
DiddyDave said:
Nope - all wrong

'Normal' is just "Photography"

Everything else is a sub-division of "Photography", hence needs another word to describe it more specifically

IMHO of course

DD
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:plusone: :agree:
 
JumboBeef said:
I think that works for me, thanks.



The problem is, I can't have two buttons on my website like this:

Elevated Photography Photography


......where as


Elevated Photography Conventional Photography

....works for me.
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Eh?????? :shake:

Surely that would be...

"Photography: Elevated & Conventional"

or

"Photography, including Elevated Photography"

:shrug:

DD
 
DiddyDave said:
Nope - all wrong

'Normal' is just "Photography"

Everything else is a sub-division of "Photography", hence needs another word to describe it more specifically

IMHO of course

DD
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Therfore everything must be a sub-division and the term "photography" is just an all encompassing generic word.
 
DiddyDave said:
Eh?????? :shake:

Surely that would be...

"Photography: Elevated & Conventional"

or

"Photography, including Elevated Photography"

:shrug:

DD
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Yes, but I need to add buttons to my website: what would I call the two buttons?
 
General would be good enough?
 
PsiFox said:
Nope because every shot is a type of shot.:p:lol: and can therefore be categorised.
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That doesn't work either - consider a walk around a pond taking a few shots...

Telephoto Natural History Photography of the duck?

Macro Floral Photography of the Bull Rushes?

Landscape Photography of the whole pond?

Natural History & Action Photography panning the incoming duck?

Candid Portrait Photography of the family feeding the ducks?

I'd call it all 'Photography' - but it you went out to ONLY do one of the above then a sub-class would make sense in how you describe what you're doing

DD
 
How about something simple like...

Elevated

and

Other

Covers all I'd say.

Di
 
Call me stupid, but what exactly is elevated photography ?

In my opinion photography is the sort of photography that I do, and I'm sometimes quite taken aback to ndiscover there are other branches. Its amazing how specialised photogs have become ....
 
JumboBeef said:
You have aerial photography, underwater photography, elevated photography, timelapse photography...........but what do you call 'normal' photography?

I take elevated photography, but also undertake 'normal' photography............but I can't put 'normal' photography on my website :lol:
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Normal as in the photographs that everyone takes: Vernacular Photography.

Normal as in the photographs that photographers take for the hell of it that don't fit the hard and fast categories: I've heard called Misc Photography, General Photography, Casual Photography and just "Photography" on its own; I'd chose the lattermost of the four options.
 
JumboBeef, that avatar is ok once you know that's a pole with a camera on top but if you don't it just looks like a couple of trees, a car and a flag/telegraph pole :nuts: :shrug:
 
CScottMcQueen said:
up and down :shrug: :D
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That could just be a winner, or spread on a human palm, a Blue Pill and a Red Pill. Something more stylized and less obvious.
 
pxl8 said:
JumboBeef, that avatar is ok once you know that's a pole with a camera on top but if you don't it just looks like a couple of trees, a car and a flag/telegraph pole :nuts: :shrug:
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Here's the full sized picture......

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I need a bigger avatar!
 
Good setup mate. I have looked at a few of these things and it seems a black art indeed.

I would call your other photography "commercial" as this is an understood term and re-iterates that you charge - you know how people forget that :D
 
jerry12953 said:
Although personally I find the term "elevated" a bit strange.:)
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Some people call it Gound-based aerial Photography (photography taken from a helicopter which doesn't take off maybe? :thinking: ) but I think the term Elevated Photography is best.

HIMUPNORTH said:
Good setup mate. I have looked at a few of these things and it seems a black art indeed.
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Just don't buy a cheap set up from eBay: someone will be killed by one of those one day.

Actually, a small rant: Google 'Elevated Photography' and you will see a number of companies...........and about 99% of these use P+S cameras and have no experience in Photography. They just point and shoot and hope for the best. AND a lot of 'their' photos on their websites have been purchased from stock, yet they sell their services based on these images :thumbsdown:

HIMUPNORTH said:
I would call your other photography "commercial" as this is an understood term and re-iterates that you charge - you know how people forget that
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...but that implies the Elevated side is not commercial..........
 
JumboBeef said:
...but that implies the Elevated side is not commercial..........
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Not necessarily so. You have the problem with "elevated" photography in that few understand the term. Indeed I have seen services like yours offered as "low-level aerial photography". No doubt in a bid to get it more easily understood by potential clients. Commercial photography is an understood term.

Perhaps you should change your idea about a two-button access and instead just feature the main selling point of your business in your elevated photography and drop in text here and there that reminds people that you are capable and willing to undertake other types of work.

Good luck with your efforts! :thumbs:
 
HIMUPNORTH said:
Perhaps you should change your idea about a two-button access and instead just feature the main selling point of your business in your elevated photography and drop in text here and there that reminds people that you are capable and willing to undertake other types of work.
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Thanks. That is (more or less) what I have done.

HIMUPNORTH said:
You have the problem with "elevated" photography in that few understand the term. Indeed I have seen services like yours offered as "low-level aerial photography". No doubt in a bid to get it more easily understood by potential clients.
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I don't use the word 'aerial' at all, because (to me at least) aerial means 'up there, looking down' and most of my photography is looking across:

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(This photo is in the next issue of Cumbria Life).
 
And a good shot it is too! Let us know when the site goes live. :thumbs:
 
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