Basics of fine-art photography

A methodical guide for choosing a genre, style, direction, including a description of implementing ways.

The textbook addressed to those who are taking their first steps in photography. The author is more of a practitioner than a theoretician; in addition — the traveler and a supporter of hobo tourism, where, by the way, expensive and bulky photographic equipment is highly undesirable. But this postulate applies not only to long-term expeditions, which including several overseas countries; expensive equipment is the enemy of a novice photographer: after all, you set yourself the goal of creating conceptual artwork, and not showing off professional equipment to friends, right?

The difference between this textbook and many similar ones is that it does not burden the reader with a lot of information and complex terms: the main idea of each article is concentrated in two or three paragraphs, and the intended result can be seen in the author’s works attached to the articles. Experience will come with time, you just need to improve it with constant practice. If your goal is to earn money by mastering the art of photography, just close the page: we are not on the way.

Creator of textbook — Russian photographer/photoartist Viktor Pinchuk, the author of 11 personal exhibitions and art-album "NUances of fantasy". All illustrations are made by the author of textbook.