Fine art photography

Can a portrait of a person be considered fine art?

As many of you have learned over the course of following my blog, I look at a lot of photographs and follow several social media photography forums. I often see things billed as fine art photographs that I would not consider to be fine art. What I consider fine art is the producer is conveying what they feel about a subject or scene. It’s a photograph about something, rather than a photograph of something. Fine art photography, like any other piece of fine art, is about emotion and about the subject.

Can a portrait of a person be fine art?

Absolutely, a portrait can be fine art. It is capturing the soul of the subject. I’ve photographed Ariana on several occasions. She is very thoughtful and has dreams, which she is fulfilling. I feel this portrait of her is very telling of her. She is confident and looking off to the future.

Any subject can be fine art.

It’s all about how the artist feels about a subject or scene. The original scene of “The Stairway” looked like the photograph below.

It’s about the subject and how the artist feels about it. Fine art is about evoking an emotion about a subject to your audience. The audience may not all get the same emotion but it is about how they feel about the subject or scene.

Becoming a fine artist

If you want to become a fine art photographer, I believe you must learn how to take photographs about subjects. How do you feel about it. What message do you want to convey even if that message is personal to you. It isn’t difficult to show how you feel about a subject if you are just honest with yourself. Get to know the subject, even if it is for a brief moment. Let’s create art.