Fashion Photography Services

By LTD Photography

Fashion photography is often perceived as the most glamorous and highly paid photographic role, involving overseas travel, exotic locations and beautiful models as a continual backdrop. However, for the majority of practitioners, the reality is more mundane. Fashion photographs are commissioned by a variety of publications, ranging from mail-order catalogues to high-fashion magazines, and the working methods, as well as the skills required of the photographer, vary accordingly.

Responsibilities: Fashion Photographers work both in studios and on location, producing images that illustrate and advertise clothes and accessories.

 

Mail-order catalogue photographers must work quickly and economically, with a variety of models and situations, illustrating the style and features of clothes as truthfully as possible. They are usually employed by photographic or design studios. They spend days, or weeks, working on a range of clothing, producing enough photographs each day to fill several catalogue pages. These photographers enjoy the benefits of regular employment, such as a monthly salary and paid holidays, but can never earn as much as practitioners at higher levels of the industry.

 

High-level Fashion Photographers have their own studios or, very rarely, a studio supplied by their clients. They have an intense interest in fashion, with very good contacts within the fashion publishing business, and are innovative and creative photographers. The material rewards can be extremely high but photographers who work in this discipline have to employ very specific and individual interpersonal skills.