Ján Hronský Photography.

Initially the difference between fashion and glamour photography escaped me, I just couldn’t understand why the two where different unless I viewed extreme glamour imagery. The above photo captured by Ján Hronský is certainly glamour, however it isn’t to the extreme that most would attribute glamour photography to and indeed some may even lean towards categorising it under the heading of fashion photography.

So what is glamour photography and how is the above photo titled “EsperancE” part of it? To put it simply there is a glamorising of something, be it the legs, the feet, the eyes or the chest, glamour photography appears to take one step closer to pornography without actually going there. In this case the models legs are most undoubtedly the most prominent feature of this shot, with the pose and composition compounding that conclusion, the pulling down of the dress is an additional nod towards pornographic traits and provides additional meaning to the connotations exuded from the rest of the frame. The black and white nature of the photo has been fantastically exposed, however with digital photography that isn’t too difficult and unfortunately you don’t get the rustic grain texturing so lovingly desired within film shots and yet so lacking within the pristine world of digital.

Personally I believe this to be a well modelled, excellently composed and nicely lit, glamour photo which has been nicely exposed in black and white. The photographer Ján Hronský has a website for you to visit and I would most certainly tell you to do so as there you will find a lot more fantastic work to enjoy!