Please Define Fine Art Photography

[WadeCourtney]

Is this something specific or general, is there specific subject matter?

It seems to me that anything could be considered fine art.

Confused.

[sk66]

It's open to opinion, but to me it is photography to capture an aesthetic/feeling.

Definition

[Indigo November]

Photography with emotion and feeling.

Thats the short and simple answer.

[WadeCourtney]

So how does one price somthing so subjective?

[Sterling]

Originally Posted by WadeCourtney

So how does one price somthing so subjective?

Based solely on what the market will bear. There's a reason why serious fine art is sold at auction.

[LeeR]

I was trained in the arts so I take particular offense when photographers who couldn't tell a Rembrandt from a Picasso label some of their images "fine art" simply because they don't have the vocabulary or imagination to call them something different. Worse yet are photographers who foist poorly composed images on naive customer hoping these people will be fooled by the nomenclature.
In the early years of photography artists complained that what we were doing was a manipulative technique and was therefore incapable of artistic expression. Over a period of years photographers eventually won the debate by demonstrating again and again that great phtographers were capable of expressing the same things as great works of art. But ever since the debate has been won some photographers have taken unwarranted liberties with the title.
Make no mistake; I am trying to make art everytime I pick up my camera, but I never call my work 'fine art.' That is a titled that needs to be bestowed by others, prefereably by other artists. That is the way it has been for hundreds of years and I don't think it should change simple for the mercenary wishes of some photographers who are unaware of the history of 'fine art photography' or the price paid by their predecessors.

[Sterling]

^^I agree. Lots of photographs are "art." But "fine art?" Not so many.