Photography Types
People Photography
Portraits
The broadest type of people photography is portraiture, covering everything from family portraits to fine-art photography and commercial work. Often, the goal of portraiture is to show the character of a subject – to capture the person’s personality and emotion in an image. Portrait photography is also quite an accessible genre overall, not requiring more than a single prime lens and flash to start at a high level (or whatever equipment you already have if you’re just testing the waters). But capturing the essence of a subject, or meeting the goals for your commercial project, can take a lifetime of work.
Boudoir Photography
Boudoir photography is a photographic style featuring intimate, sensual, romantic, and sometimes erotic images of its subjects in a photographic studio, bedroom or private dressing room environment, primarily intended for the private enjoyment of the subjects and their romantic partners. It is distinct from glamour and art (nude) photography in that it is usually more suggestive rather than explicit in its approach to nudity and sexuality, features subjects who do not regularly model, and produces images that are not intended to be seen by a wide audience, but rather to remain under the control of the subject. Boudoir photography will help the subjects confidence and a very important thing is that the subject does and must not do anything that makes it uncomfortable.Documentary
The goal of documentary photographers is to use their photos to tell a story or provide information. Occasionally, the photographs capture a moment so powerful that it transcends into art or in some other way evokes strong feelings in the audience. From local news reports to reporting straight from war zones, documentary photography can take place anywhere. In the finest situations, documentary images highlight significant but little-known occurrences or highlight the greatest human qualities for everybody to witness. Not every documentary photograph is noteworthy; occasionally, they merely capture a different location or culture.
Sports
Sports photography is another large category of photography that includes adventure-based photography in the most distant parts of the world as well as coverage of international events like the Olympics. This genre of photography, which calls for excellent autofocus, timing, and frequently a very rapid shutter speed, includes even parents taking pictures of their kids participating in sports.Street Photography
The goal of street photography is to document moments in time that occur in public spaces like parks and sidewalks. Good street photography makes viewers consider something they might otherwise overlook by giving seemingly routine situations or encounters significance and purpose. Although 35mm black and white film is frequently thought of when discussing street photography, contemporary street photography uses nearly any type of post-processing technique and camera gear.
Pet Photography
Since pets are a significant part of many people's households, I placed pet photography at the conclusion of "people photography" even though it doesn't exactly belong under one of the article's more general categories. Understanding light, handling a fast-paced pandemonium, and capturing the soul of your subject are all skills that are applicable to pet photography just as they are to portraiture. This may be the most popular type of photography right now, aside from selfies.Nature Photography
Landscape
Scenic or environmental photography is another name for landscape photography. It entails photographing a natural landscape in a way that immerses the viewer, usually one that is huge and majestic but occasionally smaller and more personal. One of the most popular forms of photography nowadays is landscape photography, which has many subgenres, including seascape and storm photography. In a more expansive sense, it also include photography of "urban landscapes" and artificial landscapes.
Wildlife
Some of the most passionate photographers you'll ever meet may be drawn to wildlife photography; they may look for animals that most people would prefer to avoid or wait for an animal to meander into the ideal location for hours on end. You can even practice it in your backyard or within a short drive from your home because animals are present everywhere. Occasionally, you will come across a sequence of photographs of urban wildlife that are on par with the best shots taken in more isolated areas.Macro
Macro photography is the practice of taking close-up pictures of minute objects, such as flowers and insects. As long as you are sufficiently magnifying your subject, you can capture macro photos both indoors and outdoors. According to official definitions, macro photography is limited to taking images of small objects at a magnification of "life size" or higher. I'll go into more detail about what magnification and life-size imply in a bit, but basically, it means that you have to capture photos where your subject fills the frame and is the same size as your camera sensor or smaller. (Therefore, you would be taking pictures of objects that are one inch or less in diameter if your camera sensor is one inch broad.)
Astrophotography
Astrophotography, which includes anything from deep-space Hubble photos to smartphone photos taken via a telescope, can be one of the most humble forms of photography to practice. Two things make it humbling: First of all, practically anyone can experience existential astonishment due to the magnitude and scope of the subjects photographed in this approach. More importantly, though, any ignorance will result in poor exposure and post-processing skills. be immediately obvious.Scientific
Extreme magnification microscope photography and, once more, astrophotography are both included in the broad area of scientific photography. Photographs of particle colliders or the space station that occasionally go viral are examples of man-made items that infiltrate this as well. I hope that this kind of photography will continue to gain popularity in the future since it has the ability to open our eyes to completely different perspectives and alter our perceptions of the world.
Manmade Objects
Product / Food Photography Food
Thanks to social media, food photography has seen a sharp increase in popularity in recent years. In the past, it was mostly a subgenre of commercial photography, such as menus, cookbooks, and ads, but these days, it's increasingly incorporated into documentary photography.But regardless of the end result, food photography nearly always aims to present its subject in the most enticing light. Food photographers occasionally use false alternatives that appear tastier in place of the actual meals in their photos—for example, while photographing cereal, they might use glue instead of milk.object photography is a subset of commercial photography in which you usually shoot in a studio with precise lighting to highlight the object (though occasionally you may shoot outdoors or on site). Similar to commercial portraiture, a product photographer's objective is to align with the company's concept. Even though they both sell the same basic goods, like apparel or backpacks, an outdoor business and a high-end lifestyle company will have different needs.
Still Life Photography
Still life photography is another vast category of photography that involves photographing a staged scene in a studio to make it appear as good as possible. Even while still life photography occasionally features living subjects, like plants, I'm classifying it under "manmade objects" because it can feature nearly anything. I've come across some of the most intriguing still life pictures of seemingly uninteresting items, such as office supplies and flatware.Architecture
Architectural photography, which includes cityscapes and other features of structures and construction, is the next most popular category of photography on this list. Architectural and landscape photographers frequently use tripods and meticulous post-processing techniques to highlight their subjects as much as possible. In many respects, architectural and landscape photography are similar. However, if you want to avoid a skewed or tilted aspect in the finished image, dealing with straight lines is a challenge that comes with architectural photography.
