If you can just choose only one type of photography

Phillydog1958

Senior Member
Landscapes and wildlife -- I'm wanting to go on a safari, one day. It's on my bucket list. I just enrolled in a 4-week Landscape Photography class that meets each Saturday for 2 hours. Our city offers several photography classes.
 

Bill16

Senior Member
This is a really hard question. A year as go I would have said with out hesitation macro photography. But I just have to take shots of my love, and lately I'm starting to widen my photography likes more.
But as long as I could still take photos of my beloved, macro is still at the top of my photography list. There is an unending supply of subjects even without leaving the house if your desperate or bored enough. :)
 

Vincent

Senior Member
Clearly wildlife.

I guess you notice it in my pictures, the picture is a by-product for me, the experience in nature is my main goal.
The photography is an excuse or better a motivation, to do more what I liked already.
 

Roy1961

Senior Member
Contributor
Anything as long as there are no humans. Dunno why, but I think humans spoil too much in every way :(

i feel the same vixen, although if they want their picture taken then i am ok.

i am surprised no one has posted they want to take pictures of naked women/men..... or is that just my dirty mind:rolleyes:
 

Eyelight

Senior Member
I've always practiced photographing anything that moves, unless it refuses to move and then I take the picture anyway.

But in the spirit of the question, the answer was immediately upon my mind and it is people.

I need to revise my answer as I have realized the photograph I most like to create is the one that is unlike all the others. So, my answer is the different type. Kicker is, I'm not really sure what that is each day until I find it.
 

dh photography

Senior Member
missed this thread until now. funny; as i'd been thinking about this myself for a week or so. still not sure i could ever pin it down to one type. it would have to be the type that demands creativity and challenge. i like spending lots of time practicing techniques to capture the best images i can of whatever i've decided to shoot, but the most fun is finding that next subject to focus my attention on .... and then getting to shoot it.
 

WeeHector

Senior Member
M A C R O !

I find almost every other type of photography banal and uninteresting even though I am a railway enthusiast. With macro, especially with insects and spiders, you really are communicating one-on-one with tiny, alien species and entering a different world, a bit like SCUBA-diving which I did years ago. It is what keeps me sane at the moment. :hypnotysed:
 

advnturer

Senior Member
This is the reason I am getting my D3200. I have started doing a lot of walking and seeing many images I would like to capture. The picture below was taken with my Glxy Note 3 phone camera. Good, but misses a lot. For instance, this hawk had royal yellow coloring around his beak that was something I have never seen on a hawk before and I wanted to capture. I will be ordering a D3200 as soon as I figure out the lens I want to add to it, but this is the type of photograph I want to be taking more of.

Dan
aka: Advnturer

red tail.jpg
 

Michael J.

Senior Member
Yesterday my daughter was sitting next to me during I pp som ephotos. She looked long time at me and out of the blue sky she asked: "Daddy you taking photos of everything and everywhere what kind of photographer are you?"

I asked why she asked that question. She told me that her uncle, who is a photographer with his own studio, takes photos of weddings and sport events but she never see me to this.

I asked her to wait just a minute I will think about the question she asked.

I came up with that I am a Snapshot Photographer and I told her what I was reading on wiki:

A snapshot is popularly defined as a photograph that is "shot" spontaneously and quickly, most often without artistic or journalistic intent. Snapshots are commonly considered to be technically "imperfect" or amateurish—out of focus or poorly framed or composed. Common snapshot subjects include the events of everyday life, such as birthday parties and other celebrations, sunsets, children playing, group photos, pets, tourist attractions and the like.
Snapshot (photography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

She looked long to me and said that is o.k. with her and she is proud of me cos many people like my snaps. Now she is going to tell her friends that her daddy is as snap-photographer *LOL*

I love my daughter she inspires me in so many ways.

Now I know what my new thread will be called. Maybe I start it today.
 
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