GenresPhotographic

By Rehana Whiteley

Documentary Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle both significant and historical events and everyday life.

The photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people.

PhotojournalismPhotojournalism is a particular form of journalism that employs images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images.

That employs images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images

Landscape

Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.

Portraiture

Portrait photography or portraiture is photography of a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is usually the person's face.

Fashion

Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines

Fine Art

Fine art photography is photography created in accordance with the vision of the artist as photographer.

Still Life

Still life photography is the depiction of inanimate subject matter, most typically a small grouping of objects.

Action/Sports

Sports photography refers to the genre of photography that covers all types of sports. The main application of professional sports photography is for editorial purposes; dedicated sports photographers usually work for newspapers, major wire agencies or dedicated sports magazines. However, sports photography is also used for advertising purposes both to build a brand.

Advertising

Advertising photography is used to help advertise products etc to help promote their products.

Wildlife

Wildlife photography is part of the larger Nature Photography. Wildlife photography basically focuses on photographing animals, whether on land (including insects), the birds and the marine life. Nature photography is as old as photography itself. It begun its journey in 1826 when a French scientist Joseph Nicephore Niepce took the first photograph of what can be described as a landscape photograph.

Underwater

Underwater photography is the process of taking photographs while under water. It is usually done while scuba diving, but can be done while diving on surface supply, snorkelling, swimming, from a submersible or remotely operated underwater vehicle, or from automated cameras lowered from the surface.

Food

Food photography is a still life specialization of commercial photography, aimed at producing attractive photographs of food for a variety of uses including in advertisements, magazines, packaging, menus or cookbooks. Professional food photography is a collaborative effort, usually involving an art director, a photographer, a food stylist, a prop stylist and their assistants.