Types of photography

What are different types of photography?

Which one will suit me?

If these are the kind of questions floating on your mind, may be this article will help.

There are many different types of photography defined by photographers in past to convey what they are photographing in as accurate manner possible. In this post let us try and do a bit of categorizing ourselves!

Lets get a view from 100 kilometers above earth’s surface and have a look on either side.  Any photograph we would take beyond this point will be Astrophotography.

That will be a bit too far to travel so lets get back to earth and focus on what is here!

To make it convenient let me divide photography into two main categories. One everything related to people and what we do, another everything else let me call it nature.

• People related photography
• Nature related photography

Now that we have our main categories lets look into further sub categories that fit into these.

Few popular types under People related photography would be:

• Portrait Photography - :: read more details ::
• Studio Photography
• Action Photography - :: read more details ::
• Sports Photography - :: read more details ::
• Street Photography - :: read more details ::
• Photo Journalism - :: read more details ::
• Architecture Photography - :: read more details ::
• Documentary Photography - :: read more details ::
• Fine art Photography - :: read more details ::
• Food Photography - :: read more details ::
• Event Photography - :: read more details ::
• Stock Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Fashion Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Glamor Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Poster Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Industrial Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Real-estate Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Wedding Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Advertising Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Artistic Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Science Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Micro Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Medical Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Forensic Photography - :: read more details soon ::

Few popular types under Nature related photography would be:

• Wild life Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Pet Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Scenic Photography:
• Landscape photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Seascape Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Cityscape photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Aerial Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Panoramic Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Night Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Time-Lapse Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Travel Photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Under water photography - :: read more details soon ::
• Macro Photography - :: read more details soon ::

There are a few subcategories, which may fit into either of main categories. I have put them under what I felt would be closest

Another high-level categorization can be based on type of light you are playing with:

• Color Photography
• Black & White Photography
• Infrared Photography
• Ultraviolet Photography, etc.