Photography is the art or process of producing images by the action of radiant energy and especially light on a sensitive surface (such as film or an optical sensor) Major types of Photography are given below:
- Aerial photography: It is the genre of photography that us taken from a plane, helicopter, balloon or drone
- Architecture photography, real estate: This genre mostly involves wide angle photos or panoramic. This art makes property looks attractive.
- Artistic photography: This is the photography in which creative composition is the goal. This can include mostly any kind of photography.
- Astrophotography photography: this includes capturing pictures of space, mainly through a telescope or super telephoto lens.
- Black and white photography: doesn’t just mean lack of color. This explores shapes, tones and textures. Shadows and highlights become much more important.
- Commercial photography: This includes photographs of products and advertising etc.
- Documentary photography: This includes genres like journalism, events, historical, political etc
- Event photography: Here photographs of concert, parties, festivals; weddings are included in this genre.
- strong>Forensic photography: It includes photography of police and crime related and legal photography.
- Macro photography: This is the art of photographing objects that are too small to be visible to humans or photographs that makes some small things look huge.
- Nature photography: Any kind of photography that deals with capturing natural landscapes, animals, sea, plants etc.
- People photography: this include large number of genres such as candid, family, fashion, glamour, passports and visas. Portrait, pregnancy, School, Sports and some kinds of event photography also comes in this.
- Sports photography: This genre specializes in art of shooting people engaged in sports, games and adventure activities.
- Time lapse photography: Photographs with very long exposure, used to illustrate something happening over time.
- Travel photography: This includes photographs of locations, illustrate travel literature, people while travelling etc.
- Water, Underwater photography: Any types of photography taken under water with a water-tight camera housing is underwater photography.
