Seven Out of Thirteen

Great minds contain ideas, solutions, and reasons. Scientific minds contain formulas, theories, and figures. But a photographer’s mind contains wild imagination.

 When someone comes to a place for the first time, just with a photographer’s mind can create a change to that place. Looking from left to right, and then up and down, calculating every angle of that place will form your hidden ideas. Suddenly, just a click from your camera records that very moment that seems to have stopped. The clouds above your head, the blue sky, the sunset, the green grass, the butterfly on top of the flower, the calmness of river, and everything else stop in an image, and last for a lifetime. That’s how powerful photography is.

But did you ever think how vast is photography? Well, personally I have never thought of that, but when I read an article related to this, it caught my attention. The title of this article is Types of Photography.

While I’m reading this article, I just can’t imagine how many areas photography has dominated. And to give you the list, here are some few types of photography taken from the article.

·         Photojournalism- this type is more appropriate for professional photographers because there should be no change or editing taken place on the photograph. Photojournalism is also applicable for news writing in order to express the true emotion, wholeness, and original story of a certain scene or photograph.

·         Documentary Photography- this is the type of photography which records the historical events or significant happenings in politics, and other related areas. Any topic can be its subject.

·         Action Photography- this is related to sports since it is mostly done with actions. The photographer has to know and observe the actions of his or her subject to foresee the time he or she is going to take a photograph.

·         Macro Photography- this type is obviously about taking photographs at a close range, and photographers use advanced cameras and equipments in order to capture a subject in close up and full details.

·         Microphotography- it contrasts the previous one because it deals with smaller subjects such as microscopic insects, bacteria, and others. This type suits for science-related subjects.

·         Glamour Photography- its goal is to capture the model in the most expressive way with the curves and shadows. Therefore, most of its images are daring, sensual, and mysterious.

·         Aerial Photography- from the word itself, it captures images from the air. Aside from cameras, aerial photographers use planes, ultra lights, parachutes, balloons, and remote controlled aircraft to help them take photographs.

        Can you now conceive a wider field of photography? Above are just some of them, and others include underwater photography, art photography, portraiture, wedding photography, advertising photography, and travel photography. In the article, the author mentioned thirteen types, but for me, there are still more to add because of our advanced world today. People are becoming more intelligent and creative that’s why there are new inventions and fields created. If this continues in the future, types of photography will be countless as years pass by.