Professionals rarely take on everything. Typically, one photographer shoots subjects and the other shoots sports.
If the owner of a camera takes on jewelry, pregnant girls and children’s matinees, he may have two reasons. The first one is that he needs money and is earning as much as he can. The second is that he is an aspiring photographer who has not yet decided what he is interested in.
Each genre has its own nuances. For example, when shooting food – water droplets are imitated with glycerin, and chocolate can be imitated with goutaline. If you try to beautifully lay out the drops – water will just spread, and glycerin is more viscous and in the frame is not distinguishable from water.
You can progress slowly as a photographer, shooting a reportage today, a wedding tomorrow, and a meal the day after that. Or you can move much faster, making efforts in one direction.
Another reason for specialization is the psychotype of the photographer. One likes dark tonality, harsh images and brutal, the other tenderness all light and ruffles. The first will be excellent athletes, but with ideas for pregnant girls will be difficult. But the second, just with pregnant women shooting will go easier.
I suggest you choose for yourself the direction in which you will develop over the next year and study the nuances associated with it.
If you don’t know what to choose, because everything is so interesting – make a selection of a hundred photos and see what there is more of. If there are more landscapes, maybe it makes sense to pay more attention to the nuances of this particular genre in the near future.
Alternatively, you can spend a day exploring each of the genres below. Perhaps one of them will “hook” you more than the others.
Genres of Photography:
- Landscape Photography
- Beauty
- Fashion
- Portrait Photography
- Street-photo
- Documentary photography
- Photojournalism in general and reportage photography in particular
- Travel photography (Travel – photography)
- Food photography (food-photography)
- Subject photography
- Family photography
- Nude
- Pet photography
- Wildlife photography
- Macro nature photography
- Architecture Photography
- Interior photography
- Shooting for interior photography (for architects)
- Conceptual photography for galleries, exhibitions and museums
- Stock Photography
- Underwater photography
- Astrophotography
- Microphotography
