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8 Most Popular Types of Photography, Suitable for Beginners

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Kapanlagi.com - Having a hobby of taking photos is indeed admired by many people of all ages. It has become a mandatory thing to take pictures in every moment that you have and then show them off through social media accounts. Photography itself is the process of painting using light media to produce images or photos.

Now, for those of you who are beginners, learning photography is also highly recommended to hone your skills. Knowing the types of photography is also equally important, just like photography techniques. After knowing the types of photographers, you will also know where their photography skills lie. To increase your knowledge about types of photography, here are a series of the most popular types of photography that are suitable for beginners. What are they? Check out the following reviews.

1. Portrait Photography

Portrait photography is a type of photography where the main focus is capturing dominant facial expressions. Additionally, this type of photography emphasizes the details of the subject in order to display their appearance, personality, and even mood. An example of this type of photography is capturing someone's intense gaze towards the camera. Generally, portrait photography showcases the natural expressions of the subject. The eyes are an important component in a portrait photo.

2. Food Photography

Next, another type of photography you may be familiar with is food photography. This type of photography is perfect for those who enjoy traveling and capturing beautiful scenery around them. Landscape photography showcases the space within the world, such as natural landscapes that can be vast and endless, or even microscopic. Landscape photos usually capture the presence of nature but can also focus on human-made creations. This type of photo is commonly used in calendars, postcards, and memorabilia.

3. Street Photography

Are you one of those people who enjoy taking street photos? This type of street photography is perfect for you. Street photography aims to capture everyday activities to immortalize moments.

Street photography uses a technique from straight photography or pure photography, which shows a pure vision or purpose of something, such as a reflection of society's conditions. Street photography is also one of the types of photography that prioritizes the subject in capturing images.

4. Fashion Photography

Fashion photography is a type of photography that aims to showcase clothing and other fashion items. Someone who specializes in fashion photography is highly sought after for advertising and fashion magazine shoots.

You can also explore and practice your fashion photography skills to get stunning photos.  Currently, fashion photography is not only used to promote products directly, but also accompanied by aesthetic settings for the photoshoot, photography techniques, posing techniques, and exotic accessories.

5. Wildlife Photography

Next, for those of you who love animals, Wildlife Photography is very suitable for you to make a hobby. The purpose of this photography is to focus more on capturing images of animals. You can also explore everything that animals do to produce a unique photo. In addition, capturing the actions of these animals can be an interesting and satisfying work of art.

6. Macro Photography

Macro photography is a type of photography that captures images from a close distance with small objects. Usually, someone with a macro photography hobby will capture objects such as insects, flowers, or dew. Because they are taken with great detail and clarity, it is no wonder that the results of macro photography are so attractive. You can use a macro lens to produce sharp photos.

7. Journalistic Photography

Journalistic photography is a combination of words and images that have value and create a unified communication and contain journalistic values such as actual, factual, important, and interesting. Journalistic photos must have the ability to tell a story through images.

You are also required to have the ability to depict events through the photos you take. A good journalistic photo can be said as a photo work that is able to present a story explicitly and implicitly, without having to explain the content of the photo presented.

8. Architectural Photography

Lastly, the type of photography that you can pursue is Architectural Photography. This type of photography showcases the beauty of every building or structure. For those of you who want to deepen this type of photography, it is advisable to pay attention to the angles and gaps of each building that is captured. In addition, the angle of the photo can also be one of the important factors to make the resulting photo look majestic.

Those are a series of popular and suitable types of photography for beginners. Which one would you like to deepen? Hopefully, it's useful.

(kpl/dtm)

Disclaimer: This translation from Bahasa Indonesia to English has been generated by Artificial Intelligence.
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