Uses of Photography

Documentary Photography

Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle both significant and historical events and everyday life.

PhotojournalismPhotojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that employs images in order to tell a news story.

LandscapeLandscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.

Portraiture

Portrait photography or portraiture is photography of a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body and the background or context may be included.

Fashion

Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items.

Fine Art

photography purely for the sake of expressing the photographer's own vision and feelings

Still Life

Still life photography is the depiction of inanimate subject matter, most typically a small grouping of objects

Sports

Advertising

Commercial photography is probably best defined as any photography for which the photographer is paid for images rather than works of art. In this light, money could be paid for the subject of the photograph or the photograph itself.

Wildlife

Wildlife photography is a genre of photographyconcerned with documenting various forms ofwildlife in their natural habitat. It is one of the more challenging forms of photography.

Underwater

Underwater photography is the process of taking photographs while under water.

Food

Food photography is a still life specialization of commercial photography, aimed at producing attractive photographs of food.