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LANDSCAPES - PORTRAIT - STREETLIFE - NATURE

PHOTOGRAPHY

PHOTOGRAPHY LANDSCAPES

Landscape photography is the art of capturing pictures of nature and the outdoors in a way that brings your viewer into the scene. From grand landscapes to intimate details, the best photos demonstrate the photographer’s own connection to nature and capture the essence of the world around them. Below, you’ll find all the landscape photography articles we have written over the past decade, including our highly approachable tutorials and techniques. If you want to learn everything there is to know about taking beautiful landscape pictures, this is the place to start.

STREETLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY

I believe that often the best way to define something is by defining what something isn’t. For example, we don’t know what makes us happy (but we damn well know what makes us unhappy). This includes the morning commute, an overly-demanding boss, problems with the spouse, and pursuing a career we aren’t passionate about. So in a simple sense, to pursue happiness is the avoidance of unhappiness.

So to start off a discussion and brainstorm what street photography means to me– I will start off by saying what personally isn’t street photography to me by exploring some two popular genres of photography which directly contract what I feel is the soul of street photography:

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

Portrait photography is one of the most popular genres of photography, with good reason. Good portrait photographers are able to capture the personality and emotion of people around them, along with earning money via wedding photography, senior portraits, family photography sessions, and so on. Below, you’ll find everything we’ve written about portrait photography, intended for both beginners and professionals. Also, if you want some ideas beyond our basic portrait photography tips, take a look at our more specialized tutorials on weddings and flash photography. Those articles will help you with posing, camera settings, and lighting portraits. It isn’t always easy to take pictures of people, but it’s worth the effort to learn.

Nature Photography

I made thousands of such images during past couple of decades which portrayed life in our natural world. In all these the primary interest to us as nature photographers or as viewers is mainly beauty - colors, patterns, design, behaviour portrayed, actions - hunting, flying, mood/emotions they invoke etc. The word 'nature' however means much more than this.

Now, I think the meaning of the word 'Nature' has been extremely restricted in 'Nature Photography'. It often means photographing subjects which are not made by humans. It often means photographying our natural world - landscapes, seascapes, night sky and life in them in different forms. The meaning of the word 'Nature' however is not just restricted to the meaning that we are used to as nature photographers. More about it in a while.