Types of Photography Genres to Pursue your career as a Photographer

 Photography is a vast field and has different genres which incorporate various sub-categories such as wild-life, seascape and many other forms. You need to have special skills to capture beautiful photographs.

There is something for everyone in photography and the photography jobs are just exciting. Here are 15 types of photography genre which we are listing here: 

Product Photography:

Of Course, the first one is product photography which is in utmost demand nowadays as several businesses have their online presence. Product photography covers a lot of ground. Food photography is a unique niche and restaurants need to advertise their meals and also need to create the menus. Likewise, Jewelry and other products which are sold in e-commerce websites are in high demand nowadays. Based on the requirement some products shoot demands models, but many times you will be working solo doing still life photography.

Fashion Photography:

Fashion photography is one of the most glamourous but tedious and difficult photography jobs today. This is totally focused over the models and needs extra effort and timing to get the beautiful photos to be clicked. The photographer is the one part of the system, this also needs stylists, wardrobe specialists, makeup artists and many more to make the fashion photography successful.

Travel Photography:

Travel photography is another niche where you can click the shots of the places while you travel. Be it on the beaches, a farm or an ice field, the job of the travel photographer is to transport their audience without leaving their home.

Sports Photography:

If you love sports then sports photography is what makes you a professional sports photographer. Photos wind up in publicity materials for teams, in advertising and marketing or in the media or print.

Aerial Photography:

Nowadays there is one more genre in photography which is in high demand and that is aerial photography. Aerial photography is now used for everything from architecture to wedding and events. The unique pictures clicked by drones are unbeatable.

Stock Photography:

If you are a professional photographer then this might be one of the interests, it is kind of earn while you learn. Stock photography is one of the premium ways to earn money only by selling the rights of your photographs so that someone else can use them without any hesitation. The advantage of selling stock photos is that you can sell any type of image you want. Once the photos are captured, a lot of time is spent to create the catalogue and keywording images so that the images can be searched as per the specific needs. 

Advertising and lifestyle Photography:

We are surrounded by advertisements everywhere from social media to print media and even on the roads, stations, airports you will find flexes of different brands here and there, this is all about the lifestyle and advertising photography. In this, you are hired by the brands to click the product and brand images which are then used to advertise in different mediums to attract buyers.