what sort of photography do you like to specialise in?

[Jamie R]

Hi Rob,

Welcome again to the forum. You've got some splendid mountains up in Wales to combine photography, landscape and sport. The British landscape is very different to the American one. Ansel Adams made Yogi bear famous along with his Yellowstone Park. The British revolution happened in the closed society drawing rooms of the Secession almost a century earlier with representatives of portraiture (Julie Margaret Cameron) and pictorialism of the Norfolk Broads (Emerson) to name but too. Emerson is interesting: he photographed mostly flat landscapes - probably laughable compared to the scale of the Grand Canyon etc. 20th century photographers such as Fay Godwin and Michael Kenna champion the British landscape. Interestingly neither concentrate on spectacular mountain photography.

Maybe you could be the first - All you have to do is get up Snowdonia and claim it as your own as an image

"what about you guys?"

Ehh - women mostly . Some men. Mostly women. Actually I shouldn't say that because I've been told I'm really condescending. Oh well. I like my landscape work as much as the women (in a very proper English kind of photographic way of course, lest the Welsh misunderstand me . Black and white trad. large format hand-printed stuff. None of that modern nonsense

Good luck.

 

[terri]

I'm new to photography so I'm still finding my interest. I'm kind of all over the place right now. I'm really going to concentrate on finding my niche in the next year. It will be interesting to see how I would answer this a year from now.

That's a very good answer. btw Laurie, I love your avatar. Don't see too many treble clefs on the photo forum.

Hi Rob, I love B&W photography best - briar sharp, or grainy and impressionistic - subject seems to matter less to me than the mood, emotion evoked or simple visual appeal. B&W touches me the most.

I personally enjoy alternative photographic processes, I never tire of it and they all fascinate me. I plan on being a lifelong student.

 

[Aoide]

I'm new to photography so I'm still finding my interest. I'm kind of all over the place right now. I'm really going to concentrate on finding my niche in the next year. It will be interesting to see how I would answer this a year from now.

That's a very good answer. btw Laurie, I love your avatar. Don't see too many treble clefs on the photo forum.

Thanks Terri. I had a hard time choosing an avatar. There are so many creative ones on here. I finally decided to pick one that said something about me and played with it in photoshop. My job can be consuming sometimes.

 

[raider]

Like my website states - I don't like to specialize in any particular category, I don't really want to limit myself - I just want to make the best pic out of whatever gets in the way of my lens . I have been doing/taking a lot of interest in glamour lately however. Yeah, women are nice to photograph. Professionally speaking. That and exotic cars make very nice subjects - especially together.
brent

 

[doxx]

mostly black and white documentary/street photography.
scenic stuff from time to time

 

[Alison]

I do mainly portraits and weddings. I've tried a few landscapes but I like the emotional side of doing portrait work.

 

[LizM]

Photojournalism stuff here. Prefer fire and kids. I know, wierd combination. It was an old B&W photo of a tanker car on fire my Dad took back in the 50s that got me interrested in photography in the first place. So the fire thing is a quest to get a shot I consider comperable to Dad's shot. The kids thing is just that I'm a mom and find kids fascinating.

 

[triggerhappy]

Mostly stuff that stays still. I'm not very picky, I just like it to stay still for a while.

 

[Geronimo]

mainly landscapes and giving night photography a shot. pun not intended.

 

[mentos_007]

if we are talking abut technique.... panoramical so landscapes but I love portraits of animals although I haven't done good shots yet

 

[kotte]

People in B/W.

B/W strips your subject down to the core which works exceptionally well with potraits. It reveals so much about their inside.

I'm a poor landscape-photographer. It's alot harder than shooting people. They give you so much for free.

I'm not into photography professionally (perhaps one day).

I'm mainly a filmmaker.

 

[cmptrdewd]

I like doing animal and people portraits and close up life too.
I like the emotional side of portraits.

 

[ferny]

I really like doing macros. I'm into abstracts to. And thanks to doxx I really want to do some street stuff.
Most of my photos fall into the blooper category though.

 

[John Orrell]

As my signature states, I get most of my thrills from landscapes and nature (flowers etc) shots. I like photos which give off a feeling of peace and tranquillity; as the father of twin boys aged nearly three, I don't see any peace and tranquillity in real life, so I try to find some in my photography!

Since 'doing' a wedding last year (unpaid, sadly: it was my gift to the couple) I've found myself doing some people-shots, which I've enjoyed, but in truth I'm too much of a "ponderous photographer" and don’t possess the spontaneity to produce great shots of that ilk. I like to spend time thinking about apertures and shutter-speeds and taking bracketed exposures to see which ones I like; you don’t get the chance to do that when you’re trying to catch someone’s fleeting expression, particularly if the subject is a child or children.

The genre I’d love to be good at but do not possess the nerve or the skill is street photography, which is a shame because I now own a couple of discreet rangefinders, either of which would be perfect for that type of work.

 

[yaji]

i enjoy black and white anything, expecially landscapes.
i love editing the photos and doing surrealism.
i also love macro shots and abstracts (again, in black and white .)