Putting yourself in a category photograpically ?

[KaalVoet]

Would you define your photography in a category, people tend to say they are a lifestyle photograher (what is that anyway ?) or a portait or sports etc...

I`m not new to photography but I am def still learning and I don`t think I have found a caterory yet. I love to snap everything I see, play with my camera settings untill I think it wants to shout at me for pushing all the wong buttons and edit the night away.

And how long did you practise before you decided on what you like the most ?

 

[MaximusZA]

I am very much a noob(had my DSLR for a week now) so i think i am a long way off a specific style and like you i am taking photos of everything, trying to learn what my camera is capable of... i am a of a deer in the headlights as in there is so much to learn. but anyway back on topic, i found this very interesting blog post about 5 things kids help photographers to unlearn and one of the things is there is no style

4. There is no style.

One of the things new photographers often hear is advice on "honing their style" or "finding their niche." This is actually a pet peeve of mine, and something kids can help photographers unlearn after instructors have pounded it in. A kid is simultaneously a nature photographer, street photographer, food photographer, fashion photographer, pet photographer...even wedding photographers if you hand them a camera during the ceremony! There are no limitations for them, no specialties. There's no reason for them to focus on just one genre of photography -- if they're even aware that there are different genres. There's no reason for them to focus on one style within a genre, to figure out "who they are" and then only shoot in that particular way. The sky is the limit (and not even then, if you're a kid with a parent who knows how to send a camera into the outer atmosphere) and there's room to be fickle. In this, they never miss an opportunity to take a shot.

Ensuring that our boundaries are always flexible, our style always fluid, helps keep photography ever interesting and our creativity booming.

here is the link:
http://shuttersalt.com/blog/5-things-kids-help-us-unlearn-become-better-photographers

 

[KaalVoet]

Very nice. I feel like that, I don`t want to hone on something spesific. I like all styles, shot a modeling show with small kiddies the other day, and it was an experience, they are so fast. but it was an enjoyable experience I`m sure to repeat.

 

[bwana]

Any decent photographer should be capable of shooting any genre but it didn't take me long to realise that shooting inanimate objects bored me to tears, and I could only photograph so many sunsets or sunrises before landscape photography went out the window too. It's people that interest me the most, and being able to tell a story by capturing that one moment makes it all worthwhile.

 

[KaalVoet]

I also tend to lean towards people. I was actully thinking of what to call myself, but I`m still in limbo

 

[koffiejunkie]

It's people that interest me the most, and being able to tell a story by capturing that one moment makes it all worthwhile.

Same here. That's a great part of the reason many of my photos don't go on-line.

 

[wrathex]

I love photographing people, and I love looking at photographs of people other people have taken. I prefer natural snaps to posed. I enjoy looking at the details, the background, the general ambience, the timeline, the context, the faces, clothing, body movement, I wonder about the people I see in photographs

Three photos of people:

http://www.heksie.com/photos/walkers.JPG
http://www.heksie.com/photos/windygirl.JPG
http://www.heksie.com/photos/cakegirl.JPG

 

[koffiejunkie]

http://www.heksie.com/photos/cakegirl.JPG

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