Your Favorite Photograhic Genre

[Phil Tompson]

I choose landscape. I can't believe that street is beating out landscape.

 

[jky]

Street.
Isn't that what RFs are for?.... 😉

 

[Mcary]

Nude, why simple I don't completely stink at it, of course there's a big difference between not skinking and being good at something.

 

[johnastovall]

Other:

War and conflict... Capa, Duncan, Page, Burrows, Nachtwey, Emilio Morenatti....

 

[sevo]

Some other: Technical photography - not as a author, but I do collect old product shots of machinery (a dying art now that everything gets rendered straight out of Autocad), the heavier, the better.

And vegan porn (a.k.a. flower shots) - as useless as they are (can't remember having sold a single one in a thirty year career), I have a secret weakness for plant stills.

 

[selloutboy]

I choose street since it was what really fascinated me with photography, the everyday things you see on the street 😀

Although my father on the other hand loves taking shots of flowers and nature stuff. He already has an extensive collection of flowers and koi fishes. Oh well, that is what he loves I guess 🙂

 

[Chris101]

They all overlap so much, I can't vote on this.

 

[Rayt]

I don't like landscapes unless it is really exceptional b/w such as from Ansel Adams, Minor White and really cool stuff from Michael Kenna. I like cityscapes that documents the humanity and its environment. Not interested in posed portraits of any kind especially of celebrities, except fashion photography. It takes a real craftsman to shoot good fashion.

 

[Keith]

Polling what the most popular photographic genre is around here is a little like asking a bunch of Catholics to name their prefered religion! :angel:

 

[squinza]

I really love macro. Not with my M6, of course, for such things DSLR are the only answer...

 

[Ezzie]

I chose none. I rather like doing all types of photography, which is why I'll probably never be good at any of them.

 

[Brad Maestas]

I chose street. I certainly love portraiture. But when I manage to find the time for some of my own photography, I invariably spend it walking the streets in search of images. Street photography is what I most look forward to.

This is a great way to put it and encompasses my feelings on the subject. Part of my obsession is also because I am always trying to get better at it. I think it's one of the most demanding genres and no matter how long I will have done it, there will always be room for improvement.

 

[Lilserenity]

Ultimately most of my work is landscape. I do other things and the landscapes are often serving a documentary purpose not just an aesthetic purpose. The landscapes I tend to shoot are of course the entirely aesthetic but I do a lot of 'as it is' stuff, if I picked a photographer some of the closest to my heart photography is along the vein of, I'd say Stephen Shore.

I've written about this on my blog of why landscapes are my foremost interest:
http://lilserenity.wordpress.com/photography-and-darkroom/
(first 3 para's under Me and Photography if your're that interested! 🙂)

I do other things like street and portrait but a cursory glance of my Flickr pages (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilserenity) will show you the balance of power very quickly 🙂

Vicky

 

[Damaso]

I voted for street but would have liked to have seen documentary as a choice...

 

[Ansel Adams]

Landscape and street, but i vote landscape.

Enrico

 

[wgerrard]

I don't how to vote. I just go someplace with a camera and start walking around. The travel, the walking and the photography are all of a piece to me.

 

[mark-b]

Urban landscape. I still am not understanding what "street" encompasses. Does street have to have people in the photograph, or can it literally be the street?

 

[FS Vontz]

I chose street but truth be told the last time I did some proper shooting was in Berlin(in bloody October too) and that was mainly architectural. Street is what motivated me to stick at photography, and that's why I chose it.

 

[jsrockit]

I've gone for other, as I can't nail down my "strolling and snapping" style into any of these categories.

That's street... unless you are doing it in the woods...then its nature. 😀

 

[jsrockit]

Urban landscape. I still am not understanding what "street" encompasses. Does street have to have people in the photograph, or can it literally be the street?

I walk the streets and make photos in NYC. I rarely make photos of people, but consider it street photography. However, wikipedia disagrees:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_photography