Phtographers, What's the most challenging kind of photography to you? As the title suggested, what's the most challenging one to you? Wildlife, sports, portrait, landscape, or...

claystevens

As the title suggested, what's the most challenging one to you? Wildlife, sports, portrait, landscape, or Astrophotography? To myself, it is portrait photography. Those everyone can take a good portrait photo, but it is really hard to take impressive one.

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

I concur. I have no desire to do portrait photography.

lukan Loc: Chicago, IL

claystevens wrote:

As the title suggested, what's the most challenging one to you? Wildlife, sports, portrait, landscape, or Astrophotography? To myself, it is portrait photography. Those everyone can take a good portrait photo, but it is really hard to take impressive one.

My lowest percentage of keepers is from portrait photography. It's either because of lighting, exposure or subject's facial expression. Plus, people can be very difficult, especially in groups. Next lowest percentage of keepers is in sports photography. There it can be focus issues, catching the right moment, positioning relative to the subject, and the usual technicals like shutter speed, aperture and ISO. Btw, with sports photography, it's rarely about frame rate, and I use a minimum of 6fps.

cameranut Loc: North Carolina

claystevens wrote:

As the title suggested, what's the most challenging one to you? Wildlife, sports, portrait, landscape, or Astrophotography? To myself, it is portrait photography. Those everyone can take a good portrait photo, but it is really hard to take impressive one.

Certain types of birds that won't be still for a nano second or they get behind a twig or other distraction. People will remain still for as long as it takes------with the exception of children.

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

For me, it has to be naked women. I can not seem to get a woman to pose for me. Then again, I can not seem to get a woman to be in the same room with me; including my wife.

lukan Loc: Chicago, IL

tainkc wrote:

For me, it has to be naked women. I can not seem to get a woman to pose for me. Then again, I can not seem to get a woman to be in the same room with me; including my wife.

Hahahaha!!!

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

tainkc wrote:

For me, it has to be naked women. I can not seem to get a woman to pose for me. Then again, I can not seem to get a woman to be in the same room with me; including my wife.

T, I assume that means your vote is for portraits?! :lol:
SS

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

Street photography. Particularly in situations with strangers up-close. You have to be able to think fast and know when it's best not to shoot.

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

SharpShooter wrote:

T, I assume that means your vote is for portraits?! :lol:
SS

I guess so. They seem to be my nemesis.

amehta Loc: Boston

claystevens wrote:

As the title suggested, what's the most challenging one to you? Wildlife, sports, portrait, landscape, or Astrophotography? To myself, it is portrait photography. Those everyone can take a good portrait photo, but it is really hard to take impressive one.

This is a very thought-provoking question. I think the first step for me to answer is to decide what it means for some type of photography to be challenging. While the technical stuff could be a problem, the real issues I have are, "What makes a picture good and why." With portraits, I've figured out what works for me: capturing expressions which represent the person. With sports, it's showing the action, especially the speed and power, so it's conveying the 4-dimensional situation in a 2-D image. With wildlife, it's showing interesting animals doing interesting things, and trying to show that they are beings with intelligence and emotion. But with landscapes, I don't know, and that makes landscapes the biggest challenge for me.

SimmonsCreek Loc: Missouri

Sports and Portrait. Mainly because I have no interest in them. If I did, I would work through the challenge.

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

Street - I am very uncomfortable grabbing images of people without their consent when I am close enough that they are recognizable.

dalematt Loc: Goderich, Ontario, Canada

Macro of insects that can fly away before I can get at least one shot.

Gary Truchelut Loc: Coldspring, TX

Portraiture and weddings for sure because I don't like to do them even though it is the most lucrative photography available to me. I applaud people that do this for a living as it is a true art form.

lukan Loc: Chicago, IL

BboH wrote:

Street - I am very uncomfortable grabbing images of people without their consent when I am close enough that they are recognizable.

Any time I do street photography of people, instead of just "scenes", I get their consent and end up with pictures that are far better than hidden candids, the vast majority of the time. I've found that if I make people aware of the fact that I might be taking their picture, they typically cooperate.