Whats the hardest type of photography?

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Your opinion, whats the hardest type?

Portraiture, landscape, street, journalistic, macro......(and any others you wanna put in the mix.

( I don't mean upside down underwater photography of great white sharks, which would be difficult, and a bit impractical, and possible not have much longevity)
 
Surely it depends on your niche/interest/speciality. I personally find people portraits the hardest but have no issue with wildlife, macro or pets.
 
In my limited experience I think the hardest will be the most challenging with light.

Seeing as light plays the biggest part of photography on speeds and ISO settings etc, so gig photography or in a dimmly lit church for wedding togs.
Football or rugby on a dimmly lit day.

Portrait togs have it better as light is controlled but the models/families can be their hard point.

I think all photography can have its hard times

spike
 
Also depends largely on the kit you have; much easier for a newbie to get into macro cheaply with a set of tubes and a nifty fifty than doing sports on a dull day for example when fast zoom lenses rule..
 
POAH said:
making ugly/fat people not so ugly or fat in pictures lol
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:suspect: .. I would have thought everyone is pretty :love: in some way or another?


wontolla said:
That's miracles, not photography.
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:lol:


But on-topic, I think the hardest form of photography is the topic you least have talent for! I hate dealing with people when it comes to photography; hence why I find it almost impossible to ever shoot people in any form. I just can't deal with them.
 
Event photography where you get one shot to get it right, that's hard, but also quite fun as long as it's going well!
 
Nude photography of stunners with huge- wait, wrong kind of hard. :p

I'd say war photography. It not only tests the camera, but the mental fortitude of the photographer themselves.
 
id say it changes between the person, and what you enjoy and are willing to put time into

for example people skills and confidence will help greatly with portraits, no matter how good you are with your camera youll never get the best out of models if you have crap people skills or are really unconfident.
 
The hardest photography is undoubtedly "GOOD" photography, (Whatever GOOD is).

The British have never really valued images, especially as an art form. With modern auto everything except press the button equipment, everybody and their Granny can take technically good photos, but to take "Great" ones, images which make anybody stop and look twice, ah. To make people pause and think, maybe ask a question or two, thats the hardest form of photography.

It needs in part, experience, a good eye, a questioning mind, back ground knowledge, commitment and a little bit of good luck.

But then again, with this new model you just press the button, so it must be better than your old one. Mustn't it?
 
Stumpy said:
The British have never really valued images, especially as an art form.
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That statement is so utterly wrong that it's impossible to imagine anything further from the truth.
 
wontolla said:
That's miracles, not photography.
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soft lighting, a long lens, a bit of oil, you're sorted :P

Nah. They're all pussies; until someone mentions a UV filter that is!
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Advertising photography. At the highest level. Takes years or decades of studying, assisting, personal work, travelling, portfolio meetings to get there. Unless you're Joey L. The *******. :D

You talk about 'one chance to get it right' for events - advertising shoots regularly have a large crew of experienced professionals, models, props and sets being built, for the construction of an image, and large budgets. Thousands and thousands of dollars riding on one shot. Client looking over the DIT's shoulder the whole time.

Take a look at this for example. Tricky setup.... but long story short, there's like... 10,000ws of flash heads boomed out over a freaking swimming pool.... a big crew, big client and big money. A wedding in a dark hall doesn't compare :P

http://fscottschafer.tumblr.com/post/4159949953
 
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Take a look at this for example. Tricky setup.... but long story short, there's like... 10,000ws of flash heads boomed out over a freaking swimming pool.... a big crew, big client and big money. A wedding in a dark hall doesn't compare :P

http://fscottschafer.tumblr.com/post/4159949953
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Photographically speaking, not all that hard though is it. :shrug: More the fairly huge logistics of it and then a bit of skill from someone else in post.

@ OP, most people I find like to say their field is the hardest to shoot in, after all that would make them more talented to be able to do it (and more deserving of your money). ;)
 
As someone who's done underwater, event, gig, equestrian, skydiving etc (no studio work though) it's gig photography for me..by a country mile.

Little to no light (unless you're shooting a big production), limited time window, no flash allowed, hostile crowds, beer/spit/Godknows what everywhere. I love it.. :)
 
FruitFlakes said:
I'd say war photography. It not only tests the camera, but the mental fortitude of the photographer themselves.
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Surely this - any photography where you might get shot rather than get the shot has to be the hardest.
 
POAH said:
yes fat people are automatically nice inside along with all the cakes they stuff into their face :lol:
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In the same way that Glaswegians are all unpleasant malevolant little *****s?
 
Probably something like taking the first pictures of a previously uncontacted tribe of ferocious headhunter canibals who believe that cameras steal their life spirit...

Thats playing to a tough crowd.
 
desantnik said:
Probably something like taking the first pictures of a previously uncontacted tribe of ferocious headhunter canibals who believe that cameras steal their life spirit...

Thats playing to a tough crowd.
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cept if they hav enever had their photo taken, how would they know what oneis to htink it would steal there spirit?
 
Landscape photography on mount Everest :lol:
 
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