Photography As a Career

Here is a list of most of the branches of photography where one can look to start his/her career with.

Wedding Photography. 

Wedding photographer captures the best moments of your life.

Fashion Photography.
Fashion photographers create portfolios for models.

Portrait Photography

Photographing  portraits of people. This is one of the oldest types of photography.

Event Photography.
Capturing events like parties, conferences, seminars, religious functions, trade fairs etc is event photography.

Travel Photography.

Capturing different people and places by travelling extensively is travel photography.

Macro Photography.

Capturing the things that are not normally visible to the human eyes is macro photography. It brings the minute details of the subject.

Wildlife Photography.

Wildlife photography is a genre of photography  concerned with documenting various forms of wildlife in their natural habitat.

Underwater Photography.

Photographing the underwater world.

Aerial Photography

Aerial photography is that kind of photography where pictures are captures from a higher altitude such as planes, air balloons, parachutes and helicopters etc.

Architectural - Real estate – Interior Photography.

This type of photography deals with taking shots of structures, houses and buildings from different angles.

Photojournalism.

 Photojournalism generally involves shooting pictures of newsworthy events.

Medical Photography.

Photography done for clinical purposes in laboratories, hospitals etc.

Food Photography.
As name suggests it involves capturing different types of food or dishes.

Sports Photography.

Capturing sports action of any sport may be cricket, football, basketball, boxing etc comes under Sports Photography

Forensic Photography.

This type of photography involves police and other related legal matters.

Baby Photography.

The different expressions of a baby are captured in this type of photography.

Astro Photography.

This is a type of photography which involves recording images of astronomical objects and large areas of the night sky.

Commercial Photography.

Product shoot and photography done for advertising purpose comes under commercial photography.

Stock Photography.

Selling your photos online on different stock agencies like shutter stock, Getty Images, istock photo,Corbis etc.

Landscape Photography.

Landscape photographer mainly capture the beauty of nature but can also focus on man-made features.

Photography has different branches most of them are mentioned above. One can choose the type of photography he/she like or is interested in.

Wedding and event photography are most common then the others. They are also easy. When I say easy I dont mean easy in level of skills required but I mean easy to get work. Every household and company always require the services of a photographer for their weddings, birthday parties, conferences and so on. Hence there is a huge market for the same. But please note that bigger the market bigger will be the competition.