Sometimes I kindly envy those photographers who have found their own style. Here's one who shoots cool street photos, another takes excellent nature and cityscapes, and the third one likes minimalist and abstract pictures. And who am I? All-round craftsman? I have both postcard landscapes and unkempt street life, I do both minimalist graphic pictures and shoot documentary projects.
I don’t like such versatile masters, but I myself am. Maybe genre versatility is not bad at all.
At least I like what I do. This versatility is very useful in photojournalism.
And photojournalism, in turn, is quite diverse in terms of genres.
It seems to me that every photographer at the initial stage needs to be trained in classical landscape photography.
With good results, so many other genres flow from the landscape.
Judge for yourself: if you add people to the landscape, then it can already be both reportage, street, and portrait photography.
But all the rules for color, light and composition are the same for everyone.
You can make a beautiful picture from a tripod at night at long exposure and it will be a cityscape.
And if you need a small reportage zest in the frame, then the movement of the snow should be "frozen" by setting a short shutter speed.
And if you need street photography, then with the set reportage parameters, we are waiting for the person to appear in the frame.
And the base was originally an ordinary landscape.
To be continued...