In this lesson, you will study genres, or categories, of photography. To begin, think about the photographs you have taken or identified, either for fun or as a serious hobby. In what categories would you group these photographs? Why do you think you like these types of photographs? Write an answer in three to five sentences that describe your photographic style and why you favor it. Include several reasons. Feel free to provide links to photos you have taken or identified for support.

atmosphere ,sensation,lights,describe,their love

well seeing i am an artist and i actually did a self portrait; i will describe how i painted it.   i used acrylic on a stretch canvas about 4 feet wide by 6 feet tall. i painted myself smiling in a soft pink long dress, white tile floor sitting on a white couch with a table behind and a vase of gorgeous flowers.   i also had a round white hat with a soft pink ribbon through it laying on the floor and on the table behind me was a lit candle. i kept it simple but soft and romantic.

photography had emerged as an elite art pursued by a few creative individuals for a few wealthy patrons. but now, said bauldelaire, it was succumbing to "the great industrial madness of our times." it was becoming a mass production industry that catered to middle-class tastes, including a taste for gadgetry. the stereoscope, the first 3d imaging system, had turned looking at photographs into parlor entertainment. a "thousand hungry eyes were bending over the peepholes of the stereoscope as though they were the attic-windows of the infinite.