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Vernacular Photos are based on situations in everyday life or common objects and subjects. It is an amateur form of photography with close ties to candid photography. They are taken by amateur or unknown photographers making successful vernacular photos a hidden gem.

Street Photography is centered around capturing the daily life in urban areas. Typically, a street photo incorporates candid elements, but can also be deliberately posed to bring the focus to something that the audience may overlook in their daily lives.

Still Life Photography involves posing - usually - inanimate objects into an attractive arrangement. This type of photography is heavily reliant on the positioning of light and objects to create a proper focus. In still life photos the objects are carefully arranged to give a dramatic profile to the image, but this comes at the cost of a more relaxed feel to the picture.

Miksang or Contemplative Photography is more complex than just point and shoot. In miksang photography, the goal is to be thought provoking, encouraging your audience to pull deeper meaning out of the formed image.

This is the candid photo style. Simply, it is the photographing of a moment that was neither planned nor purposefully posed. this is a raw type of photography as it is not formally governed. Often a good candid photo relies on be in the right place at the right time.