What is the most difficult kind of photography?

[AgingEyes]

Would it be pretty photos?

Dixie Dixon: Fashion Photographer, Travels Worldwide

I love images with soul... images that not only highlight the models and fashion, but also elicit a spontaneous emotional response. The connection is what drives my work... the connection between subject, me the photographer, and ultimately the viewer that makes the difference

from here:
DIXIE DIXON - ABOUT

She's only 22.

Do her photos elicit a spontaneous emotional response from you??


Have to admit I can't tell one kind of fashion photo from the other.

And I had no camera when I was 22.


May be Malcolm Gladwell is right:

Outliers (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[mattb]

I'm thinking it's whatever kind of photography is outside your comfort zone. And how to do we define "hard"?
I'd think spacewalk photography would be hard because first you need to train to be an astronaut, and get funding for a space program, and ride in a rocket designed and created by hundreds of engineers at the cost of millions or billions of dollars. But for an astronaut it might not seem so hard.

I like to take ski mountaineering photos. We climb mountains in the dark and watch the sun rise from a frigid peak before skiing expert-only terrain in avalanche prone areas back down to where we started. It's physically demanding but for me not really that hard. Someone who shoots studio portraits might this that sounds hard but if you do that already it isn't that difficult and there's usually plenty of light.

[armando_m]

She seems like one motivated young lady, who makes wonderful photos

Fashion shooting difficult ... ? She seems to know what she's doing and will likely say it is not difficult

I guess it depends on what do you see as difficult, to me it would be getting into risky situations, journalism in a conflict area I would consider difficult.

[SmartWombat]

Seems mostly you're talking about photography in difficult situations, rather than photography that is itself difficult.

[AgingEyes]

Seems mostly you're talking about photography in difficult situations, rather than photography that is itself difficult.

But, the act of taking a photograph is easy: just a click of a button. No?

Trying to get to the situation in which you can take the photograph can be difficult. Trying to get a photograph that you want under an out-of-your-control environment, I'd say, is more difficult than shooting in an environment that you have control of pretty much everything.

Then of course we have shooting technique such as pan-and-track that can be tricky no matter where you are.

Paraphrasing another female fashion photographer: it is difficult to get a bad photograph out of a beautiful model.

And pretty photographs are easier to take than those that can actually elicit an emotional response from the viewers.