Wildlife photography popularly demonstrates the lives of animals. Photography can also be viewed as a commercial and artistic endeavor. Portrait and wedding photography is typically photographs that are made and sold directly to the families of the people in the images. When learning to be a professional photographer you should try entering photography contests. Some commercial photographers, and some amateurs interested in artistic photography, have been resistant to using digital rather than film cameras because they believe that the image quality available from a digital camera is still inferior to that available from a film camera, and the quality of images taken on medium format film is near-impossible to match at any price with a digital camera. Color photography was first explored beginning in the mid 1800s. The technology has improved so rapidly that one of Kodak's film cameras was discontinued before it was awarded a "camera of the year" award later in the year. Discover a wide range of digital cameras at low prices. Digital photography was used in astronomy long before its use by the general public and had almost completely displaced photographic plates by the early 1980s.