There are many different kinds of objects and themes that you might find worthy of photographing. There is is landscape, street, portrait and macro photography, to name just a few. All of them have different requirements for your technical equipment and skills. For macro photography, for example, you may need a tripod and completely different lenses than for street photography.

A photographer needs to know at least the basics of the art, such as setting aperture and iso (even though this can be largely automated these days), and develop a certain instinct for finding good compositions.

And of course there is the basic differentiation between 'old fashioned' film photography and 'modern' digital photography. While digital photography definitely is the standard, there is still a solid community that prefers the charm and results of the analogue processes.

If you choose film you might be interested in the process of chemically developing the photos yourself, and if you choose digital you might find working with raster graphics editors a fulfilling hobby or even a job.
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