"My hobby is photography."

Translation: 我的爱好是拍照。

[Dejo]

Is it wrong to write: 拍照是我的爱好

[kalexchu]

Grammatically, it is correct. However, Duolingo likes maintaining the word order if possible. Maybe these examples might help demonstrate a different choice of word order:

What is your hobby? "My hobby is photography. (我的爱好是拍照)"

Why do you take so many pictures? "It's (taking pictures is) my hobby. (拍照是我的爱好)"

[Tim498029]

That would seem right to me.

[rtandrada2]

Is 的 really required?

[Vojtech_S.]

I think de is usually omitted for family members but Duolingo wants it anyway.

[Kafma]

Isn't 拍照 to take a photo and 摄影 is photography?

[JerFlynn]

拍 (pāi) take (a picture), 照 (zhào) photograph. 摄 (shè) shoot (a movie), 影 (yǐng) (movie)

[kalexchu]

Native speaker here. 摄影 is actually the proper term for photography (like it would be the main translation in a dictionary). 拍照 is a more casual way of saying it, literally meaning "to take photos". So really, the sentence says "My hobby is taking pictures."

影 doesn't have to mean movie. Strictly, it just means "shadow". Also 拍 and 摄 are used to describe both taking pictures and shooting movies/videos (e.g. 拍视频 to take a video).

[frenzy.duo]

I think both can mean photography, although 摄影 might be more common.

[.suna]

Hanyu Pinyin: Wǒ de àihào shì pāizhào

[DavidCorba5]

Would wo de aihao shi zhaoxiangji pai zhao be OK? It was marked wrong.

[Carmen_Yomisma]

No, that would be (something like) "my hobby is camera taking pictures". You put two nouns one after the other without a connection.
Next time, just omit "camera" and you're golden!