photography

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nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,224 of 15,258leans written

Photography is the art of making pictures with a camera. Study photography, landscape photography, a photography course.

Exposure is the whole craft: aperture, shutter speed and sensitivity trade against each other and any two fix the third. It changed painting by taking over the job of accurate depiction and freeing painters to do something else. Note that the word means drawing with light.

Definitions of photography

1nounphotographyThe art of making pictures with a camera.B1+
“She took up photography and now spends her weekends shooting landscapes.”

photography is an art.

Where it comes from

French photographie is Greek phos, light, plus graphein, to write or draw. Photo and graph come from the two halves.

French
photographie
English, today
photography

Built from

φῶς · Ancient Greek — of light
γράφω · Ancient Greek — write, draw

Borrowed from French photographie. From French photographie. by surface analysis, photo- + -graphy, together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means of lines", "drawing". From φῶς (“of light”), and γράφω (“write, draw”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Music, Art & Culture

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photography in the wild

The process and practice of creating such images is called photography.
Photograph
The term photographer is typically applied more narrowly to one who practices photography as a serious or semi-serious pursuit.
Photographer
Color photography (also spelled as colour photography in Commonwealth English) is photography that uses media capable of capturing and reproducing colors.
Color photography
In color photography, electronic sensors or light-sensitive chemicals record color information at the time of exposure.
Color photography
Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America.
Post-mortem photography

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