What is the difference between photograph and photography?
photograph | photography | Derived terms |
A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
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To take a photograph of.
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To take photographs.
To appear in a photograph.
The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.
Photography is a derived term of photograph.
As nouns the difference between photograph and photography
is that photograph is a picture created by projecting an onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc while photography is the art and technology of producing on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.As a verb photograph
is to take a photograph of.photograph
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs , MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Derived terms
* photo * photographic * photography * photographerExternal links
* (wikipedia)Verb
(en verb)- He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
- He is photographed on my mind.
- She photographs well. The camera ''loves'' her.