Outline of photography
Art and practice of creating images by recording light
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to photography:
Photography – process of making pictures by the action of recording light patterns, reflected or emitted from objects, on a photosensitive medium or an image sensor through a timed exposure. The process is done through mechanical, chemical, or electronic devices known as cameras.
Areas of practice
Applied photography
Scientific photography
- Aerial photography
- Aerial archaeology
- Astrophotography
- Autoradiography
- Cartography and photography
- Chronophotography
- Fundus photography
- Geophotography
- Phototherapy
- Pseudocolor
- Remote sensing
- Schlieren photography
- Scientific visualization
- Visual anthropology
Scientific imaging
- Acoustic holography
- Dark-field microscopy
- Electron microscope
- False-color
- High-speed photography
- Holography
- Kirlian photography
- Photogrammetry
- Photomicrography
- Multispectral imaging
Medical imaging
Creating images of the human body or parts of it, to diagnose or examine disease.
- Bioluminescence imaging – a technique for studying laboratory animals using luminescent protein.
- Calcium imaging – determining the calcium status of a tissue using fluorescent light.
- Diffuse optical imaging – using near-infrared light to generate images of the body.
- Diffusion-weighted imaging – a type of MRI that uses water diffusion.
- Endoscopy – a procedure using an endoscope to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body.
- Fluorescence lifetime imaging – using the decay rate of a fluorescent sample.
- Fluorescence image-guided surgery – used to detect fluorescently labelled structures during surgery.
- Gallium imaging – a nuclear medicine method for the detection of infections and cancers.
- Imaging agent – a chemical designed to allow clinicians to determine whether a mass is benign or malignant.
- Imaging studies – which includes many medical imaging techniques.
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) – a non-invasive method to render images of living tissues.
- Microscopy – creating images of objects or features too small to be detectable by the naked human eye.
- Molecular imaging – used to study molecular pathways inside organisms.
- Non-contact thermography – is the field of thermography that derives diagnostic indications from infrared images of the human body.
- Nuclear medicine – uses administered radioactive substances to create images of internal organs and their function.
- Optical imaging – using light as an investigational tool for biological research and medical diagnosis.
- Optoacoustic imaging – using the photothermal effect, for the accuracy of spectroscopy with the depth resolution of ultrasound.
- Photoacoustic Imaging – a technique to detect vascular disease and cancer using non-ionizing laser pulses.
- Ultrasound imaging – using very high frequency sound to visualize muscles and internal organs.
Commercial photography
- Celebrity photography
- Concert photography
- Fashion photography
- Food photography
- Freelance photography
- Head shot
- Industrial photography
- Kodak girl
- Sports photography
- Stock photography
- Wedding photography
- Yearbook
- "You press the button, we do the rest"
Police and military photography
Social dimensions of photography
Photojournalism
- Documentary photography
- Life (magazine)
- List of photojournalists
- Narrative photography
- Paparazzi
- Photo-essay
- Social documentary photography
- Social photography
- War photography
Political dimensions of photography
- Agitprop
- Censorship
- Conservation photography
- List of photographers of the civil rights movement
- Propaganda
Photography and desire
- Erotic photography
- Fashion photography
- Glamour photography
- List of BDSM photographers
- Nude photography
- Pin-up model
- Pornography
Subjects, styles, and formats
Photographic subjects
- Architectural photography
- Fireworks photography
- Nature photography
- Night photography
- Portrait photography
- Street photography
- Subminiature photography
Photographic styles
- Abstract photography
- Candid photography
- Environmental portrait
- Low-key photography
- Old-time photography
- Snapshot
- Still life
- Straight photography
Photographic formats
See also: Scientific imaging
- Black and white
- Color photography
- Chemigram
- Chemogram
- Digital photography
- Lo-fi photography
- Lomography
- Monochrome photography
- Panoramic photography
- Photogram
- Stereoscopic photography
- Virtual reality
- Xerography
Art and theory
Art and photography
- Abstraction
- American Realism
- Appropriation
- Art
- Artists books
- Conceptual photography
- Modernism
- Exhibitions
- Festivals
Theory
- Aesthetics
- Art criticism
- Conceptual photography
- Constructed reality
- Decisive moment
- Deconstruction
- Ideology
- Memory
- Truth
- Representation
- Semiotics
- Social representation
- Time and space
- Visual anthropology
- Voyeurism
Photographic technology
See also: History of photographic technology
- Cabinet photograph
- Color photography
- Digital photography
- Digiscoping
- Microphotography
- Photogenic drawings
- Photometry
- Stereoscope
Image capture
- Bracketing
- Burst mode
- Exposure
- Time-lapse photography
Camera
Types of camera
- Box camera
- Brownie camera
- Camera obscura
- Camera phone
- Digital single-lens reflex camera
- Diana camera
- Digital camera
- Disposable camera
- Field camera
- Instant or polaroid camera
- Pinhole camera
- Point and shoot camera
- Press camera
- Rangefinder camera
- Single-lens reflex camera
- Three-CCD camera
- Twin-lens reflex camera
- Toy camera
- View camera
Parts of a camera
- Camera back
- Shutter
- Hotshoe
- Aperture
- Viewfinder
Lens
- Fisheye lens
- Lens
- Lens hood
- Perspective control lens
- Telecentric lens
- Telephoto lens
- Wide-angle lens
- Zoom lens
Accessories
- Cable release
- Filter
- Monopod
- Tripod
Film
- 35 mm
- Anti-halation backing
- Film base
- Film developing
- Film format
- Film holder
- Film speed
- Film stock
- Grain
- Photographic plate
- Infrared film
- Instant film
- Negative
- Reversal film
Lighting
- Beauty dish
- Fill light
- Flash
- Gobo
- Guide number
- Key light
- Light meter
- Monolight
- Reflector
- Snoot
- Softbox
Projection
Photographic effects
Photographic processing
- Airgraph
- Bas-relief
- Color
- Darkroom
- Developer
- Dufaycolor
- Dye coupler
- Enlarger
- Fixer
- Hand-coloring of photographs
- Heliograph
- Image stabilization
- Instant photography
- Lomography
- Minilab
- Orthochromatic
- Photosculpture
- Photographic printing
- Safelight
- Solarization
- Stop bath
Digital processing
- Adobe Photoshop
- Digital printing
- High-dynamic-range imaging (HDR)
- Image histogram
- Scanning
- Unsharp masking
Processes
- Alternative process
- C-41 process
- Collodion process
- Contact printing
- Dodging and burning
- Dye transfer process
- E-6 process
- Gelatin silver process
- Half-tone process
- K-14 process
- Lippmann process
- Printing
- Process camera
- Push printing
- Push processing
- Sun printing
- Wet collodion process
Papers, prints, and -types
- Anthotype
- Blotting paper
- Bromide paper
- Calotype
- Carbro
- Chromogenic print
- Chrysotype
- Cyanotype
- Contact print
- Gum printing
- Hillotype
- Hyalotype
- Kallitype
- Litmus paper
- Melainotype
- Paper negative
- Physautotype
- Print permanence
- Photograph
- Woodburytype
Photographic techniques
- Afocal photography
- Chemigram
- Chemogram
- Harris shutter
- Kinetic photography
- Kite aerial photography
- Light painting
- Macro photography
- Miniature faking
- Panning
- Photogram
- Rephotography
- Rollout photography
- Solarisation
- Stereoscopy
- Stopping down
- Tilt–shift photography
- Time-lapse photography
Photographic concepts
- Composition
- Rule of thirds
- Field of view
- Headroom
- Perspective (visual)
- Lead room
- Framing
- Golden triangle (composition)
- Density
- Callier effect
- Characteristic curve
- Contrast
- Reciprocity
- Exposure
- Moire patterns
Optics
- Angle of view
- Chromatic aberration
- Field of view
- Focus
- Distortion
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- Fourier optics
- Focal length
- Gaussian optics
- Lens flare
- Newton's rings
- Orb (optics)
- Optical transfer function
- Optical aberration
- Perspective
- Perspective distortion
- Polarized light
- Vignetting
Color
- CMYK color model
- Color balance
- Color management
- Color photography
- Color space
- Color temperature
- Colorimetry
- Primary color
- RGB color model
Digital imaging
Digital image formats
Photography organizations
- Farm Security Administration
- Missions Héliographiques
- National Geographic
- Royal Photographic Society
- Société française de photographie
Photographic equipment makers
Museums and libraries
Museums and libraries with significant photography collections.
- Center for Creative Photography
- Family of Man Museum, Clervaux Castle, Luxembourg
- George Eastman Museum
- Getty Museum
- Instituto Moreira Salles
- International Center of Photography
- International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum
- Library of Congress
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Musée d'Orsay
- Museo de Arte de Lima
- Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Museum of Jewish Heritage
- Museum of Modern Art
- National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
- National Portrait Gallery UK
- National Portrait Gallery US
- Niepce Museum
- New York Public Library
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Tate Galleries
Photographers
- List of women photographers
- List of Jewish American photographers
- List of street photographers
- Photography by indigenous peoples of the Americas
Photographers by nationality
- List of Bangladeshi photographers
- List of Chinese photographers
- List of German photographers
- List of Greek photographers
- List of Korean photographers
- List of New Zealand women photographers
- List of Norwegian photographers
- List of Polish photographers
- List of Slovenian photographers
- List of Turkish photographers
History of photography
History of photographic technology
Pioneers and inventors of photographic technology
- Hippolyte Bayard
- Louis Daguerre
- George Eastman
- Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
- John Herschel
- Eadweard Muybridge
- Nicéphore Niépce
- William Fox Talbot
- Thomas Wedgwood
Historic photographic processes
- Ambrotype
- Autochrome Lumière
- Calotype
- Collodion process
- Cyanotype
- Daguerreotype
- Dufaycolor
- Heliography
- Platinum print
- Salt print
- Tintype
History of photography in culture and art
- Bauhaus
- Cliche-verre
- Dada
- Decisive moment
- Farm Security Administration
- Formalism
- Fotoform
- Futurism
- Gallery 291
- Group f.64
- Harlem Renaissance
- Impressionism
- The Linked Ring
- Modernism
- Neorealism
- Neue Sachlichkeit
- Neues Sehen / New Vision
- New Documents
- New Topographics
- Orientalism
- Photo-Secession
- Photomontage
- Pictorialism
- Pop art
- Postmodernism
- Realism
- Socialist realism
- Straight photography
- Surrealism
- Vortograph
- Wiener Aktionismus / Viennese Actionism
Lists
External links
Photography at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- Judging the authenticity of Photographs: 1800s to Today Guide for collectors and historians
- Rarities of the USSR photochronicles Pioneers of Soviet Photography.
- "Every Picture Has a Story" - uses pictures from the Smithsonian's collections to show the development of the technology through the nineteenth century.
- Shades of Light (Australian Photography 1839 - 1988) the online version of the original Shades of Light published 1998, Gael Newton, National Gallery of Australia.
- Illustrated Photography - Basic Photography - The basics of photography explained in a series of articles.
- Camera Obscura - digital library on the history photographic techniques
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Photography
- 35 mm equivalent focal length
- Angle of view
- Aperture
- Backscatter
- Black-and-white
- Chromatic aberration
- Circle of confusion
- Color balance
- Color temperature
- Depth of field
- Depth of focus
- Exposure
- Exposure compensation
- Exposure value
- Zebra patterning
- F-number
- Film format
- Film speed
- Focal length
- Guide number
- Hyperfocal distance
- Lens flare
- Metering mode
- Perspective distortion
- Photograph
- Photographic printing
- Photographic processes
- Reciprocity
- Red-eye effect
- Science of photography
- Shutter speed
- Sync
- Zone System
- Abstract
- Aerial
- Aircraft
- Architectural
- Astrophotography
- Banquet
- Candid
- Conceptual
- Conservation
- Cloudscape
- Documentary
- Eclipse
- Ethnographic
- Erotic
- Fashion
- Fine-art
- Fire
- Forensic
- Glamour
- High-speed
- Landscape
- Nature
- Neues Sehen
- Nude
- Photojournalism
- Pictorialism
- Pornography
- Portrait
- Post-mortem
- Ruins
- Selfie
- Social documentary
- Sports
- Still life
- Stock
- Straight photography
- Street
- Toy camera
- Underwater
- Vernacular
- Wedding
- Wildlife
- Afocal
- Bokeh
- Brenizer
- Burst mode
- Contre-jour
- Cyanotype
- ETTR
- Fill flash
- Fireworks
- Harris shutter
- High-speed
- Holography
- Infrared
- Intentional camera movement
- Kirlian
- Kite aerial
- Lo-fi photography
- Long-exposure
- Luminogram
- Macro
- Mordançage
- Multiple exposure
- Multi-exposure HDR capture
- Night
- Panning
- Panoramic
- Photogram
- Print toning
- Pigeon photography
- Redscale
- Rephotography
- Rollout
- Scanography
- Schlieren photography
- Sabattier effect
- Slow motion
- Stereoscopy
- Stopping down
- Strip
- Sun printing
- Tilt–shift
- Time-lapse
- Ultraviolet
- Vignetting
- Xerography
- Zoom burst
- Diagonal method
- Framing
- Headroom
- Lead room
- Rule of thirds
- Simplicity
- Golden triangle (composition)
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