history of photography, method of recording the image of an object through the action of light, or related
radiation, on a light-sensitive material. The word, derived from the Greek photos (“light”) and graphein
(“to draw”), was first used in the 1830s.
This article treats the historical and aesthetic aspects of still photography. For a discussion of the
technical aspects of the medium, see photography, technology of. For a treatment of motion-picture
photography, or cinematography, see motion picture, history of, and motion-picture technology.
(Read Ansel Adams’ 1947 Britannica essay on “Photographic Art.”)
TMacro photography is a type of close-up photography initially developed for scientific research. The exact definition of macro photography is that the subject is shot at 1:1 magnification. In simple words, the subject is life-sized in the image.
Panoramic photography, also known as wide format photography, is a special technique that stitches multiple images from the same camera together to form a single, wide photograph (vertical or horizontal). The term “panorama” literally means “all sight” in Greek and it first originated from painters that wanted to capture a wide view of a landscape, not just a certain part of it.
Abstract images are conceived or imagined outside of ‘reality’. They can encompass a huge variety of subject matter, take us out of our comfort zone, make us question what we see, or invite us to enter another realm.
Landscape photography shows the spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on human-made features or disturbances of landscapes.
Time-lapse photography is a technique in which the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than the frequency used to view the sequence. When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing.