PHOTOGRAPHY

What is Photography?

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on sensitive medium such as photographic film or electronic sensor during a time exposure usually through a photographic lens in a device known as a camera that also stores the resulting information chemically or electronically. Photography has many uses for business, science, art and pleasure.

Camera
A camera is a device that records images either as a still photograph or as moving images known as video or movies. The term camera comes from the Latin “camera obscura” which means dark chamber. On early mechanism of projecting images where an entire room functioned as a real-time imaging system, the modern camera evolved from the camera obscura.

Genre of photography

Different types of photography genre are: Aerial, Black and white, commercial, documentary, fashion, fine art, forensic, glamour, high speed, illustration, landscape, portrait, nature, still life, paparazzi, photojournalism, stock, underwater and wedding.