PHOTOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does photography mean? 

• PHOTOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun PHOTOGRAPHY has 3 senses:

1. the act of taking and printing photographs

2. the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces

3. the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies

  Familiarity information: PHOTOGRAPHY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOTOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of taking and printing photographs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

photography; picture taking

Hypernyms ("photography" is a kind of...):

pictorial representation; picturing (visual representation as by photography or painting)

Domain member category:

block out; mask (shield from light)

overexpose (expose excessively)

underexpose (expose insufficiently)

expose (expose to light, of photographic film)

overexpose (expose to too much light)

solarise; solarize (overexpose to sunlight)

solarise; solarize (become overexposed)

underexpose (expose to too little light)

solarise; solarize (reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it)

develop (make visible by means of chemical solutions)

underdevelop (process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature)

color; colour (having or capable of producing colors)

black-and-white; black and white (not having or not capable of producing colors)

flat (lacking contrast or shading between tones)

contrasty (having sharp differences between black and white)

backed (used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light)

retake (photograph again)

posing; sitting ((photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait))

intensification (the act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film))

photography (the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies)

contrast (the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness))

dedication; inscription (a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something)

record (anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events)

processor (someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.))

underdevelopment ((photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast)

retouch; touch up (alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance)

blow up; enlarge; magnify (make large)

handcolor; handcolour (color by hand)

sensitise; sensitize (make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion)

photograph; shoot; snap (record on photographic film)

x-ray (take an x-ray of something or somebody)

reticulation ((photography) the formation of a network of cracks or wrinkles in a photographic emulsion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photography"):

radiography (photography that uses other kinds of radiation than visible light)

xerography (forming an image by the action of light on a specially coated charged plate; the latent image is developed with powders that adhere only to electrically charged areas)

telephotography (photography using a telephoto lens)

exposure (the act of exposing film to light)

cinematography; filming; motion-picture photography (the act of making a film)

Derivation:

photograph (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)

photographer (someone who takes photographs professionally)

photographic (relating to photography or obtained by using photography)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("photography" is a kind of...):

physical process; process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states)

Domain member category:

develop (make visible by means of chemical solutions)

underdevelop (process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature)

redevelop (develop for a second time, in order to improve the contrast, colour, etc., of a negative or print)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photography"):

anaglyphy (the process of producing pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed and viewed through spectacles with one red and one green lens)

autotype; autotypy (process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment)

digital photography (a photographic method that stores the image digitally for later reproduction)

dry plate; dry plate process (a former photographic method that used a glass plate coated with a light-sensitive gelatinous emulsion)

photomechanics; photoplate making (the process whereby printing surfaces (plates or cylinders) are produced by photographic methods)

powder method; powder photography; powder technique (a process for identifying minerals or crystals; a small rod is coated with a powdered form of the substance and subjected to suitably modified X-rays; the pattern of diffracted rings is used for identification)

radiography; skiagraphy (the process of making a radiograph; producing an image on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light)

scanning (the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer)

video digitizing (the process of capturing and converting and storing video images for use by a computer)

Derivation:

photograph (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)

photographic (relating to photography or obtained by using photography)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("photography" is a kind of...):

business; job; line; line of work; occupation (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money)

Domain category:

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Domain member category:

intensify (make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark)

Derivation:

photographer (someone who takes photographs professionally)

photographic (relating to photography or obtained by using photography)

 Context examples 

Never was such a fellow for photography.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A type of photography in which images can be viewed on a computer screen.

(Digital photography, NCI Dictionary)

Also registered, through microscopic photography, was the formation of Zika viral particles in the insect's gland.

(Brazil scientists find out Culex mosquito can transmit Zika, Agência Brasil)

The team used a modern version of a 150-year-old German photography technique called Schlieren imaging to show shock waves streaming from jets flying at supersonic speeds.

(Seeing Shock Waves, EARTH OBSERVATORY)

Catechol is used as an astringent, an antiseptic, and in photography, electroplating, and making other chemicals.

(Catechol, NCI Dictionary)

Calcium nitrate is used in the production of cadmium hydroxide for use in alkaline batteries, to color glass and porcelain, in photography and in nuclear reactors.

(Cadmium Nitrate, NCI Thesaurus)

“It’s a bit like film photography,” explained graduate student researcher Daniel Oran.

(Researchers Use Laser to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Art Services Shared Resource supports Cancer Center members by providing advice, customized design, and reproduction services to meet the needs of individual scientists, departments and educational programs for art, computer-imaging, graphics and photography services, including needs for scientific publications and presentations, printing, and audiovisual media.

(Illustration Graphic Art Publication and Audiovisual Service Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

I thought of the assistant’s fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the cellar.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)