Outline of photography
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
- *Ultraviolet photography
- *Infrared photography
- *Full-spectrum photography
Medical imaging
- 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 — 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
- Forensic photography
- Mug shot
- War photography
Social dimensions of photography
- Conservation and restoration of photographs
- Visual anthropology
- Vernacular photography
- *Selfie
Photojournalism
- Documentary photography
- Life
- 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
- * Cloudscape photography
- * Conservation photography
- * Landscape photography
- * Underwater photography
- * Wildlife 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
- Black and white
- Color photography
- 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
- * The Family of Man
- 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
- 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
- *Zebra patterning
- 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
- *Sensitometry
- Film stock
- Grain
- Photographic plate
- Infrared film
- Instant film
- Negative
- Reversal film
Lighting
- Beauty dish
- Fill light
- Flash
- *Flash synchronization
- *Red-eye effect
- Gobo
- Guide number
- Key light
- Light meter
- Monolight
- Reflector
- Snoot
- Softbox
Projection
Photographic effects
- Bokeh
- Contre-jour
- Motion blur
Photographic processing
- Airgraph
- Bas-relief
- Color
- Darkroom
- Developer
- Dufaycolor
- Dye coupler
- Enlarger
- Fixer
- Hand-coloring of photographs
- *Photographic print toning
- 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
- Image histogram
- Scanning
- * Film scanner
- Unsharp masking
Processes
- Alternative process
- * Bleach bypass
- * Bromoil process
- * Cross processing
- * Cyanotype
- * Double exposure
- * Gum bichromate
- * Infrared
- * Oil print process
- * Pinhole
- * Platinum process
- * Polaroid art
- * Redscale
- * Sprocket hole
- * Through the Viewfinder
- 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
- 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
- *Lead room
- *Framing
- *Golden triangle
- Density
- *Callier effect
- *Characteristic curve
- *Contrast
- *Reciprocity
- Exposure
- *Shutter speed
- *Aperture
- *F-number
- *Exposure compensation
- *Exposure value
- *Exposure latitude
- *Zone system
- *Metering mode
- *Time exposure
- Moire patterns
Optics
- Angle of view
- Chromatic aberration
- Field of view
- Focus
- *Autofocus
- *Depth of field
- *Depth of focus
- *Hyperfocal distance
- *Soft focus
- Distortion
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- Fourier optics
- Flare
- Focal length
- *35mm equivalent focal length
- Gaussian optics
- Newton's rings
- Orb
- 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
- Image Compression
- Gaussian blur
- Image histogram
- *Histogram equalization
- Image scaling
- Logarithms
- Noise
- Pixel
- Posterization
Digital image formats
- DNG
- GIF
- JPEG
- PNG
- RAW
- TIFF
Photography organizations
- Farm Security Administration
- Missions Héliographiques
- National Geographic
- Royal Photographic Society
- Société française de photographie
Photographic equipment makers
- Canon
- Fujifilm
- Hasselblad
- Ilford
- Kodak
- Leica
- Minolta
- Nikon
- Pentax
- Polaroid
Museums and libraries
- Center for Creative Photography
- Family of Man Museum, Clervaux Castle, Luxembourg
- George Eastman Museum
- Getty Museum
- Instituto Moreira Salles
- International Center of Photography
- 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
- NYPL
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Tate Galleries
Photographers
- Women photographers
- List of 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 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
- History of the camera
- *Camera obscura
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
- List of most expensive photographs