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# photography

noun (photography, uncountable)

«photography» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Photography is the art, hobby or job of taking photographs with a camera or phone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#m1)
2. Photography also means the photos in a book, film or magazine, and how they are done, as in «the film has beautiful photography». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#m2)

### In the lessons

In art and computing lessons, pupils learn photography skills: framing, light, focus and editing. In science, cameras show how light makes an image. In everyday life, many children enjoy photography on phones; in online safety lessons, they learn to ask before taking or sharing photos of others. Phrases: «nature photography», «wildlife photography», «no flash photography», «take up photography».

### Examples

- My aunt does wildlife photography and waits hours for one shot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#x1)
- Flash photography is not allowed in the museum. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#x2)
- We had a photography lesson on how to use light. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#x3)
- Photography was invented about two hundred years ago. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#x4)
- The film's photography made the mountains look magical. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#x5)
- He took up photography as a hobby. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#x6)

### Note

Uncountable: «photography is fun», not «a photography». Stress: «fo-TOG-ra-fee». Related: photograph (a picture), photographer (the person), photographic. «Photo» is short for photograph, not photography.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «photography» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«photography» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/photography.html) on Mova free.