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
editApplied photography
editScientific photography
edit- 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
edit- Acoustic holography
- Dark-field microscopy
- Electron microscope
- False-color
- High-speed photography
- Holography
- Kirlian photography
- Photogrammetry
- Photomicrography
- Multispectral imaging
Medical imaging
editCreating images of the human body or parts of it, to diagnose or examine disease.
- 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 (MRI) – 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
edit- Celebrity photography
- Concert photography
- Fashion photography
- Food photography
- Freelance photography
- Head shot
- Industrial photography
- Kodak girl
- Product photography "knolling"
- Sports photography
- Stock photography
- Wedding photography
- Yearbook
- "You press the button, we do the rest"
Police and military photography
editSocial dimensions of photography
editPhotojournalism
edit- Documentary photography
- Life (magazine)
- List of photojournalists
- Narrative photography
- Paparazzi
- Photo-essay
- Social documentary photography
- Social photography
- War photography
Political dimensions of photography
edit- Agitprop
- Censorship
- Conservation photography
- List of photographers of the civil rights movement
- Propaganda
Photography and desire
edit- Erotic photography
- Fashion photography
- Glamour photography
- List of BDSM photographers
- Nude photography
- Pin-up model
- Pornography
Subjects, styles, and formats
editPhotographic subjects
edit- Architectural photography
- Fireworks photography
- Nature photography
- Night photography
- Portrait photography
- Street photography
- Subminiature photography
Photographic styles
edit- Abstract photography
- Candid photography
- Environmental portrait
- Low-key photography
- Old-time photography
- Snapshot
- Still life
- Straight photography
Photographic formats
editSee also: Scientific imaging
- Black and white
- Color photography
- Chemigram
- Chemogram
- Digital photography
- Lo-fi photography
- Lomography
- Monochrome photography
- Panoramic photography
- Photogram
- Stereoscopic photography
- Virtual reality
- Xerography
Art and theory
editArt and photography
edit- Abstraction
- American Realism
- Appropriation
- Art
- Artists books
- Conceptual photography
- Modernism
- Exhibitions
- Festivals
Theory
editPhotographic technology
editSee also: History of photographic technology
- Cabinet photograph
- Color photography
- Digital photography
- Digiscoping
- Microphotography
- Photogenic drawings
- Photometry
- Stereoscope
Image capture
editCamera
editTypes of camera
edit- Box camera
- Brownie camera
- Camera obscura
- Camera phone
- Digital single-lens reflex camera
- Diana camera
- Digital camera
- 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
editLens
edit- Fisheye lens
- Lens
- Lens hood
- Perspective control lens
- Telecentric lens
- Telephoto lens
- Wide-angle lens
- Zoom lens
Accessories
editFilm
edit- 35 mm
- Anti-halation backing
- Film base
- Film developing
- Film format
- Film holder
- Film speed
- Film stock
- Grain
- Photographic plate
- Infrared film
- Instant film
- Negative
- Reversal film
Lighting
edit- Beauty dish
- Fill light
- Flash
- Gobo
- Guide number
- Key light
- Light meter
- Monolight
- Reflector
- Snoot
- Softbox
Projection
editPhotographic effects
editPhotographic processing
edit- Airgraph
- Bas-relief
- Color
- Darkroom
- Developer
- Dufaycolor
- Dye coupler
- Enlarger
- Fixer
- Hand-coloring of photographs
- Heliograph
- Image stabilization
- Instant photography
- Lomography
- Minilab
- Orthochromatic
- Photosculpture
- Photographic printing
- Safelight
- Solarization
- Stop bath
Digital processing
edit- Adobe Photoshop
- Digital printing
- High-dynamic-range imaging (HDR)
- Image histogram
- Scanning
- Unsharp masking
Processes
edit- Alternative process
- 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
edit- 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
editPhotographic concepts
edit- Composition
- Density
- Callier effect
- Characteristic curve
- Contrast
- Reciprocity
- Exposure
- Moire patterns
Optics
edit- Angle of view
- Chromatic aberration
- Field of view
- Focus
- Distortion
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- Fourier optics
- Focal length
- Gaussian optics
- Lens flare
- Newton's rings
- Orb (optics)
- Optical transfer function
- Optical aberration
- Perspective
- Polarized light
- Vignetting
Color
edit- CMYK color model
- Color balance
- Color management
- Color photography
- Color space
- Color temperature
- Colorimetry
- Primary color
- RGB color model
Digital imaging
editDigital image formats
editPhotography organizations
edit- Farm Security Administration
- Missions Héliographiques
- National Geographic
- Royal Photographic Society
- Société française de photographie
Photographic equipment makers
editMuseums and libraries
editMuseums and libraries with significant photography collections.
- Center for Creative Photography
- Family of Man Museum, Clervaux Castle, Luxembourg
- George Eastman Museum
- Getty Museum
- Instituto Moreira Salles
- International Center of Photography
- International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum
- 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
- New York Public Library
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Tate Galleries
Photographers
edit- List of women photographers
- List of Jewish American photographers
- List of street photographers
- Photography by indigenous peoples of the Americas
Photographers by nationality
edit- List of Bangladeshi photographers
- List of Chinese photographers
- List of German 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
editHistory of photographic technology
editPioneers and inventors of photographic technology
edit- Hippolyte Bayard
- Louis Daguerre
- George Eastman
- Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
- John Herschel
- Eadweard Muybridge
- Nicéphore Niépce
- William Fox Talbot
- Thomas Wedgwood
Historic photographic processes
edit- Ambrotype
- Autochrome Lumière
- Calotype
- Collodion process
- Cyanotype
- Daguerreotype
- Dufaycolor
- Heliography
- Platinum print
- Salt print
- Tintype
History of photography in culture and art
edit- 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
editExternal links
edit- Judging the authenticity of Photographs: 1800s to Today Guide for collectors and historians
- Rarities of the USSR photochronicles Pioneers of Soviet Photography.
- "Every Picture Has a Story" - uses pictures from the Smithsonian's collections to show the development of the technology through the nineteenth century.
- Shades of Light (Australian Photography 1839 - 1988) the online version of the original Shades of Light published 1998, Gael Newton, National Gallery of Australia.
- Illustrated Photography - Basic Photography - The basics of photography explained in a series of articles.
- Camera Obscura - digital library on the history photographic techniques