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A photographer at the Calgary Folk Music Festival
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Paparazzi at the Tribeca Film Festival
A photographer is a person who takes a photograph using a camera. A professional photographer uses photography to make a living.
The work of a photographer may be limited to the actual shooting of the camera, or it may include all of the steps in the development of the image up to the presentation of the final product. A photograph may be the work of a single person or of a team; The most common teams are formed of a photographer and a laboratory technician. The laboratory work (photographic processing, image processing, plus other less common techniques) can completely change the appearance of a shot. Post-processing can be an art form in itself, but, the person who took the shot is often more likely to be considered the artist, and the developer an artisan
At the beginning of the photographic era, painters and photographers debated the role of photography in art. If photographers are considered to have "usurped" the exclusive domain of the image from painters, painters were profoundly influenced by the photographic technique, obliging them to better define their domain, subjects, and flexibility of technique. However, certain painters have reduced their art to that of a technician in a development lab, using another technique for copying photographs by hand.
Photographers are often categorized based on the subjects they photograph. Some photographers explore subjects typical of paintings such as landscape, still life, and portraiture. Other photographers specialize in subjects unique to photography, including street photography, documentary photography, fashion photography,wedding photography and commercial photography. The distinction between artistic photography and photojournalism or other types of photography and the associated techniques does not remove this personal aspect from the work of the great photographers.
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photograph (often shortened to photo) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip.
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camera is a device used to capture images, as still photographs or as sequences of moving images (movies or videos). The term as well as the modern-day camera evolved from the camera obscura
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Photography [fә'tɑgrәfi:],[foʊ'tɑgrәfi:] is the process of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a film or electronic sensor.
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Conventional photographic films and papers need to be chemically processed after they have been exposed in order to produce the desired negative or positive image. The general process is similar whatever the make of film or paper.
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Image processing is any form of information processing for which the input is an image, such as photographs or frames of video; the output is not necessarily an image, but can be for instance a set of features of the image.
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artisan, also called a craftsman,[1] is a skilled manual worker who uses tools and machinery in a particular craft.
Artisans were the dominant producers of goods before the Industrial Revolution.
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Artisans were the dominant producers of goods before the Industrial Revolution.
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landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including physical elements such as landforms, living elements of flora and fauna, abstract elements such as lighting and weather conditions, and human elements, for instance human activity or the built environment.
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still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, plants and natural substances like rocks) or man-made (drinking glasses, cigarettes, pipes, hotdogs and so on).
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A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person.
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worldwide view of the subject.
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Street photography is a type of documentary photography that usually features people in candid situations in public places such as streets, parks, beaches, malls,Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page.
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Documentary photography usually refers to a type of professional photojournalism, but it may also be an amateur or student pursuit. The photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people.
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Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Allure.
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Wedding photography is a major commercial endeavor that supports the bulk of the efforts for many photography studios or independent photographers.
With the advent of the digital revolution in photography, today’s contemporary wedding photographer needs to stay abreast
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With the advent of the digital revolution in photography, today’s contemporary wedding photographer needs to stay abreast
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Commercial photography is photography made or licensed for the purpose of selling a product, service or idea where fine-art photography is created as an ad in itself.
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Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story.
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This is a list of notable photographers who already have articles.
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- abs:Abstract photographer
- adv:Advertising photographer
- aer:Aerial photographer
- arch:Architectural photographer
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