The word Photograph comes from two words. Photo meaning "Light" and Graph meaning "To Write". It literally means "To write with light."
Straight photography tries to show things exactly as they are. It does not manipulate the picture for artistic or other effect.
The word "photograph" was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (phos), meaning "light", and γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light"
From Greek, meaning painting with light
A picture or likeness obtained by photography., To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group., To practice photography; to take photographs.
photography is more than a medium..?
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in photography a shutter is a devise that when opened allows light to pass through for a predetermined length of time and 'create a photograph'
Writing or painting with light. Both root words are Greek - photos (light) and graphos (writing or painting).Read more: etymology-of-photography
From the Greek Phos meaning light and Graphia meaning to write
The word Photograph comes from two words. Photo meaning "Light" and Graph meaning "To Write". It literally means "To write with light."
I don't know all of them, but here are some. Commercial Photography Fashion Photography Medical Photography News Photography Fine Art Photography
Depends. In what context do you want to know the meaning? There's a windows API called DirectComposition, but I can imagine it to have a whole other meaning in for example photography.