photography

«photography» in Mova's school dictionary: the art, hobby or job of taking photographs with a camera… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (photography, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Photography is the art, hobby or job of taking photographs with a camera or phone. tree →

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 →

sense 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 →
• Flash photography is not allowed in the museum. tree →
• We had a photography lesson on how to use light. tree →
• Photography was invented about two hundred years ago. tree →
• The film's photography made the mountains look magical. tree →
• He took up photography as a hobby. tree →

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.

In the corpora

• Whether AI pictures are art is argued; when photography was new, some people also said it could not be real art.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «photography» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.