Photography may be roughly defined as the art of capturing memorable moments using a camera.
Ever since the process of developing and recording photographs was first invented, people have been using the same in various situations for various uses.
Its commercial uses include (but are not limited to) advertising for a product or place, preserving historical documents or structures, to preserve the finer details of a crime scene, surveillance, scientific studies etc.
The use of photography is only limited by imagination.
The advent of "point and shoot" cameras has made photography very easy for most people.
However, for professional photographers there is more to a picture than just simply pressing a button.
This is where photography becomes an art and a science at the same time.
Terms like Exposure (the amount of light entering the camera or the duration of time the camera stays open), Shutter speed, Focus (focusing on the subject), White Balance (a compensation mechanism for adjusting the color temperature on photographs), Metering (a mechanism by which light areas and dark areas in photographs may be clearly represented), Aperture (the unit of measure which controls how much area of the lens is exposed to light) etc become the parameters which differentiate an average photograph from an outstanding one.
This list is just a rough overview of the intricacies involved while taking a picture.
The art of photography lies in knowing all (and probably many other technical details) of these, as well as making proper adjustments with respect to the subject to clearly represents the finer details as well as the emotion/nature of the subject.
Many professional photographers are paid for doing just this.
The equipment and accessories used for photography are also varied.
Equipment ranges from simple "point and shoot" cameras to professional DSLR cameras, from infrared cameras that "see" temperature to ultrasonic cameras used in the fields of medicine and research.
Accessories range from a humble plastic strap to an expensive tripod and from an extra zoom lens to take photographs of a subject at a distance to the cameras used in microscopes with even larger zoom ratios that are used to see the tiniest details of a subject.
The list is endless.
In summary, the field of photography is varied and vast and so are its uses.
A person may use photography as a hobby or it can become a profession.
The choice is theirs.
Ever since the process of developing and recording photographs was first invented, people have been using the same in various situations for various uses.
Its commercial uses include (but are not limited to) advertising for a product or place, preserving historical documents or structures, to preserve the finer details of a crime scene, surveillance, scientific studies etc.
The use of photography is only limited by imagination.
The advent of "point and shoot" cameras has made photography very easy for most people.
However, for professional photographers there is more to a picture than just simply pressing a button.
This is where photography becomes an art and a science at the same time.
Terms like Exposure (the amount of light entering the camera or the duration of time the camera stays open), Shutter speed, Focus (focusing on the subject), White Balance (a compensation mechanism for adjusting the color temperature on photographs), Metering (a mechanism by which light areas and dark areas in photographs may be clearly represented), Aperture (the unit of measure which controls how much area of the lens is exposed to light) etc become the parameters which differentiate an average photograph from an outstanding one.
This list is just a rough overview of the intricacies involved while taking a picture.
The art of photography lies in knowing all (and probably many other technical details) of these, as well as making proper adjustments with respect to the subject to clearly represents the finer details as well as the emotion/nature of the subject.
Many professional photographers are paid for doing just this.
The equipment and accessories used for photography are also varied.
Equipment ranges from simple "point and shoot" cameras to professional DSLR cameras, from infrared cameras that "see" temperature to ultrasonic cameras used in the fields of medicine and research.
Accessories range from a humble plastic strap to an expensive tripod and from an extra zoom lens to take photographs of a subject at a distance to the cameras used in microscopes with even larger zoom ratios that are used to see the tiniest details of a subject.
The list is endless.
In summary, the field of photography is varied and vast and so are its uses.
A person may use photography as a hobby or it can become a profession.
The choice is theirs.