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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#m1)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#x1)
- Flash photography is not allowed in the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#x2)
- We had a photography lesson on how to use light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#x3)
- Photography was invented about two hundred years ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#x4)
- The film's photography made the mountains look magical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#x5)
- He took up photography as a hobby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/36-ai-pictures-and-ai-music-as-reported/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «photography» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photography/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.