Outline of photography

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to photography:

Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (e.g., photolithography), and business, as well as its more direct uses for art, film and video production, recreational purposes, hobby, and mass communication. A person who operates a camera to capture or take photographs is called a photographer, while the captured image, also known as a photograph, is the result produced by the camera.

Areas of practice

Applied photography

Scientific photography

Scientific imaging

Medical imaging

Creating images of the human body or parts of it, to diagnose or examine disease.

Bioluminescence imaging – a technique for studying laboratory animals using luminescent protein.
Calcium imaging – determining the calcium status of a tissue using fluorescent light.
Diffuse optical imaging – using near-infrared light to generate images of the body.
Diffusion-weighted imaging – a type of MRI that uses water diffusion.
Endoscopy – a procedure using an endoscope to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body.
Fluorescence lifetime imaging – using the decay rate of a fluorescent sample.
Fluorescence image-guided surgery – used to detect fluorescently labelled structures during surgery.
Gallium imaging – a nuclear medicine method for the detection of infections and cancers.
Imaging agent – a chemical designed to allow clinicians to determine whether a mass is benign or malignant.
Imaging studies – which includes many medical imaging techniques.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) – a non-invasive method to render images of living tissues.
Microscopy – creating images of objects or features too small to be detectable by the naked human eye.
Molecular imaging – used to study molecular pathways inside organisms.
Non-contact thermography – is the field of thermography that derives diagnostic indications from infrared images of the human body.
Nuclear medicine – uses administered radioactive substances to create images of internal organs and their function.
Optical imaging – using light as an investigational tool for biological research and medical diagnosis.
Optoacoustic imaging – using the photothermal effect, for the accuracy of spectroscopy with the depth resolution of ultrasound.
Photoacoustic Imaging – a technique to detect vascular disease and cancer using non-ionizing laser pulses.
Ultrasound imaging – using very high frequency sound to visualize muscles and internal organs.

Commercial photography

Police and military photography

Social dimensions of photography

Photojournalism

Political dimensions of photography

Photography and desire

Subjects, styles, and formats

Photographic subjects

Photographic styles

Photographic formats

Art and theory

Art and photography

Theory

Photographic technology

Image capture

Camera

Parts of a camera

Lens

Accessories

Film

Lighting

Beauty dish
Fill light
Flash
- Flash synchronization
- Red-eye effect
Gobo
Guide number
Key light
Light meter
Monolight
Reflector
Snoot
Softbox

Projection

Photographic effects

Photographic processing

Digital processing

Papers, prints, and -types

Photographic techniques

Photographic concepts

Composition
Density
- Callier effect
- Characteristic curve
- Contrast
- Reciprocity
Exposure
- Shutter speed
- Aperture
- F-number
- Exposure compensation
- Exposure value
- Exposure latitude
- Zone system
- Metering mode
- Time exposure
Moire patterns

Color

Digital imaging

Digital image formats

Photography organizations

Photographic equipment makers

Photographers

Men photographers

List of photographers

Photographers by nationality

History of photography

History of photographic technology

History of the camera
- Camera obscura

Pioneers and inventors of photographic technology

Historic photographic processes

Lists

External links

Judging the authenticity of Photographs: 1800s to Today Guide for collectors and historians
Rarities of the USSR photochronicles Pioneers of Soviet Photography.
"Every Picture Has a Story" - uses pictures from the Smithsonian's collections to show the development of the technology through the nineteenth century.
Shades of Light (Australian Photography 1839 - 1988) the online version of the original Shades of Light published 1998, Gael Newton, National Gallery of Australia.
Illustrated Photography - Basic Photography - The basics of photography explained in a series of articles.
Camera Obscura - digital library on the history photographic techniques