"Photographic" redirects here. For the image obtained, see Photograph. For other uses, see Photography (disambiguation).

Lens and mounting of a large-format camera

Photography

Other names Science or Art of creating durable images

Types Recording light or other electromagnetic radiation

Inventor Thomas Wedgwood (1800)

Related Stereoscopic, Full-spectrum, Light field, Electrophotography, Photograms, Scanner

Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.[1]

Typically, a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. With an electronic image sensor, this produces an electrical charge at each pixel, which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing.