Outline of photography

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

Photography – process of making pictures by the action of recording light patterns, reflected or emitted from objects, on a photosensitive medium or an image sensor through a timed exposure. The process is done through mechanical, chemical, or electronic devices known as cameras.

Scientific photography

 * Aerial photography
 * Aerial archaeology
 * Astrophotography
 * Autoradiography
 * Cartography and photography
 * Chronophotography
 * Fundus photography
 * Geophotography
 * Phototherapy
 * Pseudocolor
 * Remote sensing
 * Schlieren photography
 * Scientific visualization
 * Visual anthropology

Scientific imaging

 * Acoustic holography
 * Dark-field microscopy
 * Electron microscope
 * False-color
 * High-speed photography
 * Holography
 * Kirlian photography
 * Photogrammetry
 * Photomicrography
 * Multispectral imaging
 * Ultraviolet photography
 * Infrared photography
 * Full-spectrum photography

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

 * Celebrity photography
 * Concert photography
 * Fashion photography
 * Food photography
 * Freelance photography
 * Head shot
 * Industrial photography
 * Kodak girl
 * Product photography "knolling"
 * Sports photography
 * Stock photography
 * Wedding photography
 * Yearbook
 * "You press the button, we do the rest"

Police and military photography

 * Forensic photography
 * Mug shot
 * War photography

Social dimensions of photography

 * Conservation and restoration of photographs
 * Visual anthropology
 * Vernacular photography
 * Selfie

Photojournalism

 * Documentary photography
 * Life (magazine)
 * List of photojournalists
 * Narrative photography
 * Paparazzi
 * Photo-essay
 * Social documentary photography
 * Social photography
 * War photography

Political dimensions of photography

 * Agitprop
 * Censorship
 * Conservation photography
 * List of photographers of the civil rights movement
 * Propaganda

Photography and desire

 * Erotic photography
 * Fashion photography
 * Glamour photography
 * List of BDSM photographers
 * Nude photography
 * Pin-up model
 * Pornography

Photographic subjects

 * Architectural photography
 * Fireworks photography
 * Nature photography
 * Cloudscape photography
 * Conservation photography
 * Landscape photography
 * Underwater photography
 * Wildlife photography
 * Night photography
 * Portrait photography
 * Street photography
 * Subminiature photography

Photographic styles

 * Abstract photography
 * Candid photography
 * Environmental portrait
 * Low-key photography
 * Old-time photography
 * Snapshot
 * Still life
 * Straight photography

Photographic formats
See also: Scientific imaging


 * Black and white
 * Color photography
 * Chemigram
 * Chemogram
 * Digital photography
 * Lo-fi photography
 * Lomography
 * Monochrome photography
 * Panoramic photography
 * Photogram
 * Stereoscopic photography
 * Virtual reality
 * Xerography

Art and photography

 * Abstraction
 * American Realism
 * Appropriation
 * Art
 * Artists books
 * Conceptual photography
 * Modernism
 * Exhibitions
 * The Family of Man
 * Festivals

Theory

 * Aesthetics
 * Art criticism
 * Conceptual photography
 * Constructed reality
 * Decisive moment
 * Deconstruction
 * Ideology
 * Memory
 * Truth
 * Representation
 * Semiotics
 * Social representation
 * Time and space
 * Visual anthropology
 * Voyeurism

Photographic technology
See also: History of photographic technology


 * Cabinet photograph
 * Color photography
 * Digital photography
 * Digiscoping
 * Microphotography
 * Photogenic drawings
 * Photometry
 * Stereoscope

Image capture

 * Bracketing
 * Burst mode
 * Exposure
 * Time-lapse photography

Types of camera

 * Box camera
 * Brownie camera
 * Camera obscura
 * Camera phone
 * Digital single-lens reflex camera
 * Diana camera
 * Digital camera
 * Zebra patterning
 * Disposable camera
 * Field camera
 * Instant or polaroid camera
 * Pinhole camera
 * Point and shoot camera
 * Press camera
 * Rangefinder camera
 * Single-lens reflex camera
 * Three-CCD camera
 * Twin-lens reflex camera
 * Toy camera
 * View camera

Parts of a camera

 * Camera back
 * Shutter
 * Hotshoe
 * Aperture
 * Viewfinder

Lens

 * Fisheye lens
 * Lens
 * Lens hood
 * Perspective control lens
 * Telecentric lens
 * Telephoto lens
 * Wide-angle lens
 * Zoom lens

Accessories

 * Cable release
 * Filter
 * Monopod
 * Tripod

Film

 * 35 mm
 * Anti-halation backing
 * Film base
 * Film developing
 * Film format
 * Film holder
 * Film speed
 * Sensitometry
 * Film stock
 * Grain
 * Photographic plate
 * Infrared film
 * Instant film
 * Negative
 * Reversal film

Lighting

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

Photographic effects

 * Bokeh
 * Contre-jour
 * Motion blur
 * Sabattier effect

Photographic processing

 * Airgraph
 * Bas-relief
 * Color
 * Darkroom
 * Developer
 * Dufaycolor
 * Dye coupler
 * Enlarger
 * Fixer
 * Hand-coloring of photographs
 * Photographic print toning
 * Heliograph
 * Image stabilization
 * Instant photography
 * Lomography
 * Minilab
 * Orthochromatic
 * Photosculpture
 * Photographic printing
 * Safelight
 * Solarization
 * Stop bath

Digital processing

 * Adobe Photoshop
 * Digital printing
 * High-dynamic-range imaging (HDR)
 * Image histogram
 * Scanning
 * Film scanner
 * Unsharp masking

Processes

 * Alternative process
 * Bleach bypass
 * Bromoil process
 * Cross processing
 * Cyanotype
 * Double exposure
 * Gum bichromate
 * Infrared
 * Oil print process
 * Pinhole
 * Platinum process
 * Polaroid art
 * Redscale
 * Sprocket hole
 * Through the Viewfinder
 * C-41 process
 * Collodion process
 * Contact printing
 * Dodging and burning
 * Dye transfer process
 * E-6 process
 * Gelatin silver process
 * Half-tone process
 * K-14 process
 * Lippmann process
 * Printing
 * Process camera
 * Push printing
 * Push processing
 * Sun printing
 * Wet collodion process

Papers, prints, and -types

 * Anthotype
 * Blotting paper
 * Bromide paper
 * Calotype
 * Carbro
 * Chromogenic print
 * Chrysotype
 * Cyanotype
 * Contact print
 * Gum printing
 * Hillotype
 * Hyalotype
 * Kallitype
 * Litmus paper
 * Melainotype
 * Paper negative
 * Physautotype
 * Print permanence
 * Photograph
 * Woodburytype

Photographic techniques

 * Afocal photography
 * Chemigram
 * Chemogram
 * Harris shutter
 * Kinetic photography
 * Kite aerial photography
 * Light painting
 * Macro photography
 * Miniature faking
 * Panning
 * Photogram
 * Pseudo-solarization
 * Rephotography
 * Rollout photography
 * Stereoscopy
 * Stopping down
 * Tilt–shift photography
 * Time-lapse photography

Photographic concepts

 * Composition
 * Rule of thirds
 * Field of view
 * Headroom
 * Perspective (visual)
 * Lead room
 * Framing
 * Golden triangle (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

Optics

 * Angle of view
 * Chromatic aberration
 * Field of view
 * Focus
 * Autofocus
 * Depth of field
 * Depth of focus
 * Hyperfocal distance
 * Soft focus
 * Distortion
 * Electromagnetic spectrum
 * Fourier optics
 * Focal length
 * 35mm equivalent focal length
 * Gaussian optics
 * Lens flare
 * Newton's rings
 * Orb (optics)
 * Optical transfer function
 * Optical aberration
 * Perspective
 * Perspective distortion
 * Polarized light
 * Vignetting

Color

 * CMYK color model
 * Color balance
 * Color management
 * Color photography
 * Color space
 * Color temperature
 * Colorimetry
 * Primary color
 * RGB color model

Digital imaging

 * Image Compression
 * Gaussian blur
 * Image histogram
 * Histogram equalization
 * Image scaling
 * Logarithms
 * Noise
 * Pixel
 * Posterization

Digital image formats

 * DNG
 * GIF
 * JPEG
 * PNG
 * RAW
 * TIFF

Photography organizations

 * Farm Security Administration
 * Missions Héliographiques
 * National Geographic
 * Royal Photographic Society
 * Société française de photographie

Photographic equipment makers

 * Canon
 * Fujifilm
 * Hasselblad
 * Ilford
 * Kodak
 * Leica
 * Minolta
 * Nikon
 * Pentax
 * Polaroid

Museums and libraries
Museums and libraries with significant photography collections.


 * Center for Creative Photography
 * Family of Man Museum, Clervaux Castle, Luxembourg
 * George Eastman Museum
 * Getty Museum
 * Instituto Moreira Salles
 * International Center of Photography
 * International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum
 * Library of Congress
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art
 * Musée d'Orsay
 * Museo de Arte de Lima
 * Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago
 * Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
 * Museum of Jewish Heritage
 * Museum of Modern Art
 * National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
 * National Portrait Gallery UK
 * National Portrait Gallery US
 * Niepce Museum
 * New York Public Library
 * Smithsonian American Art Museum
 * Tate Galleries

Photographers

 * Women photographers


 * List of photographers


 * List of women photographers
 * List of Jewish American photographers
 * List of street photographers
 * Photography by indigenous peoples of the Americas

Photographers by nationality

 * List of Bangladeshi photographers
 * List of Chinese photographers
 * List of German photographers
 * List of Greek photographers
 * List of Korean photographers
 * List of New Zealand women photographers
 * List of Norwegian photographers
 * List of Polish photographers
 * List of Slovenian photographers
 * List of Turkish photographers

History of photographic technology

 * History of the camera
 * Camera obscura

Pioneers and inventors of photographic technology

 * Hippolyte Bayard
 * Louis Daguerre
 * George Eastman
 * Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
 * John Herschel
 * Eadweard Muybridge
 * Nicéphore Niépce
 * William Fox Talbot
 * Thomas Wedgwood

Historic photographic processes

 * Ambrotype
 * Autochrome Lumière
 * Calotype
 * Collodion process
 * Cyanotype
 * Daguerreotype
 * Dufaycolor
 * Heliography
 * Platinum print
 * Salt print
 * Tintype

History of photography in culture and art

 * Bauhaus
 * Cliche-verre
 * Dada
 * Decisive moment
 * Farm Security Administration
 * Formalism
 * Fotoform
 * Futurism
 * Gallery 291
 * Group f.64
 * Harlem Renaissance
 * Impressionism
 * The Linked Ring
 * Modernism
 * Neorealism
 * Neue Sachlichkeit
 * Neues Sehen / New Vision
 * New Documents
 * New Topographics
 * Orientalism
 * Photo-Secession
 * Photomontage
 * Pictorialism
 * Pop art
 * Postmodernism
 * Realism
 * Socialist realism
 * Straight photography
 * Surrealism
 * Vortograph
 * Wiener Aktionismus / Viennese Actionism

Lists

 * List of most expensive photographs
 * List of photographs considered the most important