# Photography & Images

**Type:** Topic
**Words:** 60

## About

Cameras, photographic techniques, lighting, composition, and image production.

## Words by Level

### A1
- picture — A drawing, painting, or photograph of something or someone.; frequency rank 689
- camera — A device for taking photographs or recording video.; frequency rank 948
- color — The quality of an object, such as red, blue, or green, that comes from the light it reflects.; frequency rank 1497

### A2
- film — A story or events recorded as moving pictures and shown in a cinema or on screen; a movie.; frequency rank 771
- focus — To give all your attention to one thing.; frequency rank 1665
- model — A small copy of an object, often used to show how the real thing looks or works.; frequency rank 1745
- image — A picture, photo, or representation of someone or something.; frequency rank 2078
- shadow — A dark shape made on a surface when something blocks the light.; frequency rank 2497
- background — The part of a scene or picture that is behind the main objects.; frequency rank 2663
- tone — The quality of a person's voice that shows how they feel.; frequency rank 2830
- print — To produce words or pictures on paper using a machine.; frequency rank 3007
- frame — A border that surrounds and holds a picture, photo, or mirror.; frequency rank 3354
- photograph — A picture made with a camera.; frequency rank 3504
- slide — To move smoothly along a surface while staying in contact with it.; frequency rank 3965
- photographer — A person who takes photographs, especially as a job.; frequency rank 4694
- portrait — A painting, drawing, or photograph of a person, especially the face and shoulders.; frequency rank 5779
- landscape — A wide view of an area of countryside, including its hills, fields, and other features.; frequency rank 6118
- photography — The art and activity of taking photographs.; frequency rank 6307
- contrast — A clear difference between two or more things when you compare them.; frequency rank 10982

### B1
- studio — A room where radio or television programmes, music, or films are made.; frequency rank 2192
- flash — To shine suddenly and brightly, often for a short time.; frequency rank 2816
- angle — The space between two lines or surfaces that meet, measured in degrees.; frequency rank 3556
- depth — The distance from the top to the bottom of something.; frequency rank 5855
- digital — Relating to computers, the internet, and electronic technology.; frequency rank 6279
- shutter — close with shutters; frequency rank 6436
- printing — The process or business of producing books, newspapers, and other material using a press.; frequency rank 8847
- filter — A device that removes unwanted things from a liquid, gas, or other substance passing through it.; frequency rank 9377
- composition — the different parts or people that something is made up of; frequency rank 10651
- highlight — To draw attention to something so people notice how important it is.; frequency rank 12745
- developer — a person who creates or modifies software; frequency rank 17336

### B2
- perspective — A particular way of thinking about or judging a situation.; frequency rank 4926
- lighting — The lights in a place, or the way a place is lit.; frequency rank 5735
- pose — To hold a particular position so that someone can paint, draw, or photograph you.; frequency rank 5954
- exposure — The state of being affected by something, such as a substance or influence.; frequency rank 7109
- lens — A curved piece of glass or plastic that focuses light, used in cameras, glasses, and microscopes.; frequency rank 7727
- zoom — To move very fast, often with a humming sound.; frequency rank 8111
- resolution — A firm decision to do or not do something.; frequency rank 9431
- blur — To make something unclear or hard to see clearly.; frequency rank 11388
- photographic — relating to photography or obtained by using photography; frequency rank 15228
- tripod — a three-legged stand or support for a camera, instrument, vessel, or other object; frequency rank 24521
- illustration — A picture or drawing in a book, magazine, or other text.; frequency rank 29719
- reflector — a surface or device that sends light, heat, sound, or other radiation back; frequency rank 38357
- retouch — to improve or alter an image, artwork, or other object by making small corrections to its details; frequency rank 69519
- pixel — one of the tiny picture elements that together form a digital image

### C1
- texture — The way a surface or material feels when you touch it.; frequency rank 11287
- candid — Honest and open, saying what you really think even when it is uncomfortable.; frequency rank 18217
- silhouette — The dark shape and outline of someone or something seen against a lighter background.; frequency rank 19084
- transparency — Openness and honesty that allows others to see how things are done.; frequency rank 24709
- darkroom — a room with no light, used for developing photographs; frequency rank 25970
- panorama — A wide, unbroken view of a large area.; frequency rank 28778
- saturation — the state or process of being completely soaked, filled, or supplied to capacity; frequency rank 31230
- aperture — A small or narrow opening, gap, slit, or hole.; frequency rank 39559
- viewfinder — the part of a camera that shows the scene the photographer is framing

### C2
- hue — a color or shade of color; frequency rank 21024
- watermark — a faint identifying design formed in paper during manufacture and visible when held to the light; frequency rank 47846
- overexposure — excessive exposure to something, especially something harmful such as radiation or sunlight; frequency rank 95562

### C2+
- brightness — the quality or degree of being bright or luminous
- enlargement — the act of making larger or the state of being enlarged
- foreground — the part of a scene nearest the viewer; to make prominent
- sharpness — the quality of having a keen edge, point, or acuteness