Photography’s functions

Photography has many different functions, this can range from; recording history/memories, creating art, changing the way the human eye perceives images, creating companies advertisements and making us experience emotions that move us and make us think/see things differently.

Photography as an art form

Photography being used as an art form grew from technological developments where images where now able to be manipulated by photographers into ways that fit their artistic expressions.

Using photoshop, etc photographers are able to completely change the way an image can be perceived by their audience and how they want people to interpret it by experimenting with different lenses, cameras, films and how they frame or time a shot.

Photography as a science

Photography is an art and science but scientifically, the camera which creates the art also helps us to capture and teach us understandings which may or may not be visible to the human eye as they are too small or far away.

This can include:

– The action for the light sensitivity which is needed to produce pictures.

– How the images may be fixated through the camera, object or person.

– The process of how light helps to create the picture.

The difference between the study and practice of photography

Studying photography means to gain basic knowledge about photographic elements and techniques. It is where you will learn about photo composition, camera use/maintenance, how to use a darkroom and digitally editing and processing. 

To practice photography means is creating art through application and creating images by recording light well. This is done either electronically by a camera or on a phones camera, chemically by using light sensitive materials like photographic films. Practicing photography helps us to document memories/history throughout life, recreating events, change how people see things, etc.