photograph_1 noun – Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com

a picture that is made by using a camera that stores images in digital form or that has a film sensitive to light inside it

• aerial photographs

  of the crash site

• colour/black-and-white photographs

• an exhibition of photographs by Annie Liebowitz

• a framed photograph of her grandchildren

• His photograph appeared in the local paper.

• Please enclose a recent passport-sized photograph of yourself.

• I spent the day

  taking photographs

  of the city.

• to post/upload a photograph

• to publish/release a photograph

The usual phrase in

North American English

is

take pictures

.

Synonyms

photograph

photograph

picture

▪

photo

▪

shot

▪

snapshot/​snap

▪

print

These are all words for a picture that has been made using a camera.

photograph

a picture that has been made using a camera:

• a photograph of the house

• Can I take a photograph?

a picture that has been made using a camera:

picture

a photograph:

• We had our picture taken in front of the hotel.

a photograph:

photo

a photograph:

• a passport photo

a photograph:

photograph, picture or photo?

Photograph

is slightly more formal and

photo

is slightly less formal.

Picture

is used especially in the context of photographs in newspapers, magazines and books.

shot

a photograph:

• I tried to get a shot of him in the water.

Shot

often places more emphasis on the process of taking the photograph, rather than the finished picture.

a photograph:

snapshot/​snap

an informal photograph that is taken quickly, and not by a professional photographer:

• holiday snaps

an informal photograph that is taken quickly, and not by a professional photographer:

print

a copy of a photograph that is produced from film or from a digital camera:

• a set of prints

a copy of a photograph that is produced from film or from a digital camera:

Patterns

• a

  colour

  photograph/​picture/​photo/​snap/​print

• to

  take

  a photograph/​picture/​photo/​shot/​snapshot

Extra Examples

• An aerial photograph of the field shows clearly where the buildings were.

• Can I have my photograph taken with you?

• Did you manage to get a photograph of the goal?

• Frame the subject in the video viewfinder as you would for a still photograph.

• He admitted offences of possessing indecent photographs of children.

• Her photograph appeared in all the papers.

• I cropped the photograph and mounted it on some card.

• I got some great photographs of the party.

• I prefer to print my digital photographs.

• I scanned in some photographs of the family to send to friends by email.

• I’m learning how to post photographs on my blog.

• Send a recent facial photograph of yourself with your application.

• She scans each photograph into her computer.

• Tell me who everyone is in the photograph.

• The book is illustrated with 96 action photographs.

• The cover photograph of one magazine showed a dying soldier.

• The first issue featured a photograph of Martha Graham on the cover.

• The newspaper published a grainy photograph of her.

• The next day they published photographs of the kidnappers.

• The photograph has been touched up to conceal her double chin.

• The photograph manages to capture the excitement of the occasion.

• The photographs were clear and sharp.

• The sun rising over the horizon would have made a good photograph.

• The wing is assembled as shown in the photograph below.

• This photograph is out of focus.

• Tinted photographs were an early substitute for colour.

• Upload your photographs to one of these sites.

• We looked through her old black-and-white photographs.

• We posed for a group photograph.

• a couple of photographs released by news agencies

• a fuzzy black-and-white photograph

• a photograph of my son Edmund

• editing software that enables you to enlarge and crop photographs

• photograph courtesy Liverpool Evening News

• satellite photographs of Beijing

• the famous photograph of Che Guevara

• the photographs stored on the memory card

Oxford Collocations Dictionary

adjective

• old
• recent
• early
• …

verb + photograph

• get
• shoot
• take
• …

photograph + verb

• appear
• depict something
• document something
• …

photograph + noun

• album
• frame

preposition

• in a/​the photograph
• photograph of

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