Photographic recording

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One calls a photographic recording

  1. the process of taking photographs , i.e. taking a photograph or a series of photographs as well
  2. the result of the photographing, i.e. the finished image in the form of a paper picture , a slide , an enlargement of an exposure or a film copy .

The photographic recording always captures a moment ; the duration of this moment corresponds roughly to the exposure time , i.e. with commercially available cameras it is between 1/2 and 1/2000 second; significantly longer exposure times are considered long-term exposure . With longer exposure times, fast movements can be shown blurred ( motion blur ), with shorter exposure times a movement is increasingly removed from its movement context. The discipline of chronophotography makes targeted use of this property of capturing moments, for example to capture excerpts from a sequence of movements and to "freeze" time, so to speak. The resulting snapshots can be presented as a sequence of images ( series photography ), or as a single shot can be completely removed from the context ( short-term photography ).

The photographic recording does not only detach the image from its context in chronophotography ; In addition to capturing a moment, decontextualization is also a characteristic feature of photography. The photographer only ever shows a more or less consciously chosen and designed section ( image composition ) in his picture . The context of this excerpt, which is captured on the film , can only be reconstructed to a limited extent, which is why one usually speaks of decontextualized photography . The attempt to put the recording back into a (possibly manipulated or fictitious) context is called recontextualization . The image section cannot be enlarged after taking the picture, but by enlarging the section it is possible to "pull out" a detail from the recording or to consciously design the aspect ratio of the print .

The aspect ratio of a photographic recording is 2: 3 (analog 35mm photography , digital single-lens reflex camera ) or 3: 4 (digital compact cameras); If the photographer wants to create the picture for a certain aspect ratio during the process of recording, he must either choose a camera with a different recording format such as 6 × 6 cm ( medium format camera ) or insert a mask into the camera; There are corresponding devices, for example, for panoramic photography .