Still life photography

Apache still life. c.1907 by Edward S. Curtis.

A modern-day still life photo with red tomatoes

Still life photography is the depiction of inanimate subject matter, most typically a small grouping of objects. Still life photography, more so than other types of photography, such as landscape or portraiture, gives the photographer more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition.

Still life photography is a demanding art, one in which the photographers are expected to be able to form their work with a refined sense of lighting, coupled with compositional skills. The still life photographer makes pictures rather than takes them. Knowing where to look for propping and surfaces also is a required skill.

Notable still life photographers

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Outline of photography

Terminology	35 mm equivalent focal length Angle of view Aperture Black and white Chromatic aberration Circle of confusion Color temperature Depth of field Depth of focus Exposure Exposure compensation Exposure value F-number Film format Film speed Focal length Guide number Hyperfocal distance Metering mode Perspective distortion Photograph Photographic printing Photographic processes Reciprocity Red-eye effect Science of photography Shutter speed Sync Zone System White balance

Genres	Aerial Architectural Commercial Conceptual Conservation Cloudscape Documentary Erotic Fashion Fine-art Fire Forensic Glamour High-speed Landscape Lomography Nature Nude Photojournalism Pornography Portrait Post-mortem Selfie Senior Social documentary Sports Still life Stock Street Vernacular Underwater Wedding Wildlife

Techniques	Afocal Bokeh Brenizer Contre-jour Cyanotype ETTR Fill flash Fireworks Harris shutter HDRI High-speed Holography Infrared Kirlian Kite aerial Long-exposure Macro Mordançage Multiple exposure Night Panning Panoramic Photogram Print toning Redscale Rephotography Rollout Scanography Sabatier effect Stereoscopy Stopping down Strip (Slit-scan) Sun printing Tilt–shift Time-lapse Ultraviolet Vignetting Xerography

Composition	Diagonal method Framing Geometry and symmetry Headroom Lead room Rule of thirds Simplicity

Equipment	Camera (light-field field pinhole press rangefinder SLR still TLR toy view) Darkroom (enlarger safelight) Film (base format holder stock) Filter Flash (beauty dish cucoloris gobo hot shoe grid monolight Reflector snoot Softbox wireless sync) Lens (Wide-angle lens Zoom lens Telephoto lens) Manufacturers Monopod Movie projector Slide projector Tripod (head) Zone plate

History	Timeline of photography technology Analog photography Autochrome Lumière Box camera Calotype Camera obscura Daguerreotype Dufaycolor Heliography Painted photography backdrops Photography and the law Glass plate Visual arts

Digital photography	Digital camera (D-SLRs (comparison) MILC camera back) Digiscoping Digital versus film photography Film scanner Image sensor (CMOS APS CCD Three-CCD camera Foveon X3 sensor) Photo sharing Pixel

Color photography	Color Color film (print slide) Color management (color space primary color CMYK color model RGB color model)

Photographic processing	Bleach bypass C-41 process Cross processing Developer Digital image processing Dye coupler E-6 process Fixer Gelatin silver process Gum printing K-14 process Print permanence Push processing Stop bath

Lists	Most expensive photographs Photographers (Norwegian Polish street women)

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Still life photography

Notable still life photographers

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