A modern-day photograph of an Icelandic landscape, captured on a personal camera
Aphotograph(also known as aphoto) is an[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image]imagecreated bylightfalling on aphotosensitivesurface, usuallyphotographic filmor an electronicimage sensor, such as aCCDor aCMOSchip. Most photographs are created using acamera, which uses alensto focus the scene'svisible wavelengthsof light into a reproduction of what thehuman eyewould see. The process and practice of creating such images is calledphotography.