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Photographing

Photograph \Pho"to*graph\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Photographed; p. pr. & vb. n. Photographing.] To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group.

He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
--Hamerton.

Note: Also used figuratively.

He is photographed on my mind.
--Lady D. Hardy.

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photographing

vb. (present participle of photograph English)

Usage examples of "photographing".

I had ordered this infra-red film to experiment with photographing the unexcavated foundations of the city from the top of the cliffs, but the results had not been encouraging.

Hooper was photographing the running figures of the aliens, who were chasing the lame deer.

His greatest regret is that for so many years he concentrated on photographing buildings to the neglect of the human body and the elusive beauty of women.

I was watching you today while you were photographing that stupid boxer.

I mean, I want to understand just exactly what happened in the scenes you were photographing today.

Either the changing of the scenes in his script to fit Enid had not taken him very long or else the photographing of this particular bit of action had proved sufficiently fascinating to draw him away from his work.

While we watched he succeeded in photographing one of the full shots of the general action or atmosphere of the dance.

With the same sense of the melodramatic which had led him to slay Stella Lamar in the taking of a scene, Werner in the photographing of another, he had preferred suicide and had selected the most spectacular moment possible for his last upon earth.

My business is photographing wars, and the Swiss have this strange affection for peace.

I suspect he feels a sense of guilt about having made a living for so many years out of photographing other people's suffering, and I think this one death on his doorstep is like a catalyst for his accumulated feelings.

It was as if by flying over in their speeding rotors and photographing every detail of the terrain, they had taken possession of it, and understood it.

He took Bligh and watched her closely, photographing her when she was not looking, and filming her face on the rotor's own recording monitor.

In fact, we were closing down Manale's and I was doing all the talking about photographing New Orleans and the way it should and shouldn't be done, and then she started asking me how I got into photography, when I had the Ph.

It was a hell of a lot better photographing people diving off cliffs in Mexico than diving off yourself.

I mean I wasn't some stupid shutterbug just photographing these things as if they didn't mean anything.