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Collocations for photograph - noun

ADJECTIVE

old, recent
early, vintage
black-and-white, colour/color, sepia
We looked through her old black-and-white photographs.
blurred, blurry, fuzzy, grainy, out-of-focus
a fuzzy black-and-white photograph
The newspaper published a grainy photograph of her.
This photograph is out of focus.
faded
clear, sharp
The photographs were clear and sharp.
still
action
The book is illustrated with 96 action photographs.
beautiful, excellent, good, great, lovely, stunning, superb, wonderful
good-quality, high-quality, high-resolution
glossy
framed
signed
studio
group, team (esp. BrE)
portrait
family
wedding
school (esp. BrE) (usually school picture in AmE)
cover, magazine, newspaper, press
The cover photograph of one magazine showed a dying soldier.
publicity
documentary
archival (AmE), archive (BrE)
historic, historical, period
famous
the famous photograph of Che Guevara
fashion
passport, passport-sized
enlarged
close-up
still
Frame the subject in the video viewfinder as you would for a still photograph.
aerial, satellite
satellite photographs of Beijing
digital, Polaroid™
infrared
indecent (BrE,law), pornographic
He admitted offences of possessing indecent photographs of children.

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VERB + photograph

get, shoot, take
I got some great photographs of the party.
Can I have my photograph taken with you?
I spent the day taking photographs of the city.
compose
pose for
We posed for a group photograph.
make
The sun rising over the horizon would have made a good photograph.
copy, develop, print
I can't wait till the photographs have been printed.
I prefer to print my digital photographs.
blow up, enlarge
A photograph of them is blown up to fill two full pages.
editing software that enables you to enlarge and crop photographs
Click on individual photographs to enlarge them.
touch up
The photograph has been touched up to conceal her scar.
crop
mount
I cropped the photograph and mounted it on some card.
scan, scan in
I scanned in some photographs of the family to send to friends by email.
She scans each photograph into her computer.
download, upload
Upload your photographs to one of these sites.
post
I'm learning how to post photographs on my blog.
store
the photographs stored on the memory card
publish, release
The next day they published photographs of the kidnappers.
a couple of photographs released by news agencies
feature
The first issue featured a photograph of Martha Graham on the cover.

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photograph + VERB

appear
Her photograph appeared in all the papers.
depict sth, document sth, illustrate sth, reveal sth, show sth
capture sth
The photograph manages to capture the excitement of the occasion.

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photograph + NOUN

album
frame

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PREPOSITION

in a/the photograph
The wing is assembled as shown in the photograph below.
Tell me who everyone is in the photograph.
photograph of
An aerial photograph of the field shows clearly where the buildings were.
a photograph of my son Edmund

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Collocations for photograph - verb

Photograph is used with these nouns as the object:
model

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