Painting vs. Photograph — What's the Difference?

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used.

A photograph (also known as a photo) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a smartphone/camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see.

The process, art, or occupation of coating surfaces with paint for a utilitarian or artistic effect.

A picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused on to light-sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical treatment, or stored digitally

A picture or design in paint.

Take a photograph of

Present participle of paint

An image, especially a positive print, recorded by exposing a photosensitive surface to light, especially in a camera.

(countable) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint.

To take a photograph of.

(uncountable) The action of applying paint to a surface.

To practice photography.

(uncountable) The same activity as an art form.

To be the subject for photographs

The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.

To take a photograph (of).

Color laid on; paint.

To fix permanently in the memory etc.

A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.

(intransitive) To appear in a photograph.

Graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface;

A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

Creating a picture with paints;

To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group.

The act of applying paint to a surface;

To practice photography; to take photographs.

The occupation of a house painter;

A picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material

Record on photographic film;

Undergo being photographed in a certain way;