photographing
写真撮影
解説 Definition
photographing は photograph（写真を撮る）の動名詞・現在分詞です。名詞としては写真撮影という意味で、写真を撮る行為や作業を指します。
Photographing is the activity of taking photographs of a person, place, object, or event with a camera. It is the gerund or present-participle form of photograph and can name the act as a task, hobby, or permitted activity.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 photograph「写真を撮る」に -ing をそのまま付けた形で、photographing と書き、発音では末尾に /ɪŋ/ が加わります。photo-「光」＋-graph「記録する」から「光で記録する」と捉えましょう。Photographing birds takes patience のように、撮影行為を主語にする動名詞用法が典型です。photography は分野・技術を指します。
Start with the verb photograph, “to take a picture,” and add -ing without removing or doubling any letters: photograph becomes photographing. The pronunciation adds /ɪŋ/ to the base. The word’s parts provide a useful image: photo- relates to light, and -graph relates to writing or recording, so photographing is literally recording with light. As a gerund, it names the activity in sentences such as “Photographing birds takes patience.” Distinguish it from photography, which more often refers to the art, practice, or field as a whole.
例文
Photographing birds takes patience.
鳥の写真撮影には忍耐が必要です。
The museum allows photographing in most rooms.
その博物館では、ほとんどの部屋で写真撮影が許可されています。
Photographing the event was part of her job.
そのイベントの写真撮影は彼女の仕事の一部でした。
photographing の類義語・関連語
類義語
紛らわしい語
photographing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
photographing は photograph に動作名詞の -ing が付いた語です。photograph はギリシャ語由来の photo-「光」と -graph「書く・記す」から成り、「光で記録する」が写真撮影の核心だと分かります。関連語は photography, graphic。
Photographing is formed regularly from the verb photograph plus -ing. Photograph was created from Greek-derived elements: photo- comes from phōs or phōtos, meaning “light,” and -graph comes from graphein, “to write or draw.” A photograph is therefore an image recorded through light, and to photograph is to make such an image. Adding -ing produces the form used for the continuing action or the activity of taking photographs.
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