1 | [[quoteright:260:[[Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kirby_photographs_jigglypuff.jpg]]]] |
2 | |
3 | ->''"Photograph - I don't want your\ |
4 | Photograph - I don't need your\ |
5 | Photograph - all I've got is a photograph\ |
6 | But it's not enough"'' |
7 | -->-- '''Music/DefLeppard''' |
8 | |
9 | Since humans first discovered they could smear pigments on rock walls to represent things, we have had visual images. From cave stencils of hands, to Renaissance {{paintings}}, to 1700s pencil drawings, to the first photograph in 1827, to 1970s pixel art[[note]]Developed by Richard Shoup in 1972 for his [=SuperPaint=] system at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a tech innovation lab.[[/note]], illustrations and photographs are the oldest two forms of visual works. |
10 | |
11 | These tropes apply to anything related to creating still images, whether it be family photos, magazines, comics, etc. |
12 | |
13 | Compare CameraTricks, since photography lead to motion pictures. |
14 | ---- |
15 | !!Tropes: |
16 | [[index]] |
17 | * AnomalousArt: Photographs with supernatural properties. |
18 | * AreWeGettingThis: A nearby news reporter or filming crew trying to videotape an unexpected, extraordinary event. |
19 | * BeforeAndAfterPictures: An ad that shows a picture of a customer before they used a health or beauty product (often looking drab) and a picture depicting the customer ''after'' they used the product (looking beautiful). |
20 | * BoringVacationSlideshow: A slideshow of someone's vacation is considered boring to friends and family who have to watch it, especially if there's three shots of every statue and castle. |
21 | * BlindingCameraFlash: Someone having their picture taken is blinded by the camera flash. |
22 | * BunnyEarsPicturePrank: When two or more people are having a group photo taken, one person places their index and middle fingers behind another person's head to make it look like they have bunny ears. |
23 | * CameraFiend: A character who always has their camera and who is always snapping photos. |
24 | * CameraObscurer: A character takes a picture, only to later discover that the camera lens was covered. |
25 | * CameraShy: Someone hates getting their picture taken. |
26 | * CameraSniper: A camera whose viewfinder looks like the optical scope on a sniper rifle. |
27 | * CandidsForSale: Someone sells candid, often unauthorized photographs or videos of someone, typically a celebrity or VIP. |
28 | * CharityWorkplaceCalendar: Characters are photographed for a workplace calendar to raise money. |
29 | * {{Colorization}}: Adding color to a photograph that was originally taken in black-and-white. |
30 | * ConvenientPhotograph: A photograph just happens to share a piece of important information that characters wouldn't have otherwise known or capture a crucial image. |
31 | * CreepyChangingPainting: A painting that changes every time a person looks away from it. |
32 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: A modern work is intentionally colored in black-and-white. |
33 | ** SplashOfColor: Most of the work is in black-and-white, but some small details are in color. |
34 | * DesignStudentsOrgasm: A visual image that is artistic and nonsensical. |
35 | * EmbarrassingOldPhoto: Someone has an embarrassing, cringy photograph of when they were young and foolish. |
36 | * EmbarrassingSlide: A slide show somehow has an embarrassing photograph of the presenter unintentionally included with the other images. |
37 | * EnhanceButton: Impossible image enhancement depicted in crime shows. |
38 | * FaceOnTheCover: Using a celebrity's face to sell a product or service. |
39 | * FamilyPortraitOfCharacterization: A family portrait tells us something important about the members and their relationship. |
40 | * FatalFamilyPhoto: Someone gets killed after showing or looking at a photo of their family, a spouse, or child, particularly in a war movie. |
41 | * FictionalPainting: A work that focuses on a fictional in-universe painting. |
42 | * FilmTheHand: Sticking a hand in front of or over a camera lens to prevent being filmed. |
43 | * FirstPersonSnapshooter: A gameplay element that requires you to take pictures of things. |
44 | * FontAnachronism: When creators use fonts in their works that weren't even invented yet. |
45 | * FormerFriendsPhoto: An old photo shows that bitter enemies were once good friends. |
46 | * FunnyPhotoPhrase: Someone says, or is asked to say, a silly phrase instead of "Cheese" when their photo is taken. |
47 | * FurriesAreEasierToDraw: An artist finds it easier to draw anthropomorphic animals than humans. |
48 | * GroupPictureEnding: The story closes on a group picture of the main cast. |
49 | * InconvenientDarkroomIllumination: A darkroom is suddenly illuminated at the worst possible moment, instantly ruining any photos that were being developed inside. |
50 | * LastSecondPhotoFailure: An attempt at a posed picture goes wrong just as the picture is taken. |
51 | * LivingDrawing: Artwork that has a mind of its own. |
52 | * LivingPhoto: A photo that comes to life when a person sees it. |
53 | * MidairMotionShot: Anyone depicted on a vehicle is depicted in mid-air. |
54 | * MugshotMontage: A character who is arrested gets their mugshot taken. |
55 | * Administrivia/MultiPartPicture |
56 | * MustacheVandalism: Someone vandalizes a person's picture by drawing on it, often adding a mustache. |
57 | * OneTrackMindedArtist: An artist who always draws the same thing. |
58 | * PaintingTheMedium: Font, interface changes, or camera or editing tricks convey things about the story. |
59 | * PhotoBoothMontage: We see people messing around in a photo booth by making as many funny faces as possible when the pictures are taken. |
60 | * PhotoComic: A comic that is made using photographs of three-dimensional objects and/or real people. |
61 | * PhotoDoodleRecognition: Recognizing a person by drawing their disguise or distinguishing features on a photograph where they don't have them. |
62 | * PhotoMemento: Group of (heroic) characters celebrate the end/importance of an event by posing together for a photograph as a piece of history. |
63 | * PhotoMontage: A series of photographs featuring the main characters. |
64 | * PhotoOpWithTheDog: A character makes a big show out of doing something nice, in order to better their image. |
65 | * PhotoshopFilterOfEvil: Digitally editing a photograph of a person to make them look untrustworthy and vile. |
66 | * PhotosLie: A photo doesn't show what happened before or after it was taken, leading to some lies. |
67 | * PictureDay: Students attempt to look nice the whole school day so they will look nice for their school photo. |
68 | * {{Pixellation}}: An image is censored using pixels. |
69 | * PlotBasedPhotographObfuscation: Part of a photo is obscured for plot related reasons. |
70 | * PoliticalCartoons: Print cartoons and comics, often associated with newspaper editorials, which satirically comment on current events. |
71 | * PortalPicture: A picture or painting can transport people to another world or dimension. |
72 | * PortraitPaintingPeephole: A character spies on others by looking through a peephole hidden in the eye(s) of a portrait. |
73 | * PreciousPhoto: A person carries a photo of a loved one who isn't with them. |
74 | * RemovedFromThePicture: After a nasty break up, a character cuts their former lover's image out of pictures of them together. |
75 | * RevengePornBlackmail: A character threatens someone via indecent photos and/or videos of them. |
76 | * RidiculouslyPhotogenic: A character with an uncanny aptitude to look great in photos. |
77 | * SecretSocietyGroupPicture: The members of a (not so) secret society all posed for a group photo that provides damning evidence of their existence. |
78 | * SelfieFiend: A person completely obsessed with selfies. |
79 | * SideStoryBonusArt: Artists draw scenes of the characters doing things that aren't actually in the work. |
80 | * SleazyPhotoshoot: A model is forced or manipulated into doing suspect things in a photoshoot, like taking risque shots or performing sexual acts. |
81 | * SpookyPainting: A painted image that seems normal at first. It probably isn't. |
82 | * SpookyPhotographs: A photograph that contains haunting or foreboding images. |
83 | * SymbolicSereneSubmersion: A dead body is shown floating beneath the water, in a symbolic kind of way. |
84 | * UnexpectedArtUpgradeMoment: When art media upgrades or enlarges its detail to signify a special moment. |
85 | * UnflatteringIDPhoto: A character's ID card has an unflattering picture of them. |
86 | * WeWillNotUsePhotoshopInTheFuture: An obviously doctored photo isn't considered as being fake. |
87 | [[/index]] |
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