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Best Answer: The subject is the main object in the picture, the subject matter is the topic or context of the picture. If it is a landscape, it is the landscape itself. If it is a portrait, it is the person in the portrait. If it is a group of people playing a sport, it is the game. The subject matter is what you choose to focus on for the picture.
Last Updated: History of photography, method of recording the image of an object through the action of light, or related radiation, on a light-sensitive material. The word, derived from the Greek photos (âlightâ) and graphein (âto drawâ), was first used in the 1830s.