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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.
The word photography was created from the Greek roots ÏÏÏÏÏ (phÅtos), genitive of Ïá¿¶Ï (phÅs), light and Î³ÏÎ±ÏÎ® (graphÃ©) representation by means of lines or drawing, together meaning drawing with light. Several people may have coined the same new term from these roots independently.