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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.
Updated February 22, 2017. Photography is a word derived from the Greek words photos (light) and graphein (to draw). The word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. It is a method of recording images by the action of light or related radiation onto a sensitive material.