stillkuvissa

Stillkuvissa is a Finnish grammatical form meaning "in still images" or "in photographs." It is the inessive plural of the compound noun stillkuva (still image), itself derived from the English "still" and the Finnish kuva ("image" or "picture"). The term is used to refer to phenomena, subjects or information as they appear within static photographic images rather than moving picture media.

Usage and contexts

Stillkuvissa appears frequently in discussions of photography, visual journalism, advertising, art history and film production (where production stills document sets, costumes and scenes). It is used in descriptions of composition, lighting and framing that are specific to static media, for example when comparing how details are conveyed stillkuvissa versus liikkuvassa kuvassa ("in moving images"). The form is also common in cataloguing, archiving and metadata, where it denotes content present within photographic holdings.

Technical and legal considerations

When something is described as visible stillkuvissa, issues such as resolution, cropping, color reproduction and photographic perspective are relevant. Copyright, consent and evidentiary rules that apply to photographs likewise inform references to stillkuvissa, especially in journalism and legal contexts.

Related terms

Related Finnish terms include stillkuva (still image), valokuva (photograph) and liikkuva kuva (moving image). The word reflects cross‑linguistic borrowing and the integration of photographic vocabulary into Finnish usage.