To Take A Picture
To Take A Photo, To Take A Video
transitive verb, godan verb
Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means photograph. When you make that into a verb, you are doing a photograph, aka making it become to take a picture. It can also be to film as well. Really anything to do with a camera.
Think of the reading like you do the meaning to take a photograph. You "take" all these things, and how do you say "to take" in Japanese? It's 取る, aka とる, which happens to be the same reading!
子供の幼稚園の卒園式で記念写真をたくさん撮りました。
I took a lot of photos at my kid's kindergarten graduation ceremony.
マイケルは自撮りを上手に撮る方法について詳しく知っているはずです。
Michael should know details about how to take selfies well.
写真を撮るために、彼は野球帽を後ろ向きに被り直した。
He put his baseball cap on backwards to take the picture.