Studium and Punctum

http://georgepowell.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/studium-and-punctum/

Studium

Creates an interest in the photographic image.
It is about the intention the photographer has when taking an image, this is reversed by the spectator viewing the image and trying to piece together what the photographer was thinking. 
The photographer thinks of an idea or something that can be captured and then presents it though the photograph that is taken. the intent is known by the photographer but the viewer has to piece the intention together and figure it out.

Punctom

Is similar too but the second point of the term.
It is about how something within an image, i.e and object or something similar jumps out at the viewer, it's about the rare details that attract people to the image.



One thing is that no two meaning from two individual people will ever be the same, i.e the photographer and the spectator, the intent will be different for both two people. The photographer could have one intent with the image and the spectator can piece something totally different together as the photographers intent, they wont have the same meaning in the end.