La fotógrafa tomó setecientas imágenes durante el festival.

Because the noun changes to match the gender of the person being referred to.

• el fotógrafo = a male photographer
• la fotógrafa = a female photographer

In Spanish, many profession nouns ending in -o have a feminine form in -a. The article also changes:

• el with masculine nouns
• la with feminine nouns

So la fotógrafa is the normal form for a female photographer.

The accent mark shows where the stress goes: fo-TÓ-gra-fa.

Without the accent, Spanish stress rules would make you pronounce it differently. The written accent keeps the stress on the tó syllable.

This is very common in Spanish: accent marks are often used to show the correct stress, not just to distinguish meanings.

Tomó is the preterite form of tomar for él/ella/usted. Here it means she took.

So:

• tomar = to take
• tomó = she took / he took / you took

The accent matters here too:

• tomo = I take / I am taking / volume
• tomó = he/she took

In this sentence, the preterite is used because it describes a completed action in the past.

Because the sentence presents the action as a finished event: the photographer took a certain number of images during the festival.

• tomó suggests a completed action
• tomaba would sound more like was taking / used to take, focusing on the ongoing process or background

With a specific total like setecientas imágenes, the preterite tomó is the most natural choice.

Yes. In Spanish, tomar can be used for taking photos or images.

That said, for Spain specifically, native speakers often say:

• hacer fotos
• sacar fotos

So in everyday Spain Spanish, La fotógrafa hizo setecientas fotos might sound more conversational.

But tomó imágenes is still understandable and can sound a bit more formal, technical, or journalistic.

Because setecientos/setecientas agrees in gender with the noun that follows, and imágenes is feminine.

• setecientos libros = 700 books
• setecientas imágenes = 700 images

This is an important rule with the hundreds in Spanish:

• doscientos / doscientas
• trescientos / trescientas
• cuatrocientos / cuatrocientas, etc.

So here, setecientas matches feminine plural imágenes.

The singular noun is imagen, and it is feminine:

• la imagen
• las imágenes

This is one of those nouns that may not look obviously feminine because it does not end in -a, but you still learn it with the article: la imagen.

That is why the number is feminine too: setecientas imágenes.

The singular is imagen, with the stress naturally on the second-to-last syllable: i-MA-gen.

When it becomes plural, the spelling changes to imágenes, and an accent mark is added so the stress stays in the right place: i-MÁ-ge-nes.

So the accent is there to preserve the correct pronunciation.

Yes. Fotos would be very natural:

• La fotógrafa tomó setecientas fotos durante el festival.

The difference is mostly one of tone:

• fotos = more everyday and common
• imágenes = a bit broader, sometimes more formal or professional

A photographer, journalist, or media context may prefer imágenes, especially if the wording wants to sound slightly more polished or technical.

Durante means during or throughout.

So durante el festival gives the time frame in which the action happened.

It suggests that the image-taking happened over the course of the festival, not necessarily at one exact moment.

This is a very common structure in Spanish:

• durante la noche
• durante la reunión
• durante las vacaciones

Because Spanish usually uses the definite article with a specific event or thing already understood in context.

So el festival means the festival. It sounds like a particular festival, not just any festival in general.

Spanish uses articles more often than English in many situations, so keeping el here is completely normal.

Yes. Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns or even full subjects when the context is clear.

So you could say:

• Tomó setecientas imágenes durante el festival.

This would still mean She took seven hundred images during the festival, as long as it is already clear who she is.

In the full sentence, La fotógrafa is included because the speaker wants to name the subject explicitly.

Yes. Spanish word order is flexible, although some versions sound more neutral than others.

The original sentence is neutral and natural:

• La fotógrafa tomó setecientas imágenes durante el festival.

You could also say:

• Durante el festival, la fotógrafa tomó setecientas imágenes.

That version puts more focus on the time setting first. Both are correct.

In most of Spain, the c before i is pronounced like the th in thin:

• se-te-THIEN-tas

So the whole word is roughly:

• seh-teh-THYEN-tahs

If you hear speakers from Latin America, many will pronounce that c like an s instead. Both are correct in their own varieties, but for Spain Spanish, the th sound is the standard model.

Yes. You could also write:

• La fotógrafa tomó 700 imágenes durante el festival.

Using digits is very common in many practical contexts, such as journalism, captions, reports, or statistics.

Writing setecientas in words can feel a little more literary or stylistically polished, but both are correct.