Photographic terminology and words you hate.

erikg · Feb 8, 2014

Never cared for soup. I dislike capture, but I detest imaging. Probably because some genius thinks my title should be imaging specialist. "Shooting" is unfortunate.

removed account4 · Feb 8, 2014

too many to list

baachitraka · Feb 8, 2014

Hassy or blad.

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Prof_Pixel · Feb 8, 2014

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the '800 pound gorilla in the APUG room' - digital

hoffy · Feb 8, 2014

Prof_Pixel said:
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the '800 pound gorilla in the APUG room' - digital

Actually, someone already has..... I don't have a problem with digital.

I have a problem with the word analogue. Its not digital, so it must be analogue just doesn't sit right with me.

AndreasT · Feb 8, 2014

I have a problem if on the camera strap, on "modern" digital cameras it says digital. All cameras nopwadays are digital why write it. It is nothing special anymore. If I was a business man I would make a lot of money with camera straps which say analog.

AndreasT · Feb 8, 2014

And it bothers me when people use "" alot.

MattKing · Feb 8, 2014

"Image", except when it is necessary to be extremely generic, and include photographs, paintings, sketches ...

Hexavalent · Feb 8, 2014

"Pigment Print" as an alias for inkjet. As I practice traditional carbon-transfer, this really gets me riled!

ambaker · Feb 8, 2014

"Beautiful photograph, you must have a really nice camera."

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Tom1956 · Feb 8, 2014

cliveh said:
What is a Hyphenated-American?

I better not answer that here. Too off-topic. I see you're from England. It's an annoying scourge fad amongst us over here in the colonies.

Darkroom317 · Feb 8, 2014

Post processing. The print is the end result. Achieving that print is a continuum of creation. I don't see any stopping point where I can say that I am post processing after that.

bvy · Feb 8, 2014

"It's the final result that matters."

KennyMark · Feb 8, 2014

Michael R 1974 said:
I guess I would prefer people responded to photographs with more instinctual reactions. Suppose someone tells me one of my photographs has nice movement or balance or something about how some part of it leads the eye to another part etc. Leaves me pretty cold. Even if it is meant as a compliment I'd rather they just said the picture sucks.

The Principles and Elements of Art (as well as design) are a long-formalized list describing the process and product of artwork and the making of art. It is an, if not the appropriate means to discuss artwork that permits people to engage in the work beyond saying "I like it" or "I don't like it". Of course there will always be some that eschew anything academic for a variety of reasons. My point is that such a vocabulary is neither meaningless nor inappropriate.

For the word I dislike as it is most commonly used in relation to photography, see my signature.

Hexavalent · Feb 8, 2014

"Which Instagram filter did you use?"

BMbikerider · Feb 9, 2014

Somone who is described as the 'Author' of a photograph. Authors write not take pictures.

hoffy · Feb 9, 2014

I'll counter that one as well. Someone who is described as a 'worker' when it comes to photography. This term seems to be pretty much only used in Photography clubs (from my experience).

blockend · Feb 9, 2014

Bokeh and capture, I spent the first forty years of photography not knowing either. My special hell is reserved for 'workflow'. I assume this means shooting everything in digital RAW and spending hours mulling over each frame to decide whether it should be monochrome, colour, HDR, or something else from software fantasy world, but have never been interested enough to ask.

ndrs · Feb 9, 2014

Optics for a lens
Analogue / analog for film photography
Souping in soup (or sewage, as it is used in some languages)

M Stat · Feb 9, 2014

For me the term "wet" darkroom is infuriating. Digital photographers (digitographers) don't work in any place which remotely resembles a darkroom. It may be a studio, an office, or ,God forbid, a cubicle, but they definitely do not work in a darkroom. So why a "wet" darkroom?!

AgX · Feb 9, 2014

One can divide a darkroom into two sections: one for loading cassettes etc. and exposing prints etc. and another for doing the processing

bobwysiwyg · Feb 9, 2014

M Stat said:
For me the term "wet" darkroom is infuriating. Digital photographers (digitographers) don't work in any place which remotely resembles a darkroom. It may be a studio, an office, or ,God forbid, a cubicle, but they definitely do not work in a darkroom. So why a "wet" darkroom?!

I agree.

Blighty · Feb 9, 2014

Hate to admit it, but I've probably used a lot of these betes noires at some point or other. There is one, and only one term that annoys the f**k out of me, and that's fine-art photography.

lxdude · Feb 9, 2014

AgX said:
"Shooting" which meanwhile is used here too.

(Or even "shoot" as noun, which seemingly does not even exist in English.)

It does. Used by some professionals. For example: "I have a big shoot coming up this week."

wiltw · Feb 9, 2014

So much misuse of the term 'bokeh' by today's photographers, in the (wrong) context of 'background blur'...."I want less bokeh"

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