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Photographic terminology and words you hate.

Vaughn said:
"...photograph with a camera"? And I thought people these days are getting all uptight about using nouns as verbs...
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What about the old school term "Kodaking"?
 
Ok, song is over, back to word bashing:

Rollie
 
laser said:
CHEMISTRY

CHEMISTRY is the name of a science. CHEMICALS are the materials that are used.
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This.

Kawaiithulhu said:
And according to the Oxford University dictionary, "Soup" is an accepted use for chemicals used in photography.

Just do like me and learn to love language, etymology, and roll with the punches
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And I don't care what Oxford says, "soup" is even worse.
 
ambaker said:
"Beautiful photograph, you must have a really nice camera."


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My wife is a writer. I use the analogy (she likes this observation) that this is like saying, "nice poem, you must have a really good computer/tablet/pencil and pad." Well actually she has a mechanical typewriter too. Doesn't really use it, but loves it.
 
Kawaiithulhu said:
And according to the Oxford University dictionary, "Soup" is an accepted use for chemicals used in photography.

Just do like me and learn to love language, etymology, and roll with the punches
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maybe, butsometimes,I like to pass some out first.sorry
 
Roger Cole said:
I read all nine pages and I'm surprised no one mentioned "silver gelatine print."
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The first time I came across this phrase was in a photography gallery in the 1970s. Initially finding it pretentious, I then reasoned that one of the few places where the term was legitimate was a photographic gallery, as they'd also be selling prints made by various non-silver historical processes. Contemporary use of Victorian and Edwardian technology was almost unheard of in the 70s, and now it sums up the majority of non-digital photographs, so I reluctantly admit 'silver gelatine print' as part of the photographic lexicon, failing a better explanation.
 
reticulation - I hate the word, and the effect when unexpectedly ruins my film.
 
I chuckle inside when I hear these, just because I can't believe that people actually use them with a straight face. But I also must say that I don't care either. It's just entertaining.

Swirly
Bokeh
Capture
Blown highlights (This is my favorite. What the hell does it mean anyway? Was there an explosion? Did somebody blow with a fan on it? )
Blow-up (As in enlargement. People must like explosives a lot).
 
Anyone care to make a meaningful sentence using all the hate words from this thread?? :wizard:
 
Roger Cole said:
I read all nine pages and I'm surprised no one mentioned "silver gelatine print."
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Maybe because we got a current thread on its own just for that term.

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)
 
AgX said:
Maybe because we got a current thread on its own just for that term.

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Yeah, I was aware of that one but it started by someone just asking what it meant. I haven't read that far into it though so I suppose it have got into finding it annoying.

I have to admit that, given the modern interest in other non-digital light-sensitive historical processes, it does make a certain amount of sense. But then "bokeh" described a real quality that differs between lenses, "swirly" is an accurate if colorful description of the bokeh of some old lens designs etc. The thread asked what we found annoying, not useless.


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Swirly bokeh usually suggests astigmatism. 3 element lenses often exhibit it with the aperture wide open, and it disappears a couple of stops down.
 


Thomas, "blown highlights" FYI, the term is valid and is meaningful (unless you can think of an alternative that describes what is happening with equal accuracy?). It has been in use along with "clipped highs" since the late 1980s to describe spectral areas of e.g. water which have exceeded the dynamic range of the medium; it applies equally to analogue and digital, with analogue (B&W and/or colour transparency, especially) occuring less abrubtly than digital where dynamic range is insufficient for the subject. A lot of digi cameras have extensible dynamic range. Film does not so we have to meter scenes where there is the possibility of spectrals getting out of order with care. Same thing with shadows. And no, this metering is not done by incident which is less implicit in very contrasty scenes.

Capture applies to digital. I have berated a number of photographers who ask me, knowing full well I've been out with analogue equipment, "did you capture anything nice?"

Bokeh, swirly or not, is just bullshit — enough to make me spew in my latté. I cannot believe over on photo.net how "photographers" get their knickers knotted battling away with bokeh in their exclusive little club.
 
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