Worst Photographic Buzzword

[Gem Singer]

"shutterbug"

[soeren]

Kenn Rockwell

[sun of sand]

to everyone who actually made the effort to litter it up with more!
ok


till I can make a tree and place them around here and there at will I'll :/ at those who when they begin speaking have to catch themselves at
tt.MAKE photos

lots of tamakers out there



use any word too frequently and you stick out as a phony imo so I'll go with that

all words used one time too many


reminds me of 10 year olds with cell phones
lots of tamaker fakers, adult babies and baby grown-ups

I'd really like to form a support group for people who don't feel the need to have to own so many fkn little toys and sht
toys in general

I would have felt like a geek walking around with a speak&spell in 1st grade
now people "camp" out in parking lots to get themselves an ipad at the break of daylight

when you have a 50/50 split
that's not two staunch sides well informed
that's indicative of nobody knowing what the fk theyre doing

who here hates buzzwords? WHO! ME! ME, that's who.
.
Here's some others...

[David Aimone]

HDR

Yuck!

[Keith Cocker]

Lenses that "draw"

[benrains]

If we're talking technical jargon that's relevant to film photography, I'd have to go with "sharpness" followed by "bokeh". Someone earlier in the thread pointed out that bokeh is a real quality of lenses... which is true, but that doesn't exclude it from being an annoying term that's over used. Too many photographers are obsessed with both of those things.

[William Whitaker]

This is an old one, but one that has bugged me for decades: soup. Verb, transitive, as in "Did you soup the film yet?" Somehow it just seems to trivialize any effort put into darkroom processes.

Beyond that, much of the vernacular that has come out of digital photography when applied to chemical photography (do I really need to make the distinction?) can be offensive. I'll go one again for capture (thank you Frank). And giclée is just downright pretentious.

[timing]

Holga / Lomo - making photography "fun"

[adamc]

My vote is for "bokeh", yuck.
"Swirlies" comes in a close 2nd.

[E. von Hoegh]

But the swirlies are bokeh.....