Worst Photographic Buzzword

[W K Longcor]

My vote goes to a pair --- "dodge" and "burn". Dodge is something you do to get around an issue. Burn is something you do with a match and it should be done to a lot of really bad photos! I was taught to "hold back exposure" to an area of the print and to "print in "an area that otherwise would be too light.

[Brian Ellis]

"hold back"

"print in"

[paulr]

I agree with "shooting" and "take."
They've always seemed insidious and ugly. I'm starting to use both, though, mostly out of laziness, and an vague sense that the alternatives sound pretentious.

The phrase that reallygets me ... ususally from an art director or a commercial photographer who's ordering prints: "make it pop!"

Photoshop? It's just a tool. I use it for the same purposes that I use a darkroom for, so no bother there. Sharp? I can define it. Bokeh? It opened my eyes to all kinds of phenomena that I'd never paid attention to, so I'll take it.

[John NYC]

Having just gone to AIPAD this weekend (a great time by the way and so much excellent stuff to see!), I think the most annoying to me currently are all the *variations* of terms that people use to describe methods of printing. Really, can't we just call it one thing each?

- Platinum/palladium
- Platinum print
- Twice coated platinum palladium
- Hand coated platinum/palladium
- Vintage platinum print
- Silver gelatin print
- Gelatin silver print
- Gelatin silver photograph
- Vintage silver gelatin print
- Vintage silver print
- Vintage silver gelatin photograph
- Toned silver gelatin contact print
- Digital C print
- Digital C-type print
- C-print
- Type C print
- C-type color print
- Archival pigment print
- Pigment print
- Pigment ink print
- Pigmented ink print
- Color print
- Ultrachrome pigmented inkjet print
- Archival inkjet print
- Chromogenic print
- Chromogenic color print
- Cibachrome
- Ilfochrome
- Vintage pigment print
- Albumen print
- Lambda print from unique vintage chemigram
- Rayogram
- Fuji Crystal Archive print
- Calotype
- Contemporary print
- Pigment inks on XXXXX paper
- Altered ambrotype

and my personal favorite...

- Lightly coated salt print from waxed paper negative paper on original mount

... well at least that one didn't have a variation!

[Sirius Glass]

Grain aliasing

It has nothing to do with photography and everything to do will expecting digital processing to look like real life and film.

[Ben Syverson]

The images would be "hybrid analog/digital images." You could even call them pictures. Not so sure about "photographs" though. That would be nothing against them.

You can be the one to tell the war photographers they're not photographers, because they use Photoshop.

[Mark Sampson]

"iconic". Most overused word of the 21st century so far, not just in photography.

[jnantz]

" sharpness and resolution, vision, previsulalization, zone system ... " the list is endless

[Roger Cole]

You can be the one to tell the war photographers they're not photographers, because they use Photoshop.

I think you took it wrong. In no way would that usage be an insult. They would indeed be something else ("war imagers" perhaps), but not anything lesser.

But in any case, it's far too late. That was my opinion circa 1999 or so. Usage has become what it has become.

[Vaughn]

Having just gone to AIPAD this weekend (a great time by the way and so much excellent stuff to see!), I think the most annoying to me currently are all the *variations* of terms that people use to describe methods of printing. Really, can't we just call it one thing each?

What, no carbon prints?!

(monochromatic single-transfer carbon prints, if you please...)