Worst Photographic Buzzword

[Roger Cole]

Just to clarify ... One takes happy snaps with a happy snappy and this is said to make one snap happy, though the last is curiously absent in this `grab shot'


Kind regards,

Richard

Thanks. If it's an ad term from TV that would explain my cluelessness. People often don't believe that I don't watch TV until a reference goes right over my head.

[rdenney]

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

"Support group." My new favorite.

Rick "visualizing punctuation" Denney

[Maris Rusis]

Capture.

Because it is used utterly bass-ackwards. The term "capture" evolved to describe what a digital sensor does to an oncoming image but actually what happens is non-capture. Sure, the photons hit the sensor but they are rapidly transduced into electrical signals that are kicked out of the sensor as a data stream. The sensor returns to its initial state and retains nothing.

Film on the other hand does capture and retain the incoming image. Film is heavier after exposure than before. It's just that we never thought of it that way.

[rguinter]

Thanks. If it's an ad term from TV that would explain my cluelessness. People often don't believe that I don't watch TV until a reference goes right over my head.

OMG! I don't believe it... another non-TV watcher. Congratulations. Maybe we should start a "support group." But please don't mention it to Rick Denny...

The number of hours I've watched TV in the last 10-years can be counted on one hand with fingers left over. In fact, my TV is for DVD use only... no antenna or cable hooked up. My ex was the TV junkie. She used to record Dr. Phil on VCR for endless playback.

Always insisting that I was so much like "this, that, or the other" quack that he had on at any one moment.

I guess quacks attract quacks don't they.

If anyone needs any Dr Phil re-runs I'll be happy to put them in touch....

Bob G.

[Sirius Glass]

Giclee is probably the worst, I agree.

Giclee is what I get on the soles of my shoes when I step on cow patties!

HDR is the crutch that digi-snappers use because they cannot get the same quality as film.

Steve

[rguinter]

Giclee is what I get on the soles of my shoes when I step on cow patties!

HDR is the crutch that digi-snappers use because they cannot get the same quality as film.

Steve

I try not to step on them.

Then my shoes remain Giclee-free...

Bob G.

[Marko]

I'm not sure what exactly is a "diggi-snapper", but it does sound like a very promising candidate for another entry for this thread...

[Two23]

Bokeh, followed closely be "render"

Yeah, I'd agree. It's sort of like listening to wine experts talking about "Fruity, with a strong hint of oak lined cat box." Or something similarly incomprehensible.


Kent in SD

[Two23]

Shoot, Shooting, Shot. An ugly word.

I once posted a photo of an antelope on a "nature" forum, and said I shot it.... I got an angry response saying, "You photo'd the antelope; you didn't shoot it." I replied, "The hell I didn't. I photo'd it, and then I shot it. And then......... I ate it!" (I am an avid hunter on the Northern Plains here.)


Kent in SD

[Vaughn]

...Film on the other hand does capture and retain the incoming image. Film is heavier after exposure than before. It's just that we never thought of it that way.

So that is why my pack with the 8x10 always seems heavier at the end of the day!