ringlight

en-noun

ringlight (countable and uncountable, plural ringlights)

Figures 2 and 6 are of the same specimens but photographed with a ringlight.

1960, University of Michigan. Museum of Paleontology -, Contributions - Volumes 15-16, page 128:

Until recently, ringlights have been chiefly associated with technical illustration, such as close-up photography in medicine and dentistry.

1980, David Brooks, Carl Shipman, Theodore DiSante, How to control & use photographic lighting, →ISBN, page 132:

Built-in ringlight flash provides virtually shadowless, wraparound illumination for inaccessible or elusive subjects.

1985, Eyes of Nikon: a comprehensive guide to Nikkor and Nikon series E lenses:

One of the characteristics of ringlight, when used as the only source, is its shadow. Because the light expands equally in all directions, it also throws an even shadow.

2014, Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers, →ISBN, page 151:

I had created a faux-ring light, and I was able to get a very cool ringlight effect for very little money.

2014, Benny Migs, Alternative Portraiture, →ISBN, page 100:

(photography) A light source in a ring or torus shape that prevents distinct shadows.


phototransparency

phototransparency (countable and uncountable, plural phototransparencies)


defish

en-verb

defish (third-person singular simple present defishes, present participle defishing, simple past and past participle defished)

defishes (present singular third-person)
defishing (participle present)
defished (participle past)
defished (past)

(photography, transitive) To process an image taken with a fisheye lens so as to remove the distortion.


slide scanner

(photography) A device used to produce a digital copy of a slide.


frameline

(photography) A line in the viewfinder indicating the boundary of the image that will be captured.


colorcast

en-noun

colorcast (countable and uncountable, plural colorcasts)

(photography) An undesirable tint of color affecting another color in a photograph, due to an incorrect balance.


siderotype

(photography) A photographic print using a pigment based on iron


stereonegative

(photography) Either of a pair of negatives used to make stereoscopic photographs


large format

large format (countable and uncountable, plural large formats)

(photography) A photographic format of 4 × 5 inches (102 × 127 mm) or larger.


medium format

medium format (countable and uncountable, plural medium formats)

(photography) A photographic format in between full-frame or 35mm (36 × 24 mm) and large format (127 × 102 mm).


key light

Age lines were drawn on McCarthy's face in red makeup, and when key lights with red filters were used, the lines were not visible.

2015, Don Presnell, Marty McGee, A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964, page 57:

(photography, film, television) The most important light, used to highlight the form and dimension of the subject.


ZLR

zoom-lens reflex
zoom-lens reflex#English

(photography) Initialism of zoom-lens reflex. (pertaining to the ZLR system, where a telephoto zoom lens is integrated into the camera body, which includes a reflex mirror for in-lens preview; of a camera system similar to an SLR.)


middle distance

middle distance (plural middle distances)

The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 12:

(art, photography) The central portion of a picture in terms of depth, between the foreground and background.


swing-back

(photography, historical) A device for adjusting the plate-holder of a camera to any desired angle.


Satista

(obsolete, photography) Describing a photographic print process that used salts of silver, with smaller amounts of platinum and iron


scanscope

(photography) A device that converts glass slides into digital files


retrofocus

(photography, attributive) A wide-angle lens with an inverted telephoto configuration.


quarter-plate

(photography, historical) A photographic plate measuring 3¼ by 4¼ inches.


whole plate

(photography, historical) A photographic plate measuring 6½ by 8½ inches.


half-plate

(photography, historical) A photographic plate measuring 4¾ by 6½ inches in Britain (4¼ by 5½ in the US).


negatoscope

(obsolete, photography) A device used to display negatives, now only used to display x-ray images


photosequence

A sequence of photographs (made using a still camera)


flatlay

(photography) A kind of photograph where objects are laid out on a flat surface and photographed perpendicularly from above.


high-key

en-adj

high-key (comparative more high-key, superlative most high-key)

more high-key (comparative)
most high-key (superlative)

Details are tremendously important in composing an outstanding high-key photograph.

1942 November, Victor Keppler, “Key to Good Pictures”, in Popular Photography, →ISSN, page 29:

(art, photography) Characterised by light tones and absence of shadow.


beauty shot

Cut to beauty shot of skin care products with beauty show going on in the background. Cut to business woman on street.

1983, John A. Quelch, Paul Farris, Cases in Advertising and Promotion Management, →ISBN, page 71:

(advertising, photography) A close-up of the product being advertised.


speedlight

(photography) A flashgun that is not fixed to a camera.


flash pack

(photography) A device attached to a camera to provide a flash.


hard light

Maybe at first they thought that they wanted hard light, but after the shoot begins, they start asking for me to minimize shadows, and by the end of the shoot, I may end up firing a softbox through a scrim (FYI, that means extra, extra, extra soft light).

2017, Nick Fancher, Studio Anywhere 2: Hard Light: A Photographer's Guide to Shaping Hard Light, Rocky Nook, Inc., →ISBN:

(photography) Focused light that produces crisp, sharply-defined shadows, with less transition between illumination and shadow than soft light.


orthophotographically

In terms of, or by means of, orthophotography.


cyclogram

(photography) A photograph of a moving object using an intermittent light source (such that its path appears as a dotted line)


image sensor

(photography) A sensor that detects and conveys information used to make an image.


Instaverse

In your continuous effort to be the king or queen of twitterverse and instaverse, you network with the people who are popular on the sites and request that they tweet “hey_____ is cool and he needs some followers! Go follow him!”

2013 February 28, Chantelle Simmons, “Somebody has to say it: Ten signs of a social media attention whore”, in The Yard, volume 1, number 3, Charleston, SC: College of Charleston, page 30:

(Internet, informal) The world of users of the Instagram online photo-sharing service.


teleconversion

(photography) The enlargement of an image achieved with a teleconverter lens.


stereocamera

(photography) Alternative form of stereo camera


stereo camera

(photography) A camera, fitted with two lenses, that can produce stereoscopic photographs


hypostain

en-verb

hypostain (third-person singular simple present hypostains, present participle hypostaining, simple past and past participle hypostained)

hypostains (present singular third-person)
hypostaining (participle present)
hypostained (participle past)
hypostained (past)

(photography) To accidentally stain with hypo


speedbooster

(photography) A secondary lens mounted between the camera and a photographic lens so as to reduce the central part of an image obtained by the objective lens while concentrating the light rays on a smaller area.


ROB

(photography) Region of background (in digital images).


selca

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-selca.wav

Borrowed from Korean 셀카 (selka), from English self + camera.

My daughter and her friends take the best selcas and that's even before they use filters.

2017, Dinna Chan Vasquez, "Let me take a selfie", BusinessMirror, 19 August 2016, page A10

Jimin's selca (selfie) obsession provides ARMY with a wealth of glorious photos.

2018, Adrian Besley, BTS: Icons of K-Pop, unnumbered page:

Fans take selcas with cutouts of BTS wearing traditional Korean garb—hanbok—at an exhibit of the 2018 Gangnam Festival.

2019, Katy Sprinkel, The Big Book of BTS: The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book, unnumbered page (image caption)

(South Korean idol fandom) A photographic portrait taken by the subject; a selfie.


'gram

... iconic travel experiences; they learned to use filters to make the scenes Don't do it for the 'gram: Social media and traveling.

2019, A.M. Bristow, Traveling More & Traveling Better: A GnomeTrotting Guide, →ISBN:

The ambience was overrated at the party / I want to run away before it's even started / I look at my feet, then I look for the door (Oh my God) / Can't find my friends, […] / But I don't wanna follow you on the 'gram / I don't wanna listen to your band / I don't know why I haven't left yet / Don't want none of this

2022, Teasdale Rhian Louise (lyrics and music), “Angelica”, in Wet Leg, performed by Wet Leg, Domino, →OCLC:


'gram

'gram (third-person singular simple present 'grams, present participle 'gramming, simple past and past participle 'grammed)

'grams (present singular third-person)
'gramming (participle present)
'grammed (participle past)
'grammed (past)

Twitter, Snapchat, and 'gramming aren't the only things to set today's top names apart from the supermodels of decades past: An enterprising attitude toward the future isn't an exception but the norm.

2015 March 30, Leah Melby Clinton, “Gigi Hadid on Life After Modeling: "It's Not Just OK Anymore to Model Until You're 25 and Then Stop and Be a Housewife"”, in Glamour:

With restaurants closed and travel discouraged, we asked what he’s ‘gramming, how he’s getting by, and how influencers will survive.

2020 April 2, Jessica Sidman, “Food Influencers Are Still Gramming, Pandemic or Not”, in Washingtonian:


measurebate

measurebate (third-person singular simple present measurebates, present participle measurebating, simple past and past participle measurebated)

measurebates (present singular third-person)
measurebating (participle present)
measurebated (participle past)
measurebated (past)

(slang) To focus excessively on technical specifications (of a camera or other electronic device).


measurebation

(slang) The act of measurebating; an obsession with technical specifications.


measurebator

(slang) Someone who obsesses over technical specifications; one who measurebates.


pistolgraphy

From pistol + -graphy, coined by the inventor Thomas Skaife (1806-1876).

(historical, photography) The use of an early miniature camera shaped like a pistol.


bacteriography

From bacterio- + -graphy. From forming pictures out of bacteria. Coined by Zachary Copfer, who invented the process.

(art, photography, microbiology) The art of creating pictures by growing bacteria and using a light mask to selectively sterilize regions.


bacteriograph

From bacterio- + -graph. From forming pictures out of bacteria. Coined by Zachary Copfer, who invented it.

(art, photography, microbiology) A picture created by growing bacteria and using a light mask to selectively sterilize regions.


bacteriogram

(art, photography, microbiology) An image formed by growing bacteria on a previously used photographic substrate


Bookstagram

Some of the bigger Bookstagram accounts that I follow are @quoththebooklover who has 15.3k followers, […]

2017 March 30, Lottie Moulster, “The Rising Trend of 'Bookstagram”, in The Galleon, University of Portsmouth, page 13:

Blogging was already something I did, but then I indulged in writing book reviews, which was the start of my journey on Bookstagram.

2018 March, Vidhya Thakker, “Bookstagram Community”, in Unread, page 83:

Younger readers are passionate about new voices and new ideas but also about real, physical books and real, physical bookstores. They take photos of books. They create bookstagram accounts.

2019 May 1, Karen Schechner, “Q&Q with Mike Gustafson, Co-Owner of Literati Bookstore”, in Kirkus Reviews, page 124:

The community of book and reading-oriented accounts on Instagram, characterized by artful photos of books.


Bookstagrammer

It's a learning curve – each day you discover something new and it's through collaborating with other Bookstagrammers this is made possible.

2018 March, Vidhya Thakker, “Bookstagram Community”, in Unread, page 84:

We get a lot of people coming in to take pictures for Instagram, so we pay attention to Instagram poets and bookstagrammers to know what our audience might want.

2019, Katie Orphan, quoted in Karen Schechner, "A Conversation with Katie Orphan, manager of The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles", Kirkus Reviews, 1 August 2019, page 165

I was pleasantly surprised how immediately warm and welcoming all the other bookstagrammers were of my account.

2020, Sam Miller, quoted in Linnea Wingerup, "Cheers To Being Queer (On The Internet!)", Peacock Magazine (American University of Paris), Spring 2020, page 37

An Instagrammer whose account focuses on books and reading.


Instapoetry

Literature itself is undergoing a similar transition. Indeed, as someone who once read a book a day for a whole year, the current wave of instapoetry, tiny tales, and Tumblr posts has introduced me to an interesting new dimension to storytelling and to engaging with one's audience.

2019, Shashi Tharoor, "Foreword", in Manoj Pandey, The Legacy of Nothing, unnumbered page

Meanwhile, The Washington Post considered the advent of Instapoetry to be a turning point for the art form—this was a new genre of poetry created for a global, online audience, and its legacy would be contingent on virality: […]

2019, Hussein Kesvani, Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims, page 146:

Moreover, she links Instapoetry to the #metoo movement speaking out against sexual harassment and exploitation, and sees in the new voices of the female Instapoets an outlet for the expression of the female sexual gaze.

2020, Bronwen Thomas, Literature and Social Media, unnumbered page:

A genre of short-form poetry, which emerged on Instagram in the late 2010s, and is typically presented in an aesthetically-pleasing manner.


Instapoet

Instapoets were 'responsible for poetry going viral at a time when the genre was alleged to be all but dead', Bustle magazine wrote in 2018, in a piece looking at whether new social media poets were undermining or reviving the art and traditions of literary poetry.

Currently, no Instapoet has a higher profile than Rupi Kaur, the Punjabi-born Sikh Canadian whom Rolling Stone has called the “queen of Instapoets” and Fashion Magazine the “pop star of poetry.”

2020, Mike Chaser, Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram:

Popular Instapoets such as Indian-Canadian Rupi Kaur have parlayed their online success into multi-book contracts with print publishers.

2020, Simon Murray, Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media, unnumbered page:

A poet working in the Instapoetry genre.


Instafamous

en-adj

Instafamous (comparative more Instafamous, superlative most Instafamous)

more Instafamous (comparative)
most Instafamous (superlative)

You see, this isn't such a rare sighting when it comes to the bald-headed, ultra-bendy, Instafamous yogi queen we know as Chocolate Yoga (@chocolate_yoga).

2018 January, Marley Jeranko, “Bending the Rules”, in Cherry Creek Lifestyle, page 54:

Anyway, the point is, I'll get Instafamous one day.

2018, Zoe Stojanovic-Hill, "Editorial", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 9, Semester 2 (2018), page 2

Ta Tat Eatery makes its Instafamous katsu sando with toasted brioche, and it's safe to say none of its devotees seem to be sad for the lack of levain.

2019 October, Lauren Bravo, “The Rise and Fall”, in Foodism, page 56:

(informal) Well-known or popular on Instagram.


Instaceleb

If you're an Instagram junkie (like me) you might better recognise Gracie under the name @pony_nuts because she's a bit of an Instaceleb in the equestrian world.

2018 July, Sophie Callahan, “Shoot of the Month”, in Absolute Horse, page 7:

The country ran shuttles and posted signs encouraging visitors to enjoy the display responsibly, but those precautions didn't prevent rattlesnake bites, twisted ankles, heat exhaustion, Instacelebs and other selfie-takers lying in or otherwise trampling the delicate blooms they'd come to see.

2019 July, Jeffrey Rindskopf, “The Costs of Instatravel”, in DOPE Magazine, page 90:

With nearly 200,000 followers, Men's Health fitness director EBENEZER SAMUEL is a bona fide Instaceleb.

2020 March, “Meanwhile, On Instagram...”, in Men's Health, page 12:

A famous user of the photo-sharing and social media platform Instagram.


Instaworthy

Instaworthy (comparative more Instaworthy, superlative most Instaworthy)

more Instaworthy (comparative)
most Instaworthy (superlative)

That wildflower meadow may be an Instaworthy campsite – but your tent can crush delicate vegetation.

2016, Darby Levin & Haley Weiss, "Trail Foods: Noshing in Nature", Penn Appétit (University of Pennsylvania), Spring 2016, page 17

Most tourists make a quick stop at one of two places in La Jolla: the Children's Pool to see the famous sea lions, or the La Jolla Shores Park to take an Instaworthy shot of the Scripps Pier at sunset.

2017, Amber Manan, "San Diego Hidden Gems", Twist, Spring 2017, page 33

A stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of the CBD is Elk Espresso, where a visionary menu of Instaworthy breakfast spreads are every bit as much of a feast for the eyes as the mouth.

2018 March, Laura Dundovic, “Golden girl”, in Jetstar, page 23:

Lending itself to being photographed and posted on social media; photogenic.


Instagramable

Instagramable (comparative more Instagramable, superlative most Instagramable)

more Instagramable (comparative)
most Instagramable (superlative)

A centerpiece such as a basket of fruits or a pumpkin vase of flowers would make the dining table look beautiful and Instagramable.

2016 November 23, Rachel Ramirez, “The Ultimate Friendsgiving Guide”, in The Beacon, Portland, Or.: University of Portland, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-02-27:

And then there are the chairs. Whimsical, colorful, diverse and tested for both comfort and durability, the wide array of unusual seating options at Changi's T4 are designed to be both inviting and Instagramable.

2017 November 5, Harriet Baskas, “Singapore: ‘World’s best airport’ opens sparkling Instagram-worthy new terminal”, in USA Today, McLean, Va.: Gannett Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-05:

Retailers are also taking a page out of this playbook by creating shopping experiences with Instagramable moments, including photo booths, branded mirrors and neon signs.

2018 October 10, Kaya Yurieff, “Restaurants Rise to Fame over Instagramable Food”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 2019-11-12:

[A]n ‘Instagram-worthy experience’ or ‘Instagramable’, meaning that the pictures of the food have to be good enough to be posted on Instagram. In this way, customers satisfy their need for an ‘Instagrammable’ moment.

2019, Sherazade Aissa, “Digitalization in the Restaurant Sector – The French Exception?”, in Jessica Lichy, editor, The Driving Trends of International Business in the 21st Century, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 147:


Instagram-able

Instagram-able (comparative more Instagram-able, superlative most Instagram-able)

more Instagram-able (comparative)
most Instagram-able (superlative)

I'd hired a pair of social media assistants whose primary job was to identify Instagram-able outfits and locales, before the influence-aspiring hordes found their way to them and turned them into middle-America clichés.

2020, Janelle Brown, chapter 13, in Pretty Things, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 169:

[P]referred destinations are ‘Instagram-able’ or capable of being photographed in ways that generate likes and follows on Instagram.

2020, Marjorie Kibby, “Instafamous: Social Media Influencers and Australian Beaches”, in Elizabeth Ellison, Donna Lee Brien, editors, Writing the Australian Beach: Local Site, Global Idea, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, page 66:

This isn't an accident; everything about this cafe is designed to be Instagram-able.

2020, Daniel Priestley, “Sales Follow-through: Proactively Follow Up with Prospects to Maximise the Effectiveness of Your Campaign”, in Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You, 2nd edition, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part II (The Campaign-driven Enterprise Method: Turning Principles into Strategy), page 227:


photomagazine

A magazine (periodical publication) in which photographs feature prominently.

畫報 /画报

magazine in which photographs feature prominiently


MLU

en-noun

MLU (countable and uncountable, plural MLUs)

(photography) Initialism of mirror lock-up.


Mapplethorpian

en-adj

Mapplethorpian (comparative more Mapplethorpian, superlative most Mapplethorpian)

more Mapplethorpian (comparative)
most Mapplethorpian (superlative)

Of or relating to Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), American photographer known for controversial images of the homosexual male BDSM subculture of New York City.


plate-carrier

The cases of ammunition and of food were scattered about in a wild litter, together with our unfortunate cameras and plate-carriers, but none of them were missing.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

(photography, historical) A thin black frame used to hold a photographic plate in early cameras.


hotshoe

(photography) Alternative form of hot shoe


motorwind

(photography) A feature that allows a rapid succession of photographs to be taken with the release held down


actinautographic

(obsolete, photography) That produces a developable impression on light-sensitive material without contact


actinautography

(obsolete, photography) The production of an actinautographic image


chlorobromide

(photography) A photographic paper containing such silver salts; a print made on such paper.


hero shot

The meat edges, as shown in our hero shot, can be styled to create interest and depth.

2012, Linda Bellingham, Jean Ann Bybee, Food Styling for Photographers, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 102:

(advertising, photography) Synonym of beauty shot


ring flash

(photography) A circular electronic flash that fits around a camera lens.


ring light

Coordinate term: ring flash

So-called selfie ring lights have been big business. “A small ring light will help to lift the complexion and bring radiance to counteract any shadows that may appear,” says Hayley Hall, a beauty influencer who has a YouTube channel and more than 27,000 Instagram followers.

2020 April 24, Ellie Violet Bramley, quoting Hayley Hall, “Let there be light: the new must-have for celebrities in lockdown”, in The Guardian:

In person, Huff looks exactly as she does on her massively popular Instagram account, her sheer foundation and subtle bronze eyeshadow catching the spotlight just like they do the ring light.

2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan:

(photography) A continuous circular strip of light around a camera lens (either directly on the rim or as a standalone item) for the purpose of evenly illuminating the subject.


stock photo

A photograph of a generic subject that is specified for a potential future need.


HDRI

en-noun

HDRI (countable and uncountable, plural HDRIs)

(photography, videography, uncountable) Initialism of high dynamic range imaging.

(photography, videography, countable) Initialism of high dynamic range image.


Shirley card

Named for the original studio model Shirley Page.

A color reference card used for skin-color balance in still-photography printing.


orthochromatize

en-verb

orthochromatize (third-person singular simple present orthochromatizes, present participle orthochromatizing, simple past and past participle orthochromatized)

orthochromatizes (present singular third-person)
orthochromatizing (participle present)
orthochromatized (participle past)
orthochromatized (past)


anti-blur

(photography) A feature that prevents blurring of the image.


prime lens

(photography) A photographic lens with a constant focal length, as opposed to a zoom lens.


vortograph

(historical, photography) A photograph made using a vortoscope


vortoscope

(historical, photography) A device, somewhat like a kaleidoscope, that splits an image into parts


Xography

/ɛkˈsɒɡɹəfi/

In the system at hand, "Xography", the stereoscopic 3-D method, is adapted to a television type display system.

1965, Donald Farness Hanson, John C. Schwebel, Lawrence H. Wallman, Report, page 6:

This remarkable new system of photography and printing is called Xography. It is the product of 14 years of research […]

(photography) A type of photography that produces images that have a three-dimensional quality


femtophotography

From femto- + photography, from the ~100-femtosecond-long pulses of light used.

(photography) A method of photography using sub-picosecond pulses of light (usually around 10⁻¹³ seconds, or 100 femtoseconds, long) to illuminate the subject of the photograph, allowing the propagation of the light pulse to be viewed directly.


infinity shot

[…] opaque infra-red filters may be conveniently focused by pointing at a bright sun when using them for infinity shots.

The lens was a macro, capable of everything from an “infinity shot” to a close-up in which a single fingerprint filled the entire frame.

(photography) A photograph with the focus in the far distance.


multinegative

(photography, printing) An array of several negatives to be printed together by photolithography


multipositive

(photography, printing) An array of several positive images to be printed together by photolithography


runpast

The Znin Wask (600mm) narrow-gauge line. 0-4-0 tender/tank No T49 114 stages a photographic runpast for the WRS party.

1979 August, P.R.G Kennard, “Polish steam panorama”, in Railway World, page 419, photo caption:

(rail transport, photography) A staged event, usually on a railfans' excursion, where a train runs past a group of photographers, who photograph the scene.


Hypergon

(photography) A wide-angle lens, forming a flat field, constructed symmetrically with two deep meniscus elements that almost form a sphere.


hypoeliminator

(photography, historical) A solution used to remove sodium thiosulfate ("hypo") from fixed plates or prints.


bromizer

(photography) A bromide added to a collodion or gelatin emulsion.


Kirlian photography

(parapsychology, photography) A technique for recording photographic images of corona discharges and hence, supposedly, the auras of living creatures.


profil perdu

(painting, photography) A view of the subject from partially behind, such that only one side of the face is visible.


parallax motion

en-noun

parallax motion (plural parallax motions)

(photography, optics) The apparent motion of a tracking-locked foreground object against a background, when the camera is moving across the environment. (ie. A stationary object will appear to move across a background, when a moving camera is locked to track it)


motion parallax

(photography, optics) The illusion of higher speed travel of a foreground object moving, when it is closer to the observer/camera, than when it is further away.


OIS

OIS (countable and uncountable, plural OIS)

(photography) Initialism of optical image stabilization.


camback

(photography) An act or instance of responding to being filmed by filming the videographer himself.


camback

en-verb

camback (third-person singular simple present cambacks, present participle cambacking, simple past and past participle cambacked)

cambacks (present singular third-person)
cambacking (participle present)
cambacked (participle past)
cambacked (past)

(transitive, intransitive, photography) To react or respond to a videographer who is filming by filming the videographer.


Leica

A portmanteau of Leitz (the company's founder) and camera.

Every photographer of experience has his own theories and methods of working, but for the last 14 years I have used a Leica exclusively, and have found it best adapted to the somewhat exacting demands of railway photography, which is by no means an easy branch of the art.

1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 78:


Instagrammability

The day I was there, the Portland Head Light towered in glorious Instagrammability.

2016, Melody Warnick, This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are, page 158:

The Instagrammability of these animals would destroy them, I thought.

2021 August 12, Noelle Mateer, “Looks That Quill: The Dark Side of Hedgehog Instagram”, in Wired:

Destination stakeholders have increasingly recognized the importance of the “Instagrammability” of places.

2021, Velvet Nelson, An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism, page 303:

The state or quality of being Instagrammable.


Instagramability

"Careful," I teased. "I'm grading this date on its Instagramability."

2020, Kathleen Barber, Follow Me, page 180:

I didn't care about the Instagramability [of the wedding ceremony]. I wanted it to be serious. We focused on our faith and our families.

2021, Claudia Oshry, Girl With No Job: The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst Monster, page 95:

[…] Unfortunately, because of the Instagramability of your amazing snacks, I have a day of eating myself sick on ice cream ahead of me."

2021, Amanda Radley, Under Her Influence, unnumbered page:

Alternative spelling of Instagrammability.


rinsta

Teen girls tell me that they have public “rinsta” or real Instagram accounts for all followers and then private “finsta” Instagram accounts for their "closest" friends.

2017, Ana Homayoun, Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World, page 31:

Her “rinsta” is based on her full name and it is the picture of a perfect middle schooler.

2018, Carrie Kerpen, Work It: Secrets for Success from the Boldest Women in Business, page 78:

There were the Finstas and the Rinstas—the fake and the real, the accounts that your parents could see, where every kid posted things about school and new haircuts and cute dogs on the street, and the accounts where you could see more bare skin and some authentic teen misery.

2020, Emma Straub, All Adults Here, page 110:

(informal) A primary personal Instagram account on which one posts publicly (typically under their real name).


stickyback

She did not need a passport, but Michael advised her to get a few snapshots. So she went and had some "stickybacks" taken.

1939, Madeleine Elise Reynier Boyd, Life Makes Advances:

(photography, historical) A small photographic portrait with an adhesive backing.


kinetography

(dated, photography) The use of the kinetograph.


aerial photograph

en-noun

aerial photograph (plural aerial photographs)

■ An aerial photograph - NR [Network Rail] now has its entire network photographed from the air.

2021 November 17, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Salisbury: a media own goal”, in RAIL, number 944, page 3:

(photography) A photograph taken from an aircraft, or by a drone remotely controlled from the ground.


fansign

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From fan + sign. Initially gained popularity in the sense of a photograph of a person with an inscription in 2012. Gained popularity in the sense of a meet-and-greet with a K-pop artist in 2016.

Fansigns can go from okay to weird as fans are really known to show devotion and dedication to their idols […]

2013 March 12, rhysia.wordpress.com, Fansign? What the heck is that?! – Rhysia

(Internet) A photograph of a person with an inscription (often on the body or a piece of paper) used on the Internet as an autograph of a celebrity or as a sign of love for a celebrity from a fan.


watch the birdie

en-verb

watch the birdie (third-person singular simple present watches the birdie, present participle watching the birdie, simple past and past participle watched the birdie)

watches the birdie (present singular third-person)
watching the birdie (participle present)
watched the birdie (participle past)
watched the birdie (past)

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Danny watched the birdie and said cheese, and then it was over and the wait began. Danny would wait for weeks in anticipation of the day the final product was passed out by his teacher Miss Turner.

2008, Tim Connelly, The Local News, page 41:

(chiefly imperative) To look toward the camera while one's photograph is being taken.


Studygram

Yet, Diana would definitely encourage a lot more arts students to join the Studygram community.

2019, Caoimhe Killeen, "Study and Chill: A look at the studygram community", SIN: Student Independent News (National University of Ireland, Galway), 31 March 2020, page 9

[…] when she'd attempted to distract herself in religious studies by replicating a revision page with the neatest handwriting she'd seen on a Studygram page; […]

2021, Lucy Powrie, Ready with Pride: Book 2, unnumbered page:

Popular “Studygram” accounts showcase elaborately designed notes adorned with calligraphed titles and pastel color pallets.

2021 November 9, Noah Do, “Noah's Arc”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University, page 5:

(Internet slang) The community of academic and studying-oriented accounts on Instagram.


studygram

Along with rewritten notes, Chen's studygram is full of colorful bullet journal pages.

2018, Paulina Klubok, Chloe Huang, & Jennifer Lu, "Behind the Photos: A Look Inside the Studyblr Community", The Stuyvesant Spectator (Stuyvesant High School), 2 February 2018, page 3

"It's mainly science or law students that have studygrams, and not a lot of arts students. […]

2019, Diana Lajenko, quoted in Caoimhe Killeen, "Study and Chill: A look at the studygram community", SIN: Student Independent News (National University of Ireland, Galway), 31 March 2020, page 9

Originating around 2014 on sites like Tumblr, the advent of studyblrs and studygrams has brought with it a culture of academia centered on thoughtful encouragement, aestheticism, and wellness.

2020, Aliza Li, "Study Culture", Her Culture, Fall 2020, page 39

(Internet slang) An Instagram account focused on studying or academia.


studygrammer

Like many other studygrammers, student Lydia of @lydia.studies presents many of her neat flashcards, notes, and flowcharts through her Instagram account.

2018 April 24, Catherine Seok, “Study Instagrams”, in The Prospector, Cupertino High School, Cupertino, CA, page 11:

Take a look at the hashtag on Instagram, and you'll find that these “studygrammers” love particular brands of Japanese pens, […]

2019 October 12, Moe Yagihara, “Get Back to School in Style”, in ORIGAMI Magazine, page 22:

The next “studygrammer” was a user under the name @studyingindigital, aka Amy Kilner, who lives in the United Kingdom as well.

2020, Fatima Jalloh, "Digital Notetaking", The Eagle Talon (Paxon School for Advanced Studies), November 2020, page 7

An Instagrammer whose account focuses on studying and academia.


foodstagram

en-noun

foodstagram (countable and uncountable, plural foodstagrams)

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One recent "Overheard of the Week" encapsulates foodstagram culture, as one friend remarks to her breakfast companion: "Get the toast, it's more photogenic."

2014, Michelle Salzman Boston, "Foodstagram", USC Dornsife Magazine (David and Dana Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences), Fall 2014/Winter 2015, page 25

In the 'foodstagram' generation, where photos from cafés and restaurants are shared more for their artful design than for their bold or daring flavors, Dans Le Noir is a reminder of the importance of taste.

2016, Emily Bull, "Eyes For Food", Woroni (Australian National University), Week 3, Semester 2 (2016), page 25

Come try out these great restaurants to capture that next foodstagram shot and make all your followers crave your foodie lifestyle.

2016 May, Danielle Gumina, Sara Hyland, “Appetite For Aperture”, in Locale, page 36:

(uncountable, Internet slang) The community of foodies and food-oriented accounts on Instagram, characterized by artful photos of food.

I decided to make my foodstagram a team effort by inviting my roommate to join me.

2018 April 24, Christina Mitchell, “Using 'foodstagram' to explore city, Main Campus”, in The Temple News, Temple University, page 5:

Running a “foodstagram” has helped me expand my tastes and push me outside my comfort zone.

2018, Meredith George (@Omaha.Feast), quoted in "Meet Our Instagram Foodie Consultants", Omaha Magazine, July/August 2018, page 65

Yu created her foodstagram after she came to college and realized that living in D.C. provided her with a special opportunity to experience new cuisines and different cultural foods.

2020 February 28, Emma Ginsberg, “Foodstagrams Offer Tasty Recipes, Detailed Reviews”, in The Hoya, Georgetown University, page B10:

(countable, Internet slang) An individual food-focused account on Instagram.

In a food-driven city like Austin, posting a foodstagram is almost inevitable.

2015, Ashley Lopez, "A Taste of Koko", Orange Magazine, Spring 2015, page 38

The creative donuts are worth the long line and the shameless compulsory foodstagram.

2016 March 22, Kallyn Hobmann, Rachel Finegold, Amanda Yoo, “Spring break in L.A.”, in The Arrow, Westlake High School, West Lake, CA, page 7:

Users are sharing “foodstagrams” with their social media networks in unprecedented numbers.

2016, Sarah Emily Gilbert, "Too Pretty Too Eat", Urban Agenda Magazine, Summer 2016, page 13

(countable, Internet slang) An artful photo of food posted to Instagram.


foodstagram

en-verb

foodstagram (third-person singular simple present foodstagrams, present participle foodstagramming, simple past and past participle foodstagrammed)

foodstagrams (present singular third-person)
foodstagramming (participle present)
foodstagrammed (participle past)
foodstagrammed (past)

Mike Madison “foodstagrammed” one of his favorites from La Belle Vie: Pata negra with marcona almond, toasted sesame and apple.

2013 February 6, Aimee Blanchette, “Local chefs say their food is camera-ready”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXI, number 308, page E1:

So what’s the most foodstagrammed meal?[…]When tastes are broken down on a city-by-city basis, London comes out as the most popular place for foodstagramming burgers, accounting for five per cent of posts worldwide.

2016 November 9, James P. Hall, “Bringing our food into focus”, in Vancouver Sun, page C7:

So when you’re settling down to beachside dinner or home takeout this long weekend, say “no” to unsustainable packaging you don’t need, and “yes” to foodstagramming and celebrating the delicious food Vancouver’s diverse culinary scene has to offer.

2019 May 22, Robert Phelps, “Enjoy great food in sustainable packaging”, in Vancouver Sun, page A11:

(Internet slang) To post a photo of food on Instagram.


foodstagrammer

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Below is a list of my top ten favorite foodstagrammers (in no particular order) who inspire me in all my food photography endeavors.

2015 March 17, Michelle Banayan, “Food Instagrams”, in The Justice, Brandeis University, page 24:

Amateur foodstagrammers may also attempt to build popularity through their photos and break into the professional realm.

2016 November, Beth Steinmann, “Are Food Selfies Out of Control?”, in Benicio Magazine, page 18:

But even this foodstagrammer can struggle to find new places to eat, great bars that aren't my normal haunts, places to take a date, or even just a new cafe with WiFi.

2019 July, Michael Muñoz, “Eaters of Habit”, in W42ST, page 41:

An Instagrammer whose account focuses on food and cooking.


snapshotter

It is time we forgot the old distinctive class borderline between the snapshotter and the amateur photographer, which was based on the capabilities of the equipment the two sectors used.

1987, The British Journal of Photography, volume 134:

The implication is that the snapshotter, because of his unwillingness to slow down and perceive the complexity of the unmediated landscape, could only wreak havoc with his camera.

2010, Eric Gordon, The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities from Kodak to Google, UPNE, →ISBN, page 50:

(uncommon, photography) Synonym of snapshooter


Instamom

2015 November 14, Hayley Krischer, “Meet the Instamom, a Stage Mother for Social Media”, in The New York Times:

My advice for new mamas is to take all those beautiful Instamom photos with a grain of salt, because a carefully cropped square leaves the rest of a person's reality out of the frame.

2019, Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You, unnumbered page:

The sampling consisted of five Instamoms with more than 100,000 followers recruited using purposive sampling.

2021, Arzu Kalafat Çat, “Virtual Identities And Self-Presentation In Social Media Instagram Mothers”, in Enes Emre Başar, Pınar Bacaksız, editors, New Paradigms within the Communication Sciences, page 181:

(informal) A mother who runs an Instagram account focused on her child/children or motherhood in general.


Instamum

She marvelled at how lucrative kids-as-content seemed to be. Instamums at Disneyland and on cruises, snaps showing improbably perfect houses filled with improbably perfect children.

2019, Sophie White, Filter This, unnumbered page:

It's little wonder that so many of us struggling with parental burnout became attracted to the rise of imperfect parenting blogs and these 'real' Instamums.

2021, Kate Baily, Mandy Manners, Dawn Nickel, Love Yourself Sober: A Self Care Guide to Alcohol-Free Living for Busy Mothers, unnumbered page:

I never planned to be an Instamum. For a long time, I wasn't sure I'd be a mum at all.

2021, Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her, unnumbered page:


Instadad

With Instadads making their mark on social media, Catherine Hudson checks out their must-haves

2017 March, Catherine Hudson, “Who's the daddy?”, in Gurgle, page 81:

The Instadad (@therealburrmartin) has more followers than his daughter, standing at almost 153,000.

2018 March 1, “5 questions for...Instadad Burr Martin”, in Big Daddy, page 11:

As torchbearers for an unapologetically involved form of fatherhood, the Instadads congregate, share advice, and provide support to each other, as well as a growing audience of male and female parents on Instagram.

2020, Mario Campana, Astrid Van den Bossche, Bryoney Miller, “#dadtribe: Performing Sharenting Labourto Commercialise Involved Fatherhood”, in Journal of Macromarketing, volume 40, number 4:

(informal) A father who runs an Instagram account focused on his child/children or fatherhood in general.


Instafame

A perfect example of “Instafame” or a social media celebrity is Benjamin Lasnier, a teenage boy from Denmark, who achieved fame almost entirely through Instagram and YouTube.

2015, Pavica Sheldon, Social Media: Principles and Applications, page 43:

Ulman's project was an acerbic take on “Instafame,” a phenomenon that is reshaping and redefining the very idea of a “star” and their relationship to their audience.

2019, Daniel Palmer, Kate Warren, “Scarlett Johansson Falling Down: Memes, Photography and Celebrity Personas”, in Janice Loreck, Kirsten Stevens, Whitney Monaghan, editors, Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom, page 127:

Race is both a visible and invisible element of [rupi] kaur's social media success and journey to Instafame.

2021, L. Aya Saraswati, Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie, page 50:

The state or quality of being well-known or popular on Instagram.


foodstagramming

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Dayton maintains the policy isn’t designed to prohibit all foodstagramming.

2013 February 6, Aimee Blanchette, “Local chefs say their food is camera-ready”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXI, number 308, page E10:

How ‘foodstagramming’ has changed the way we deal with our grub writes James P. Hall.[…]At the same time, certain restaurants in the U.S. and France have banned customers from taking pictures of their dishes, or “foodstagramming,” as it has become known.[…]Pizza tops the list when it comes to foodstagramming:[…]

2016 November 9, James P. Hall, “Bringing our food into focus”, in Vancouver Sun, page C7:

Nowhere as in the current era of food porn and foodstagramming, star-chefs and cooking TV show, can the short-circuit between seeing and tasting be observed.

2018, Andrea Pavoni, “Introduction”, in Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, editors, Taste (Law and the Senses), University of Westminster Press, →ISBN, page 31:

On the one hand, the trend of “foodstagramming” is still going strong, with 69 per cent of millennials capturing the perfect foodie snap before eating.

2019 May 22, Robert Phelps, “Enjoy great food in sustainable packaging”, in Vancouver Sun, page A11:

Despite the popularity of foodstagramming, the studies about this social phenomenon are rare, with little if any academic literature reporting on it to date (Wong et al., 2019). In this study, the subject of sharing food experience is examined by addressing the related social media platforms. It focuses on foodstagramming as a prominent subject and its possible effects in terms of user-generated content (UGC) and electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM).

2022, Sevinc Goktepe, Merve Aydogan Cifci, Mehmet Altug Sahin, “Sharing photos of food traveler experiences: a case study of foodstagramming”, in Dogan Gursoy, Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav, editors, Handbook on Tourism and Social Media (Research Handbooks in Tourism), Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 437:

(Internet slang) The act of posting photos of food to Instagram.


photogenia

(photography) The various photographic techniques, such as lighting, focus and framing, used to make a subject look more attractive.


colortype

There are two good colortypes and a number of half-tone illustrations. Many of the latter have unfortunately been spoiled in the printing.

(photography, historical) A color print that is produced by combining the images from three photo-engraved plates, each contributing a single primary color (red, blue, or yellow).


retrospectography

From retrospect + -o- + -graphy in both senses. The radiologic sense (from the early 20th century) was developed by radiology technicians and radiologists (who were not yet differentiated from each other at the time). The sense of reviewing photographs and learning additional insights about their subjects/contents was developed in 2017 by Jeffrey Ross of the website JBRish.com.

(art, photography, rare) The further appreciation of a photograph or picture which reveals insights into that image which were not recognized or appreciated at the time of original capture.


shutter chance

Borrowed from Japanese シャッターチャンス (shattā chansu), from English shutter + chance.

bor+

PURPOSE: To perform flash photography without missing a shutter chance by closing a power switch to a flash device and a timer circuit associatively with the movement of a moving member for switching to a photography ready position.

1985, Japan Patent Office, Patents Abstracts of Japan: Unexamined Applications:

The why people prefer faster motor drives? There is a very good reason. Faster motor drive allows you to prepare for the next shutter chance. You never keep pushing release for seconds. You always look for the exact shutter chance. But you can be prepared very quickly to the next shutter chance as soon as you finich taking one picture when you have a fast motor drive.

1995 August 26, na...@ibm.net, “Motor drive vs. power winder”, in rec.photo.help (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-19:

I feel the most important thing is to catch the facial expressions. So, shutter chance is very critical. This may be a situation when the continuous-shot shutter mode is of most usable. Wasting some frames seems inevitable even for experienced shooters/professionals-- they just waste less than me.

1996 April 29, Leslie, “攝影的互動關係?”, in tw.bbs.rec.photo (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-19:

This fish was moving both eyes restlessly like a chameleon.
So, I held a position in front of the fish. I waited for an ideal shutter chance. And the moment both eyes of this fish saw me, I took a photo.

(non-native speakers' English) The best moment to take a picture of a moving subject.

シャッターチャンス

the best moment to take a picture of a moving subject


dogstagram

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Carve a creative space with your dog-stagram, with your people-who-matter-stagram, or your inner palm sketchpad.

2014 January, Reuben G. Krabbe, “The Art of a Ski Bum: Getting Creative with It”, in The Capilano Courier, volume 47, number 13, page 15:

The Best Dogstagram Accounts You Should Be Following

2015 September 18, Jessica Duffy, Void, archived from the original on 2022-05-28:

“I have been thinking about starting a dogstagram,” I confessed.

2019, Elle Hume, My Fair Millennial 3: Also a Romantic Comedy, →ISBN:

Krammer never expected to gain such a large fan base, but he said he enjoys the friendly, passionate dog community that emerged from Blodgett’s outreach. “I had enough friends that were pushing me (to make an account),” Krammer said. “It’s been really fun just because there’s been a ton of people that have shown up, and there’s this really sweet community that’s been born specifically out of the dogstagram, so we interact with so many people from around the world.[…]”

2020 February 20, Elena Waldman, “Blodgett the Great proves sky’s the limit”, in The Rocky Mountain Collegian, volume 129, number 44, page 19:

This paper examines the phenomenon of dogstagrams on the social media platform Instagram.

2020 August 6, Karli Brittz, “Dog Stories in the Digital Age: Dogstagrams as Digital Tales of Becoming with Companion Species”, in Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities, volume 5, number 1, page 41:

The hive mind does us all a favor by acting as a check for all the would-be dogstagram accounts for which there was no demand.

2020 September 18, Maddie Bender, “Consider the Hot Dog”, in Yale Daily News, volume CXLIII, number 3, New Haven, Conn., page B3:

Better yet, do you have a favorite Canine YouTuber, Dogstagram or a dog of Tik Tok?^([sic])[…]PLATFORM #2: DOGSTAGRAMS

2021 August, Niccole Rumans, “Make Your Dog a Superstar”, in Fur Mama Mini Magazine, number 1:

Kristian would like to send a shout out to his mom, abuela, and sister, as well as his dogstagram @bowowbikic.

The platform is flooding with dogstagram accounts that are a major relief from the toxicity that can come with the social media world.[…]We have some dogstagram accounts to bless your feed.[…]The complimentary subtitles in each of their videos is just the best part about their dogstagram account.[…]Her dogstagram is extremely aesthetic and so dreamy.[…]She often comes with her accomplice Shaun, who also has a dogstagram.

2022 April 18, Vasudha Sabharwal, “13 Of The Most Heart-Warming Instagram Accounts For Every Dog Lover”, in ScoopWhoop:

Maybe dogs can finally have their own dogstagram which isn’t handled by a human posting on their behalf.

2022 June 21, Ameen Fatima, “The Future Of Review: The Future Is Bright and Full of Possibilities”, in LeisureByte, Teeny Media:

(Internet slang) An Instagram account focused on a dog.


midlight

From mid + light. Formed by analogy with lowlight and highlight.

(painting, photography) An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is somewhat illuminated.


effluviography

(photography, obsolete) The effects upon the dry photographic plate of certain electric emanations, including those later known as the X-rays.


pancake lens

A particularly fitting choice is the small and flexible XF27mmF2.8 pancake lens. With it, the camera fits in the pocket of almost every coat or jacket.

2015, Rico Pfirstinger, The Fujifilm X-T10 […] , Rocky Nook, →ISBN:

(photography, optics, informal) A type of flat lens design.


available light

(film, photography) Light from sources that are not explicitly supplied by the photographer, such as natural light or pre-existing street lighting.


MILC

mirrorless interchangeable lens camera#English

(photography) Abbreviation of mirrorless interchangeable lens camera.. A digital camera similar to a DSLR, with a lens mount that can change out and accept different lenses, without the reflexive mirror mechanism of SLRs.


make love to the camera

en-verb

make love to the camera (third-person singular simple present makes love to the camera, present participle making love to the camera, simple past and past participle made love to the camera)

makes love to the camera (present singular third-person)
making love to the camera (participle present)
made love to the camera (participle past)
made love to the camera (past)

(idiomatic, informal) To pose or act in a way that suggests genuine emotional involvement, while being filmed or photographed.


dark room

There is also a fine dance and concert hall, a capacious reading room, a well-appointed billiards room with five tables, various committee and games rooms, photographic dark rooms, and a small but compact ladies' lounge.

1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:

(photography) Alternative form of darkroom


metagelatin

(photography) A form of gelatin treated so that it remains fluid.


panchromatize

panchromatize (third-person singular simple present panchromatizes, present participle panchromatizing, simple past and past participle panchromatized)

panchromatizes (present singular third-person)
panchromatizing (participle present)
panchromatized (participle past)
panchromatized (past)

(transitive, photography) To cover with a panchromatic coating.


AOV

(photography) Abbreviation of angle of view.


AoV

(photography) Initialism of angle of view.


snapshottery

He carried a sheaf of photographs. Some were large and were regularly mounted; others were but the informal products of snapshottery.

1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Entertains Several Ladies”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 147:

There was a series of ‘studies’ of the school buildings and grounds, in various lights, consciously trying to avoid the snapshottery which had been his previous manner.

1966, Jim Hunter, chapter 6, in The Flame,, New York: Pantheon, page 40:

[He] strove to demarcate his practice from professional photography on the one hand, and mere snapshottery on the other […]

1999, Reuel Golden, “Alvin Langdon Coburn”, in Masters of Photography, London: Carlton, published 2008, page 56:

(photography, chiefly derogatory) The practice of taking snapshots; the style or characteristics of snapshots.


half-frame

(photography) Being or relating to a kind of film camera using a film format of half the usual exposure size of a 35mm camera.


CFast

(photography) Abbreviation of CompactFast: a flash memory format, the successor to the CompactFlash format, using the same physical form factor, updating the interface from IDE to SATA.


CFlash

(photography) Abbreviation of CompactFlash: a flash memory format, the predecessor to the CompactFast format, using the same physical form factor, but with the older IDE interface instead of SATA.


CFlash

(photography) A CompactFlash memory card


ozobrome

(photography, historical) A form of carbro print.


microflash

A microflash unit typically has two tubes with a variable delay unit to provide two timed flashes. Optical coupling of the flash tubes gives an equivalent spatial position to avoid parallax of shadows.

1999, Sidney Ray, Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging, page 31:

Repetitive exposures from the same field allow unequivocal separation of noise from microflashes.

2015, Frank H. Johnson, Yata Haneda, Bioluminescence in Progress, page 283:

(photography) A flash of extremely short duration.


mediobrome

For darkening any print area larger than a spot, mediobrome is the best friend of the bungling tyro with ten thumbs!

(photography, historical, chiefly attributive) A variant of the bromoil process.


medium long shot

en-noun

medium long shot (plural medium long shots)

A long shot or medium long shot will most successfully cover all of the action during the meeting of the two characters.

2012, Christopher J. Bowen, Roy Thompson, Grammar of the Shot, page 45:

The size of a medium long shot is also ideal to establish the dynamics of a relationship between characters, by the way they are placed within the composition (by using Hitchcock's rule, or balanced/unbalanced framings, for instance).

2013, Gustavo Mercado, The Filmmaker's Eye, page 53:

(photography, cinematography) A shot (snapshot or series of film exposures) taken from enough distance to show a character from the knees on up, wider than a medium shot but tighter than a long shot.


medium shot

The film then cuts to a medium shot, not of Marguerite but of Faust looking in the girl's direction with the devil posed somewhat artistically behind him, and the two begin to sing.

2014, Jennifer Fleeger, Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz, page 81:

(photography, cinematography) A shot (snapshot or series of film exposures) taken from enough distance to show a character from the waist on up, wider than a close up but tighter than a medium long shot.


antiplumming

Coordinate term: antibronzing

an antiplumming agent

(photography) Preventing plum-colored distortion of prints.


antibronzing

Coordinate term: antiplumming

an antibronzing agent

(photography) Preventing bronze-colored distortion of prints.


papyrotint

Papyrotype, Papyrography, or Papyrotint, modifications of photo-lithography, in which paper is used as material on which the original transfer is made.

1897, Edward J. Wall, Dictionary of Photography, 7th ed., p. 435


papyrotype

(historical) A form of photolithography using paper as the initial transfer material.


Clayden effect

Derived from experiments described by A. W. Clayden.

After I had established in this way the similarity between the action of electrical discharges and of the Röntgen rays, it was very important to determine whether here, as in the Clayden effect, it was a matter of the brief but intense light action of the spark or whether perhaps some special electrical property was the determining factor.

1910 April, Wilder D. Bancroft, “The Electrochemistry of light”, in The Journal of Physical Chemistry, volume 14, number 4, page 306:

Other important film effects such as reciprocity failure and intermittancy ^([sic]), adjacency effects, Herschel effects, solarization effects, and Clayden effects have not been considered in the simple discussion presented here, […]

1975, Coherent Optical Processing: Seminar, page 56:

This is an example of the Clayden effect shown by certain photographic emulsions. It is seen much more clearly on the negative, or in direct traces on an opaque film of the light of a more sensitive emulsion.

2022, Leonard B. Loeb, Electrical Coronas: Their Basic Physical Mechanisms, page 190:

(photography) A dark streak that appears in a photograph when there has been a very brief flash of intense light, such as a stroke of lightning, while the photographic plate is being exposed. This effect is caused by the flash causing the part of the photographic plate exposed to the intense light less sensitive, so that it is less affected than the surrounds during the rest of the exposure.


synchro-sunlight

(photography) The use of a flash in daylight in order to enhance the shadows in the resulting photograph.


white balance

(photography) The color correction applied to files created by a digital camera. It determines the color temperature of the image based on the type of scene lighting (natural or artificial) and can be selected automatically by the camera (automatic white balance or AWB) or manually by the photographer.


shoulder display

shoulder display (plural shoulder displays)

(photography) A small LCD display integrated into the top of certain digital cameras, usually to the right of the viewfinder. It allows the photographer to quickly assess important settings of the camera at a glance, such as aperture, shutter speed, white balance or free space remaining on the memory card.


Eberhard effect

Eberhard effect (plural Eberhard effects)

(film, photography) The situation where narrow areas of high and low density cause two Mackie lines to meet, resulting in increased density in a small area.


bleach bypass

The bleach-bypass really captured the light of Mexico City, especially given that we shot the commercial on a very grey and overcast day. […] The bleach-bypass process I find has a spiritual quality that I relate to and really love.

2021, Jason Wood, quoting Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

(photography, cinematography) A film laboratory technique where the bleach stage during the development of a color film is skipped, resulting in images with increased contrast and graininess.


FFC

(photography) Initialism of Front-Facing Camera (used in smartphones)


digital image

(image processing, photography) An image composed of pixels.


sportsfinder

(photography, historical) A kind of camera viewfinder made from wire rectangles, including a smaller one nearer the eye and a larger one further away, with no optics. The smaller rectangle was centered in the larger, which would then give an indication of what would be included in the photograph.


camera shake

The camera must be held quite still when the exposure is being made; by far the most common reason for unsatisfactory results is camera-shake at the moment of exposure.

1950 December, Canon Eric Treacy, “Railway Photography”, in Railway Magazine, page 796:

(photography) The involuntary movement of a camera at the time of exposure (when the shutter is activated), leading to blurring of the picture.


f/8 and be there

f/8 refers to an f-number of 8, which is considered a general-purpose aperture for all situations. Often attributed to street photographer Arthur Fellig; however, the origins of this saying are disputed.

in the right place at the right time
in the right place at the right time

(photography) Instead of focusing excessively on photographic technique, it is more important to be in the right place at the right time.


PTZ

(photography) Initialism of pan, tilt, zoom.


self timer

(photography) A device on a camera that provides a delay between pressing the shutter release and the shutter's firing, for example to give the photographer time to join a group of people being photographed.


changing bag

Where no dark-room is at hand for loading plate holders or developing tank, the Ingento rubber changing bag will be found very convenient.

1909, James Boniface Schriever, editor, Elementary Photography, American School of Art and Photography, page 196:

In sand or dust storms, motion-picture cameras should be loaded in a loading or changing bag. Small 16-mm. cameras can be placed inside the bag before the camera door is opened. With some 35-mm. cameras, the bag can be stretched over the lens to provide some degree of protection even though it cannot be sealed tightly.

1945, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Photography (Navy Training Courses), volume 2, Washington, D. C.: Navy Department, page 382:

A changing bag can be used for loading them into the tank, thus doing away with the necessity for a darkroom. The printing is best done when the expedition returns to base.

1979, George L. Wakefield, edited by George L. Wakefield, Leonard Gaunt, Paul Petzold, The Pictorial Cyclopedia of Photography, Focal Press, →ISBN, page 34:

The standard 400-foot rolls (11 minutes at 24 fps) are generally loaded into "magazines" in a lightproof changing bag, so that they are ready to be attached to the camera as soon as you want to shoot.

2023, Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Taylor, Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 247:

(photography) A bag designed to protect unexposed film from light.


selfie camera

(electronics, photography) A camera on the same side or surface of a smartphone as the main display, used for taking selfies and making video calls.


mirrorless camera

mirrorless camera (plural mirrorless cameras)

(photography) A digital camera which, in contrast to DSLRs, does not use a mirror in order to ensure that the image presented to the photographer through the viewfinder is identical to that taken by the camera.


legsie

(informal, photography) A photo of one's suntanned legs usually taken with a smartphone and shared on social media.


time-exposed

(photography) Of a photograph, exposed by leaving a camera's shutter open for a period greater than a fraction of a second.


cold shoe

(photography) A physical mounting point that connects accessories to cameras and photography gear, and which lacks any electronic contacts.


time for print

(modeling, photography) An arrangement between a model and a photographer whereby the photographer agrees to provide the model with a number of photographs from the session, and a release or license to use them, in return for the model's time.


remjet

From the traditional process of removing the layer, removal by jets of water, although the layer can be and often is removed chemically.

(photography, cinematography) The anti-halation layer on ECN-2, Kodachrome, and several other types of photographic or motion picture film. It is an opaque black coating on the non-emulsion side of the film that is removed before the development process.


fuzzyism

(photography, rare) The studied production of photographs that are blurry or out of focus.


plandid

Of course, celebrities and social media influencers have been ‘gramming plandids from the start—with the help of employed assistants or professional photographers to capture their posed un-poses at whim.

2017 August 29, Andrea Cheng, “What Is a ‘Plandid’? Here’s Why Celebrities Are All About This Instagram Trend”, in Billboard:

(slang) A photograph that appears to be candid but was in fact planned.


time catch

(photography) A photographic technique in which the shutter of a camera is held in a position for a fixed time.


time stretching

(film, photography) A type of slow motion editing achieved during post-production by inserting new frames in between frames that have actually been photographed.


time shutter

(photography) A shutter in a camera designed for making time exposures.


time stop

(optics, photography) A stop (mechanical part that adjusts an aperture or interval size) which operates on a timer.


recycling time

recycling time (countable and uncountable, plural recycling times)

(photography) The delay time required to recharge the capacitor in a flashgun.

(photography) The amount of time a digital camera requires to reset the flash between one photograph and the next.


exposure time

exposure time (countable and uncountable, plural exposure times)

(photography) The total amount of time for which the film of a traditional camera or a sensor of a digital camera is exposed to the light so as to record a photograph.


walkie-lookie

(historical) An early portable television camera.


frame time

frame time (countable and uncountable, plural frame times)

(film, television, photography) The total amount of time required for a single frame to be displayed on the screen, measured in seconds.


picturegraph

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recycle time

recycle time (countable and uncountable, plural recycle times)


color timing

color timing (countable and uncountable, plural color timings)

(film, photography) The process of adjusting the amount of red, green, and blue light used to create a film positive from a film negative in an analog film lab.


CLC

CLC (countable and uncountable, plural CLCs)

(photography) Initialism of contrast light compensation.


fan camera photography

(military, photography) Photography taken simultaneously by an assembly of three or more cameras systematically installed at fixed angles relative to each other.


'grammer

Then came the great “Instagram Rapture,” Instagram’s pledge last December to clean out the fake accounts and do “everything possible to keep Instagram free from the fake and spammy accounts that plague much of the web.” “The Purge” cost famous grammers thousands, sometimes millions, of followers.

2015 July 2, Julia Carpenter, “Can we ever beat the bots? Not on Instagram.”, in The Washington Post:


sponge brush

When dry, the paper must be pinned out on a board, and the silver solution spread over it, boldly but lightly, with a very soft sponge brush.

1853, Robert Hunt, A Manual of Photography, page 88:

The sponge-brush is moistened with the caustic liquid, and it is introduced at several intervals upon all the points of mucous membrane which it can reach.

1859, P. Bretonneau, Memoirs on Diphtheria, page 248:

The acid nitrate of mercury also requires the aid of the sponge-brush for its application.

1868, Sir Erasmus Wilson, On Diseases of the Skin - A System of Cutaneous Medicine, page 381:

Using sponge brush, topcoat plate with Teal Green. Let dry.

2001, Plaid, Decoupage the Easy Way, page 54:

(photography, crafts) A sponge head attached to a handle, allowing for the smooth and even application of liquids.


rehalogenize

en-verb

rehalogenize (third-person singular simple present rehalogenizes, present participle rehalogenizing, simple past and past participle rehalogenized)

rehalogenizes (present singular third-person)
rehalogenizing (participle present)
rehalogenized (participle past)
rehalogenized (past)

On the other hand, in the uniformly illuminated particle, if the light is powerful enough to rehalogenize the subsalt at all, it will do so uniformly.

1897 December, E. A. Robins, “Halation”, in Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, volume 28, number 12, page 272:

Following the silver dye-bleach, unwanted silver salts are removed in a fixing bath. In some processes this fixer may be preceded by a silver bleach to rehalogenize silver image not oxidized by the dye-bleach.

2000, Ralph Jacobson, Sidney Ray, Geoffrey G Attridge, Manual of Photography:

As previously explained in the chapter "What's going one?", the halide in the bleach is used to rehalogenize the emulsion and this profoundly affects the way the emulsion will develop or tone.

2003, Tim Rudman, The Photographer's Toning Book: The Definitive Guide, page 39:

(photography) To restore or replace halogen atoms in a halogenated compound that is used in the emulsion layer of film or photographic paper.


triptography

(art, photography) A surrealist photographic technique whereby a roll of film is used three times (by one or more photographers), resulting in a triple exposure with no clear subject.


heatage

(art, photography) The surrealist technique of heating an exposed but unfixed photographic negative, resulting in a distorted image.


fill light

(film, television, photography, theater) A light that may be used to reduce the contrast of a scene to match the dynamic range of the recording media and capture the amount of detail typically seen by eye in average conditions.


Farmer's reducer

en-noun

Farmer's reducer (countable and uncountable, plural Farmer's reducers)

(photography) A mixture of sodium thiosulfate with the bleaching agent potassium ferricyanide, used to reduce the density of a negative or gelatin silver print.


Waterhouse stop

Waterhouse stop (plural Waterhouse stops)

Invented by photographer John Waterhouse in 1858.

(photography) An interchangeable diaphragm with an aperture for controlling the entry of light into a camera.


deep focus

(photography, film) The technique of using a large depth of field, so that the foreground, middle ground and background are all in focus.


filmslide

(photography) Synonym of slide (“transparent plate bearing an image to be projected”)