depth of field

depth of field (countable and uncountable, plural depths of field)

Coordinate term: depth of focus

Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.

2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

In photography, the distance in front of and behind the subject that appears to be in focus.


zoopraxiscope

A few years before, he bought his youngest girl a zoopraxiscope for her birthday, though he alone kept playing with it, after she grew bored. Now those squadrons of flapping geese and parades of bucking broncos that come alive when the glass drum spins animate his brain.

2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 12:

(photography, historical) An instrument developed by Eadweard Muybridge in the 1870's, similar to the phenakistoscope. The instrument involves a disc that includes serial pictures being rotated in front of a light source, projecting them upon a screen, to exhibit the natural movements of animals and the like.


resitting

Some photographers offer resittings to clients who are not satisfied with the original photograph.

(photography) A second or subsequent sitting.


DSLR

Initialism of digital single-lens reflex.

initialism

Still images are captured at 14-megapixel resolution, which matches some high-end D.S.L.R. cameras, and the unit seems to do a good job of coping with a variety of lighting conditions.

2014 January 1, Kit Eaton, “Civilian Photography, Now Rising to New Level”, in The New York Times:

(photography) A digital single-lens reflex camera.


restrainer

(photography) A chemical compound (such as potassium bromide), added to a developer to prevent fogging


elon

From a trade name, presumably a shortened form of the chemical name.

(photography) Synonym of metol (“p-methylaminophenol sulfate”)


underexpose

en-verb

underexpose (third-person singular simple present underexposes, present participle underexposing, simple past and past participle underexposed)

underexposes (present singular third-person)
underexposing (participle present)
underexposed (participle past)
underexposed (past)

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(photography) To take a photograph using too small an exposure


underexpose

en-adj

underexpose (comparative more underexpose, superlative most underexpose)

more underexpose (comparative)
most underexpose (superlative)

(photography) The condition when a photograph is darker than it should be because the film was not exposed to sufficient light either because the camera aperture was too small or the duration of light was too short.

huranga pore

darkened of photographs due to insufficient light


autotypy

en-noun

autotypy (usually uncountable, plural autotypies)

(dated, photography) An early photographic process that produced autotypes using a carbon pigment.


photo artist

(photography, art) A person that uses photographic equipment to create art


astrophotography

As in most nature photography, the 35mm single lens reflex camera is probably the best choice for astrophotography.

1967, H. Charles Laun, The Natural History Guide, Alsace Books and Films, page 44:

Their^([CMOS sensors']) pixel size, linearity and noise performance are not necessarily ideal for astrophotography.

2017, Chris Woodhouse, The Astrophotography Manual, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 10:

Astrophotography is a craft requiring development of skill, not just good equipment.

2018, Michael A. Covington, Digital SLR Astrophotography, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 18:

(astronomy, photography) The photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events or areas of the night sky.


astrophoto

Once captured on film, an astrophoto does no good unless transferred to a form you can see and examine closely.

1973, Richard Berry, “Getting More Out of Your Astrophotos”, in Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Newsletter, volume 67, page L32:

(astronomy, photography) An image of one or more celestial objects made using techniques of astrophotography.


camera-shy

en-adj

camera-shy (comparative more camera-shy, superlative most camera-shy)

more camera-shy (comparative)
most camera-shy (superlative)

Off to Essex, where Geoff Hutton brings our attention to our latest station cat.
"Gidea Park Station on the TfL Shenfield line also has a cat, although she is a bit camera shy," he says. "Apparently she lives in a neighbouring house, but spends much of her time at the station - usually, as illustrated, on the north side ticket barrier. Surely such an arrangement should be mandatory for all stations?"

2019 November 6, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 79, caption:

Reluctant or resisting to be photographed.


CF

en-noun

CF (countable and uncountable, plural CFs)


CF

(photography) Abbreviation of CompactFlash.

(photography) Abbreviation of CompactFast.


rangefinder

rangefinder camera
rangefinder camera#English

(photography) Abbreviation of rangefinder camera.


microphotograph

(sometimes proscribed) A photograph taken through a microscope, an enlarged picture of a very small item or area: a photomicrograph.


microphotography

The field of study of creating microphotographs, of photographing very small items or areas.


astrophotographer

(astronomy, photography) A person, especially an astronomer, who takes photographs of the stars


orthophotography

During the past three decades, orthophotography has become an increasingly popular and useful tool for land managers. As quality and availability improve, this trend will continue. Orthophotography combines the planimetric precision of maps with the wealth of detail found on aerial photographs.

2012, David P. Paine, James D. Kiser, chapter 8, in Aerial Photography and Image Interpretation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(photography) The geometrical correction of aerial photographs so that their displayed distances are rendered uniform and can be measured like a map.

ορθοφωτογραφία

the technology of correcting aerial photographs so that displayed distances are uniform and can be measured like a map


diapositive

(photography, graphic arts) An image suitable to overlay (superimpose) over another (as for example a gel for an overhead projector, a slide that complements another slide as a superimposition for it, or a digital virtual equivalent of these); its coloration is adjusted to contrast with the underlying image (for example, text may be white instead of black in areas where the background is dark).


electrophotography

any of several methods of photocopying in which an image is created and then transferred between surfaces using static electricity

elektrofotografia

any of several methods of photocopying using static electricity


photoscience

photoscience (countable and uncountable, plural photosciences)


star trail

The idea behind photographing star trails is wonderfully simple. Just take your old mechanical camera, point it skyward, and leave the shutter open.

2001, Eric DeBolt, “Happy Trails”, in Astronomy, volume 29, number 7, page 74:

(astronomy, photography) The line of light recorded on a photographic medium when a time exposure is made of a star in the nighttime sky using a camera on a fixed mount, caused by the rotation of the earth during the period of time when the camera's shutter is held open.


vignetting

(photography) An instance of vignette (effect where qualities vanish toward edges).


cable release

(photography) A sheathed wire plunger used to activate the shutter of a camera without accidentally moving it.


gelatinize

en-verb

gelatinize (third-person singular simple present gelatinizes, present participle gelatinizing, simple past and past participle gelatinized)

gelatinizes (present singular third-person)
gelatinizing (participle present)
gelatinized (participle past)
gelatinized (past)

(transitive, photography) To coat or treat with gelatin.


digicam

Originally a trade name, shortening of digital camera, equivalent to digi- + cam.


polyfoto

Originally Polyfoto (“a commercial venture”), from poly- and photo.

(obsolete, British, photography) One of a series of 48 photographs (similar to photo booth photos) taken using a Polyfoto camera, which used a single glass plate negative, the operator turning a handle on the side to take each exposure and also move the plate.


polyfoto

polyfoto (third-person singular simple present polyfotos, present participle polyfotoing, simple past and past participle polyfotoed)

polyfotos (present singular third-person)
polyfotoing (participle present)
polyfotoed (participle past)
polyfotoed (past)

(obsolete, British, photography) To take such a series of photographs.


mountant

The favourite professional mountant was, and to some extent still is, starch paste.

1911, Bernard Edward Jones, Encyclopedia of Photography, reprint edition, published 1964, →ISBN, page 365:

(photography, dated) The adhesive used to affix a photograph to a mount


Earthscape

From Earth + -scape, modelled after landscape.

Any part of the global Earth system that can be seen in a single view.

A view of the earth rising above the (lunar) horizon as seen from the moon or from a spacecraft


Earthscape

Earthscape (third-person singular simple present Earthscapes, present participle Earthscaping, simple past and past participle Earthscaped)

Earthscapes (present singular third-person)
Earthscaping (participle present)
Earthscaped (participle past)
Earthscaped (past)


cinematograph

“Oh, you mean the cinematograph—the pictures of prize-fights and steamers. I’ve seen ’em up country.”
“Biograph or cinematograph was what I was alludin’ to. London Bridge with the omnibuses—a troopship goin’ to the war—marines on parade at Portsmouth an’ the Plymouth Express arrivin’ at Paddin’ton.”
“Seen ’em all. Seen ’em all,” said Hooper impatiently.

1904, Rudyard Kipling, “Mrs Bathurst”, in Traffics and Discoveries, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 326:

Flashes from the other groups of monitors and the heavy siege guns keep the whole sky lit up, flicking their flashes on the cloud-ridden celestial screen like a badly worked cinematograph.

1919, Stanley W. Coxon, chapter 13, in Dover During the Dark Days, London: John Lane, page 222:

(historical) A camera that could develop its own film and served as its own projector.


cinematograph

cinematograph (third-person singular simple present cinematographs, present participle cinematographing, simple past and past participle cinematographed)

cinematographs (present singular third-person)
cinematographing (participle present)
cinematographed (participle past)
cinematographed (past)

(rare) To employ the techniques of cinematography.


autofocus

This camera has autofocus, so it's more expensive.

(electronics, photography) A feature of some cameras and other optical systems that allows a correct focus on the subject to be obtained automatically


f-stop

Before you know what f-stop you want, you first have to know what it is you are trying to accomplish in the photograph: Do I want to freeze action, or show motion, and consider shutter speed, or, do I need to get a cast of people in focus, or focus selectively, and cater to aperture?

2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, →ISBN, page 22:

If you're shooting at an f-stop of 2.8, then the lens will take in a lot more light than it would if the f-stop was at 22.

2008 May 23, Ted Kritsonis, “Six of one, half a dozen of the other”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, retrieved 2008-12-26:

(photography) Any of the discrete steps or stopping points for adjusting the aperture of a lens, either marked on a ring on the lens and adjusted by rotating that ring or marked in the display of a digital camera and adjusted by buttons or touch-sensitive controls.

f-szám

any of the discrete steps for adjusting the aperture of a lens


point-and-click

(photography, of a camera) Point-and-shoot.


camerawork

en-noun

camerawork (countable and uncountable, plural cameraworks)

→ Japanese: カメラワーク (kamerawāku)

/ˈkæmɹəwɜːk/

/ˈkæməɹəwɜːk/

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/ˈkæmɹəˌwɝk/

/ˈkæməɹəˌwɝk/

From camera + -work (suffix denoting a craft involving a particular material or tool).

suffix

Thanks to the camerawork, costuming, and production design, every shot is a carefully composed portrait, every inch of the frame occupied by an object, fabric, or shadow that informs the characters or narrative.

2018 November 27, April Wolfe, “Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-11-04:

Skill or technique involving the use of a camera, especially a video camera.

カメラワーク

skill or technique involving the use of a camera, especially a video camera


photoshoot

(photography) A session in which a photographer takes a number of photographs of a person or group of people.


obturator

From Latin obtūrō (“to stop, block up”).


snapshooter

At home, on the street, Zuleika was the smiling target of all snap-shooters, and all the snap-shots were snapped up by the press and reproduced with annotations […].

(photography) A photographer; someone who takes snapshots.


developable

en-adj

developable (comparative more developable, superlative most developable)

more developable (comparative)
most developable (superlative)

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(photography, of a latent image) Which can be developed into a visible image.


photo shoot

A session in which a photographer takes shots of an individual or group.


mosaicked

(photography) Formed from a "mosaic" of images.


chromogenic

chromogenic (comparative more chromogenic, superlative most chromogenic)

more chromogenic (comparative)
most chromogenic (superlative)

From chromo- + -genic or chromogen + -ic.

(photography) Describing a process in which a black-and-white image is replaced by a coloured one.


midroll

(photography, film) In the middle of a roll of film.


box camera

(photography) A very simple type of photographic camera, being box shaped, and with a simple lens, and using roll film for taking snapshot pictures.


pictorialism

en-noun

pictorialism (countable and uncountable, plural pictorialisms)

(photography) A school of artistic photography that emphasized using photography to mimic certain styles of contemporary painting, that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries


shutter speed

shutter speed (countable and uncountable, plural shutter speeds)

Shutter speeds are usually measured in seconds or fractions of a second, and are typically arranged in a sequence that includes 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250 and 1/500.

1993 November 21, Charles Hagen, “CAMERA: For Film Exposure, Timing Is the Key”, in New York Times, retrieved 2009-04-04:

(photography) The duration of time for which the shutter of a camera remains open when exposing photographic film or other photosensitive material to light for the purpose of recording an image.

快門速度 /快门速度

time during which the shutter of a camera remains open


stop down

en-verb

stop down (third-person singular simple present stops down, present participle stopping down, simple past and past participle stopped down)

stops down (present singular third-person)
stopping down (participle present)
stopped down (participle past)
stopped down (past)

The f/stops are arranged so that as you stop down, each stop allows half the amount of light to pass through as the stop before it did.

1982, Marvin J. Rosen, Introduction to photography: a self-directing approach, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 71:

To get an image with a larger “depth of field”—ie, where more of the distant objects as well as the nearer ones in a scene are in focus—the photographer must “stop down” the aperture of the lens, restricting the amount of light admitted.

2002 December 12, “Images from a blurred world”, in The Economist, retrieved 2009-04-03:

(photography) To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a lower number to an f/stop represented by a higher number.


BIF

(photography) Initialism of bird in flight.


acutance

en-noun

acutance (countable and uncountable, plural acutances)

(photography) Edge contrast in an image; a component of sharpness.


bokeh

bokeh (usually uncountable, plural bokehs)

From Japanese 暈(ぼ)け (boke, “blur”), the nominalized form of 暈(ぼ)ける (bokeru, “to blur”).
The terminal -h, absent in the romanization boke, is a pronunciation guide so that it is not pronounced as /boʊk/ as it would be under standard English orthography. Contrast karate and karaoke, which have undergone sound changes.
The term has been used since at least 1996, with the spelling bokeh introduced by editor Mike Johnston in the March–April 1997 issue of Photo Techniques magazine, Johnston writing “it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable”.

The quality of the out-of-focus area in a wide-aperture image is called bokeh, originally from the Japanese word boke, pronounced bo-keh, which means fuzzy. In photography, bokeh reflects the shape and number of diaphragm blades in the lens, and that determines, in part, the way that out-of-focus points of light are rendered in the image. Bokeh is also a result of spherical aberration that affects how the light is collected. Although subject to controversy, photographers often judge bokeh as being either good or bad. Good bokeh renders the out-of-focus areas as smooth, uniform, and generally circular shapes with nicely blurred edges. Bad bokeh, on the other hand, renders out-of-focus areas with polygonal shapes, hard edges, and with illumination that creates a brighter area at the outside of the disk shape.

2010, Charlotte K. Lowrie, “Exploring Canon Lenses and Accessories”, in Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Digital Field Guide, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 186:

Shooting with natural light, I used a long lens (200mm) to compress the space and slightly blur the background by photographing at a large open aperture (f/2.5). This resulted in gorgeous bokeh, putting the city into a blur while keeping the couple razor sharp.

2014, Bob Davis, Dawn Davis, “Blackhawks Fans: The Back Story, Posing, Lighting and Lens Selection, Colleagues”, in We’re Engaged!: Photographing Vibrant and Joyful Portraits of the Happy Couple, Buffalo, N.Y.: Amherst Media, →ISBN, pages 102–103:

More expensive lenses usually go down to f/2.8, letting you shoot at faster shutter speeds and get great, creamy bokeh in your background.

2014, Krista Smith, “What You Need”, in The Right Light: Photographing Children and Families Using Natural Light, Buffalo, N.Y.: Amherst Media, →ISBN, page 13:

(photography) A subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image projected by a camera lens.


mirrorless

(photography) A mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera, similar to a digital SLR, but usually made smaller by incorporating an electronic viewfinder instead of a mirror and prism.

digital interchangeable-lens system camera

electronic viewfinder with interchangeable lens


solarization

solarization (countable and uncountable, plural solarizations)

/ˌsoʊləɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/

/ˌsəʊləɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/

(photography) Whole or partial reversal of tone in a negative or photographic print, such that dark areas appear light or vice versa


solarize

en-verb

solarize (third-person singular simple present solarizes, present participle solarizing, simple past and past participle solarized)

solarizes (present singular third-person)
solarizing (participle present)
solarized (participle past)
solarized (past)

(transitive, dated, photography) To overexpose.

(intransitive, dated, photography) To become overexposed.


RtoL

RtoL: Bill, Sam and Phil.

(photography, graphic design) Alternative form of RTL (right to left)


pentamirror

(photography) A system of three (not five) mirrors used as a cheaper substitute to a pentaprism in the viewfinders of some single-lens reflex cameras


pentaprism

(photography) A five-sided prism used in the viewfinder of most single-lens reflex cameras


talbotype

From Talbot + type, after its inventor Henry Fox Talbot.

Talbotypes may become of the highest value to travelling artists; they will save him the trouble of making hasty and imperfect sketches, and they will prevent the vexation subsequently arising from the omission of some bit of detail[…]

An early photograph produced on paper coated with silver iodide.


calotype

From Ancient Greek καλός (kalós, “good”) and τύπος (túpos, “impression”).

Calotypes have a hazy and mysterious feeling about them and feel painterly in the way they look. Mastery of calotypes takes time. Every calotype is distinct and difficult to duplicate.

2022, Morgan Post, Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer: A Beginner's Guide, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:


photobook

(photography) A book of photographs, often by a single photographer


quick light

(photography) A light exhibiting very rapid regular alternations of light and darkness, normally sixty flashes per minute.


zoomy

en-adj

zoomy (comparative zoomier, superlative zoomiest)

zoomier (comparative)
zoomiest (superlative)

relies upon zoomy close-ups

wobbly, zoomy, headachey shots

However, the photography is at moments too poorly exposed, too zoomy, and the camera positioned too closely, for the footage to be useful

1977, American anthropologist, volume 79, page 760:

(photography) Obviously characteristic of a zoom lens


selfie

→ Arabic: سِلْفِي (silfī)

→ Gulf Arabic: سلفي (silfi, salfi)

→ Armenian: սելֆի (selfi)

→ Assamese: চেল্ফি (selphi)

→ Azerbaijani: selfi

→ Belarusian: сэ́лфі (sélfi)

→ Czech: selfíčko

→ Danish: selfie

→ Dutch: selfie

→ Finnish: selfie

→ French: selfie

→ Georgian: სელფი (selpi)

→ German: Selfie

→ Greek: σέλφι (sélfi)

→ Hebrew: סֶלְפִי (sélfi)

→ Hungarian: szelfi, selfie

→ Irish: féinín (calque)

→ Italian: selfie

→ Japanese: セルフィー (serufi)

→ Hebrew: סֶלְפִי (sélfi)

→ Korean: 셀피 (selpi)

→ Latvian: selfijs

→ Lithuanian: selfis

→ Norwegian Bokmål: selfie

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: selfie

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: sjølvi (calque)

→ Papiamentu: selfie

→ Persian: سلفی (selfi)

→ Polish: selfie

→ Portuguese: selfie, sélfie

→ Romanian: selfie

→ Russian: се́лфи (sɛ́lfi)

→ Scottish Gaelic: fèineag (calque)

→ Serbo-Croatian: selfie

→ Slovak: selfie

→ Slovak: svojka (calque)

→ Spanish: selfie, selfi

→ Swedish: selfie

→ Thai: เซลฟี (seel-fîi)

→ Turkish: selfie, özçekim

→ Ukrainian: се́лфі (sélfi)

From self + -ie. Attested since 2002, originally Australian English.

Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped ofer and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.

2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" https://web.archive.org/web/20131123194231/http://www2b.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/archives/archive32/newposts/169/topic169861.shtm, ABC Online Forum selfie photo

Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. […] No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie.

2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." https://web.archive.org/web/20041126014124/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcguirk/, Flickr

That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie.

2005, Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index, HOW Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 148:

2012 December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie” http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/12/27/168139129/the-mars-rover-takes-a-selfie, the picture show, National Public Radio

Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.

2013 December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘Selfie-Gate’”, On the Media, National Public Radio

I shall take this photograph myself. This must be what they call a selfie.

2017, Lord Stag, “Say Cheese”, in Lily's Driftwood Bay:

take a selfie

(informal, mobile telephony) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.


teleconverter

(photography) A secondary lens mounted between the camera and a photographic lens so as to enlarge the central part of an image obtained by the objective lens.


IG

Rap bitches tell their team: "Make em like Barbie" / Had to come off IG so they can't stalk me

2018, Nicki Minaj, "Barbie Tingz", Queen (Target version)

One day I was lurkin' on IG, thirsty, full of the purple

2020, Moneybagg Yo, “Match My Fly”, in Time Served:

Face ID on me, white programmer so they don’t see it’s me / Got fans on me, IG story, know where I be

2021, “On Me”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon:


multiflash

(photography) Involving more than one flash.


glamour photography

(photography) A form of photography involving the taking of pictures of models which are intended to be erotic without being pornographic.

(photography) Photography intended to glamorize the subject.


lens board

(photography) A part used for securing a lens to the front standard of a large-format view camera.


portholed

(photography) Exhibiting the defect called portholing.


macrostereoscopic

(photography) Describing stereoscopic macrophotography or the equipment or techniques used in it


superwide

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(photography, of a lens) Extremely wide; panoramic.


superwide

(photography, informal) A wide panoramic lens.


eyeshot

en-noun

eyeshot (usually uncountable, plural eyeshots)

From eye + shot, on the pattern of earshot.


frame counter

(photography) An indicator, in roll film cameras, that shows the number of frames that have moved through the camera (number of exposures taken).


point-and-shoot

The majority of digital cameras are automatic, point-and-shoot models. They offer convenience and ease of use […]

2005, Julie Adair King, Digital photography for dummies:

The Instamatic was typical of second generation point-and-shoot cameras in that it incorporated artificial illumination and was designed to use color film.

2006, Lynne Warren, Encyclopedia of 20th century photography:

(photography, of a camera) Designed for quick, simple use with minimal configuration.


ortho

ortho (countable and uncountable, plural orthos)

Wherever the exposure is likely to be cut short— and this includes all high speed work and most portraiture — the ortho is not so suitable as the ordinary plate.

1908 June, Charles F. Rice, “On the Use of Orthochromatic Plates”, in Photographic Times, page 174:

(countable, photography, dated) An orthochromatic plate.

The typical orthophoto building process is a long one, however, and the photography that the orthos are based may be several years old before an orthophoto is ready for distribution.

2001, Drew Decker, GIS Data Sources, page 105:

(countable, photography) Clipping of orthophoto.


pallophotophone

Coined by the inventor Charles Hoxie ca. 1922 from πάλλω (pállō, “shaking”) + φωτός (phōtós, “light”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”)

(historical, photography) A device that records sounds on photographic film.


blinky

Blinkies visually indicate the areas of a photograph where the exposure is beyond the range of the film.

(photography) in digital photography, a flashing pixel.


unbacked

en-adj

unbacked (comparative more unbacked, superlative most unbacked)

more unbacked (comparative)
most unbacked (superlative)

(photography, holography) (of a plate) Not having an antihalation backing.


catchlight

(photography) A gleam of reflected light in a subject's eye.


varifocal

Having a variable focal length, with focus that changes in synchronization.


contrasty

contrasty (comparative more contrasty, superlative most contrasty)

more contrasty (comparative)
most contrasty (superlative)

The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.

2004, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 25:

(photography, television) Having great contrast between light and dark areas (of a subject or photograph).


enprint

(photography) A moderately enlarged print made from a relatively small (e.g. 35 mm) negative


autowinder

(photography) A device that winds on the film in a camera after each exposure


hyperfocal

(photography) Describing the distance on which a camera must be focused in order to achieve the maximum depth of field


stigmat

Probably a back-formation from stigmatic. Compare anastigmat.

(photography) A stigmatic lens or combination of lenses.


Ins

Ins story


Adurol

(photography) A chlorinated (or brominated) derivative of hydroquinone once used as a photographic developer


rule of thirds

(photography, film, visual arts) A normative rule that an image should be mentally or representationally divided in three horizontally and diagonally, and that the focus of the image should not be in the center of the resulting shape.


photopaper

en-noun

photopaper (countable and uncountable, plural photopapers)

Now online photo services are offering an upgrade to the humble photopaper card — by selling fancy, folded cards that can display as many as 10 digital snapshots on glossy, high-quality paper stock.

2007 October 14, Anne Eisenberg, “When a Greeting Card Becomes a Photo Album”, in New York Times:

Photographic paper; paper coated with light-sensitive chemicals, used for making photographic prints on traditional film cameras.


superzoom

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This camera, like the Kodak, is also shaped like a mini-S.L.R. and has a stabilized superzoom lens (10X).

2007 December 6, David Pogue, “Looking Beyond Megapixels”, in New York Times:

(photography) A very high-magnification zoom feature.


autoflash

(photography) A camera feature that automatically enables the flash in limited lighting conditions.


focimeter

(photography, historical) A device that assists in focusing an object in or before a camera; usually a lens of small magnifying power.


chronophotography

And since he studies 19th-century chronophotography — sometimes called precinema or pre-cinematography — for his day job as a professor of animation at London Metropolitan University, he knew where (and when) to begin looking for model machinery.

2008 May 21, Melena Ryzik, “Telescope Takes a Long View, to London”, in New York Times:

(photography) An antique photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures movement in several frames of print.

chronophotographie

photographic technique which captures movement in several frames


softbox

Mr. Tamindzic, a lanky 6 feet 3 inches tall, all legs and elbows, was purposeful and obvious, with a hefty Canon EOS 5D camera in one hand and a LumiQuest softbox flash in the other (to throw up a noirish, crime-scene photographer’s burst of intense light).

2008 May 21, Eric Konigsberg, “A Chronicler of Night-Life Melancholy, Looking for Contradictory Layers”, in New York Times:

(photography) A photographic lighting device consisting of a bulb with reflective back and side walls and a diffusing material at the front.


peep pixels

en-verb

peep pixels (third-person singular simple present peeps pixels, present participle peeping pixels, simple past and past participle peeped pixels)

peeps pixels (present singular third-person)
peeping pixels (participle present)
peeped pixels (participle past)
peeped pixels (past)

I'll wager if you peep pixels you'll find plenty of artifacts and other image degradation in images from your P & S.

2006 March 23, Jeff Varszegi, "You forgot sharpness. :)," Digital Photography Review (www.dpreview.com) (retrieved 23 June 2011)

I have then peeped pixels (I admit being guilty by doing so), looked at the sharpness, resolution, barrelling, pincushion, vignetting, you name it.

2006 October 29, Cem Usakligil, “Sigma 12-24 vs EF 10-22”, in www.openphotographyforums.com, retrieved 2011-06-23:

You can peep pixels all day long and you won't find any evidence of Photoshopping.

2008 Jan. 29, patrickvr6, "Dope Trucks2," forums.triplezoom.com (retrieved 23 June 2011)

(informal, photography) To scrutinize a magnified digital photograph carefully in order to make a technical assessment of resolution and image quality.


pixel peeper

Those whom I have called pixel peepers are satisfied with nothing less than an intimate dissection of a camera/lens' abilities (always at 100% pixel magnification), without regard for whether or not perceived optical defects are even actually visible in real world prints.

2004 March 27, Michael Reichmann, "The Case of the Nit Picking Pixel Peepers", The Luminous Landscape (luminous-landscape.com) (retrieved 23 April 2012)

Overall unless you are a merciless pixel peeper I can't imagine someone being unhappy with the sharpness of this lens.

2006 July 17, Aravind Krishnaswamy, "Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM review," Aravind's Reviews (www.aravind.ca) (retrieved 23 June 2011)

There is detectable noise at the lower ISOs if you are a pixel peeper.

2007 April 8, “Owners Opinion: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3”, in www.dpreview.com, retrieved 2011-06-23:

Detailed tests of image sensors are raw meat for performance-obsessed pixel-peepers.

2008 November 24, Stephen Shankland, “DxO sheds light on camera sensor performance”, in CNET.com, retrieved 2011-06-23:

(idiomatic, photography) A person who carefully scrutinizes a magnified digital photograph in order to evaluate resolution and image quality.


ivorytype

(photography, dated) A picture produced by superposing a tinted translucent print upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colours.


undertime

undertime (third-person singular simple present undertimes, present participle undertiming, simple past and past participle undertimed)

undertimes (present singular third-person)
undertiming (participle present)
undertimed (participle past)
undertimed (past)

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(transitive, photography) To underexpose.


telephoto lens

en-noun

telephoto lens (plural telephoto lenses)

(photography) A lens having a long focal length which produces a magnified view of distant objects.

(photography) A lens which produces a magnified view of distant objects and which is sufficiently compact to have a physical length shorter than its focal length (as distinct from a long-focus lens).


long lens

(photography, informal) A telephoto lens.


normal lens

(photography) A lens which produces an image similar in detail and angular perspective to the view produced by the human eye, as distinct from a wide-angle lens or a telephoto lens.


pinhole camera

Many of today's photographers forget that a pinhole camera — essentially a small box with a hole in it — can be used to produce a quality photograph.

1981 April 12, Bruce Habegger, “Pinhole cameras can give surprising results”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-08-03:

There are never-published treasures like British entrepreneur William Turner's scenes of Shanghai life in the early 1900s — probably taken with a homemade pinhole camera.

2010 May 3, Don Morrison, “The Capture of Shanghai”, in Time:

(photography) A simple lensless device for producing a photographic image, consisting of an enclosed box with film or some other flat photosensitive surface on one interior side and a tiny hole in the opposite side.

lyukkamera

a simple lensless device for producing a photographic image


SLD

single lens digital
single lens digital#English

(photography) Initialism of single lens digital.


dope sheet

The "field number" of the film is indexed into a reference file, along with the cameraman's "dope" sheet.

1967 August 4, “Stored at Quantico: Fifty Years of Filmed History”, in Free Lance-Star, USA, retrieved 2011-08-07, page 5:

Moreover, both the official cameramen and the newsreel cameramen were required to write a detailed ‘dope sheet’ describing each shot they had taken.

1975, Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, volumes 12-13, page 16:

The dope sheet for the photographs, which may have been written some time later reads: "Accidentally shot by an Englishman while hunting in Africa."

2010, Neil Parsons, Alexander McCall Smith, Clicko: The Wild Dancing Bushman, →ISBN, page 91:

(idiomatic, photography) A summary of the content and technical information for a set of photographs.


multiple exposure

multiple exposure (plural multiple exposures)

ECLIPSE IN NEW YORK — this multiple exposure shows stages of the solar eclipse, starting at top left, as seen in New York City Monday afternoon.

1972 July 11, "Eclipse in New York (photo caption)," Victoria Advocate (Texas, USA), p. 1 (retrieved 11 Aug. 2011)

[W]ith a film camera . . . to take a good multiple exposure . . . your camera needed to have a special control that prevented the film from advancing while you captured each frame in the series. . . . These days, creating a multiple exposure digitally is a snap.

2008 February 18, Dave Johnson, “How to Make Multiple Exposures”, in PC World, retrieved 2011-08-11:

(photography) A photograph produced by exposing film or some other photosensitive surface to focused light more than one time, usually by opening and closing a camera shutter repeatedly, thereby generating a picture consisting of superimposed images.

Mr. Telberg-von-Teleheim's method is that of multiple exposure, either in the camera when taking the picture, or in the enlarger when making the print.

1948 September 26, Jacob Deschin, “Two Kinds of Work: Mental ‘Views’ Contrasted With Pictures of Fact”, in New York Times, page X13:

(photography) The process of producing such a photograph.


double exposure

double exposure (plural double exposures)

"The secret of all successful double-exposure photography may be expressed in one word—exactitude," said Georges Benoit, cameraman for Richard Walton Tully in The Masquerader.

1922 April 9, “Cameraman Talks Double Exposure”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2011-08-11, page III-38:

A double exposure from the 1960's seems to make explicit some of the implications of Cunningham's own early plant studies. In it, ghostly hands appear on top of the image of an aloe plant, with fingers and fronds jumbled together, all outstretched and reaching.

1995 October 13, Charles Hagen, “Photography Review”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-08-11:

(photography) A photograph produced by exposing film or some other photosensitive surface to focused light twice, usually by opening and closing a camera shutter two times, thereby generating a picture consisting of two superimposed images.

I've used double exposures to capture ghosts on film, to photograph two of me playing ping pong, and to capture a time-lapse shot of a birthday cake new and half-eaten in the same frame.

2004 April 13, Dave Johnson, “Digital Focus: Double-Exposure Tricks”, in PC World, retrieved 2011-08-11:


fisheye lens

(photography) A wide-angle lens having an extremely wide field of view (approaching or exceeding 180 degrees) and producing images that are circular or distorted by curvature at the edges.

objectiu ull de peix

wide-angle lens with extremely wide field of view


ultrazoom

The ultrazoom species of point-and-shoot digital camera is identified solely by its large optical zoom.

2009 June 25, John Biggs, “Little Cameras With Big Eyes”, in New York Times:

(photography) A very high-magnification zoom feature.


lens cap

(photography) The detachable cap that protects the camera lens when the camera is not in use.


cross-shot

(photography) A technique for filming interactions between two people in which the camera looks alternately at one or the other person, with the focus on the person farthest from the camera.


melotype

(photography) A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates.


alethoscope

From Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia, “truth”) + -scope, equivalent to aletho- + -scope.

der

(historical) An instrument, invented in the 1860s, for viewing magnified pictures by means of a single lens inside a box. By varying the intensity of the light, the same picture can be shown as "daytime" or "nighttime".


megalethoscope

An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects.


chrysotype

A photograph taken on paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of gold chloride.


heliotype

en-verb

heliotype (third-person singular simple present heliotypes, present participle heliotyping, simple past and past participle heliotyped)

heliotypes (present singular third-person)
heliotyping (participle present)
heliotyped (participle past)
heliotyped (past)


foreshot

It was obviously an Aspen Valley resident because she recognised the stabling in the background, but the tall dark bay horse in the foreshot didn't look familiar.

2013, Hannah Hooton, Giving Chase, →ISBN, page 122:

(photography or cinematography) The foreground of a photographic image.


backshot

If so great a commotion had been stirred up by his demand for a simple old camera backshot, there was no telling what kind of fuss would have resulted from his intention to achieve in his show the pace that distinguishes a good old-fashioned revival meeting!

1970, Albert Govoni, A Boy Named Cash, page 15:

Backshot of power station fully working.

1978, Alan Sillitoe, Three Plays, page 159:

Set in the 1930s in rural Nova Scotia, the film opens, in colour, with a backshot of the filmmaker — all that is evident are her dreads — typing its title and the details of its setting into a laptop computer.

1999, Nurjehan Aziz, Floating the Borders: New Contexts in Canadian Criticism, →ISBN, page 111:

(photography and cinematography) A shot taken from behind the subject.


heliotypy

From Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios) + Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos).

A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.


photosculpture

en-noun

photosculpture (countable and uncountable, plural photosculptures)

(art) A process in which, by means of a number of photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made quickly.


amasthenic

(photography) Uniting the rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens does.


opalotype

(historical, photography) A photograph taken on opalescent glass.


photochromy

photochromy (countable and uncountable, plural photochromies)


muriated

(photography) Prepared with silver chloride through the agency of common salt.


bromize

en-verb

bromize (third-person singular simple present bromizes, present participle bromizing, simple past and past participle bromized)

bromizes (present singular third-person)
bromizing (participle present)
bromized (participle past)
bromized (past)

to bromize a silvered plate

bromized colloidon

(photography, archaic, transitive) To prepare or treat with bromine, especially in photography.


albertype

From Albert + -type, from the name of the inventor, Joseph Albert of Munich.

(historical, Photography) A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.


bromoil

en-noun

bromoil (countable and uncountable, plural bromoils)

(photography) An early photographic process that starts with a normally developed print exposed onto a silver-bromide paper that is then chemically bleached, hardened, and fixed.


photoelectrotype

(dated, photography) An electrotype plate formed in a mould made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.


phantascope

(historial, photography) An optical instrument or toy, resembling the phenakistoscope and illustrating the same principle.


photoglyphy

From photo- + Ancient Greek γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carving”) + -y.

(historical, photography) A kind of engraving caused by the action of light, used in the mid 19th century


gastroporn

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Half-competent amateurs quickly learn not to cook from volumes with full-page glossy gastroporn pix, because their own culinary productions will never attain such lustre.

1998 September 21, Julian Barnes, “Deceptively Simple”, in The New Yorker:

Enticing food imagery, typically found in books, magazines, social media , and television programs related to food and cooking.


papyrography

From papyro- + -graphy and papyrograph + -y.

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

(obsolete) Synonym of papyrotype, a form of photolithography using paper.

(obsolete, historical) Synonym of mimeography by means of a stencil called a papyrograph.


tilt-shift

(photography, chiefly attributive) The use of camera movements to simulate a miniature scene in the resulting photograph.


T-stop

(photography) A transmission stop; an alternative to an f-stop.


scotograph

"Scotograph" is likely to stick as the popular term for portraits taken by the Röntgen process. It means "shade picture," and its analogy with photograph, which is a "light picture," is sufficiently manifest to help on its vogue.

You will be able to see radiographs, or scotographs, — referring to darkness and shadow ; you will see that shadowgraphs indicate to you any deformity of the roots of the teeth, or any teeth that have not come into position in the arch, or any osseous deformity which may take place in the jaw […]

1896, The International Dental Journal, volume 17, page 532:

(photography, obsolete, rare) An impression made on a photographic plate by a radioactive substance without the intervention of any opaque object other than the screen of the plate.


surveillance camera

surveillance camera (plural surveillance cameras)

Coldly perusing his surveillance cameras one day, Mr. Burns spies nothing but grotesque misconduct: Instead of working, his employees engage in limbo contests, chess games, and, of course, cockfights.

2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

A reported 200m surveillance cameras around the country are doing everything from tracking shoppers in stores to preventing violent crime to catching jaywalkers.

2019 May 21, Dylan Curran, “Facial recognition will soon be everywhere. Are we prepared?”, in The Guardian:

closed-circuit television
closed-circuit television

A mounted video camera used for the purpose of surveillance, as part of closed-circuit television.


sleeveface

From sleeve (“a protective jacket or case”) + face.

compound

The fad has been sweeping the Internet, with sleevefaces popping up on Facebook and art sites.

2009 December 13, Debby Abe, “A new hope for old vinyl”, in The Olympian:

A photograph in which a record sleeve is intentionally placed to create the illusion of the cover art blending into the scene (especially a face or other body part on an album cover obscuring and seeming to replace the same part on a person in the photograph).


accessory shoe

(photography) A clip or track on a camera that allows for accessories to be attached.

lisävarustekenkä

clip or track on a camera for accessories


security camera

en-noun

security camera (plural security cameras)

A video camera used to protect a building from intruders and to detect crime and other issues.


gobo

Uncertain; possibly from go-b(etween) (“intermediary, middleman”) + -o (suffix forming informal terms).

suffix

At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.

1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103:

(film, photography, television) A screen (often in disc form) placed between a light and an illuminated actor or object in order to diffuse the glare.

filtro

screen placed between a light and an illuminated actor or object in order to diffuse the glare


cross-process

en-verb

cross-process (third-person singular simple present cross-processes, present participle cross-processing, simple past and past participle cross-processed)

cross-processes (present singular third-person)
cross-processing (participle present)
cross-processed (participle past)
cross-processed (past)

(photography) To process film in a chemical solution intended for a different type of film.


foodporn

Fortunately, I knew him well enough to realize he meant that no one had posted any foodporn. At least not from any restaurant he had yet to try.

2008, Nina Harper, Succubus Takes Manhattan, Del Ray Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 18:


photobomb

/ˈfəʊtəʊˌbɒm/

His^([sic]) person who uploaded the video, who appears to be Ellis' father, wrote in his description that the photobomb was not the only surprise welcome they staged that day.

2012 March 27, “Best photobomb EVER! Returning Navy sailor surprises grandmother by jumping in a photo on her birthday”, in Daily Mail:

Twitter was also filled with comments about the Queen photobomb.

2012 August 1, Lucy Carne, “John Coates' son photobombs the Queen at London Olympics Opening Ceremony”, in The Telegraph, Sydney:


oversharpen

oversharpen (third-person singular simple present oversharpens, present participle oversharpening, simple past and past participle oversharpened)

oversharpens (present singular third-person)
oversharpening (participle present)
oversharpened (participle past)
oversharpened (past)

(transitive, photography) To sharpen too much.


neverfade

2 beautiful doubleweight gloss enlargements. 8 guaranteed neverfade prints each roll 25c.

1940 November, Popular Mechanics, volume 74, number 5, page 626:

(photography, printing, dated) Never fading; permanent.


doubleweight

To reproduce right-of-way, speed-restriction, yard-limit, and other signs, photograph the original signs, and make prints, scale size, on doubleweight paper.

1958 December, Boys' Life, volume 48, number 12, page 8:

(photography, printing) Being or relating to a paper of twice the ordinary weight.


long Tom

Digging around second-hand shops you may come across an old newspaper or picture agency 'Long Tom' lens.

1976, David Hodgson, All about action photography, page 43:

One of the last 'Long Toms' produced for Fleet Street, it was used by a Daily Mirror photographer on Coronation Day, 2 June 1953.

1983, The Photographic Collector, volumes 4-5, page 87:

(photography) A high-powered lens for long-distance filming or photography.


crop out

crop out (third-person singular simple present crops out, present participle cropping out, simple past and past participle cropped out)

crops out (present singular third-person)
cropping out (participle present)
cropped out (participle past)
cropped out (past)

In fact, Newsweek chose to crop out two-thirds of the original photograph, which showed Mrs. Cheney, both of their daughters, and one of their grandchildren, who were also in the kitchen, getting ready for a simple family dinner.

2009 September 17, David Hume Kennerly, “Essay: Chop and Crop”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-09:

(transitive, photography) To adjust the borders of an image in a way that would remove someone or something from it or make it fit a certain space.


contact print

(photography) A print made by exposing the printing paper to light through a negative that is placed directly onto it.


single-lens reflex

From single + lens (contrasted against a twin-lens reflex camera, TLR), and reflex (“reflection”), the principle by which the image path is diverted.

(photography) Denoting or relating to a type of camera which allows the photographer to view the subject through the same lens that will be used to take a photograph, usually by incorporating a moving mirror and prism.


single-lens reflex

en-noun

single-lens reflex (plural single-lens reflexes)

single-lens reflex camera
single-lens reflex camera#English

(photography) Abbreviation of single-lens reflex camera.

單反 /单反

a camera allowing one to view through the same lens used to take a photograph


antiblooming

(photography) Preventing the blooming phenomenon, where excessive light causes large bright patches in a picture.


photo booth

A coin-operated kiosk used to take photographs, typically used for passport photographs.

كُشْك تَصْوِير

a coin-operated kiosk used to take photographs


scale cube

(geology, photography) A reference cube of standard, unitary size, normally one centimetre long, or one inch long for older American versions, placed beside a rock or meteorite sample to show scale and orientation during photography. Four sides of the cube are marked N, S, E, and W, respectively, to indicate the cardinal points of the compass, and the other two sides are marked T and B, for top and bottom.


autoiris

(photography) A camera iris that adjusts automatically based on light levels.


Nikon choir

From Nikon (a brand of camera often used by professional photographers) + choir. The brand Nikon, which dates from 1946, is a blend of Japanese 日本光学 (Nippon Kōgaku, “Japan Optical”) (from 日本光学工業株式会社 (Nippon Kōgaku Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha, “Japan Optical Industries Corporation”)) and Ikon, a camera brand owned by Carl Zeiss AG.

And with television, radio, the "Nikon choir" of photographers and 10 daily newspapers in London, there's plenty to manipulate. The Chuck and Di show opened to smash reviews and, 10 years later, has evolved into a thriving industry.

1991 July 28, Roxanne Roberts, “State of the union, ten years after”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2016-08-25, page F01:

[A]fter drinking vodka and cranberry juice at the Pangaea nightclub in the West End, he came out at to be confronted by the "Nikon choir" of paparazzi.

2004 October 24, “Harry: ‘Spare heir’ with a tendency to snap”, in The Times of India (reprinted from The Sunday Times, London), retrieved 31 August 2016

Fortunately, the Royal baby has sensible parents. […] I congratulate them on how they managed to arrive at St Mary's hospital without the Nikon Choir outside getting sight of them.

2013 July 23, Michael Cole, “Thinking of the late Princess Diana as her first grandchild is born”, in East Anglian Daily Times, archived from the original on 2016-08-31:

(chiefly British, idiomatic) A large group of photographers simultaneously capturing images of a celebrity, producing numerous photographic flashes along with an accompanying din of clicking camera shutters.


photoserigraphy

(photography, art) The production of photoserigraphs


photoserigraph

(photography, art) A serigraph made from an existing photograph


dark slide

(photography) A plate that covers the sensitized emulsion side of a photographic plate.


anastigmat

Practically any camera will produce good results in this kind of photography provided that it has a good anastigmat lens and a reliable shutter; that the case is light proof; and that it is not asked to do more than it is capable of.

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


autobracketing

(photography) A camera feature where several successive shots are taken with slightly different settings and then automatically combined.


flash powder

flash powder (countable and uncountable, plural flash powders)

(photography) A powder that burns with a very rapid flash when ignited; used in pyrotechnics and early flash photography.


EVF

(photography) Initialism of electronic viewfinder.


databack

(photography) A mechanism for imprinting the date and time onto film.


shutter priority

Most digital cameras (except for inexpensive auto-only models) have a shutter priority shooting mode. . . . [O]nce you select this setting, you can freely choose the shutter speed and the camera will set the matching aperture to properly expose the photo.

2006 August 22, Dave Johnson, "Making the Most of Shutter Priority Mode," PC World (reposted on techhive.com) (retrieved 25 Feb 2014)

(photography, often used attributively) A setting in many professional-grade and advanced-amateur-grade cameras which allows a photographer to manually set the shutter speed of an exposure while the camera then automatically selects the correct aperture setting for that exposure.


aperture priority

For landscapes, still lifes, portraits and the like, you'll want an aperture-priority camera. It lets you set the lens opening, while it sets the shutter speed automatically.

1978 October, “One of these cameras was made just for you”, in Penthouse, retrieved 2014-02-25, page 22:

(photography, often used attributively) A setting in many professional-grade and advanced-amateur-grade cameras which allows a photographer to manually set the aperture setting of an exposure while the camera then automatically selects the correct shutter speed for that exposure.

prioridade de abertura

camera setting with automatic shutter speed for aperture exposure set manually


photomarathon

A photography competition in which participants must take a series of photographs of predetermined subjects in a limited time period.


printing frame

(photography) A shallow box, usually having a glass front, in which prints are made by exposure to light.


foodtography

But for many bloggers, at least half the experience of the meal is in its photographic documentation—or “foodtography” (Wasserman 2011) —even if that means letting the food get cold, or leaving your dining companion alone for an hour while you go home to get the right lens, which a diner at Alinea reportedly did (Murphy 2010).

2011, Signe Rousseau, Food and Social Media: You Are What You Tweet, AltaMira Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 31:

Foodtography is the relatively recent trend of taking pictures of food and sharing them online via social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

2013 October 23, Christine Spiteri, “Snap unhappy”, in Times of Malta:

Gilles Goujon, from the three-starred L'Auberge du vieux puits in the south of France, has stated in an interview with news website France TV that foodtography is not only poor etiquette but he believes that when his dishes appear online, it takes away "a little bit of my intellectual property".

2014 March 4, Wayne Benyon, “Are 'food porn' selfies damaging the intellectual property of chefs?”, in The Guardian:

(informal) The practice of diners photographing food they are served in restaurants, usually for the purpose of sharing the photos on social media.


flashlamp

A kind of lamp that uses an electric current to start powder burning and produce a brief sudden burst of bright light. It was formerly used in flash photography.


reflex camera

A camera that permits the photographer to view the exact image that will be captured, unlike earlier viewfinder cameras.


Mackie line

Named after Alexander Mackie, 19th-century British scientist.

(photography) An adjacency or border effect created during development, at the border between areas of high and low densities.


braggie

The Oxford Dictionary may have named “selfie” the word of the year for 2013, but British tourists are using their holiday photographs as “braggies” to boast about their travels to friends and family on social media

2013 November 21, Lizzie Porter, “Forget the 'selfie': holidaymakers go for 'braggie' photos”, in The Telegraph:

The most popular form of braggies were by the pool, beach or surrounding areas (43 per cent), drinking cocktails (12 per cent) or pulling a ‘sparrowface’ or ‘duckface pose (3 per cent) which is the trend of pouting at the camera.

2013 November 21, Victoria Woollaston, “Forget selfies - it's all about the 'BRAGGIE': One in three upload photos to social networks just to show off”, in Daily Mail:

She says, “Apart from boasting about the exotic locations that you went to, braggies are a good way of documenting your trips. […]

2014 December 28, Aditi Pancholi And Dipti, “Get, set and brag”, in The Asian Age:

(slang) A photo shared on a social media network with the sole intention of making one's friends/followers jealous.


ussie

“I've never taken a selfie before, but I've definitely taken an ussie. […]

2013, Chris S. Yoon, "#Ussies", The Prospector (Cupertino High School, Cupertino, California), Volume 55, Number 1, 27 September 2013, page 8

An ‘ussie’ or a ‘groupie’ taken, at the 86th Academy Awards, by the host Ellen DeGeneres and featuring 12 Hollywood celebrities broke all records for being re-tweeted.

2014 April 14, Mona Sinha, “Me, myself”, in The Hindu:

I’ve snapped a few pictures while using the backward-facing camera on my smartphone, but most of those shots have been “ussies” which are pictures of yourself next to someone else.

2014 October 10, Gwen Rockwood, “Selfie psychology”, in Marshfield Mail:

(slang) A photographic group portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone by a member of the group.


photoblogger

From photo + blogger or photoblog + -er.


autoexposure

(photography) automatic selection of exposure settings


magicube

Blend of magic + cube, originally a trademark.

(photography) A form of flashcube not requiring electrical power.


flipflash

From flip + flash, originally a trademark.

(photography) A kind of flash unit for a camera, providing a certain number of flashes before needing to be flipped over and reinserted to use the remainder.


flashbar

(photography) A kind of flash unit for a camera, in the form of a horizontal bar.


dry plate

(photography) A glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening.


Instagram

/ˈɪnstəɡɹæm/

Trade name. Blend of instant + telegram. By surface analysis, insta- + -gram.

According to a survey commissioned by the credit card company Barclay, 9 percent of shoppers in Britain admitted to buying clothes online for Instagram. After posting pictures of themselves wearing the item online, they return it.

2019 September 25, Kendra Pierre-Louis, “How to Buy Clothes That Are Built to Last”, in New York Times:

Carla's got a boyfriend / I spotted him on Instagram / Followed him about a bit

2020, “Carla's got a boyfriend”, in The Night Chancers, performed by Baxter Dury:

(Internet) An online photo- and video-sharing social networking service, originally designed to mimic old-fashioned instant cameras.

insta-

instant; long predates Insta; likewise productive of compounds, and ultimately cognate, but essentially homonymic


preflash

First, a preflash is fired to analyze exposure. Then the flash fires during the actual exposure, creating the image. During the preflash, the camera's Evaluative metering system measures the light reflected back from the subject.

2005, Michael Guncheon, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT/EOS 350D:

(photography) A flash produced in advance of the main flash when taking a picture.


autowind

en-verb

autowind (third-person singular simple present autowinds, present participle autowinding, simple past and past participle autowound)

autowinds (present singular third-person)
autowinding (participle present)
autowound (participle past)
autowound (past)

(photography, transitive) To wind on (the film in a camera) automatically.


Petzval lens

(historical) A photographic lens consisting of two doublet lenses with an aperture stop in between.


Cooke triplet

Named after the company T. Cooke & Sons of York, whose chief engineer Dennis Taylor designed it in 1893.

(historical) A photographic lens comprising a negative flint glass element in the centre with a crown glass element on each side.


sound blimp

(photography) A housing attached to a camera in order to reduce the shutter click sound.


Instagrammer

The more likes a photo has, the higher the probability it will make it to the Popular page, at which point, the more probable it is that thousands of other Instagrammers will find it and follow that user.

2011, Joseph Linaschke, Getting the Most from Instagram, Peachpit Press, published 2011, →ISBN:

If the Photo Map feature is enabled, then Instagrammers can add their business locations to their image information as they are finalizing their pictures.

2013, Jason Miles, Instagram Power: Build Your Brand and Reach More Customers with the Power of Pictures, McGraw Hill Professional, published 2013, →ISBN, page 180:

At farmers' markets
the flower stalls draw big crowds
of Instagrammers.

2014, Peyton Price, Suburban Haiku: Poetic Dispatches from Behind the Picket Fence, Running Price, →ISBN, page 58:

(Internet) A user of the photo-sharing and social networking service Instagram.

(Internet, social media) A content creator or influencer of Instagram.


selfie stick

For example, photography shop Artworkfoto in Funan DigitaLife Mall sells about five selfie sticks every day.

2014 March 30, Benson Ang, “Selfie sticks are hot”, in The Sunday Times, Singapore, page L4:

We snapped another selfie (one of the guys, Royston out of our newly acquired Singapore Zopim office, introduced the Exchange to the selfie stick, and that photo is now legendary.)

2014, Mikkel Svane, Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business, John Wiley & Sons (2014), pages 176-177, published 8 December

The needs of selfie takers feed into new product development such as a selfie stick that allows the ul-jang angle, a mirrorless DSLR camera with a 180-degree tilting LCD window, a motion-detecting shutter, and a camera with wireless internet for transferring images.

2015 January, Yoo Jin Kwon, Kyoung-Nan Kwon, “Consuming the Objectified Self: The Quest for Authentic Self”, in Asian Social Science, page 310:

(mobile telephony) An extendable monopod arm onto which a smartphone or camera can be mounted in order to take wide-angle photographs of oneself.


shelfie

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From shelf + -ie, by analogy with selfie.

Besides a feline closeup she’s placed on one shelf, and an opera mask on another, her shelfie shows a wonderful collection of books about music, including “The Rough Guide to Opera,” several biographies of Mozart and the history “Women Making Music.”

2013 December 18, Hector Tobar, “Hey everybody, let's 'shelfie!'”, in Los Angeles Times:

She's certainly observed the rate at which people are posting shelfies on Instagram.

2014 April 25, Dale Hrabi, “The Rise of the 'Shelfie': Instagram's Next Craze”, in The Wall Street Journal:

Some practitioners have tried to position the shelfie as "the intellectual's selfie," making it seem like some digital form of 17th-century Dutch still-life painting.

2014 May 31, “Sharing your shelfie”, in Winnipeg Free Press:

From social media “shelfies” to Zoom backgrounds, to hyperinflated coffee-table tomes, books are everywhere nowadays, even—perhaps even especially—in the homes of people who never really read.

2024 February 9, Edwin Heathcote, “‘Bookshelf wealth’ is the oldest decorating trick in the book”, in Financial Times:

(social media, slang) A photograph of a bookshelf/bookcase taken by its owner and shared on social media.


beauty dish

So called from its dish-like shape and its use in portrait and fashion photography.

(photography) A photographic lighting device that uses a parabolic reflector to distribute light towards a focal point.


healthie

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From health + -ie, after the pattern of selfie.

Healthies are about showboating your exercise credentials to inspire others.

2013, "50 Coolest Things in Health", Women's Health, November/December 2013, page 95

But she understands that sometimes healthies can be misunderstood.

2014, Karen Villarreal, "Because Selfies", Panorama Magazine (University of Texas–Pan American), Spring 2014, page 26

But the benefits of ‘healthies’ aren’t always positive, with many experts warning these kind of images increase our self-obsession and need for external validation, potentially creating greater body image problems within society.

2014 April, Jo Ebsworth, “Healthy selfies”, in Health & Fitness, UK, page 10:

A selfie taken during a workout session, typically to show one's commitment to health and fitness.


angle of view

(photography) The angular extent of a given scene as imaged by a camera.


veiled plate

(photography) A fogged plate; that is, a photographic plate that has been unintentionally exposed to radiation (such as light), resulting in undesired image degradation.


magazine camera

en-noun

magazine camera (plural magazine cameras)

(photography, dated) A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.


light-struck

en-adj

light-struck (comparative more light-struck, superlative most light-struck)

more light-struck (comparative)
most light-struck (superlative)

From light (noun) + struck (participial adjective).

affix

(photography, of plates or films) Damaged by accidental exposure to light.


oroheliograph

From oro- + heliograph, from Ancient Greek word for "mountain".

(photography) A camera for obtaining a circular panoramic view of the horizon. The photographic plate is placed horizontally with a vertical lens above. A specially-shaped mirror reflects light from the entire horizon to the lens, by means of which it is focused upon the plate.


eikonogen

(chemistry, photography) The sodium salt of a sulphonic acid of a naphthol, C₁₀H₅(OH)(NH₂)SO₃Na, used as a photographic developer.


Rodinal

(photography) A black-and-white developing agent based on the chemical 4-aminophenol.


pyrosoda

(obsolete, photography) A mixture of pyrogallic acid and soda used as a photographic developer.


alpha paper

The sheets of alpha paper which have been grained are first dipped in soft acetate remaining there for three minutes. They are dried in an oven and made ready for impregnation with hard acetate.

(UK, dated, photography) A sensitized photographic paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride.


Niepce's process

Invented by J. N. Niepce, a French chemist, in 1829.

(photography, historical) A photographic process based on the action of light in rendering a thin layer of bitumen, with which the plate is coated, insoluble.


printing out

(photography) A method of printing in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action of light, without subsequent development by means of chemicals.


printing in

(photography) A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative.


wet plate

(photography) A plate whose film retains its sensitivity only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after exposure it is developed and fixed.


bromoiodized

(photography) Treated with bromides and iodides.


bromogelatin

(photography) A process for preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin.


bromide paper

en-noun

bromide paper (countable and uncountable, plural bromide papers)

(photography, historical) A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with silver bromide, used in contact printing and in enlarging.


solargraphy

(photography) the practice of creating solargraphs; creating photographs of the path of the Sun across the sky using a pinhole camera and exposure periods measured in days or months


solargraph

(photography) A photograph of the paths of the Sun across the sky created with pinhole photography.


headground

One Hollywood Flood-Lite was used, subdued to 20 amperes and screened by lowering the Lite back of a small headground, until detail in the composition was almost lost to the eye.

1922, Abel's Photographic Weekly - Volume 30, Issues 776-783, page 567:

But a card table was folded up and made as fine a headground as one could wish.

1927, American Photography - Volume 21, page 12:

(photography, dated) A background used for a headshot.


go narrow

en-verb

go narrow (third-person singular simple present goes narrow, present participle going narrow, simple past went narrow, past participle gone narrow)

goes narrow (present singular third-person)
going narrow (participle present)
went narrow (past)
gone narrow (participle past)

Going wide to fit it all in will emphasize the foreground at the expense of the background; going narrow with a long lens will preclude the coloured 'jobbies' clinging to the cliff top that I'm trying not to tread on.

(photography) To use a narrow-angle lens to take one or more photographs.


go wide

go wide (third-person singular simple present goes wide, present participle going wide, simple past went wide, past participle gone wide)

goes wide (present singular third-person)
going wide (participle present)
went wide (past)
gone wide (participle past)

1998, Sport Diver. Vol. 6, No. 6. Pg. 36.
First and foremost, you'll need a wide-angle lens for going wide on your dive.

2004. Digital Photography Bible. Dan Simon. Pg. 48.
You need to go wide just to fit things in.

(photography) To use a wide-angle lens to take one or more photographs.


narrow-angle lens

en-noun

narrow-angle lens (plural narrow-angle lenses)


belfie

Butt looks great in a bikini? Take a 'belfie'.

2013 November 18, Aashta Atray Banan, “Eye, Me, Myself”, in Open, page 45:

Send him a belfie with the words 'kiss' and 'my' on each cheek, and good riddance to him.

2014 July 23, “Dear Dolly”, in Metro Herald, page D17:

Take several “before” pictures of your whole body and include a “belfie” (butt selfie) the day before you start the program. Do it from different angles — front, side, and back.

2015, Christmas Abbott (with Maggie Greenwood-Robinson), The Badass Body Diet: The Breakthrough Diet and Workout for a Tight Booty, Sexy Abs, and Lean Legs, HarperCollins (2015), unnumbered page, published 12 May 2015

(slang) A self-taken photograph of one's own buttocks.


creepshot

Etymology tree
English creep
English shot
English creepshot
From creep + shot.

etymon

"What unites creepshots, the Middleton photographs, the revenge porn websites," says Franks, "is that they all feature the same fetishisation of non-consensual sexual activity with women who either you don't have any access to, or have been denied future access to. And it's really this product of rage and entitlement."

2012 September 22, Kira Cochrane, “Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women”, in The Guardian:

The guy on the subway who took a creepshot of my cleavage of his phone, making nausea spill over my insides. That was rape culture.

2015, Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:

'Thais in tights, I tell you,' he sniggers, his mind doing such an obscene variation of the creepshot he's just surreptitiously taken on his cell phone that I want to gag.

2015, Amrita Tripathi, The Sibius Knot, Fourth Estate, →ISBN:

A surreptitiously taken photograph of a person (usually a woman) focusing on sexualized areas of the body such as the breasts, groin, or buttocks.

Her speculation was set against a backdrop of rearview creepshots, with a few barely there scribbles added to blot out actual facial features. Even as an entire privacy invading narrative was being spun unknowingly around them.

2018 July 14, Natasha Lomas, “Reminder: Other people’s lives are not fodder for your feeds”, in TechCrunch:

(by extension) Any photograph of a person taken without having acquired permission.


creepshot

en-verb

creepshot (third-person singular simple present creepshots, present participle creepshotting, simple past and past participle creepshotted)

creepshots (present singular third-person)
creepshotting (participle present)
creepshotted (participle past)
creepshotted (past)

(transitive) To take a creepshot of (an individual).


spectrophotogram

This finds support from absorption spectrophotogram revealing AKR17A1 catalyzed NADPH dependent degradation of butachlor in vitro.

2015 September 16, “A Novel Aldo-Keto Reductase (AKR17A1) of Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 Degrades the Rice Field Herbicide Butachlor and Confers Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses in E . coli”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

An image produced by spectrophotography.


red light camera

en-noun

red light camera (plural red light cameras)

(law, automotive) An automatic traffic light enforcement camera which captures images of vehicles violating red lights.


synchroflash

synchroflash (usually uncountable, plural synchroflashes)

(photography, chiefly attributive) Synchronization of the flash and shutter of a camera.


hyperlapse

(photography) A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved across a long distance, such as down a highway, and a frame is captured at each new position.


focusing screen

focusing screen (plural focusing screens)

Once the microgrid and split-image rangefinder became the major focusing controls, the focusing screen itself became a secondary or even tertiary focusing area and was/is generally ignored by many users.

1993 July, Herbert Keppler, “SLR: Have manufacturers fouled up viewing screens for technological progress?”, in Popular Photography, volume 57, number 3, page 17:

You can always see the covered area on the focusing screen regardless what the subject distance might be or what close-up accessories are used.

2012, Ernst Wildi, The Medium Format Advantage, →ISBN, page 183:

This is because the reflex mirror in some SLR cameras is not quite long enough to provide full illumination of the entire focusing screen with the image from a telescope. Fortunately, such reduced illumination of the focusing screen will not affect your photograph.

2012, Jeffrey R. Charles, Practical Astrophotography, →ISBN:

(photography) A flat translucent material found in a system camera that allows the photographer to preview the framed image in a viewfinder.


tripack

tripack (countable and uncountable, plural tripacks)

In 1897 du Hauron conceived the idea of using a tripack for recording color photographs.

2013, John Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography:

(photography) Film that has three emulsions sensitive to red, green, or blue stacked on top of one another.


lenshound

A tip of the hat to your newspaper's lenshounds and their first-class job in capturing the essence of the CNE air show.

2009 September 10, “Lenshounds fly high at air show”, in Toronto Star:


facepic

(Internet slang) A photograph of a person's face.


full-frame

(photography, of a camera) Having an image sensor of the same size as 35mm film, i.e. 36 × 24 millimetres.


UniWB

(photography) The technique of using a modified digital camera to capture deliberately distorted images whose image histograms are conducive to making optimum use of the sensor's dynamic range.


image histogram

image histogram (plural image histograms)

(photography, computer graphics) A histogram that acts as a graphical representation of the tonal distribution in a digital image.


shoefie

Daisy, Maria and Jo – I have such fond memories of taking my first shoefies with you guys in the sixth form common room.

2015, Hannah Rochell, “Acknowledgements”, in En Brogue: The Trainers Guide, London: Saltyard Books, →ISBN:

I grab my umbrella and swagger to the garage door, stopping long enough to turn around and say, "Oh, Mom. I borrowed your shoes. I hope that's okay." / She nods dazedly. / "Aren't they bitchin'?" I ask Hadley, staring down at my feet. I pull out my phone and take a quick picture. "Shoefie!"

2016, Jessica Brody, “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”, in A Week of Mondays, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 242:

When we swung open the door to the stairwell, Selfie was sitting on the stairs holding her phone at different angles near her foot. As I got closer, I realized she was photographing one of her high-heeled boots. Prezbo looked puzzled. "Oh, hi." She glanced up at us. "I'm taking a shoefie."

2017, Holly Kowitt, The Principal’s Underwear is Missing, New York, N.Y.: Feiwel and Friends, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 137:

(photography, slang, neologism) A photograph that one takes of one's own shoes while one is wearing them.


monobath

(photography) Such that the development process involves immersion in only one chemical bath.


prefog

en-verb

prefog (third-person singular simple present prefogs, present participle prefogging, simple past and past participle prefogged)

prefogs (present singular third-person)
prefogging (participle present)
prefogged (participle past)
prefogged (past)

(photography, transitive) To fog (photographic film) in advance.


photodocument

photodocument (third-person singular simple present photodocuments, present participle photodocumenting, simple past and past participle photodocumented)

photodocuments (present singular third-person)
photodocumenting (participle present)
photodocumented (participle past)
photodocumented (past)


silver bromide

(inorganic chemistry) the silver salt of hydrobromic acid, AgBr, sometimes used in photographic papers


photographic paper

en-noun

photographic paper (plural photographic papers)

(photography) paper or card coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, typically containing silver salts


autofocal

(photography) Having or relating to an autofocus feature.


orotone

(photography) A photographic print on glass, decorated with gold leaf or coloured with a gold pigment.


carbro

(photography, historical) A print made from carbon tissue coated in pigmented gelatin, which is then selectively hardened by contact with a silver bromide paper print rather than exposure to light.


i'm actually quite flattered, i like being androgonous^([sic])...but in that pix0r i thought i was being incredibly girly and i find it so amusing that you mistook me for a man! it made my morning!

2002, silver_cyber_aj, “Cyberdog in Vogue”, in uk.people.gothic (Usenet):


metrogon

(photography) A kind of high-resolution, low-distortion, extra-wide photographic lens with a 90-degree field of view.


epipole

(photography) The intersection of the baselines of two cameras (used to form a stereo image)


finstagram

Principles that guide Instagram are cheerfully ignored on fake accounts: If posting more than once a day to a main account is considered something of a faux pas, it’s perfectly acceptable, on a finstagram account, to unleash a stream of mundane images, screen shots of text conversations and ugly selfies .

2015 November 18, Valeriya Safronova, “On Fake Instagram, a Chance to Be Real”, in New York Times:


mid-key

(photography) Using or relating to a level of lighting between low-key and high-key.


midtone

(photography, art) A medium tone, one that is neither very dark nor very light.


zweibein

Equivalent to German zwei (“two”) + Beine (“legs”).


twofie

Prior to that, the actress retweeted a "twofie" photo posted by "The Flash" actor Grant Gustin, who is also a "Glee" alum like her.

2016 February 15, “'Supergirl' Season 1 Spoilers: Melissa Benoist posts Blake Jenner date, Chyler Leigh proud of superhero series”, in International Business Times AU:

THE duck face selfie is passe and the fish gape pose so yesterday — now it's all about the twofie, threefie, wefie or usie.

2017 November 4, “Forget the selfie, it's now all about the wefie: Here’s what it says about society’s changing attitudes”, in The Advertiser:

[C]hildren make twofies not only with their parents or friends but also with objects, like a mushroom or a glass with ice cream.

2018, Julia Eckel, Jens Ruchatz, Sabine Wirth, Exploring the Selfie: Historical, Theoretical, and Analytical Approaches to Digital Self-Photography, page 345:

(informal) A smartphone-taken picture of two people, or one person and an object.


carfie

Long time since I took a carfie.

Whether she’s walking the red carpet of her movie premieres or sitting in the front rows of award shows or simply clicking a carfie (car selfie), Mahira always offers an effortless take on dressing.

2018 March 22, Sanya Panwar, “Mahira Khan has effortless style: Her pics will give you outfit inspo for days”, in Hindustan Times:

Priyanka Chopra looks absolutely flawless in this sun-kissed carfie from San Francisco

2018 September 13, “Nick Jonas won't let go of Priyanka Chopra and these photos are proof”, in Times Now:

(informal, India) A smartphone-taken picture of oneself in a car.


kit lens

(photography) A camera lens that is bundled with a camera body, usually at a discount price.


pyrophotography

(photography) Any photographic process involving the use of heat to fix the picture.


candid camera

Although used as its name, the term predates the long-running American television program Candid Camera (first broadcast in 1948).

A candid camera’s role in higher education, with photographs of co-eds in the nude, commanded public interest today.

1937 October 4, “Candid Camera Shots Of College Co-eds Minus Trappings Has Officials Disturbed”, in Prescott Evening Courier, retrieved 2017-11-21, page 1:

Miss Rand . . . is wanted in criminal court to face charges of biting a theater customer who tried to take her picture with a candid camera.

1938 October 11, Frederick C. Othman, “Sally Stole My Fan Act, Faith Says”, in Pittsburgh Press, retrieved 2017-11-21, page 12:

Dorothy Netherton, who with Grace Valentine went to Europe this summer, has more than 400 enlarged candid-camera pictures of scenes taken during the tour.

1938 October 14, “Students Hold Short Impromptu Pep Rally”, in Daily Journal-World, Lawrence, Kansas, retrieved 2017-11-21, page 5:

Last week, after nine years of development work, Zeiss brought out a new camera with which it hopes to regain leadership in the high-quality candid-camera market.

1954 January 18, “Business Abroad: Camera Comeback”, in Time, retrieved 2017-11-21:

Mr. Dorsky's Arbor Vitae conveys more acute feelings of sadness and ecstasy. . . . Mr. Dorsky's candid camera also catches people rapt in thought.

2000 October 7, Stephen Holden, “Film Festival Review: Sparks of Lyrical Meditation Fly From the Cutting Edge”, in New York Times, retrieved 2017-11-21:

(photography, hyphenated when used attributively) A camera which is concealed or unobtrusive, used to obtain candid photographs of people who usually are unaware; the practice of taking such photos.

caméra cachée

a camera which is concealed or unobtrusive


Land camera

(historical, photography) An early form of polaroid camera


soft focus

Hamilton said that his work looked for the “candour of a lost paradise”, and was most famous for his kitschy calendars of young girls and his soft-focus erotic films including “Bilitis” from 1977.

2016 November 25, “Photographer David Hamilton found dead in Paris”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(photography) The blur produced by spherical aberration in a lens, sometimes deliberately used to produce a dreamy effect or to eliminate blemishes.


Insta

These are the slaves to technology: the Candy Crushers, the Facebook fanatics, the Insta-idlers, the Snapchat servants and Twitter twiddlers who spend every spare minute absorbed by their screens.

2018, Jack Lewis, The Science of Sin: Why We Do The Things We Know We Shouldn’t, Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN:

(informal, chiefly text messaging, Internet slang) Clipping of Instagram.


Insta

en-verb

Insta (third-person singular simple present Instas or Insta's, present participle Insta-ing or Insta'ing, simple past and past participle Insta-ed or Insta'ed)

Instas (present singular third-person)
Insta's (present singular third-person)
Insta-ing (participle present)
Insta'ing (participle present)
Insta-ed (participle past)
Insta-ed (past)
Insta'ed (participle past)
Insta'ed (past)

Patrick Dempsey, who played Dr. Derek Shepherd for 11 seasons, Insta-ed a close-up of his masked face, captioning it with one of his catchphrases. "It’s a Beautiful Day to Save Lives," he wrote. "#WearAMask."

2020 July 23, Jelisa Castrodale, “‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Gears Up for Pandemic Storyline in Upcoming 60,000th Season”, in Vice:


shutterspeed

en-noun

shutterspeed (countable and uncountable, plural shutterspeeds)


photo album

A book with a collection of photographs placed inside.


iconometer

(photography, historical) An early form of viewfinder.


microcinematography

Microcinematography can reveal wonders and horrors in the universe of tiny things living around us. […] The most recent natural phenomenon brought to light by microcinematography is both wonder and horror and involves one of humanity’s greatest foes: the mosquito.

2022 October 4, Oliver Whang, “‘Our Jaws Dropped’: Mosquito Larvae’s Killer Harpoon Heads Revealed.”, in The New York Times:

(biology, photography) The making of films by using a microscope, especially of biological specimens, by means of time-lapse photography


negative bath

(photography) A silver solution in which photographic negatives are placed to be sensitized.


golden hour

Coordinate term: blue hour

(photography) A period shortly after sunrise or before sunset, during which daylight is redder and softer than when the Sun is higher in the sky.


photo paper

photographic paper
photographic paper#English


autoexpose

en-verb

autoexpose (third-person singular simple present autoexposes, present participle autoexposing, simple past and past participle autoexposed)

autoexposes (present singular third-person)
autoexposing (participle present)
autoexposed (participle past)
autoexposed (past)


line scan

(photography) A camera that produces such images.


photoemulsion

photographic emulsion
photographic emulsion


photographic emulsion

en-noun

photographic emulsion (plural photographic emulsions)

(photography) A colloid, containing light-sensitive material, that is coated onto a length of film for use in predigital photography


kiss cam

(US) A camera that photographs couples kissing during a sports event and displays the image on a giant screen.


scioptic ball

(photography, chiefly historical) a universal joint allowing an optical instrument mounted on a ball to be swiveled to point anywhere in a wide arc


camera angle

(photography) The viewpoint from which something is photographed or filmed.


finsta

Clipping of finstagram, from fake + Instagram.

“My little sister who's in middle school is doing finstas,” Carrie said.

2017, Nancy Jo Sales, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, page 134:

On a seemingly regular basis, young White people's overtly racist remarks are moved out of the shadows of their “Finstas” (fake instagram accounts) and into the “public” domain to be judged by all.

2020, Christopher D. DeSante, Candis Watts Smith, The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics, page 101:

I'd say the concept of sliding into one's DMs [direct messages] on Instagram is very powerful, especially because finstas allow people to be more open about things.

2021, anonymous student, quoted in Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, & Jane Shaw, Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age, page 74

(informal) A secondary Instagram account under which one posts privately or anonymously.


luminogram

(photography) An image produced by luminography


luminography

(photography) A form of photography that, instead of using a camera, exposes a photosensitive material to light that is modified by an intervening object


portholing

(photography) A circular vignette-like defect where the image fades at the borders.


autoluminography

(photography) The production of an image by placing a light-emitting object in direct contact with photographic film


photoboard

A large photograph mounted on a board used for display purposes.


Finlaycolor

From Finlay + color; devised by Englishman Clare L. Finlay.

The most exciting way of getting instant color was by a process called Finlaycolor, in which, in effect, three color-separation negatives were taken simultaneously by using a grid ruled with microscopic red, green and violet lines. One then made a positive, a lantern slide from this negative, and brought it into exact alignment with the grid. This was tricky, delicate, but when one had them in perfect register, the previously black-and-white slide would burst into full color.

2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood:

(photography, historical) An early additive colour photography process that could produce a picture in natural colour with a single exposure.


focusing cloth

(photography, historical) A cloth thrown over a camera (and the operator's head and shoulders) to exclude all light except that which comes through the lens.


lens brush

(photography) a small brush used to clean dust off camera lenses.


photosimulation

(photography) A photographic image that has been computer-modified to show a not-yet existing feature


telextender

(photography) An optical amplifier, used especially in amateur astronomy to magnify an image.


grain size

(geology, photography) The size of a grain (particle) in a sediment or emulsion


cabinet card

(photography, historical) A style of photograph widely used for portraiture in the late 19th century, mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm (4 1⁄4 by 6 1⁄2 inches).


Instagrammable

en-adj

Instagrammable (comparative more Instagrammable, superlative most Instagrammable)

more Instagrammable (comparative)
most Instagrammable (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-Instagrammable.wav

From Instagram + -able (suffix meaning ‘relevant or suitable to’).

suffix

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:

Creating instagrammable moments for business through design is paramount in order to stay relevant. [...] [Mark] Birnbaum uses the ‘instagrammable cake’ sold at Catch, as an example of how “items exist solely for the reason of social sharing”.

2017, “Major Hospitality Powerhouses Reveal Key Trends at Annual Boutique Hotel Investment Conference (BLLA) 2017”, in Hery Sudrajat, editor, Hotelier Indonesia, 30th edition, volume XIV, [Indonesia?]: Hoticom Media International, →ISSN, page 31, column 2:

My adult life, and particularly my married life, was quite "blessed" for the first eleven years. It was very pretty, very Instagrammable.

2017, Kate Merrick, “#Blessed”, in And Still She Laughs: Defiant Joy in the Depths of Suffering, Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson Books, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 33:

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:

Burgers are a great source of protein (ignore the grease), as are eggs (which must go some way to enhancing my eggs), plus I had a dollop of guacamole, which is basically unsullied avocado (healthy and Instagrammable).

2018, Emily Phillips, “Cycle 21”, in Trying, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

Now, if you're the type of person who quietly agonises over what people might think of your carefully curated, Instagrammable bookshelf, don't worry!

2018, Alfred Tong, “Introduction”, in The Thinking Man's Guide to Life: How to Network, De-stress, Make Friends and Everything in-between, London: Hardie Grant Books, →ISBN:

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:

[Ben Quilty's] art is characterised not by a heavy morbidity but an ease and facility, a vitality that has seen figurative painting remain important in Australia in a period when it was dismissed as washed-up and conservative while conceptual and Instagrammable installation art had become de rigueur; [...]

2019, Richard Flanagan, “Foreword”, in Ben Quilty, [Melbourne, Vic.]: Lantern, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 23:

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:

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:

[Edward] Barnieh watched new cafes all around the world adopt aesthetics that were popular on Instagram. [...] The public was coming to a consensus about what kinds of designs were Instagrammable.

2020 April, Sarah Frier, “The Pursuit of the Insta-worthy”, in No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 168:

(informal) Visually attractive or interesting such that it lends itself to being photographed and posted on social media (specifically on Instagram); photogenic.

instagrammattava

visually attractive or interesting such that it lends itself to being photographed and posted on social media — see also photogenic


silver bath

(photography) A solution of silver nitrate for sensitizing collodion plates for printing.