Farmer's reducer

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

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


rug hooking

en-noun

rug hooking (usually uncountable, plural rug hookings)

(art, textiles) An art and a craft where a rug is made by pulling loops of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven base such as burlap, linen, or rug warp.


Waterhouse stop

Waterhouse stop (plural Waterhouse stops)

Invented by photographer John Waterhouse in 1858.

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


headsit

The contortionist impressed the audience with a perfect headsit during her routine.

Achieving a headsit requires years of practice and extensive spinal flexibility.

One of the most common variations of chest stand headsit is where the performer has their legs locked out straight with their feet on the floor.

2024 December 19, “Chest stand headsit with straight legs and feet on floor”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(acrobatics) An extreme backbend in which the top of the performer's head touches the buttocks; usually in a handstand or chest stand. Sometimes, a more extreme variation is done where the buttocks are positioned past the performer's head, while the lower back is on top of the head; this requires much more neck flexibility.


deep focus

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


Earth Surface Person

Earth Surface Person (plural Earth Surface People)

Earth Surface People (plural)
Earth surface person (alternative)
earth surface person (alternative)

Their tales qualify this as Earth People or Earth Surface People, for, in the long, poetic myth which is their bible, they climbed up to the earth's flat disk from her dark, underground womb.

1956, Ruth Murray Underhill, The Navajos, page 4:

Toad denounces angrily that an earth surface person should be going about here and shoots mudballs at various parts of her body (soles, hip joint, small of back, meeting of shoulder blades, hollow of head); she is lamed and felled by this witchery.

1957, Katherine Spencer, Mythology and Values, An Analysis of Navaho Chantway Myths, page 153:

Down where berries were reported to be, they went again, when suddenly she saw the woman's tracks. "Whose tracks are these? They are tracks of an earth surface person!" [Holy Young Woman said].

1975, Leland C. Wyman, The Mountainway of the Navajo, page 190:

Thus, the story of Changing Woman here is the story of her creation of the earth-surface people and of the things that they need in order to exist.

1984, John R. Farella, The Main Stalk, A Synthesis of Navajo Philosophy, page 89:

The great Navajo chant Beauty Way deals with a fruitful coming-together of an earth-surface person - a human being - and a spirit; the Beauty Way ceremony itself, which incorporates the story, is given to the Navajo people as a consequence of that event.

1993, Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman, page 121:

Sure, people have problems when they're married; no Earth Surface Person is perfect.

2001, Rose Mitchell, Tall Woman, The Life Story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo Woman, c. 1874-1977, page 297:

The old man began the Restoration of the Earth Surface Person Upon His Return Home prayer, which describes the reuniting of a person with his home.

2003, R. A. F. McPhearson, Blackening Rite, page 22:

(folklore, Native American) A human being, specifically in cultures like the Navajo, residing on the physical Earth, as opposed to spiritual beings or deities, considered to reside in higher realms.


preclaim

en-verb

preclaim (third-person singular simple present preclaims, present participle preclaiming, simple past and past participle preclaimed)

preclaims (present singular third-person)
preclaiming (participle present)
preclaimed (participle past)
preclaimed (past)
pre-claim (alternative)

(art) To claim an adoptable in advance (before completion or auction).


preclaim

preclaims (plural)
pre-claim (alternative)

(art) Claiming an adoptable in advance (before completion or auction).


filmslide

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


color separation

en-noun

color separation (plural color separations)

(printing, graphic design) The process of breaking down a colored image into its component colors in order for it to be printed.


long-focus lens

long-focus lens (plural long-focus lenses)

(photography) A type of camera lens that has a focal length longer than the diagonal measure of the film or sensor receiving the image.


deghost

en-verb

deghost (third-person singular simple present deghosts, present participle deghosting, simple past and past participle deghosted)

deghosts (present singular third-person)
deghosting (participle present)
deghosted (participle past)
deghosted (past)

(transitive, photography) To remove a ghost image from.


soft sculpture

en-noun

soft sculpture (countable and uncountable, plural soft sculptures)

(art) A kind of three-dimensional art form incorporating supple and non-rigid materials that may be stuffed, sewn, glued, woven, etc.


IBIS

in-body image stabilization
in-body image stabilization#English

(photography) Initialism of in-body image stabilization.


purchase prize

(art) The prize, in an art competition, of having one's winning artwork purchased.


contact sheet

(photography) A print that displays miniature versions of all the frames on a roll of film.


hairy arm

"You should always put a hairy arm into every project you work on, to give the client something to change. Of course, you've got to make the arm dumb enough."

2000, Lawrence San, “inSANity by San: The Hairy Arm”, in 1099:

[…]is the hairy-arm story. This apocryphal tale has many versions in many industries, but they're all about the same thing - managing those who have power over you by leaving errors in your work. The first print version appeared in a blog[…]

2013, Wendy Laura Belcher, Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, Second Edition: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success, University of Chicago Press, page 356:

(graphic design, slang) A purposeful flaw or obvious mistake introduced, usually to a graphic design, in order to bait or divert the attention of a boss or client who might otherwise focus on harder-to-fix or less trivial mistakes.


printing paper

printing paper (countable and uncountable, plural printing papers)

(photography) A type of paper coated with light-sensitive chemicals used to produce prints.


gumberoo

(US, folklore) A fictional animal with hide so tough that bullets bounce off it.


agropelter

agropelters (plural)
argopelter (alternative)

(US, folklore) A mythical monster of the United States, said to inhabit hollow tree trunks and hurl wooden splinters and branches at passers-by.


splintercat

(US, folklore) A fictional cat-like animal of the Pacific Northwest said to run into trees, knocking the branches off and withering the trunks.


dungavenhooter

(US, folklore) A fictional crocodile-like animal with no mouth and huge nostrils that uses its tail as a weapon.


belled buzzard

(US, folklore) A fictional buzzard-like bird with a bell attached, whose ringing is an omen of disaster.


ball-tailed cat

ball-tailed cat (plural ball-tailed cats)

(US, folklore) A fictional animal said to resemble a mountain lion, but with a long tail ending in a solid ball with which it strikes its prey.


goofus bird

(US, folklore) A backwards-flying bird that builds its nest upside down, according to lumberjack folklore.


wampus cat

(US, folklore) A folkloric cat-like creature, of varying description.


axhandle hound

axhandle hounds (plural)
axehandle hound (alternative)

(US, folklore) A folkloric dog-like animal with a somewhat ax-shaped body, supposed to subsist on a diet of the handles of axes left unattended.


same face syndrome

(informal, art) The phenomenon in which an artist consistently draws different characters with faces that look identical.


slide plate

(photography) A component that facilitates the swift attachment and detachment of a camera from a tripod or other support system.


Water Baby

(folklore) A kind of spirit in Native American folklore, inhabiting bodies of water and often appearing as an infant whose cries are an omen of impending disaster.


jitter lapse

jitter lapses (plural)
jitter-lapse (alternative)

(photography) A fast-paced video comprised of flashed pictures of objects centered or hinged to a point, usually having the same shape.


low camp

en:unsophisticated form of camp i.e. campiness

(art, often attributively) An unsophisticated form of camp (campiness), which may sometimes be cringeworthy.


adversarial collaboration

adversarial collaboration (usually uncountable, plural adversarial collaborations)

Dr. Melloni and a group of like-minded scientists began drawing up plans for their study in 2018. They wanted to try an approach known as adversarial collaboration, in which scientists with opposing theories join forces with neutral researchers. The team chose two theories to test. One, called Global Neuronal Workspace Theory, was developed in the early 2000s by Stanislas Dehaene, a cognitive neuroscientist with the Collège de France in Paris, and his colleagues. […] The other theory, developed by Giulio Tononi of the University of Wisconsin and his colleagues, goes by the name Integrated Information Theory.

2025 April 30, Carl Zimmer, “Two Theories of Consciousness Faced Off. The Ref Took a Beating. What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way”, in New York Times:

(sciences, design of experiments, idiomatic, uncountable) Any of a class of study designs in which scientists with conflicting theories work together with others who are neutral or agnostic about those theories, and this team runs an experiment to test the theories empirically and thus find out whether one of the theories is contradicted by the evidence found.


Black Madonna

Western Christianity
Western Christianity

(Christianity, art) A statue or painting in Western Christianity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus, where both figures are depicted with dark skin.


yellowism

(art) A conceptual movement or a system where everything is reduced to, or flattened to, the color yellow, representing a single, unifying interpretation.


couching fabric

/ˈkuːt͡ʃɪŋˌfæbɹɪk/

Couching fabric is traditionally 100 per cent wool felt, but blanket, towelling, or wovenpaper kitchen cloths are good alternatives.

1994, Marion Elliot, Paper making, Letts of London, page 15:

When pressing is complete, carefully peel the sheet from the couching fabric.

2003, Heidi Reimer-Epp, Mary Reimer, Beginner's guide to papermaking, Sterling Publishing Co., page 58:

(papermaking) a sheet of fabric used to separate sheets of paper during pressing