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Post by Microdad on Jun 29, 2006 11:58:21 GMT -5
As Roger pointed out, I've noticed photographers like Ansel Adams used the term "make" a photograph, or to "make" a negative. I used to assist for an old school, 3rd generation photographer when I lived in Spokane. Believe it or not, he used "capture" profusely and sometimes he used "create" an image. In fact, he would get annoyed (he was very anal about some things) when I would say "take" or "shoot" a picture, and he especially hated the word "picture". LOL!!
Personally, I confess to have used them all at one time or another. No real preference here.
Steve
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Post by GeneW on Jul 26, 2006 20:35:53 GMT -5
Along these lines, when I use film, I'm doing 'film photography' not 'analog photography'. Analog is not the opposite of digital nor does it apply to film. I don't know where that silly usage started ...
Gene
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Post by wolves3012 on Sept 23, 2006 18:57:45 GMT -5
Obviously I'm in a the minority on this matter. But I just don' like words being used in ways they were never intended when they already are perfectly good words that are applicable. For instance, in recent years spokespeople for the military, and network news announcers have talked about searching for weapons caches, properly pronounced "cash". referring to storage places. But instead they say they are looking for weapons "kashays" According to Webster cachet (pronounced kashay) is defined as : 1 a : a seal used especially as a mark of official approval b : an indication of approval carrying great prestige or 2 a : a characteristic feature or quality conferring prestige or 3 : a medicinal preparation for swallowing consisting of a case usually of rice-flour paste enclosing a medicine or 4 a : a design or inscription on an envelope to commemorate a postal or philatelic event b : an advertisement forming part of a postage meter impression c : a motto or slogan included in a postal cancellation . And to the best of my knowledge no reporter has ever discovered the pronounciation error. They just keep repeating the error. Pretty sad and it's getting worse. Have to say I agree with you on this one. I work for a consultancy firm and we - or should I say my co-workers - are the worst offenders. Everything has to be "robust" for a start. We put "robust" statistics in our reports and the local bus company even has "robust" timetables (schedules to you, I think). The latest buzzword is "impact". We no longer have effects, so A doesn't affect B any more, A has an impact on B. Also, everything is "key" nowadays rather than "main" or "important" etc. Naturally, we even have "key impacts". AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH! Drives me mad and I refuse to misuse words in my reports. By the way, you used "pronounciation" in your post - did you mean that word? English (UK) is "pronunciation". The wonderful thing about English is its rich variety of words, there's no need to mis-apply a word when there's a perfectly usable word that fits the meaning properly! To reply on-topic however: I "take" pictures, I don't shoot them and certainly don't capture them. I sometimes call them "shots" though, whether digital or film! I might "capture" a portion of the PC screen, however, as an image.
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Post by PeterW on Sept 24, 2006 6:46:14 GMT -5
My latest experience of mis-use of words: A week or so ago I was in one of our local supermarkets where there was a sign over one of the checkouts. It read "Express checkout. 10 items or less". I pointed out to the manager that it should be 10 items or fewer. He agreed, and a few days later the sign was changed, so I found the manager and congratulated him. He said: "Thanks. A schoolteacher also congratulated us, but soon after we changed it a lady customer asked 'What does it mean? What's a fewer?' " I give up! PeterW
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Post by herron on Sept 24, 2006 18:21:41 GMT -5
My latest experience of mis-use of words: A week or so ago I was in one of our local supermarkets where there was a sign over one of the checkouts. It read "Express checkout. 10 items or less". I pointed out to the manager that it should be 10 items or fewer. He agreed, and a few days later the sign was changed, so I found the manager and congratulated him. He said: "Thanks. A schoolteacher also congratulated us, but soon after we changed it a lady customer asked 'What does it mean? What's a fewer?' " I give up! PeterW The lady must have been a school counselor. LOL! ;D
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Post by kiev4a on Sept 24, 2006 21:24:46 GMT -5
"Robust" as applied to software, really trips my trigger. "Robust" usually means a program is three times as big as would have to be if the code was written properly and has many features that aren't needed by 99 percent of users.
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Post by John Parry on Sept 25, 2006 13:44:50 GMT -5
Mmm..... Wayne - my version of Photoshop must be very robust!
No, thinking about it, it has many features that I badly need but don't know how to use!
Regards - John
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Post by PeterW on Sept 25, 2006 16:55:38 GMT -5
John,
If you Google for Photoshop tutorials there are loads of very good free ones on the internet. some of them go quite deeply into the program, beyond a lot of books.
PeterW
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Post by Dan Vincent on Sept 26, 2006 8:05:56 GMT -5
Wayne, I have a grandson named Jared who changes facial expressions every few nanoseconds. To catch a photo of a certain look almost requires a capture. If there was ever a reason to have a digital SLR with no shutter lag time, this kid is it. We call Jared "The little man with a thousand faces."
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Post by herron on Sept 26, 2006 11:29:36 GMT -5
Dan: Jared looks like a young man who is very certain of himself . . . at least when it comes to chocolate! He seems to have "captured" it very well (you, too)!
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Post by kiev4a on Sept 26, 2006 11:45:35 GMT -5
It would have to be a digital SLR with no shutter lag. If I try to shoot phot0s of our three-year-old grandaughter with my Canon A80 P&S, by the time the camera actually fires, she's three rooms away! For her I use my motorized F4 with autofocus and a flash.
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Post by kiev4a on Sept 26, 2006 16:40:08 GMT -5
Huh?
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Post by John Parry on Sept 26, 2006 16:50:35 GMT -5
Brian,
Occasionally it's a good idea to get out into the sunshine, smell the roses - stuff like that...
Actually I used a Tektronix logic analyser once, but it was too sophisticated. Reverted to an HP logic probe and slowed the clock down. Maybe you could try that?
Regards - John
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Post by kamera on Sept 26, 2006 18:38:07 GMT -5
Oh...those nasty confusing words again!!!
Now maybe, Wayne, 'capture' could be acceptable if you had to get hold of and pose your subject before aiming the camera at it, focusing, composing and pushing the shutter button.
Frankly, I could care less what word someone uses...I am more interested in the resultant picture itself.
But, admittedly, some of the words/phrases can be funny!
Ron Head Kalamazoo, MI
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