My photo terms

While it's on my head...i'll make a list of photo terms that I use myself and that i've created.

• "Reverse Digital Zoom"= interpolarization (In my mind it's reversed because you get the same effect as digital zoom without zooming. Your head is hurting now.) It's also been called " Inter-modual-sensitivy-polarity-polation" before.

• "HCR"= High Color Range. In RAW, two photos are edited with different white balance settings, then they are mixed like a selective hdr would (like in the case of a fake ND graduated filter)

• "Qual-check"= I don't use this term much, but it's basically a folder on the computer that I store images that have been deemed "ok but need editing".

• "j-pegage", "jpegage", or "jpegging" (as in, to jpeg a picture). J-peggage is the negatve and obvious downsides you see in photos that are saved in J-peg file formats, and are usually compressed to the point where you see little dots where dots should not be. Try zooming in (you can do this on fire fox or internet explorer) on a small photo on google images. Soon that picture of a sleeping cat looks like...say, what is that? I usually use it to describe a photo i intentially "j-pegged" for security reasons, or I'll just use it because it sounds cool. It can also be used to describe non-RAW noise reduction.

• "keep or kill" (not used often) Keep or kill is a game i play to determine what photos go in portfolio. You go through it and either say keep or kill (or maybe) with a post it note. "keeper" also works for naming photos.

• "Campagins"- used in the same way as an army battle would be. I usually use it to reference a vacation, and in particular summer vacations. On flickr photo descriptions (future blogs?...) i will usually reminence on past summer vacations and my photos as if there were past battles fought in a war. Even if i don't specifically call it a campaign, it's usally told with the point of view of something of that significance.
• "CPOS" I hardly say it that way, because it's an offensive comment. I'll say it to my own photos some times, but CPOS is just short for "centered piece of ****".
  
• "Questionable editing"- usually what i say when I edit something beyond what looks natural or what could appear natural.
• "Disney land color"- usually not said in that phrase, but it can be used in that context. It's basically the same as saying a "crayon explosion" or something like that...basically describes super saturated photos.
• "(number) deadly sin" (must go beyond 7). Whenever I say something is a deadly sin and it is above the number 7, i usually am referencing something that is cliche or kitsh in the photography world. Like...oh, this photo has commited the 54th deadly sin= shooting wide open and isolating a blade of dead grass and making it slightly desaturated. And yes, this is more towards the insulting side.
• "Macro curse"= it basically means you get addicted to macro for an entire trip out, or for a period of time. You find that nothing outside of your macro focus is deemed ok. It just one of those phases.
• "Sunset Rule"= this is my own rule for photography. It states that when photographing a sunset, you can't simply take a picture of it. The sunset is a background, not a foreground (unless you know what your doing.) At most, it is an extremely glorified background, and should be though of as such. Too many stale sunset go around- while amazing, they need substance. That's where the other object/subject comes into play.