ziatype n. a photo-printing process that uses palladium and platinum and does not require developer fluid. Etymological Note: The process was created by photographer Richard Sullivan of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Technical details of ziatype can be found...
blow v.— «Blow. To miss getting photo because of some mechanical error.» —“Photographer’s Slang and Jargon” by Photographers on Federal Art Project in N.Y., Va. Lexicon of Trade Jargon , 1938-39. (source:...
full boat n.— «A scanner makes it easy to take a sketch or photo and use that as the basis for a design. Like everything else these come in everything from the four-cylinder econo-box model to the full-boat Cadillac version with air...
cereal test n.— «Editors apply what is generically referred to in the newsroom as the “cereal test.” Photos that might upset a reader over breakfast are screened very carefully, and are used only if the subject matter or news...
cereal test n.— «Many journalists invoked the so-called “cereal test,” newsroom slang for a simple question: Would I want my family to see this photo at the breakfast table tomorrow morning?» —“Graphic images: Too much...
reflectoporn n.— «This new “craze” is called reflectoporn and here’s another explanation: “Sellers take a photo of the object they’re auctioning in the nude and their naked body is reflected in its polished surface...
