An image, frequently taken by people with expensive cameras and highly likely to belong to "photographic societies" (a.k.a camera club), that has no emotional impact, social worth, entertainment value or relevance whatsoever but is perceived to display some innate skill in photography.
Essentially it's an exercise in composition over, oh I don't know - content. EXTREMELY likely to be converted to needlessly contrasty monochrome using expensive photoshop plugins that do all the work for you. And if you include diagonal lines you'll make other advocates ejaculate spontaneously because, as we all know, diagonal lines are amazeballs.
You can easily replicate this at home - find a cobbled street, or a building reflection, or literally ANYTHING that's dull as shit. Take the image, making sure you carefully remove any items of human interest, fun, variety, reportage or social meaning then turn it B&W, add an esoteric meaningless title and upload to an elitist, invite only Flickr group. From your Macbook Air.
Not to be confused with Lomography - these jokers are the arch enemies of real photographers.
Essentially it's an exercise in composition over, oh I don't know - content. EXTREMELY likely to be converted to needlessly contrasty monochrome using expensive photoshop plugins that do all the work for you. And if you include diagonal lines you'll make other advocates ejaculate spontaneously because, as we all know, diagonal lines are amazeballs.
You can easily replicate this at home - find a cobbled street, or a building reflection, or literally ANYTHING that's dull as shit. Take the image, making sure you carefully remove any items of human interest, fun, variety, reportage or social meaning then turn it B&W, add an esoteric meaningless title and upload to an elitist, invite only Flickr group. From your Macbook Air.
Not to be confused with Lomography - these jokers are the arch enemies of real photographers.
Google image search for "Edward Weston Attic" - this is widely proclaimed to be a masterpiece by those who value photographer's images. Or Henri Cartier Bresson, another overrated peddler of the "photographer's image".
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To have become the victim of an image that has been manipulated for less than honorable outcome.
To have become the victim of an image that has been manipulated for less than honorable outcome.
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A person who takes many photos at awkward moments whilst going unnoticed. The people in the photos have no idea what they were doing in the photos captured
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A person who is at a meeting with hundreds of others and manages to sneak into a picture with a celebrity / VIP as if they were close friends. Often followed by posting in on social media and using it as leverage to gain more 'rabbiting' opportunities.
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A person who is at a meeting with hundreds of others and manages to sneak into a picture with a celebrity / VIP as if they were close friends. Often followed by posting in on social media and using it as leverage to gain more 'rabbiting' opportunities.
Gosh, that lady is such a photo rabbit, posing with the Minister like that. He doesn't even know who she is!
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"Did you check out the prom pics? What's up with your face, you look like you have a case of photographic constipation."
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