n. the art of taking pictures in a way that hides your true weight, so as to seem more attractive than you really are.
"So did you meet that chick you were talking to online?"
"Yeah...and you remember that really hot pic of her? Total fatography. She's 110% boom-boom."
"Yeah...and you remember that really hot pic of her? Total fatography. She's 110% boom-boom."
by Derv March 29, 2008
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After having studied the subject's underwear, the fartographer quickly deduced that the subject had eaten spicey food the night before and had good posture.
by scott liebman November 7, 2007
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A facetographer is someone who is under the false delusion that because they spent several hundred (sometimes thousands) dollars on DSLR camera of which they do not know how to use properly or refuse to learn properly, that they can take professional quality pictures. These people tend to start a 'photography company' page on facebook and convince people to pay them money to shoot horrible photography for ignorant and stupid customers. The typical facetographer usually reaches full denial mode when an actual professional photographer informs them of their complete lack of skill. They will go on a rant to that professional about how their photography is 'raw'.
Male Facetographers will typically claim that they are professionals in order to use naive girls in order to take racy pictures of them in an attempt to get laid. Female facetographers tend to believe that their use of facebook photo editing apps like 'Piknik' qualifies them to charge people to take their wedding pictures. AVOID FACETOGRAPHERS AT ALL COSTS.
Male Facetographers will typically claim that they are professionals in order to use naive girls in order to take racy pictures of them in an attempt to get laid. Female facetographers tend to believe that their use of facebook photo editing apps like 'Piknik' qualifies them to charge people to take their wedding pictures. AVOID FACETOGRAPHERS AT ALL COSTS.
This guy Louis on my friends list keeps posting all his horrible 'professional' photography. He's such a facetographer.
by Arealphotographer April 16, 2011
Get the facetographer mug.Fraudulent photography. News images that have been faked by various means, generally to promote an ideological agenda or to manipulate the emotions of the viewer. (Derived from a combination of the French term faux meaning “false,” and “-tography,” the second half of the word “photography.”)
The word was first used to describe the doctoring of photographs by Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj during the Lebanon War of 2006, and has since been generalized to mean any dishonest or faked news photo.
Methods for creating “fauxtographs” include: using Photoshop (or similar software) to digitally alter the photo; photographing staged scenes or simulated news events and presenting them as real; interfering with or manipulating photo subjects to creat a “more effective” picture; adding inaccurate and/or misleading captions.
The word was first used to describe the doctoring of photographs by Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj during the Lebanon War of 2006, and has since been generalized to mean any dishonest or faked news photo.
Methods for creating “fauxtographs” include: using Photoshop (or similar software) to digitally alter the photo; photographing staged scenes or simulated news events and presenting them as real; interfering with or manipulating photo subjects to creat a “more effective” picture; adding inaccurate and/or misleading captions.
"Since (in their world view) the ends justify the means, terrorist leaders, and their willing accomplices in the moonstream media, have employed fauxtography to deceive tens of millions of illiterate Muslims into believing faked atrocities. Many educated Muslims have been duped as well."
by (I am) John Doe February 1, 2008
Get the fauxtography mug.the crappy pictures of the sky or dead plants that scene kids take with their digital cameras and call it a hobby. They say photography is their passion, but we all know it's really fauxtography.
Wow, a picture of the sky. And I see you went on paint and added your name with a TM. Now no one can steal your fauxtography.
by JF. May 4, 2006
Get the fauxtography mug.Any person who believes that ownership of a camera marketed as 'semi pro' means that they're a photographer. Examples are usually found elbowing their way to the front of the press pit at concerts, having spun the press office a bullshit tale about them "shooting for a website". Invariably they're students or people who work in IT. I actually coined this term circa 2001 on a British professional photographer's forum - it might have been on f8andbethere.org - and it's subsequently been stolen by any number of togs who claimed to have been the originator of the term.
More recently, it's been coopted as fauxtograph and fauxtography, meaning the deceptive use of visual media to illustrate a story. Personally I don't think that makes sense, and certainly isn't how it was first used fifteen years ago.
More recently, it's been coopted as fauxtograph and fauxtography, meaning the deceptive use of visual media to illustrate a story. Personally I don't think that makes sense, and certainly isn't how it was first used fifteen years ago.
"I'm a photographer"
"No you're not; that's a £400 compact camera bought with your 20% staff discount from Jessops - what you are is a fucking fauxtographer, now get out of my damned way" *stabs offending student in the back of the head with the scalloped lens hood of a Canon f2.8 200mm IS*
"No you're not; that's a £400 compact camera bought with your 20% staff discount from Jessops - what you are is a fucking fauxtographer, now get out of my damned way" *stabs offending student in the back of the head with the scalloped lens hood of a Canon f2.8 200mm IS*
by Calthulhu February 16, 2015
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Peasant fauxtographer: Wow! My photos are just so good I should be a pro.
gutterminky: Is that pro as in prostitute?
Perhaps you should think about another career, like suicide, rather than producing peasant fauxtography which is utter garbage and shameful.
gutterminky: Is that pro as in prostitute?
Perhaps you should think about another career, like suicide, rather than producing peasant fauxtography which is utter garbage and shameful.
by gutterminky June 1, 2014
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