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Photographer's image

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.
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".
by mirno February 13, 2013
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photoshafted

Photoshafted foh-toh-shafted
To have become the victim of an image that has been manipulated for less than honorable outcome.
"I was photoshafted when my wife saw an image of me having a drink with a horse"
by WideGlide May 13, 2013
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photonegrosis

The process in which African Americans use solar energy to provide an extra power source with exerting themselves physically.
Ex. That boy D Yennings is too fast! Must have used his photonegrosis.
by Naheehs April 21, 2014
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photographic constipation

a phenomenon where a beautiful person appears to be in a state of discomfort, almost as if they were constipated, when they know their picture is being taken.
"Chandler what is the matter with your face?" - Friends s7e5

"Did you check out the prom pics? What's up with your face, you look like you have a case of photographic constipation."
by Manrique May 19, 2016
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photosexual

A person who likes to take pictures of themself and post them on social media to show off.
Peter is such a photosexual! Did you see how many pictures He posted from his vacation?
by simply word May 10, 2021
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Photop

Photop (app.photop.live) is a social media platform created by developer Robot_Engine. It has a very toxic community and has many active users. Most of the community is underage (the rules are 13+). The app is dead frequently but whenever there is drama, there is like 10 posts a minute. You should probably join for entertainment instead of binge watching Netflix, playing Fortnite, and not touching grass. (For extra credit you should follow the user @qaa.)
I’m chatting with other people in Photop right now!
by yudz qaa August 1, 2022
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knife photography

The act of taking photos of knives. Derived from the act of knife painting originally practised in medieval times.
Eric: "Can you let me into your kitchen, I'd like to do some knife photography?"

Chanisha: "Ok."
by ken_no_shashin February 26, 2013
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