The Devil's Photography Dictionary

[Steve Smith]

http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/11/the-devils-photography-dictionary

Written in jest, but a lot of the points are quite valid, especially this one:

Image Stabilization – a technologic triumph consisting of lenses, magnets, position sensors, springs, and electric motors that is nearly as effective as 3 sticks of wood attached to a base plate. See also, Tripod.

Steve.

 

[Cobra]

Good find

Wedding Photography, n. – A complex form of photography that consists of first of making hysterical people appear calm and joyous, and later making sloppy-drunk people appear pleasantly tipsy. The purpose is to create a beautiful album of images that statistically has a 54% chance of being ripped into little pieces within 5 years.

 

[magicaxeman]

Macro - Taking big pictures of little things

nb: not to be confused with amateur porn photography

 

[Gazamonk]

Lol. My favourite, I love anything that takes the mick out of lens nerds and pixel peepers

Sharpness – The amount of fine detail visible in an image before it is compressed to 1/10 th its original size to post online

 

[Gazamonk]

They also forgot....

LENS DUST: Microscopic particles which can mysteriously appear to be the size of boulders to people some of whom would normally have to squint at a newspaper to read the text. Bizarre.