New terminology needed
Dec 15, 2015 10:20:35 #
Digital photography has created a new and rather miraculous form of capturing images by allowing us to stitch together hundreds, even thousands of images, that have the potential of revealing with great accuracy vast views. At present, we use the word "stitch" or "photomerge" but it would be better to have a proper term that is also flexible for creating additional terms from it. We have in English a word from ancient Greek that means "stitch", as in "rhapsody", which means "stitched song". After thinking about it for a while, even consulting with a great philologist (my friend Robert Lamberton), we came up with the term "photorapsy" that resembles photography and may also provide the adjective "photoraptic" or even the noun "photorapter", like photographer" and a verb "to photorapt".
Opinions and suggestions for discussion are welcome.
Sarantis
Opinions and suggestions for discussion are welcome.
Sarantis
Dec 15, 2015 10:32:34 #
ssymeono wrote:
Digital photography has created a new and rather m... (show quote)
Sarantis, why clutter up the language with more terminology that most will not comprehend. Stitching implies edge to edge fastening.
Thus stitched images are "laid out" side by side, or top to bottom, etc.
Merge is taking two images and combining them into one by overlaying one on the other and blending.
It's a lot simpler that way.
--Bob
Dec 15, 2015 10:34:10 #
You have my rapt attention, but if you wish to speak about stitching segments together edge to edge, why not "quilting"?
Dec 15, 2015 10:43:49 #
On stitching... What do you see when someone says stitching (beside quilting)?
So photography stitching? The same.
Stacking? Are you not stacking plates together by shape if not color?
So photography stacking? The same.
How about blending? Don't you do that when you chew in order to get the best taste and texture before you swallow?
So photography? The same
I can continue with almost every term. Just use your mind to see the relationship instead of complicating your life trying to find a description that already exist.
That you make a puree, serve it in a plate placed on a patchwork table cloth is no different than offering digital vomit on the web using a variety of browser to view it.
(Apologies to the the potatoes...)
So photography stitching? The same.
Stacking? Are you not stacking plates together by shape if not color?
So photography stacking? The same.
How about blending? Don't you do that when you chew in order to get the best taste and texture before you swallow?
So photography? The same
I can continue with almost every term. Just use your mind to see the relationship instead of complicating your life trying to find a description that already exist.
That you make a puree, serve it in a plate placed on a patchwork table cloth is no different than offering digital vomit on the web using a variety of browser to view it.
(Apologies to the the potatoes...)
Dec 15, 2015 10:50:54 #
Rongnongno wrote:
On stitching... What do you see when someone says... (show quote)
How about coupling since it probably F***s with a couple of perfectly good images? :mrgreen:
Dec 15, 2015 10:51:56 #
Bazbo
Loc: Lisboa, Portugal
ssymeono wrote:
Digital photography has created a new and rather m... (show quote)
"photoraptor"? Reminds me of birds of prey...
Dec 15, 2015 11:11:02 #
rmalarz wrote:
Sarantis, why clutter up the language with more terminology that most will not comprehend. Stitching implies edge to edge fastening.
Thus stitched images are "laid out" side by side, or top to bottom, etc.
Merge is taking two images and combining them into one by overlaying one on the other and blending.
It's a lot simpler that way.
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If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck why give it a new name??
--Bob
Thus stitched images are "laid out" side by side, or top to bottom, etc.
Merge is taking two images and combining them into one by overlaying one on the other and blending.
It's a lot simpler that way.
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If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck why give it a new name??
--Bob
Dec 15, 2015 11:57:54 #
quixdraw wrote:
How about coupling since it probably F***s with a couple of perfectly good images? :mrgreen:
Yes, the English Language is a work in progress! :lol:
Dec 16, 2015 02:15:35 #
Photoraptor - A creature who dives in on professional photographers at weddings and other events, snaps with his phone over the photographers shoulder, thereby helping kill the business of professional photography.
Dec 16, 2015 02:17:24 #
Mogul wrote:
Photoraptor - A creature who dives in on professional photographers at weddings and other events, snaps with his phone over the photographers shoulder, thereby helping kill the business of professional photography.
Err, that would be a photorasite...
Dec 16, 2015 03:27:01 #
Pablo8
Loc: Nottingham UK.
You call it what you like. We do NOT have to follow suit."If it 'aint broke, why TRY to mend it"?
Dec 16, 2015 04:53:21 #
Let's see..... Combining photos for a panorama with fuzzy edges on each shot could be photonit. If the edges are really bad, call it photochet ❗️❓❗️❓❗️❓
Dec 16, 2015 06:12:28 #
Dec 16, 2015 07:52:45 #
ssymeono wrote:
....we came up with the term "photorapsy" that resembles photography and may also provide the adjective "photoraptic" or even the noun "photorapter", like photographer" and a verb "to photorapt"
Sounds too much like "velociraptor." It suggests your going out to take pictures of dinosaurs. I like "stitch" - short and to the point. In some cases, shorter is better.
Dec 16, 2015 08:01:33 #
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