Why do we say "image", instead of photograph or picture
Jun 22, 2020 10:39:07 #
Jun 22, 2020 11:08:56 #
Image has multiple meanings depending on the setting in which used. “He projected am image” could mean: he was operating a slide image onto a screen: or he strutted in his fancy cap.
Jun 22, 2020 11:10:33 #
Us amateur astrophotographers are a Hoity Toity bunch and we have to use image instead of picture or photo because it confirms our suspicions that We are somehow above all the fray. 🤓🔭🤪
Jun 22, 2020 11:40:51 #
Opsafari
Loc: Roodepoort South Africa
Nancysc wrote:
I first noticed the use of "image" about ten years ago at a photography workshop. Now I hear it all the time in YouTube videos about photography. Is there a reason for this usage?
I think that thoughts are changing by the years! A photographer captures scenes or memories with his camera and the final product is called a photo. In the Dot Com World today an iminator(?) takes his digitizer to collect images and the output is called images or graphic art! Will we say today we are going on an Images Safari to capture images of wildlife? I’m old school in the Dot Com World! I call myself a photographer, using a camera (digital) to capture photos and edit them on a computer (modern darkroom) and if the work (image as the pc calls them images in the various directories) stays on the pc I still refer to it as photos. MTC.
Jun 22, 2020 11:44:39 #
Jun 22, 2020 12:21:10 #
Sounds "classier" and more "artistic" or "elegant" than photo, picture, pic or shot... They're all interchangeable at the user's discretion.
Jun 22, 2020 12:24:01 #
cahale
Loc: San Angelo, TX
Grey Ghost wrote:
Just remember that a rose buy any other name is still a rose!
I don't think a rose can "buy" any other name.
Jun 22, 2020 12:31:32 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
If it came only from a camera and was physically printed, it might be a photo. But, after having been processed on a computer, such as the combination of several photos into something new, it's an image. 'Image' is a broader catch-all category that doesn't require caveats regarding source, processing, physical media, so forth. And, less characters to type ...
Jun 22, 2020 12:51:33 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
If it came only from a camera and was physically printed, it might be a photo. But, after having been processed on a computer, such as the combination of several photos into something new, it's an image. 'Image' is a broader catch-all category that doesn't require caveats regarding source, processing, physical media, so forth. And, less characters to type ...
My thoughts exactly, especially after the processing.
Jun 22, 2020 13:50:31 #
Nancysc wrote:
I first noticed the use of "image" about ten years ago at a photography workshop. Now I hear it all the time in YouTube videos about photography. Is there a reason for this usage?
Images are images...regardless of the medium: photograph, etching, drawing, watercolor, pastel, oils , finger painting, sand mandalas, realistic representational or surrealistic renderings, doodles on a napkin or envelope...(not meant to be a complete list...!)
As such, there are many features common to them all that are our bases for considering image quality: impact, composition, detail rendition, contrast, tonal and color characteristics and management. The image is a common medium of artistic/ creative expression and use of the term “image” merely recognizes their common features and attributes and their essentially universal appeal as a means of personal creative expression.
JMCO!
Dave
Jun 22, 2020 14:00:44 #
TheShoe
Loc: Lacey, WA
burkphoto wrote:
Imaging is the larger set of arts and technology. It encompasses photography, typography, vector and bitmap graphics, video, film... Any or all of these (and more) can be combined to create an image or image medium.
Don't forget the category of Medical Imaging - x-rays, scans of various types (MRI, CT, PET, etc.), sonograms, ...
Jun 22, 2020 14:05:35 #
Jun 22, 2020 14:22:04 #
I would have to say that a picture or a photograph is something that is on film and an image Is something that is digital.
Jun 22, 2020 14:29:57 #
oregonfrank
Loc: Astoria, Oregon
CHG_CANON wrote:
You are what your images say you are.
Hardly. There is much to me than the photos I take. Frank
Jun 22, 2020 14:30:25 #
Lucasdv123 wrote:
I would have to say that a picture or a photograph is something that is on film and an image Is something that is digital.
No, calling photos "images" way predates digital. And both "picture" and "image" are terms that include much more than just photographs.
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