tlitody
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Boke is an English word, or rather an old Scottish word meaning gag or vomit.
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Boke is an English word, or rather an old Scottish word meaning gag or vomit.
mich8261
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Roger, the French-Canadians are even more serious about preservation than l'académie. The French-Canadian translation of the "French" words mail, parking et drug are courriel, stationnement et pharmacie. And as for the télécopieur, I once had a client tell me to expect a bélinographe from him.
Salutations,
Michel
kuzano
Veteran
Always say "ze" in front of any term used....
Always say "ze" in front of any term used....
as in "ze cameera", "ze feeelm", "ze pozeer", "ze one hour processeer", "ze Toylette, as in I muust goh!"
I think it's a proper replacement for the article "the".
I could be wrong, but that's not typical of me.
Always say "ze" in front of any term used....
as in "ze cameera", "ze feeelm", "ze pozeer", "ze one hour processeer", "ze Toylette, as in I muust goh!"
I think it's a proper replacement for the article "the".
I could be wrong, but that's not typical of me.
Rob-F
Likes Leicas
OK, I got one. I mean, "J'ai un." Nobody offered the word for "camera." It is, for a still camera, "appareil photographique." A "camera" is a motion picture camera, but as I understand it, not a still camera.
Rob-F
Likes Leicas
I think "ze" is really what the French say when trying to fake "the" when speaking English. You know, like some of us have to fake the French "R" sound, with varying degrees of success. They have't formed the habit to make the "th" by placing the tongue behind the front upper teeth.
Haigh
Gary Haigh
Can't be of much help: I think "film" is pellicule or sometimes just plain "film". There are two terms I am familiar with and like: Digital is "numerique" and analogue is "argentique". The later makes sense since it is french for "silver". Enjoy your trip and oh, those croissants.
skibeerr
Well-known
Can't do any better than Greyelm.
Wim
Wim
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skibeerr
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And I persist Bokeh c'est "Flou artistique".
Cordialement,
Wim
Cordialement,
Wim
sanmich
Veteran
Copy stand = banc de reproduction (it sounds perfectly pornographic but isn't🙂)
copy lights = eclairage? (means "lighting")
camera shake = Bouge (sounds "boojay" no accents on my keyboard)
, bracketing: I think "they" use the English word
, highlights/shadows = "hautes lumieres", "basses lumieres" or "ombres"
"blown out" = brulees (hautes lumieres); bloques (ombres)
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong,
It's a long time I haven't use that kind of French...
sanmich
Veteran
I think "flou artistique" refers to a slightly blurry subject, not to the out of focus areas.
But Roger and his Thambar may know better 😉
gekopaca
French photographer
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bokeh
Etymology
From Japanese 暈け (boke, “blur”), the nominalized form of the verb 暈ける (bokeru, “to blur”).
The terminal -h (by comparison with the romanization boke) is a pronunciation guide, so that it is not pronounced as IPA: /boʊk/ as it would under standard English orthography. Contrast karate, karaoke, which have undergone sound change.
Used since at least 1996,[1] with spelling bokeh popularized by editor Mike Johnston in the March/April 1997 issue of Photo Techniques magazine, which featured three commissioned articles on the topic, Johnston writing:
“it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable”.[2]
http://dictionnaire.sensagent.com/bokeh/fr-fr/
Étymologie de bokeh
Le terme vient du japonais boke (ぼけ?) que l’on traduit par flou ou de bokashi, qui décrit la gradation de couleurs dans la gravure japonaise sur bois[1].
Si le terme est aujourd’hui couramment utilisé par les internautes amateurs de photographie, le terme n’est apparu dans les livres de photographie qu’à la fin des années 1990.
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David67
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I would say bokeh, and I'm French, but a non-photographer would not understand the word. He would just say "flou" or "flou d'arrière plan" to specify it is in the background. Flou artistique, to me, would not necessarily refer to the background bokeh. More like soft focus technique a la David Hamilton.
A camera always mean a "motion picture" / video camera in French. A still picture camera would be a "appareil photo" (saying the full "appareil photographique" would definitely has a 19th century feeling).
And a zoom is a zoom !
Enjoy the trip, and ze croissant in ze café au lait ;-)
A camera always mean a "motion picture" / video camera in French. A still picture camera would be a "appareil photo" (saying the full "appareil photographique" would definitely has a 19th century feeling).
And a zoom is a zoom !
Enjoy the trip, and ze croissant in ze café au lait ;-)
kubilai
Established
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Cher Michel,
Here in France a courriel is an e-mail, courrier electronique, which I quite like; un parking is a parking-lot but 'no parking' is stationnement interdit; pharmacie is the French for what in English is called a chemist's, and in American a drugstore; and a drug is a médicament, except when it's a Russian camera.
Bélinographe is a wonderful word!
Cheers,
R.
gekopaca
French photographer
You persist… but you're wrong 🙂
"flou artistique" concerns the subject itself, generally a kind of "mauvais-goût à la David Hamilton".
Bokeh is "bokeh" (for specialists) or "flou d'arrière-plan" (for "monsieur tout-le-monde")
Cheers
skibeerr
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tlitody
Well-known
Yes I know about that but native Japanese doesn't use the Latin alphabet and boke was an english word before someone created the english phonetically similar word to the japanese word. 😉
tapesonthefloor
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Ah, yes, that reflects my frustrating life-long inability to stop calling tele lenses zoom lenses. The fact that I am so rarely in contact with either must be playing a role in that.
Either way, oops. Imma edit that post now.
Darkhorse
pointed and shot
Sorry I left this thread as soon as I made it. I made a list of some helpful terms that should help.
I think I should learn some phrases while shooting photos with my M on the streets of Paris. "May I take a photo of you?" is one. But what is the proper verb? Do you take (prendre) photos or make (faire) photos in French? May and Can are used differently in English than in French, correct? So how do I use pouvoir? Maybe I'm thinking too hard about this.
I think I should learn some phrases while shooting photos with my M on the streets of Paris. "May I take a photo of you?" is one. But what is the proper verb? Do you take (prendre) photos or make (faire) photos in French? May and Can are used differently in English than in French, correct? So how do I use pouvoir? Maybe I'm thinking too hard about this.
David67
Member
You can use prendre or faire
don't get excited about may or can equivalent in French. Just say "puis-je faire/prendre une photo de vous s'il vous plait". Politeness plus a nice English accent might work. I would however expect quite a few refusals, as in most Western countries. French are quite private about their image (privacy laws are stricter than in the UK for instance).
don't get excited about may or can equivalent in French. Just say "puis-je faire/prendre une photo de vous s'il vous plait". Politeness plus a nice English accent might work. I would however expect quite a few refusals, as in most Western countries. French are quite private about their image (privacy laws are stricter than in the UK for instance).
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