Photo freak.

[david11]

What is the meaning of photo freak?

 

[emsr2d2]

What is the meaning of photo freak?

Context please. Can you post the whole sentence where you found this? I know what I would guess but I don't want to get it wrong for you.

 

[david11]

Are you a photo freak? Meaning you have to take pictures of everything you do?

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I saw the above sentence in Google search.[/FONT]​

 

[emsr2d2]

In that context, it's either someone who really likes to take photos and photographs everything (probably in a quite annoying way!) or just someone who really likes photographs (perhaps looking at them, buying them etc).

 

[david11]

Can we use the phrase for the person who likes very much to give poses(not in annoying way) for the photos?

 

[emsr2d2]

Can we use the phrase for the person who likes very much to give poses(not in annoying way) for the photos?

Do you mean someone who poses for photos (like a model)?

 

[david11]

Model is a professional. I m talking about a normal person. Person who likes to be taken photos.

 

[spongie]

There are many similar expressions - control freak, computer freak etc.

They usually mean that someone does something a lot and is hooked on this particular thing.

 

[emsr2d2]

Model is a professional. I m not talking about a normal person. Person who likes to be taken photos.

Sorry, I didn't mean that you actually meant "a model", it was just that you said "someone who gives poses" - "to pose" is the verb, someone who "gives poses" might be the photographic director or the photographer, giving instructions to someone else on how to pose.

A person who likes to have their photograph taken and is always posing whenever someone picks up a camera could be called an exhibitionist (although that does not have to involve cameras). I can't think of any other term (well, I did think of a couple but I Googled them and they don't mean quite the same thing). My flatmate is a photographer and he said they don't really have a word for people who immediately throw themselves in front of a camera every time it appears!

 

[david11]

My flatmate is a photographer and he said they don't really have a word for people who immediately throw themselves in front of a camera every time it appears!

This is what I have been trying to ask. Then, what is the general meaning of photo freak?

 

[emsr2d2]

This is what I have been trying to ask. Then, what is the general meaning of photo freak?

Did you read post #4 in which I gave you two possible meanings for "photo freak"?

 

[david11]

Yes but I thought that photo freak ,in general,means people who like to have there photographs taken.

 

[emsr2d2]

Yes but I thought that photo freak, in general, means people who like to have [STRIKE]there[/STRIKE] their photographs taken.

OK. You asked what it means. I gave you two possible meanings. You then asked if it can also mean someone who likes to pose for photos. I said no. I'm not sure what other information I can give you.

 

[david11]

You got me completely wrong. I was just trying to say that I misunderstood the phrase first and later with your explanation I corrected myself.

 

[emsr2d2]

OK, so you are now clear on the meaning? And on what it doesn't mean? ;-)

 

[david11]

OK, so you are now clear on the meaning? And on what it doesn't mean? ;-)

Certainly.I always see your replies completely satisfying.

Your post which I quoted has an informal way of asking question. I remember seeing a thread related to it a few days ago. Can that way of asking question used in written English?.By the way, what is the meaning of wink?(smiley that you have used).

 

[Tullia]

A person who likes to have their photograph taken and is always posing whenever someone picks up a camera could be called an exhibitionist (although that does not have to involve cameras). I can't think of any other term (well, I did think of a couple but I Googled them and they don't mean quite the same thing). My flatmate is a photographer and he said they don't really have a word for people who immediately throw themselves in front of a camera every time it appears!

I have heard the terms "lens whore" and "lens hog" for such a person, but neither is especially flattering, especially the first. I've just searched them on Google myself and neither has returned many hits which makes me think that they aren't really in common usage, and perhaps are local/specialist, but I think the meaning is reasonably easily apparent so most English speakers would infer it. I'd be very careful before calling anyone, especially a lady, a "lens whore" though!


There is a phrase becoming more common in youthful Br Eng to describe the act of making sure you are in every possible picture, and it is known as "photobombing", although it has connotations more of making sure you are in pictures you weren't meant to be in, and possibly trying to spoil them or pull the focus away from what was intended.

 

[emsr2d2]

I have heard the terms "lens whore" and "lens hog" for such a person, but neither is especially flattering, especially the first. I've just searched them on Google myself and neither has returned many hits which makes me think that they aren't really in common usage, and perhaps are local/specialist, but I think the meaning is reasonably easily apparent so most English speakers would infer it. I'd be very careful before calling anyone, especially a lady, a "lens whore" though!


There is a phrase becoming more common in youthful Br Eng to describe the act of making sure you are in every possible picture, and it is known as "photobombing", although it has connotations more of making sure you are in pictures you weren't meant to be in, and possibly trying to spoil them or pull the focus away from what was intended.

"Camera whore" was one of the phrases I came up with and then Googled, only to find it didn't mean quite what I had thought. My photographer flatmate told me that a camera whore, in photographers' parlance, is someone who buys lots and lots of cameras, has to have all the photography gadgets and spends a fortune at camera exhibitions.

 

[Tullia]

"Camera whore" was one of the phrases I came up with and then Googled, only to find it didn't mean quite what I had thought. My photographer flatmate told me that a camera whore, in photographers' parlance, is someone who buys lots and lots of cameras, has to have all the photography gadgets and spends a fortune at camera exhibitions.

Yes, that construction of noun+whore works for many things; I've heard many, including DVD-whore, techno-whore, shoe-whore, bag-whore... I've even been known to refer to myself as a "stationery-whore" because of my love for multi-coloured post-it notes, highlighters, plastic wallets and notbooks of every shape and size! I think all are capable of being used in a pejorative sense or in a joking, self-deprecating sense, so as in all things, context is key.

 

[emsr2d2]

Oh, I am a notebook whore!!