Photography, like just about any other profession, has its own it unique language. I often find myself working with a client and saying things only to realize that the client doesn’t understand what I’m talking about. This can be especially frustrating if you’re somebody who takes up photography as a hobby and then you go online and you try to read something and you can’t understand half of the words that are being used.

For my latest video I asked everyone in my group, (Pro Photo Talk with Booray) to give me some words and terms that only photographers use. I ended up with a whole a lot more than I could use in just one video so I suspect this might just be part 1.

If you’ve ever wondered what chimping means or crushed blacks or blown out then this is the video that explains it all.

How to talk like a photographer: