Vocabulario para un fotógrafo

[PIKI]

me gusta fotografia, cual es bien palabras para aprender, como se dice palabras como, camera, flash, tripod, backdrops, background, composition, smile, say cheese (an equivalent in spanish), lens, or anything else anyone can think of that relates to photography

[Jessica]

Originally Posted by PIKI

me gusta fotografia, cual es bien palabras para aprender, como se dice palabras como, camera, flash, tripod, backdrops, background, composition, smile, say cheese (an equivalent in spanish), lens, or anything else anyone can think of that relates to photography

Smile: sonrisa
camera: cámara
say Cheese: I don't know about this. The food kind is queso, but it wouldn't make sense if you were posing for a picture.
Tripod: http://www.tomisimo.org/dictionary/spanish_english/tripod
backdrops:
flash: flash http://www.tomisimo.org/dictionary/spanish_english/flash
composition: http://www.tomisimo.org/dictionary/spanish_english/composition
background: http://www.tomisimo.org/dictionary/s...ish/background
lens: http://www.tomisimo.org/dictionary/spanish_english/lens

I hope this can be some help

[Tomisimo]

photographer = fotógrafo

[Jessica]

oh a photo would be...
foto

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by jchen

oh a photo would be...
foto

Just "foto" without the accent mark, or "fotografía". "foto" is short for "fotografía".

[Jessica]

ah I see

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Camera: cámara
Flash: flash
Tripod: trípode
Composition: composición
Smile: sonríe/sonría/sonrían (imperative form of "sonreír")
Say cheese: dí/diga/digan "whiskey" (in Mexico)
Lens: lente/objetivo
Film: rollo de película
Shutter: obturador
Shooting: disparo


@Piki: I suggest you to read camera manuals in Spanish so you can find specific vocabulary that cannot be given in lists... most of them can be found online at the camera brand websites.

[sosia]

In Spain, some people say "patata" instead of Cheese"
Agree with Angelica. A two idiom manual it's the best way.
Saludos

[PIKI]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

Camera: cámara
Flash: flash
Tripod: trípode
Composition: composición
Smile: sonríe/sonría/sonrían (imperative form of "sonreír")
Say cheese: dí/diga/digan "whiskey" (in Mexico)
Lens: lente/objetivo
Film: rollo de película
Shutter: obturador
Shooting: disparo


@Piki: I suggest you to read camera manuals in Spanish so you can find specific vocabulary that cannot be given in lists... most of them can be found online at the camera brand websites.

thanks thats a very good idea, I read the manuals in english and never once thought about downloading one in spanish, thanks again that will help a lot, i should have thought of that

[Fazor]

Mi novia es un photógrafo profesional. Nosotros conocíamos a las escuela de arte. Estudiaba animación en al pasado.

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by Fazor

Mi novia es una fotógrafa profesional. Nosotros conocimos en las escuela de arte. Estudiaba animación en el pasado.

There's no need to add en el pasado. The verb tense already tells us that. The sentence means 'she was studying animation (when we met).' You could switch to the preterite tense to indicate that that course of study had an end.

[Fazor]

Isn't "Estudiaba" the yo past imperfect form? I was studying animation when we met, she's always been a camera monkey. (I joke with her that she has three years of school to tell her how to push the button on the camera, and that a monkey could do it. She doesn't find the joke as funny as I do. Go figure.)

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by Fazor

Isn't "Estudiaba" the yo past imperfect form? I was studying animation when we met ...

Yes, it is. It is also the third-person form, so without a subject pronoun to steer me in the right direction, I was thinking you were referring to your girlfriend again.

[Fazor]

Oh, yeah. Sorry forgot they're the same in that tense. :d'oh: I'm still in the processes of memorizing the (standard) tenses without having to verify them, and since the meaning was clear to me, I didn't look at the el/ella/usted form and catch that it'd need clarification.

[PIKI]

Originally Posted by Fazor

Isn't "Estudiaba" the yo past imperfect form? I was studying animation when we met, she's always been a camera monkey. (I joke with her that she has three years of school to tell her how to push the button on the camera, and that a monkey could do it. She doesn't find the joke as funny as I do. Go figure.)

lol, i wouldnt find that funny either, im into photography myself, im still studying though, but I dont think a monkey could do it lol

[Fazor]

Originally Posted by PIKI

. . . but I dont think a monkey could do it lol

Neither do I, but that doesn't stop me from teasing her from time to time.

She's really good at it anyway, so it doesn't really bother her.

I can send you the link to her flickr account if you want to see her pictures; though they're mostly portraiture, which is how she earns her money, but not what she's most interested in doing.

[PIKI]

Originally Posted by Fazor

Neither do I, but that doesn't stop me from teasing her from time to time.

She's really good at it anyway, so it doesn't really bother her.

I can send you the link to her flickr account if you want to see her pictures; though they're mostly portraiture, which is how she earns her money, but not what she's most interested in doing.

Yeah send it, I like portraiture, sports and glamour photography, I mainly like shooting (taking pictures of) people, im best at sports taking action shots.
tu novia habla espanol o estudiando espanol como tu?

[Fazor]

Originally Posted by PIKI

. . .tu novia habla espanol o estudiando espanol como tu?

No. Ella estudiaba la idioma en escuela, pero no puede comprendar aun. Sus abuela es panameña. Es por que yo digo a ella que necesita saberse español.

Did I use the reflexive right in that last sentence?

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by Fazor

No, ella estudiaba el idioma en la escuela, pero aún no lo puede comprender. Sus abuela es panameña. Por eso (yo) le digo a ella que necesita saberse español.

Did I use the reflexive right in that last sentence?

Yes, saberse communicates a thorough knowledge.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Slight disagreement: "Necesita saber español" would be the right choice to talk about Spanish as the whole language.

In any case, (still a little forced) the sentence needs an article "ella necesita saberse el español".

It's not the same "saberse un poema de memoria" ("to know a poem by heart") as "saber una lengua" ("to know a language")