What is the meaning of photo freak?
Can we use the phrase for the person who likes very much to give poses(not in annoying way) for the photos?
Model is a professional. I m not talking about a normal person. Person who likes to be taken photos.
This is what I have been trying to ask. Then, what is the general meaning of photo freak?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?
Yes but I thought that photo freak, in general, means people who like to have [STRIKE]there[/STRIKE] their photographs taken.
OK, so you are now clear on the meaning? And on what it doesn't mean? ;-)
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.
"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.
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