Jeff Carter
Location Kuna, ID USA
Bio I love my family to the power of infinity & am a humble dad, husband, cook, photographer & Metarazzist.
I’ve been doing photography since 1977 when I built my first pinhole camera and developed my own black and white prints. A long time later in 1995 I added color print development to my repertoire for my 35mm prints. In 2000 I began developing digital images of my dSLR photos. ”Developing digital photos?” You bet! Anyone can take pictures. But a photographer edits their pictures. And by editing I not only mean deleting the ones that are not useful, but also artistically enhancing images to create a unique visual aspect for each picture. This is what distinguishes me as a photographer. This is what distinguishes me as a “Metarazzist.”
Coming up with the name was the hard part. Explaining the name is a little easier.
I was trying to come up with a domain name for a teaching blog I wanted to publish. So many of the good domain names were taken (save Metarazzi). I was also trying to get a domain name that best described the soul of the blog, and of course was a unique name. After days and days of thinking and dreaming and writing myriads of ideas down and checking Whois, finally I came up with something that seemed significant and catchy to me. Alas, the blog never launched, but I liked the domain name and that I coined a new term, so I decided to use it to re-brand myself and my passion for photography.
shutter: Photographic sense of “device for opening and closing the aperture of a lens” is recorded from 1862.
shutter-bug: “enthusiastic amateur photographer” is recorded from 1940.
Metarazzi, therefore, is the passionate art of a photographer — shutterbugs to professionals — altering their digital photography to an artistically inspired level of creativity after the photograph has been captured. This does not necessarily mean that a photographic image is Photoshopped a little or a lot. Well, it could mean that, too, but in another sense it also means the creative ways that your use your digital images after you get them out of your camera. Or, as I like to say…
“Metarazzi… picture perfect after the shot.”
I just found another reference to the term, reflective of a similarly-minded person giving meaning to the term, where as early as October 2010 the blogger defines Metarazzi as:
“…an information and communication technology term used to refer to digital photojournalists who specialize in candid photography or video of life with all its mutations and other prominent moments.” — PC Walker
