{"id":1820,"date":"2008-12-12T07:15:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T23:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianramblings.com\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2008-12-12T07:15:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T23:15:23","slug":"photography-terms-and-phrases-in-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/photography-terms-and-phrases-in-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography Phrases in Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/old-camera-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1823\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/old-camera-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/old-camera-2.jpg?fit=222%2C268&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"222,268\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"old-camera-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/old-camera-2.jpg?fit=222%2C268&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/old-camera-2.jpg?fit=222%2C268&amp;ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1823 alignright\" title=\"old-camera-2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/old-camera-2.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, you find yourself in China (it <em>could<\/em> happen) &#8211; and you know no photography phrases in China. Your camera batteries are all charged, your CF card empty and waiting, but none of the interesting and colorful people understand what you say. Your &#8220;Say Cheese!&#8221; is greeted with blank stares (welcome to my world).<\/p>\n<p>Fear not! Below is a list of useful photography phrases in Chinese. For a translated camera gear list see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/chinese-photography-terms-how-do-you-say-camera-in-chinese\/\">how do you say camera in Chinese?<\/a><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 400px;\" border=\"2\" width=\"618\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>May I take your picture?<\/td>\n<td>\u53ef\u4ee5\u8b93\u6211\u62cd\u4e00\u5f35\u7167\u7247\u55ce?keyi rangwo pai yizhang zhaopian ma?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>One more, please.<\/td>\n<td>\u518d\u4f86\u4e00\u5f35, (\u53ef\u4ee5\u55ce?)<br \/>\nzailai yizhang (keyima ?)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Please be natural. \/ Feel free to be yourself.<\/td>\n<td>\u8981\u81ea\u7136\u4e00\u9ede \/ \u4e0d\u5fc5\u592a\u7d04\u675f<br \/>\nyao ziran yidian \/buyao tai jusu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Don&#8217;t need to smile \/ no smile necessary.<\/td>\n<td>\u53ef\u4ee5\u4e0d\u7528\u7b11<br \/>\nkeyi buyong xiao<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Don&#8217;t mind me [as I take your picture].<\/td>\n<td>\u4e0d\u5fc5\u7559\u610f\u6211<br \/>\nbubi liuy iwo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>No peace sign, please.<\/td>\n<td>\u8bf7\u4e0d\u8981\u505aV\u5f62\u624b\u52bf. Qing buyao zuo V xing shoushi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"color: white;\">s<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A list of useful photography phrases in Chinese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,46,7,19],"tags":[458,746,985],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-language","category-photography","category-travel","tag-madarin","tag-putonghua","tag-translated-into-chinese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chinese Photography Phrases | Mandarin Photography Phrases<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So, you find yourself in China (it could happen). 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