davidrb
Loc: Half way there on the 45th Parallel
Why is a photograph referred to as a "shot"? Can photography and mixology be so similar? This imponderable has "bugged" people for years.
davidrb wrote:
Why is a photograph referred to as a "shot"? Can photography and mixology be so similar? This imponderable has "bugged" people for years.
Unless you're mentally up to it, doing weddings can make any photographer do shots.
Welcome to the Hog!
Welcome to the Hog.
If you take a shot after each shot you might be in bit of trouble. But if you take a shot after each shoot, it's ok.
Welcome to the Hog. A shot- short for snapshot as I I took a snapshot of...
davidrb
Loc: Half way there on the 45th Parallel
The logical response is "why a snapshot"? Why not a "snap photo"?
Just used "shot" in a post...going to edited it...lol :-)
davidrb wrote:
Why is a photograph referred to as a "shot"? Can photography and mixology be so similar? This imponderable has "bugged" people for years.
I've always thought of it more like a rifle shot. Proper stance, brace or steady rest if possible, breathing control, squeeze the trigger (um, I mean shutter button.)
Since my purchase of a D800, I've had to work on proper technique.
davidrb wrote:
The logical response is "why a snapshot"? Why not a "snap photo"?
Maybe a slap shot as in hockey instead? Where is this going? :)
No-one seems to know when the term "snapshot" was first coined, or by whom, in relation to a casual photograph. It was used in hunting and bird shooting way before the advent of the pocket camera, to describe a quick, perhaps un-aimed shot and perhaps this is where the term was "inherited" from. The term was not used in any of Eastman Kodak's early advertising material.
Both history and humor in one thread. LOVE this website! Welcome to the party, David.
If you are doing shots, REMEMBER...
"IT'S THE NEW GUY'S TURN TO BUY!"
Welcome aboard!
BHC
Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA
GoofyNewfie wrote:
davidrb wrote:
Why is a photograph referred to as a "shot"? Can photography and mixology be so similar? This imponderable has "bugged" people for years.
Unless you're mentally up to it, doing weddings can make any photographer do shots.
Welcome to the Hog!
Not to mention taking a shot at the bride's mother!
And night time photos are a shot in the dark.
davidrb wrote:
Why is a photograph referred to as a "shot"? Can photography and mixology be so similar? This imponderable has "bugged" people for years.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/snapshotOriginally a shooting term, meaning a shot taken with little or no delay in aiming. It first acquired a photographic meaning as early as the 1850s, when the first instantaneous exposures became possible. A writer in 1859 spoke of snapping the camera shutter at the subject and, in 1860, Sir John Herschel first used the word snapshot when discussing the possibility of taking a rapid sequence of instantaneous photographs to analyse motion. However, it is only since the 1880s, with the emergence of popular photography, that it has assumed its more common photographic association and popular usage. Following the introduction of cheap, easy-to-use hand cameras around the end of the 19th century, a snapshot has progressively come to mean a photograph taken by an unsophisticated amateur, using a simple camera.
so, that was the only issue you could raise today?
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