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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

gvarner wrote:

Not really. I just wanted a dialogue recognizing that there is a fine line between what some may disparagingly view as a "snapshot" and what they consider to be "real" photography. To me it’s a matter of how much time goes into planning the photo. For many experienced photographers, this can be done almost instantaneously. For the inexperienced, it may be a bit of a struggle and take too much time so they just point and shoot.

Angel Star Photography Loc: Tacoma, WA

DirtFarmer wrote:

A snapshot in LR or PS may be a photograph, but in that case the term refers to a particular point in the editing history. And the term may mean something similar in other sequential operations.

Indeed! In the world of cloud computing and virtual machines (VMware, VirtualBox, Openstack, Linux KVM, etc.) a snapshot is a capture or image of a machine's current state, configuration, and data that can be used to restore the machine if needed.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

DirtFarmer wrote:

A snapshot in LR or PS may be a photograph, but in that case the term refers to a particular point in the editing history. And the term may mean something similar in other sequential operations.

Could also be a rubber band used as a pain inducing implement.
(But I think we all know it's referring to a picture.)

Angel Star Photography Loc: Tacoma, WA

gvarner wrote:

Every photo is a snapshot, an image capture in a moment in time. Some are just planned more than others. Some are planned a lot more than others. And some are just impulsive, seemingly unplanned shots - something of interest, lift the camera, point, shoot. This is what I do more often than not.

Sometimes, a snapshot can become something more. There are times when I am just not really into what I am doing---just wandering around with my camera with no concept in mind---and I will often take a shot that may have a little something of interest knowing that I do not really plan to do anything with it. At times it is just practicing. Yet, upon reviewing and preparing to trash the photos in Lightroom, a spark will occur and my thoughts turn to making something out of the shot. Here, the planning and work is after the shot and quite often long after the shot. However, it still remains that there was considerably more time given to the image. The time given to an image whether it be before or after the shot is the determining factor as to whether the image will be classified as a snapshot or a photograph. If one simply points and shoots and nothing more then the image, in my opinion, is a snapshot.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

gvarner wrote:

Every photo is a snapshot, an image capture in a moment in time. Some are just planned more than others. Some are planned a lot more than others. And some are just impulsive, seemingly unplanned shots - something of interest, lift the camera, point, shoot. This is what I do more often than not.

Every photo is a capture, every photo produces an image, every photo captures light, every photo is electronic. But not every photo is a snapshot.

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

I have seen the work of a certain photographer who regards "snapshots" disparagingly, yet his photographs are certainly no better.

Pablo8 Loc: Nottingham UK.

gvarner wrote:

It seems that I have struck a nerve. 😉😉

What did you expect??

Collhar Loc: New York City.

Curmudgeon wrote:

Here we go again.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

JohnSwanda wrote:

I would disagree with that definition of a snapshot. I feel it excludes prior planning. Would you consider photos shot with a view camera, or really any photo shot with a tripod to be snapshots? If every photo is a snapshot, what use is the term snapshot?

Agree. I take plenty of snapshots when traveling, and then I also do photography - planned photographs, sometimes on planned trips specifically for the purpose of doing photography.

russelray Loc: La Mesa CA

If I added "in time" to "snapshot," then I would agree that every photograph is a snapshot in time.

Dannj

mwsilvers wrote:

So are you suggesting that something like a formal family portrait is a snapshot, or that the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, or Ansel Adams were snapshots? The term snapshot is almost always used to differentiate non-serious photographs from serious ones.

I wasn’t suggesting anything...just pointing out that two respected dictionaries provide different definitions. I’m

Dannj

JohnSwanda wrote:

Snapshots are photographs, but not all photographs are snapshots.

That works for me😊

Dannj

billnikon wrote:

Every photo is a capture, every photo produces an image, every photo captures light, every photo is electronic. But not every photo is a snapshot.

Electronic?...not sure what you mean by that.

Retina Loc: Near Charleston,SC

russelray wrote:

If I added "in time" to "snapshot," then I would agree that every photograph is a snapshot in time.

The word snapshot in photography has a specific and unambiguous meaning which was already described in an earlier reply. This thread seems to be the result of taking back a term that has been borrowed for unrelated areas and re-applying these expanded meanings again to photography. It helps to recognize there is a formal meaning as well a number of other later meanings given its common usage in the language, and then not confuse the two. At the same time, it is tempting for some to take advantage of the potential for misinterpretation, sit back, and enjoy what follows.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

gvarner wrote:

Every photo is a snapshot, an image capture in a moment in time. Some are just planned more than others. Some are planned a lot more than others. And some are just impulsive, seemingly unplanned shots - something of interest, lift the camera, point, shoot. This is what I do more often than not.

I get it.