Every photo is a snapshot (Page 9): I agree with you. The OP is playing with words and since I am not good in English I can't really say right or wrong. Checking the dictionaries they...

BebuLamar

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?

I agree with you. The OP is playing with words and since I am not good in English I can't really say right or wrong. Checking the dictionaries they tend to define snapshot as casual photograph which doesn't take serious planning. Of course it has nothing to do with the quality of the image.

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RodeoMan wrote:

none, but that is not relevant
to my question.

My head hurts from trying to
find ANYTHING relevant to that
safari epic.

Likewise, there is no correct
answer to the dancing angels
question ... so "none" is out :-(

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Longshadow wrote:

∞ ?

Always room for one more ?
No one could ever deny that !

But what about the dancing ?
Do angels dance ? And if so,
do they ever do it on a pin ?

Mebbe they are too busy going
on safaris and worrying about
photo geekery and never have
a chance to dance ?

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

Longshadow wrote:

And since "quality" is relative to the viewer, what one person calls an photograph, another may call a snapshot.

Absolutely. Imagine a woman has three photographs before her. The first two are studio shots perfectly executed, one of her little boy and the other of her husband. The other is a poorly framed snapshot with distracting elements in the background of her husband holding their son taken just before he is deployed on a military assignment that he does not come back from. If heaven forbid, she were put in a position where she had to choose which picture to save, I think we both know which one it would be. Beauty is often in the eye of the beholder whether we are talking about photographs or people.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

RodeoMan wrote:

Absolutely. Imagine a woman has three photographs... (show quote)

But the one she would choose is still a snapshot. It just shows again that snapshots are not inherently inferior to planned shots.

joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

Can't imagine why it even matters. Call it what ever you want, it doesn't change the image.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

User ID wrote:

Always room for one more ?
No one could ever deny that !

But what about the dancing ?
Do angels dance ? And if so,
do they ever do it on a pin ?

Mebbe they are too busy going
on safaris and worrying about
photo geekery and never have
a chance to dance ?

Angels are SO light on their feet!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

RodeoMan wrote:

Absolutely. Imagine a woman has three photographs... (show quote)

I know a guy who was divorced when his child was ≈two. Never saw the child or mother again. He carried in his wallet a blurry picture of that child in a stroller until he died.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

BebuLamar wrote:

I agree with you. The OP is playing with words and since I am not good in English I can't really say right or wrong. Checking the dictionaries they tend to define snapshot as casual photograph which doesn't take serious planning. Of course it has nothing to do with the quality of the image.

That's the way I look at snapshots, taken without planning. IF one has to differentiate.

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JohnSwanda wrote:

But the one she would choose is still a snapshot.
It just shows again that snapshots are not inherently
inferior to planned shots.

Long ago, searching for a way to make snapshots,
I settled on a AE-only, fixed focus, non-zoom ultra
simple Super-8 camera. It solved the problem of
minimizing any attempt on my part to engage my
knowledge of hardware and process.

A Brownie box camera wouldn't solve the problem
cuz I know all its fixed settings and so I would be
too tempted to work in situations ideal for those
settings [etc etc ... etc]. But the "snapshot" movie
camera was a thing I could hardly outsmart, plus
the extra "problem" of motion ! Anywho, it was
verrrrrry liberating, being pretty much unable to
exercise any control other than pointing it :-)

Not saying that being out of control produced any
keepers. It's just that reviewing the footage really
opened my eyes. I got to see a world of recorded
images, scenes of my choosing but otherwise 99%
free of my influence or control.

davyboy Loc: Anoka Mn.

WOW!!!!!!

BebuLamar

Longshadow wrote:

That's the way I look at snapshots, taken without planning. IF one has to differentiate.

And there are photographs that the photographer think about it for a long time, creating the scenes or even creating the subjects. I don't say that these are always better than snapshots but they are certainly not snapshots.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

BebuLamar wrote:

And there are photographs that the photographer think about it for a long time, creating the scenes or even creating the subjects. I don't say that these are always better than snapshots but they are certainly not snapshots.

I agree.

davyboy Loc: Anoka Mn.

Longshadow wrote:

I agree.

I’m calling the photograph police on both of you snap shooters! How dare you ever confuse photographs with snap shots!

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

And I always thought that snappers were fish!