Every photo is a snapshot.
JohnSwanda wrote:
I guess you weren't around for the film and darkroom era. Photographs have been edited and manipulated way before digital cameras and software came along. I never considered a film photograph finished until I made the most out of it in the darkroom.
It just seems to me that for all the $money$ we pay for our equipment we have to do an awful lot of adjusting the image to make them presentable for a lot of photographers. The only cameras I have owned, the only two that I felt never showed any need for ps were my Canonet with Kodachrome 64, and my Sony R-1. Still have both of them and wouldn't give them up for anything.
Bill P wrote:
Or photographer/computer technician.
Photographer/Image Editor would work.
But since using an editor is part of the process, how about
photographer?
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?
Looks like you and the op are both right. Fr ok m the dictionary.
1..A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a moment of opportunity.
He carried a snapshot of his daughter.
2..A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
The article offered a snapshot of life in that region.
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.
You are incorrect. There is a specific difference between a photograph that has been planned and one that has not. I'm not going to go into detail as this topic has been discussed many, many, many times and, quite frankly, it doesn't deserve any more of my time. I will say that, some snapshots are indeed exceptional photographs.
anotherview wrote:
I sense the OP meant to describe his own style of taking pictures, as doing snapshots.
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And I’m glad to see such a wide range of comments.
[quote=Vince68]A snapshot to me is if I just take a photo with no planning or thinking about it at all... spur of the moment, see something and shoot it. Many photos I took years ago were taken exactly like that. I just shot them without any thought, such as vacation shots, documenting where I was. Now, with shots like that, I at least think about the scene, composition, light, etc. I still consider them snapshots, but I thought about them a little before pressing the shutter."
This is pretty much where I’m at too although I’ve not done any formal training, just watching lots of YouTube videos, some good, most pretty bad. One that I saw talked about working the scene. That one struck a bell and I try to do that more often than not.
A photograph can be an image;
an image can be a statue;
a statue can be an effigy;
an effigy can be a puppet;
a puppet can be an instrument;
a camera is an instrument;
does that mean a camera can be a photograph?
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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?
What use ? Well, it's "inspired" 6 pages of wasted electrons thus far ....
User ID wrote:
What use ? Well, it's "inspired" 6 pages of wasted electrons thus far ....
Nothing new on this forum.
davyboy wrote:
How long must one plan a shot before it qualifies as photograph?
From powering up your camera until clicking the shutter.
AirWalter wrote:
It just seems to me that for all the $money$ we pay for our equipment we have to do an awful lot of adjusting the image to make them presentable for a lot of photographers. The only cameras I have owned, the only two that I felt never showed any need for ps were my Canonet with Kodachrome 64, and my Sony R-1. Still have both of them and wouldn't give them up for anything.
I had an R1, sold it to buy a Canon G12 - one of my most regrettable mistakes. Sold the G12 to enter the world of M43 with a Panny G1. That made up for selling the R1, which was superb but pretty heavy. (Nick-named "Bigboy").
Delderby wrote:
From powering up your camera until clicking the shutter.
It all depends on how many sleeves a left hands vest has directly after sunday's edition of Saturday school of lions commenced to complete a trip up memory alley while downing two pints of the finest bath tub Scotch tape dispenser with single sided dual glow apartment keys and dispenser.
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