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Jul 5, 2019 08:24:08   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
davyboy wrote:
I’m calling the photograph police on both of you snap shooters! How dare you ever confuse photographs with snap shots!

I'm not confused.

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Jul 5, 2019 09:19:42   #
JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco
 
davyboy wrote:
I’m calling the photograph police on both of you snap shooters! How dare you ever confuse photographs with snap shots!


Snapshots ARE photographs.

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Jul 5, 2019 09:28:52   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
JohnSwanda wrote:
Snapshots ARE photographs.


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Jul 5, 2019 09:30:21   #
Delderby Loc: Derby UK
 
Snapshots are for photographers whose brains work faster.

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Jul 5, 2019 09:46:35   #
dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia
 
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.



"Term of art" means a word or phrase that has a precise, specialized meaning within a particular field or profession.

Snapshot is a term of art that has a meaning in the world of photography.

I think Wikipedia does a fairly good job on this term:

"A snapshot is a photograph that is "shot" spontaneously and quickly, most often without artistic or journalistic intent.

Snapshots are commonly technically "imperfect" or amateurish—out of focus or poorly framed or composed.

Common snapshot subjects include the events of everyday life, such as birthday parties and other celebrations, sunsets, children playing, group photos, pets, tourist attractions and the like."

So, NO every photo is NOT a snapshot.

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Jul 5, 2019 09:48:04   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
dsmeltz wrote:
"Term of art" means a word or phrase that has a precise, specialized meaning within a particular field or profession.

Snapshot is a term of art that has a meaning in the world of photography.

I think Wikipedia does a fairly good job on this term:

"A snapshot is a photograph that is "shot" spontaneously and quickly, most often without artistic or journalistic intent.

Snapshots are commonly technically "imperfect" or amateurish—out of focus or poorly framed or composed.

Common snapshot subjects include the events of everyday life, such as birthday parties and other celebrations, sunsets, children playing, group photos, pets, tourist attractions and the like."

So, NO every photo is NOT a snapshot.
"Term of art" means a word or phrase tha... (show quote)



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Jul 5, 2019 10:36:41   #
davyboy Loc: Anoka Mn.
 
JohnSwanda wrote:
Snapshots ARE photographs.


Your all under arrest until I can figure out the difference between snapshot and photograph!

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Jul 5, 2019 10:45:27   #
JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco
 
davyboy wrote:
Your all under arrest until I can figure out the difference between snapshot and photograph!


You can't figure out something which makes no sense. Snapshots are a type of photograph. The thing to figure out is a definition which describes which photographs are snapshots and which aren't.

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Jul 5, 2019 13:56:22   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
JohnSwanda wrote:
You can't figure out something which makes no sense. Snapshots are a type of photograph. The thing to figure out is a definition which describes which photographs are snapshots and which aren't.



My aunt takes snapshots.....

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Jul 5, 2019 21:25:21   #
User ID
 
Delderby wrote:

And I always thought that snappers were fish!


You mean you don't know a fish from a turtle ?

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Jul 5, 2019 21:42:38   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
User ID wrote:
You mean you don't know a fish from a turtle ?

(Careful ordering snapper soup. )

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Jul 6, 2019 00:49:37   #
rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
 
Longshadow wrote:
(Careful ordering snapper soup. )


Mmmmmm, snapper soup, with a splash of red wine, and an order of fried frog legs, yummy.

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Jul 6, 2019 01:06:24   #
rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
 
davyboy wrote:
Your all under arrest until I can figure out the difference between snapshot and photograph!


Chew on this for a while and you may, or may not, figure out the difference.
As I previously stated, all snapshots are photographs but not all photographs are snapshots. It has nothing to do with the content of the photo or image quality, it's about how the photograph is taken; point and shoot.
One of histories most famous photographs was, or is, a snapshot. Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer prize winning photograph of the raising of the American flag on Mt Suribachi, Iwo Jima, in February of 1945 was in fact, a snapshot.

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Jul 6, 2019 01:11:11   #
rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
 
dsmeltz wrote:
"Term of art" means a word or phrase that has a precise, specialized meaning within a particular field or profession.

Snapshot is a term of art that has a meaning in the world of photography.

I think Wikipedia does a fairly good job on this term:

"A snapshot is a photograph that is "shot" spontaneously and quickly, most often without artistic or journalistic intent.

Snapshots are commonly technically "imperfect" or amateurish—out of focus or poorly framed or composed.

Common snapshot subjects include the events of everyday life, such as birthday parties and other celebrations, sunsets, children playing, group photos, pets, tourist attractions and the like."

So, NO every photo is NOT a snapshot.
"Term of art" means a word or phrase tha... (show quote)


The first half of the first sentence of Wikipedia's definition is quite accurate. The rest may or may not apply.

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Jul 6, 2019 05:12:38   #
Delderby Loc: Derby UK
 
User ID wrote:
You mean you don't know a fish from a turtle ?


Red Snapper = large fish caught to eat off Florida coast.

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