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Shot?
Mar 2, 2013 08:47:41 #
Why is a photograph referred to as a "shot"? Can photography and mixology be so similar? This imponderable has "bugged" people for years.
Mar 2, 2013 08:50:16 #
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.
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Mar 2, 2013 08:56:34 #
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.
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.
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Mar 2, 2013 08:59:26 #
Welcome to the Hog. A shot- short for snapshot as I I took a snapshot of...
Mar 2, 2013 09:10:59 #
The logical response is "why a snapshot"? Why not a "snap photo"?
Mar 2, 2013 09:11:43 #
Mar 2, 2013 09:16:57 #
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.
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Mar 2, 2013 09:21:05 #
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? :)
Mar 2, 2013 09:24:27 #
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.
Mar 2, 2013 16:37:04 #
Both history and humor in one thread. LOVE this website! Welcome to the party, David.
Mar 2, 2013 16:47:13 #
If you are doing shots, REMEMBER...
"IT'S THE NEW GUY'S TURN TO BUY!"
Welcome aboard!
"IT'S THE NEW GUY'S TURN TO BUY!"
Welcome aboard!
Mar 3, 2013 00:29:05 #
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Unless you're mentally up to it, doing weddings can make any photographer do shots.
Welcome to the Hog!
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!
Mar 3, 2013 07:04:39 #
Mar 3, 2013 07:39:05 #
Radioman
Loc: Ontario Canada
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/snapshot
Originally 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.
Mar 3, 2013 08:29:31 #
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