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11/30/2013 11:21:52 AM · #1 |
I see more and more comments lately to the effect of "bla bla bla, but this is just a snapshot so..." Phrased in this manner, it seems to be a gentle way to suggest that the photographer has done something cheap and dirty by even entering the challenge. What is the real accusation? Do you mean to say careless, uninspired, insincere, accidental, lacking forethought? Please come out and say what you mean. Snapshot isn't a bad word for some of us. For my own part, it's what I enjoy most about photography. By itself, it's a compliment.
Had to get that off my chest. Thank you.
Message edited by author 2013-11-30 11:22:09. |
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11/30/2013 11:35:41 AM · #2 |
| Yep, I'm with you all the way. Snapshot is real photography. Or at the very least, it's the way of real photographs. When all the silly, vacuous 'WOW' nonsense is mercifully forgotten, snapshots will endure, and will define the photograph for posterity. Snapshots are more powerful than Photoshop, more discriminating than megapixels. |
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11/30/2013 12:28:51 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by ubique:
Yep, I'm with you all the way. Snapshot is real photography. Or at the very least, it's the way of real photographs. When all the silly, vacuous 'WOW' nonsense is mercifully forgotten, snapshots will endure, and will define the photograph for posterity. Snapshots are more powerful than Photoshop, more discriminating than megapixels. |
...either that, or they lost all the versions of the image they worked so hard on and tried to pass off as "Image as taken" shot. :O)
Ray |
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11/30/2013 12:31:34 PM · #4 |
| Yes! Indeed! But it's not all good. Just before, when I had to go to the snapshot, I found there was a nasty rash on my snapshot! |
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11/30/2013 12:32:57 PM · #5 |
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11/30/2013 01:20:03 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Tiny:
Snapshots are WOW |
LOL! |
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11/30/2013 01:54:53 PM · #7 |
I almost never do "snapshots" but I do appreciate them. Inordinately, even. But the thing of it is, when they WORK, when they attain a level of innuendo or mythos, they become more-than-snapshot, and I still use the term "snapshot" to denote something done casually and without thought or planning. That's not derogatory in my mind, but I suppose others may think so.
Certainly, in my time I've seen/heard people dismissing Cartier-Bresson's work as "snapshots" when we know it was anything BUT, that he consciously made himself available to what he called the "decisive moment". |
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11/30/2013 02:03:45 PM · #8 |
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11/30/2013 02:09:38 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Certainly, in my time I've seen/heard people dismissing Cartier-Bresson's work as "snapshots" when we know it was anything BUT, that he consciously made himself available to what he called the "decisive moment". |
I don't dismiss him as a snapshot artist, but rather celebrate him as one. Winogrand, Mark Cohen, Eggelston... It's a long list. |
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12/01/2013 09:06:00 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by skewsme:
Yes! Indeed! But it's not all good. Just before, when I had to go to the snapshot, I found there was a nasty rash on my snapshot! |
hang on skewsa, this is a job for the processionals. |
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12/01/2013 09:25:31 PM · #11 |
| I am all about the snapshot. It is what I love about photography! Most of my snapshots lack forethought. I just go out and see what there is to see. It's fun. Try it sometime! (It won't generally win you ribbons, though - there's that. But sometimes - every now and then - that ubique guy will like it and it's all good!) |
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12/01/2013 09:48:50 PM · #12 |
| I think snapshots are wonderful. But they should remain in the shoebox under the bed. |
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12/01/2013 10:08:59 PM · #13 |
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12/01/2013 10:13:28 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Cory:
I think snapshots are wonderful. But they should remain in the shoebox under the bed. |
Ha! I don't have a shoebox under the bed. I suppose in this day and age I should just keep them on the hard drive, yes? But then what would I do with my DPC membership? |
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12/01/2013 10:25:11 PM · #15 |
| Keep the snapshots coming... it's the only reason I show up. Thanks |
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12/01/2013 10:44:43 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by insteps:
Keep the snapshots coming... it's the only reason I show up. Thanks |
You do the same, please! |
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12/08/2013 01:13:10 AM · #17 |
| That's all I do, I'm all about the snapshot :) |
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12/08/2013 01:22:13 AM · #18 |
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12/08/2013 11:13:16 AM · #19 |
Some snapshots look like it. Some don't. There is always a decisive moment, even if the subjects aren't moving much, even in a studio. I guess that for the label "just a snapshot" to apply, it has to look like it. |
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01/08/2014 05:53:48 AM · #20 |
Hmmm ... proved me wrong. Not a single comment and I thought I'd get a bunch (figured not many positive, but at least some with "Grampy" in the corner). Oh well.
It really was a "snapshot". :-D
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