Here's my take on it. A snapshot is a photograph that is not planned or set up. It is like a snap comment, it may be terrible or it may be a masterpiece. Same thing for snap decisions. Happy accidents do happen, be they comments or snapshots.
Baydream wrote: Here's my take on it. A snapshot is a photograph that is not planned or set up. It is like a snap comment, it may be terrible or it may be a masterpiece. Same thing for snap decisions. Happy accidents do happen, be they comments or snapshots.
I saw several definitions indicating that "a snapshot was a photo taken with a small hand-held camera". I did not agree with that one and found this:
"A snapshot is a photograph that is taken quickly and casually." Much better.
To my way of thinking, I define snapshot as a personal photo that has no real interest to anybody except maybe the photographer or his family. There's rarely any asethetic value - except for that once-in-awhile lucky shot.
If I look at a photo and the first question that pops into my mind is "Why on earth did I take THAT?" then that's a snapshot.
I think of them as photos taken spontaneously with little or no thought to composition, location or lighting. Just a spur of the moment impulse captured on "film".
A snap shot is a spur of the moment pic , usually on a P & S, that has intrinsic value at the moment . A photograph requires some thought and evokes some thought in the viewer.
Rob pix4u2 wrote: A snap shot is a spur of the moment pic , usually on a P & S, that has intrinsic value at the moment . A photograph requires some thought and evokes some thought in the viewer.
Rob, are you saying the picture you posted is a snapshot?
Rob pix4u2 wrote: A snap shot is a spur of the moment pic , usually on a P & S, that has intrinsic value at the moment . A photograph requires some thought and evokes some thought in the viewer.
Rob, are you saying the picture you posted is a snapshot?
It does look like a snapshot. It is under exposed.
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