Whats the difference between holiday snaps and true photographs PHOTO HEAVY

[Jaemie]

I'm starting to think this matter of snap vs. photograph says more about our need to label and classify, and thus our desire to control, the graphic environment, than anything else.

 

[Rick58]

The great debate continues, yet, here's the Web's definition for "Photograph...

Photograph: a picture or likeness obtained by photography

Synonyms: photo, pic, print, shot, snap, snapshot

Odd..it almost sounds like the same thing.

Once upon a time, the love of capturing images USED to be enough. Photos didn't need to be labeled.

Well, I guess I can continue calling my "snaps" photographs after all. Good to know.

Quick edit: I almost forgot about the newest label... "Record". Even though it's not listed as a synonym, I'm pretty certain it still falls under "photograph"

 

[amolitor]

Well, whatever you call it, there are

- photographs that are meaningless crap to "most people" but very meaningful to a few people (pics of grandma at her 90th birthday)
- photographs which are powerful, moving, interesting to "a lot more people than that" (Weston's Pepper #30)

Whatever you want the terms to be, or if you prefer that there not be any terms, I don't care. These things exist, they are different things. You cannot wave these distinctions away, they exist.

 

[Dubaiian]

A snap shot is different from a bad image; a snapshot is a click at random without giving thoughts to the composition, the unwanted elements in the frame, a possible good angle etc. Yet by fluke, one may get fine images even that way; conversely even after good planning an image may not be appealing to the majority. More than any thing it is the attitude and not the outcome that makes a snapshot different from a thoughtful photograph
Overall, i like your images
You have already received good critical analyses

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