[filorp]

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[simico]

Snapshot or photograph? I think the viewer decides it whether it's a photo or a snap (and in either case if it's a good, decent, average or poor one). Is it interesting to them? Does it create some feelings/emotions? Does it inspire them?

Select a random photo, make a large print and hang it in a gallery. To some viewers it'll just be an uninterested snapshot - even if you woke up at 3am and spent hours to make that one shot. To some other viewers it'll be a great (art) photograph - even if you just snapped something random from your car.

[snake]

This is a great question, really. I think understanding it and keeping it in mind and shooting away helps people understand what to do before and after the shot is taken.

In some sense, I follow that idea in the back of my head and try to make something memorable. An additional complication is seeing something there that a casual viewer who wasn't there might not because I have an emotional attachment to the place or understand a context that wasn't there.

I have TONS of "snaps" in these two blog posts. Are some snaps? Are some photographs? Does the context of presenting them as a collection turn snaps into photographs?

Pride parade in my city (and first outing wth the K-5): DELUGE PHOTO: Christopher Street Day Parade, Dresden Germany, 2012
Subsequent outing, got a bit better: DELUGE PHOTO: Bunte Republik Neustadt 2012, Dresden

I shot looking for memorable scenes. Then I edited and threw away non-memorable ones. Simple as that. Not all turned out perfect (ie: front focus), but the scenes were memorable. In that sense, some very iconic photographs in history are very imperfect.

[adelorenzo]

An image is nothing more or less than a bunch of ones and zeros, pixels on a screen, chemicals on film, ink on paper. Terms like photograph, snapshot, masterpiece, junk are something that the viewer (reader) brings to the image.

[TylerD]

i am trying to step my feet in university of this guy..... I'll be waiting right here: mwfrost04: Galleries: Digital Photography Review

Thanks for this link - these are the sort of photos I would love to take, just need to figure out how!

[disco_owner]

i am trying to step my feet in university of this guy..... I'll be waiting right here: mwfrost04: Galleries: Digital Photography Review

wow ! really amazing work.