Google| Subject | Re: converting raw images from Canon EOS 600D |
| From | Tony Cooper |
| Date | 12/07/2013 06:19 (12/07/2013 00:19) |
| Message-ID | <ugb5a95ojs909qjintvtak7ibhevd827o2@4ax.com> |
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| Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
| Follows | PeterN |
| Followups | PeterN (8h & 1m) |
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 23:30:02 -0500, PeterN <peter.newnospam@verizon.net>wrote:
PeterNI'm personally uncomfortable with these attempts to designate "snapshots" as something different from a photograph. They're all photographs. We use the term "snapshot" to either describe an informal photograph - usually of family or pets - or to denigrate someone's efforts.
On 12/6/2013 10:48 PM, Robert Coe wrote:
<snip>Robert CoePeterN
I'm an event photographer, mostly. And event photography consists almost entirely of snapshots. (As does its cousin, photojournalism.) I like to try my hand at artistic work when I have time. But if I'm going to take pictures on Company time, I have to produce what my clients want.
Don't denigrate your skills. Event photography is a professional skill that not everybody has. IMHO Ansel Adams would have made a lousy event photographer. If I had to evaluate myself, I would make a lousy event photographer. Similarly, I have little skill in portrait photography. As to landscapes, I am what can be called a schlepper. I do it, like it, and wish I could do it a lot better.
What the shooter may consider as "artistic work" might be called a "snapshot" by someone critical of the piece, and what may have been an informal family snapshot may have artistic merit.
-- Tony Cooper - Orlando FL
11/30/2013-
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