Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
A 'snap' in my mind is people sitting around drinking at a party or barbeque ... someone diving into a pool or maybe pulling a silly face for the camera.
The word 'picture' conjures up a mental image of a biscuit tin with kittens or puppies, a jigsaw with a cheesy landscape, a fifty cent greeting card, that sort of thing ... don't know why!
A 'photograph' has more significance in my mind ... some marines raising a flag in Vietnam, Lee Harvey Oswald getting shot by Jack Ruby, a jumper caught in mid flight off the Brooklyn Bridge. More in the reportage vein I guess.
An 'image' has a totally different meaning for me ... from some guy jumping a puddle to one of photony texas's double exposures ... most entries in the gallery from Petronius fit the mould of 'image' for me! The late Pitxu's occasionally anguished self portraits come to mind. A composition carefull laid out in the 24 x 36 frame of a 35mm camera of nothing in particular ... aside from a collection of shapes with light and dark that pleases the eye for some reason.
Your thoughts?
The word 'picture' conjures up a mental image of a biscuit tin with kittens or puppies, a jigsaw with a cheesy landscape, a fifty cent greeting card, that sort of thing ... don't know why!
A 'photograph' has more significance in my mind ... some marines raising a flag in Vietnam, Lee Harvey Oswald getting shot by Jack Ruby, a jumper caught in mid flight off the Brooklyn Bridge. More in the reportage vein I guess.
An 'image' has a totally different meaning for me ... from some guy jumping a puddle to one of photony texas's double exposures ... most entries in the gallery from Petronius fit the mould of 'image' for me! The late Pitxu's occasionally anguished self portraits come to mind. A composition carefull laid out in the 24 x 36 frame of a 35mm camera of nothing in particular ... aside from a collection of shapes with light and dark that pleases the eye for some reason.
Your thoughts?
helen.HH
To Light & Love ...
a 'Snap' is Quick & Fun....done with a Camera
a 'Picture' is a Mental Image...not necessarily done with a Camera
a 'Photograph' is something Quite Special....possibly Framed & Adored
definitely shot w/ a camera...a FILM Camera...
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an 'Image' is spmething I always 'See' in B&W.... held in my Mind. Frozen in Time
a 'Picture' is a Mental Image...not necessarily done with a Camera
a 'Photograph' is something Quite Special....possibly Framed & Adored
definitely shot w/ a camera...a FILM Camera...
...an 'Image' is spmething I always 'See' in B&W.... held in my Mind. Frozen in Time
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Everything you show us definitely fits into the 'image' cattagory for me Helen!
Graham Line
Well-known
Sounds about right to me. As long as 'capture' isn't anywhere on the list.
Pickett Wilson
Veteran
Helen, if only my "photos" were as good as my "images."
Pablito
coco frío
what about a "pitcher?"
...and while you're at it, do you "take" or "make" pitchers?
...and while you're at it, do you "take" or "make" pitchers?
coelacanth
Ride, dive, shoot.
Snap: sounds casual fun photos.
Photo/photograph: sounds the actual photography as body of work.
Picture: slightly digital feel to it.
Image: very digital, cold, "data" feel to it.
Photo/photograph: sounds the actual photography as body of work.
Picture: slightly digital feel to it.
Image: very digital, cold, "data" feel to it.
Darshan
Well-known
snap = what you like , and maybe your friends, family, neighbors if they are in the "snap"
picture = (no meaning in my dictionary)
photograph = what a stranger likes (credit to you)
image = what helen described (can't be captured)
IMO, a snap can be a photograph. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
cheers,
Dan.
, and maybe your friends, family, neighbors if they are in the "snap" picture =
(no meaning in my dictionary)photograph = what a stranger likes (credit to you
)image = what helen described (can't be captured)
IMO, a snap can be a photograph. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
cheers,
Dan.
mfunnell
Shaken, so blurred
It's amazing the different connotations the same word can have for different people. "Image" appears to hold positive associations for Keith (and others), while you appear to have a negative reaction. I'm rather more inclined to your view.
"Image", to me, screams "not a photograph at all" (as I understand the word "photograph"). An "image" may have started life, somewhere, as a photograph (or a bunch of 'em) but has had the living s**t manipulated out of it until it looks like, well, nothing on earth. Something like this:
http://www.appawards.com/2010-winners/rochat3.jpg
http://www.appawards.com/index.php?slug=2010-winners-gallery
One of the entries from "2010 AIPP Australian Fine Art Photographer of the Year" Tanya Rochat.
I'm not denying that Ms Rochat is an artist. She may even be a photographer, although you wouldn't know it from the "images" she entered in the contest. Because to my eye they are "images" but not photographs.
...Mike
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Dear Keith,
Snaps, pictures photographs, images? All of the above. Also shot, pic, tranny, print.
A good snap, photo, picture, image, etc. speaks for itself, and doesn't care what you call it. Some people try to use one or another to express approval or disapproval, but that's their problem. Personally, I tend not to use 'snap' much, except in the compound 'happy snaps', but I've known professionals say (of particularly successful shots), "One of my better snaps."
Cheers,
R.
Snaps, pictures photographs, images? All of the above. Also shot, pic, tranny, print.
A good snap, photo, picture, image, etc. speaks for itself, and doesn't care what you call it. Some people try to use one or another to express approval or disapproval, but that's their problem. Personally, I tend not to use 'snap' much, except in the compound 'happy snaps', but I've known professionals say (of particularly successful shots), "One of my better snaps."
Cheers,
R.
tlitody
Well-known
I always hate the expression "shoot" as in "I'm going to shoot some images today". I suspect this originates from a gun culture. Personally I take a photograph and make images or make prints. I don't shoot anything.
Chris101
summicronia
I don't use the word snap without shot - a snapshot is a photograph that has a casual feel about it. A picture is any two dimensional piece of visual representation exclusive of text. It can be a diagram, a drawing, a painting or a photograph. A photograph is a picture made with a camera. An image is a digitally produced picture. A shot is the result of making an exposure with a digital or film camera. Pic (or pict) is short for picture. A tranny is a transgendered individual, the term is usually derogatory or pornographic. A print is a picture on paper, or some other flat medium. I take photographs, and make pictures and prints.
Pickett Wilson
Veteran
"Picture" is too general a term to me. People use it to describe both painting and photography interchangably. So I've always used the term "Photo" when describing a photograph.
ruby.monkey
Veteran
A photograph is what I take. A picture is what you take. A snap is what he takes.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
chris000
Landscaper
I've never really given it that much thought, and I've probably used all of those terms about my stuff from time to time.
It seems to me that if the work is good then it's good. If it isn't then calling it something different won't improve it.
It seems to me that if the work is good then it's good. If it isn't then calling it something different won't improve it.
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
To me an 'image' must have a message, it's unfortunate that it's adopted to indicate a mere digital data files, hence, the digital 'feel.'
maggieo
More Deadly
A "Picture" is something you watch projected on a screen in a movie theater. Why is there no Oscar® for "Best Producer?" Because there's already a "Best Picture" award, that's why!
I'm old, so I call single photographs that aren't printed and in my hand a "frame." If it's printed and I'm holding it, or looking at it on a wall, I call that artifact "a photograph."
Transparencies are called "chromes," if you can't be bothered to call them by their full name or use the common vernacular of "slides." Don't call them "trannys," because people might think you're talking about the transmission of your automobile (as in, "I spent all day dropping a new tranny into my '65 'Stang.") or that you are bigoted against the transgendered.
Snaps are what my fierce friends give me during Gay Pride week, because we are fabulous.
I'm old, so I call single photographs that aren't printed and in my hand a "frame." If it's printed and I'm holding it, or looking at it on a wall, I call that artifact "a photograph."
Transparencies are called "chromes," if you can't be bothered to call them by their full name or use the common vernacular of "slides." Don't call them "trannys," because people might think you're talking about the transmission of your automobile (as in, "I spent all day dropping a new tranny into my '65 'Stang.") or that you are bigoted against the transgendered.
Snaps are what my fierce friends give me during Gay Pride week, because we are fabulous.
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cz23
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"Image" seems almost at the file level. A vector drawing is also an image to me.
I mostly use "photograph," but "picture"is growing on me for its suggestion of representing something.
John
I mostly use "photograph," but "picture"is growing on me for its suggestion of representing something.
John