Re: What is snapshot? (seriously)

[Butch Black]

I'll enter the fray.

I think intent has a large part to play in what is or isn't a snapshot. 
Basically, I agree that a snap is more event oriented, whether a cookout, 
vacation landscape, etc. That technical perfection is less important then 
recording the event. (think all the discussions we have had on PAWS 
commenting on " I would have moved a meter to the left") I don't think 
snapshot is necessarily a derogatory term. Like many have already commented, 
it is one type of photography. I bought a P&S camera in the 90's to take 
snaps because I would often not take pictures of things because it required 
10 minutes to pull the camera out of the case, mount the flash bracket and 
flash, hook up the battery pack. It was heavy and cumbersome. I plan to buy 
a pocketable digital P&S this year for the same reason. Some of my snaps 
turned out to be OK photographs as lessons learned have a way of sinking 
into the unconsciousness. I disagree with the implication that a snapshot is 
necessarily an inferior photograph. Different does not mean inferior.

Butch