i am pretty sure *most* of what people typically consider snapshots are not, in exactly the manner you just described.
i think at this point it looks like there are two very distinct meanings to "snapshot" a) what don said, a spontaneous photo b) whatever *normally* people shoot with p&s (or, with p&s mindset, again, "me and eiffel tower" kind of thing) -- what frank just described these two are very different kinds of pictures, valuable in very different ways. mishka On 7/24/05, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course, the irony is that the typical "family snapshot" actually > isn't one at all, is it? "Edith, Horatio, you stand in the back, > Inez, Pierre, Moragh, you get in the front, now all of you move to the > left, so I can get the Space Needle in the frame... Okay, say > cheese!" That's not a snapshot, is it? It's staged by the > photographer, so how could it be a snapshot? > > Bottom line, a good photo is a good photo, no matter how acquired. > > cheers, > frank
