On 7/24/05, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that's a great shot but It aint a snapshot. I shoot > all the time with large format and MOST of the time > you wait for just the right momemt to trip the shutter > after spending much time adjusting camera, focusing and composing > the shot. Just because he waited for the right light > and arrangement of the people to trip the shutter > doesn't make it a snapshot. Snapshots are quick handheld > photos taken quickly without much technical time spent > and on on the spur of the moment, not pre-planed > carefully designed time very consuming setup shots like this...
By your definition, the photographs of Erwitt, HCB, et al, aren't snapshots, either. There's not much use discussing this, quite frankly, as our definitions are so disparate that we'll never see eye to eye anyway. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
