Capturing Images or Shooting Images

PhotoNut66 · Feb 10, 2020

I don't think as photographers we shoot pictures. Shooting is "the action or practice of shooting with a gun" We are capturing images. My point has nothing to do with gun control or the use of guns. As photographers we are documenting the wonderful life around us or the heartbreaks of human tragedy. I wish that we would stop saying that we shoot pictures and describe the what we really are doing is capturing images of our beautiful planet and as a tool to affect change.

FrancoD · Feb 10, 2020

Kobe shot baskets.

Ronaldo shoots goals.

I shoot dice.

My dog shoots out of the door.

A friend was shooting rapids.

My veggies shoot in spring...

Would you like some more ?

Mark S Abeln · Feb 10, 2020

PhotoNut66 said:
I don't think as photographers we shoot pictures. Shooting is "the action or practice of shooting with a gun" We are capturing images. My point has nothing to do with gun control or the use of guns. As photographers we are documenting the wonderful life around us or the heartbreaks of human tragedy. I wish that we would stop saying that we shoot pictures and describe the what we really are doing is capturing images of our beautiful planet and as a tool to affect change.

I think it is an American thing, at least originally. The Germans "make" and the English "take" photos.

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BAK · Feb 10, 2020

Maybe we make the pictures.

Sometimes.

BAK

sybersitizen · Feb 10, 2020

Gotta love threads that attempt to reform widely understood colloquial expressions. Very meaty stuff.

Marek M · Feb 10, 2020

PhotoNut66 said:
I don't think as photographers we shoot pictures. Shooting is "the action or practice of shooting with a gun" We are capturing images. My point has nothing to do with gun control or the use of guns. As photographers we are documenting the wonderful life around us or the heartbreaks of human tragedy. I wish that we would stop saying that we shoot pictures and describe the what we really are doing is capturing images of our beautiful planet and as a tool to affect change.

I capture a lot of images, then I release most of them.

Let them go free.

But many remain captives on my hard drives .

I may one day release them all.

I hope nobody shoots them.

Marek M · Feb 10, 2020

sybersitizen said:
Gotta love threads that attempt to reform widely understood colloquial expressions. Very meaty stuff.

It is rather natural to become little screwy if your screen name has a "nut" in it. What thread, otherwise, would you use it for?

sybersitizen · Feb 10, 2020

Marek M said:
sybersitizen said:

Gotta love threads that attempt to reform widely understood colloquial expressions. Very meaty stuff.

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It is rather natural to become little screwy if your screen name has a "nut" in it. What thread, otherwise, would you use it for?

The OP needs to take it up with Merriam-Webster, not us:

Definition of shoot

to take a picture or series of pictures or television images of

to record something (as on film or videotape) with a camera

the action or an instance of shooting with a camera : a session or a series of sessions of photographing or filming

FrancoD · Feb 10, 2020

The term snap-shot was coined by John Hershel, an Englishman, in 1860.

"the possibility of taking a photograph, as it were, by a snap-shot — of securing a picture in a tenth of a second of time"

He also was the one that came up with the word photography.

Hunter_C · Feb 10, 2020

Wow.

This is so interesting.

My pictures work all day serving as follower-attractors on GuruShots, fed by the votes when I join a challenge.

Hunter_C · Feb 10, 2020

I'd rather be shot to death than be captured and forced to work on social media for the rest of my life.

Hunter_C · Feb 10, 2020

Didn't anybody mention Mr.Bean and his dart-shooting compact camera?

Marek M · Feb 10, 2020

Hunter_C said:
Didn't anybody mention Mr.Bean and his dart-shooting compact camera?

Mr.Bean and his dart shooting compact cameras.

I did.

Bob · Feb 10, 2020

With reference to early cameras and firearms:

Both need to be "loaded" with a "magazine" or "cartridge".

Both require a "cocking" mechanism to be engaged.

Both require some sort of "trigger" to activate the device.

The flash in early cameras were combustible powders which "fired" upon activation.

And the term "snap-shot" refers to shooting a gun without taking careful aim.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/snapshot

The term was adopted by Kodak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot_(photography)

Sorry you don't like the word. What should we do about rockets which are "shot" into space? Or athletes who "shoot" basketballs? Or adventurers who "shoot" the rapids? Or pain that "shoots" down my arm? Or growing children who "shoot" up? Or junkies who "shoot" up? Or my idea that got "shot" down? Or my goals which I "shoot" for? Or my Tuesday morning when I got nothin to do but to "shoot" the shi+?

FrancoD · Feb 10, 2020

Marek M said:
Hunter_C said:

Didn't anybody mention Mr.Bean and his dart-shooting compact camera?

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Mr.Bean and his dart shooting compact cameras.

I did.

standing at a distance, behind a wall, you can't tell Rowan and myself apart.

Hunter_C · Feb 10, 2020

By the way, I remembered that the dart camera shoots darts towards wherever it is focused at. What if it is in infinity focus? Will it destroy everything?

Hunter_C · Feb 10, 2020

Unfortunately, that camera in the pic you posted is a film camera, but the dart camera has a rear screen for digital display & AF tracking.

Chaplain Mark · Feb 10, 2020

Shotting images??

Or, Focussing?

Or, which lense??

Those are my faves, Y'all.....

Bob · Feb 10, 2020

Marek M said:
sybersitizen said:

Gotta love threads that attempt to reform widely understood colloquial expressions. Very meaty stuff.

Click to expand...

It is rather natural to become little screwy if your screen name has a "nut" in it. What thread, otherwise, would you use it for?

I interpret "nut" as meaning an enthusiast. So "PhotoNut" is a person who is enthusiastic about photography.

Or perhaps the forum member is from Utah and likes photons, as in PhotonUT, but got a little cute with capitalization.

Or maybe this guys is Joe The Photonut

https://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=Joe The Photonut

Marek M · Feb 10, 2020

Chaplain Mark said:
Shotting images??

Or, Focussing?

Or, which lense??

Those are my faves, Y'all.....

So you like "glass"?

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