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12/21/2016 02:47:31 PM · #1
I am very inactive on DPC but I do keep an eye on the open challenges to see if anything interests me. I'm a little puzzled by the snapshot challenge. Minimal editing seems counter-intuitive when I think of making a photo look "snaps-shotty". My first thought would be to stage a shot to look older and then use Analog EFX to do the rest. So is the idea of this challenge to just take a shot that looks like bad or amateurish photography?
12/21/2016 03:00:46 PM · #2
No man this is about actually doing a realtime snapshot!
12/21/2016 03:26:26 PM · #3
snapshot is more of an action kind of thing, where you look like an idiot in the shooting not in the darkroom.
12/21/2016 03:38:43 PM · #4
Challenge descrip seems to beg for Extended editing here. And 1965...do we really have to shoot period stuff?
12/21/2016 03:56:49 PM · #5
I think the 1965 reference was just a nod to the minimal editing rules.
12/21/2016 04:09:56 PM · #6
neither period stuff, nor crazy colours, necessarily. snap! snap! on the fly, on the run, on the qt. you know: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
12/21/2016 04:21:59 PM · #7
Originally posted by tnun:

neither period stuff, nor crazy colours, necessarily. snap! snap! on the fly, on the run, on the qt. you know: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."


I feel like you're more describing an action shot and not a snap shot. At least as I've always defined it.
12/21/2016 04:43:53 PM · #8
yes, I suppose so. but the idea is that it is not a belaboured sort of thing.
12/21/2016 04:52:11 PM · #9
Impulsive. Not literal. No need to duplicate 1965 technology or reality--just mindset.

Message edited by author 2016-12-21 17:11:43.
12/21/2016 04:59:29 PM · #10
It can be belabored as long as it looks impulsive.
12/21/2016 05:05:04 PM · #11
impulsively, I belabour the definition.
12/21/2016 05:48:52 PM · #12
Originally posted by JamesDowning:

I think the 1965 reference was just a nod to the minimal editing rules.


Possibly...but long before 1965, photos were cropped and dodge and burn were used. None of them can be used in the Minimal ruleset.
12/21/2016 06:02:48 PM · #13
Originally posted by snaffles:

Originally posted by JamesDowning:

I think the 1965 reference was just a nod to the minimal editing rules.


Possibly...but long before 1965, photos were cropped and dodge and burn were used. None of them can be used in the Minimal ruleset.

People who took "snapshots" in 1965 dropped off/mailed-in their film to be developed and printed -- they did not dodge and burn in their own darkroom. Ever since George Eastman got going the number of people who "take pictures" outnumber "photographers" by probably 1000:1 ... I think that was also closing in on the time of peak popularity of Polaroid photography, which is even more limiting than our Minimal rules.
12/21/2016 06:15:04 PM · #14
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by snaffles:

Originally posted by JamesDowning:

I think the 1965 reference was just a nod to the minimal editing rules.


Possibly...but long before 1965, photos were cropped and dodge and burn were used. None of them can be used in the Minimal ruleset.

People who took "snapshots" in 1965 dropped off/mailed-in their film to be developed and printed -- they did not dodge and burn in their own darkroom. Ever since George Eastman got going the number of people who "take pictures" outnumber "photographers" by probably 1000:1 ... I think that was also closing in on the time of peak popularity of Polaroid photography, which is even more limiting than our Minimal rules.


I think it would be beneficial to include a condensed version of this in the challenge descrip, so fellow DPCers understand the 1965 ref. I personally had no idea at all til now how relevant 1965 was in terms of photography.
12/21/2016 07:41:58 PM · #15
Don't over think it. Follow you whims and stay out of the way. You'll probably have more failures than successes but it's digital so no worries. Rejoice in the snapshots effortless beauty. If you're lucky you'll be surprised and possibly discover something you haven't seen before.
12/21/2016 07:47:50 PM · #16
Originally posted by insteps:

Don't over think it. Follow you whims and stay out of the way. You'll probably have more failures than successes but it's digital so no worries. Rejoice in the snapshots effortless beauty. If you're lucky you'll be surprised and possibly discover something you haven't seen before.


Very inspiring, i think, but does not address my original question.
12/21/2016 07:55:09 PM · #17
your original question presupposes a certain kind of look.
12/21/2016 11:04:53 PM · #18
(Bear_Music does dramatic face plant) ONLY on DPC, people, only on DPC... Gosh... "Minimal Editing" is what we all DID in the 1960's; we dropped off our film and a few days later we had an envelope full of 4x6 prints or a box of color slides. NO EDITING whatsoever. How did this become complicated? There's a little room for interpretation in the sense of wondering if the voters will "punish" images that look too composed or too calculated, or too processed and/or reward those that look spontaneous and casual, but hey, that's the GAME, don't you see?

That's ALWAYS the game! DPC isn't (or not be) about doing market research to nail down acceptable responses to the challenges before doing the actual shooting. It's about internalizing the challenge and responding to it, then seeing what everyone else came up with.
12/21/2016 11:45:20 PM · #19
I don't know why this is still funny, but it is.
12/21/2016 11:55:51 PM · #20
Ha! Snapshot. Remember? No fuss, no muss? Take a picture, go on, take the next picture. Drop off the film. Pick up the pictures. Look through them. Laugh. Enjoy. Only no dropping off film this time. Just pretend you dropped off the film. Remember the "enjoy" part - that's the most important!!
12/21/2016 11:56:56 PM · #21
Oh, but while we're complaining, could it not have started YESTERDAY?

:-)
12/22/2016 12:53:59 AM · #22
Thanks for the clarification everyone. And by clarification, I mean helping me crystallize why I have become less active. Jeez, I'm sorry I asked (hope you didn't bruise your face Robert)....And Timothy, for the record, every challenge description aside form the Free Study presupposes a look.
12/22/2016 01:22:45 AM · #23
I was trying to be helpful.
12/22/2016 09:03:17 AM · #24
Originally posted by smardaz:

Thanks for the clarification everyone. And by clarification, I mean helping me crystallize why I have become less active. Jeez, I'm sorry I asked (hope you didn't bruise your face Robert)....And Timothy, for the record, every challenge description aside form the Free Study presupposes a look.


When in doubt, google the 1965 historic photos. A lot had happened and we all took snapshots.
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