Silly question of the day

[aam1234]

Pic vs. Photo

For some reason I find calling a photo a "pic" is somewhat degrading/not appropriate. Very silly I know, but I can't help feel that way.

What do you think.

[badpickev]

ha, i have a lot of bad pics. but a few great photos

[aam1234]

I have a lot of bad pics, and many disastrous pics :-[

Really, good thought there Kev.

[Blinky]

I struggle with that too... only pic works fine for me. Oddly, it's the word photo I tend to avoid. Since the first year I started shooting I've always hated the term 'photo-art'... it's just wrong for me. Not that I don't think photography can be art, it's just that term... sounds like a cheap marketing blurb or something. I use 'shot' and 'image' more than anything else, but I use photo sometimes too.

Pics is a friendly sounding word to me, like something you share. Images are creations to me, more than a shot from a camera, they have time invested in them either in preparation, a shooting session or post production or all three. Shots are something you have, might be images, might be pics... you have a shot or you got the shot.

How's that for dime store over-analysis? :

[Waleed]

I've heard the same between snapshots and photos..
Example: "I'd be lucky if I ended up with 5 photos in 40 snapshots"

[Blinky]

For me, snapshots are clearly defined as being taken without regard to composition, background or perspective. Once you become a photographer... it's bloody hard to ever take another snapshot.

...but that's just my own definition.

Chip

[Max@Home]

...I like 'image' best

...IMHO it best describes the fact, that it is *my* image/view, achieved by settings, viewpoint, processing, printing, etc, etc, that I am 'showing the world'

for all I care, I wouldn't mind being a full-time 'imageer'

also adds something 'magical' in the sound to it...

...€0.0000002...

Max@Home

[M. Worthington]

I say, "don't pick on pic."

Taken any good pics lately?

[aam1234]

Right on the money in your 2nd reply Chip.

[jfrancho]

I like the word "picture" - it's ambiguous and open to argument.

[Jon]

I guess in terms of nomenclature I'm still stuck in the film days - in general, I call prints rooted from exposed film "photos" where prints from digital origins I call "prints."

Digital images, I call "images" - although there are also digital "pictures" which are not so good, but better than snapshots, which are totally off-hand without any forethought whatsoever (which is not to say that there can't be a spontaneous photograph of very high quality).

"Shot" can be applied to anything, as in "Great shot," "nice shootin," or "DAMMIT! I missed the shot!"

"Pictures" and "photographs" also have additional distinctions for me: A "picture" is not as artful, for lack of a better term, or perhaps as technically superior to a "photograph."

I got that from (I think) Christian Behr, who asks people when they're going to "stop taking pictures and start making photographs."

I dislike the terms "pics" and "pix" - they imply a casuality (is that a word? It is now) that seems to dismiss the effort involved in production.

[jfrancho]

I think you are full of it with you're self made descriptions and definitions . Just kidding, really. I don't care what you call what I make with my camera if your buying.

[aam1234]

Originally Posted by jfrancho

if your buying.

You mean "if you're buying"

[jfrancho]

Doh!