Carl Weese (cjweese@wtco.net)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:36:27 -0400
Judy and Bill,
Agree completely on the nudes, Coplan, and how the word means, or should
mean people without clothes, either gender.
As for "shoot" it doesn't bother me either, Judy. Maybe because both
marksmanship and photography were part of my childhood and the term is
deeply ingrained for both. But it *is* deeply ingrained in photography.
For a nice bit of trivia the term "snapshot" is actually borrowed from
marksmanship: the term was first used to describe the technique of bird
hunting with a shotgun, and then of course its target equivalent called
skeet, where the marksman shoots without using sights, by practiced
instinct. Now I've never shot at birds with a shotgun (I don't even eat
meat) but the chain of physical discipline underlies handheld camera
work quite clearly. And mentally, I "shoot" with a 12x20 camera too: I
often set up because I see 90% of a picture, and wait for something
unexpected to happen. When something does I set off the shutter. That
may be a little more like pulling the lanyard on a howitzer than
shooting a bird, but the vital part of photographic vision that concerns
capturing a specific moment in time seems well described by the term
'shoot'.
---Carl
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