Nice "capture!"

thetimedissolver · Nov 14, 2005

One of the things I find annoying about dig.. I mean, um... "non-analog" photography is the use of the term "capture." as in "Nice CAPTURE, Fred!"
Why can't the term "picture" or "shot" be used? Is it too old fashioned?
I don't remember this term being used in the past, or did I just miss out?
Maybe I'm gettin' too old.
Well, gotta go develop an Acros roll of captures. (Bleh!)

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David A. Goldfarb · Nov 14, 2005

Yeah, that annoys me, too. Gotta go into the darkroom and do some imaging, myself.

gandolfi · Nov 14, 2005

thetimedissolver said:
One of the things I find annoying about dig.. I mean, um... "non-analog" photography is the use of the term "capture." as in "Nice CAPTURE, Fred!"
Why can't the term "picture" or "shot" be used? Is it too old fashioned?
I don't remember this term being used in the past, or did I just miss out?
Maybe I'm gettin' too old.
Well, gotta go develop an Acros roll of captures. (Bleh!)

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true, BUT

as a dane I have always thought "shoot" was a terrible word! and I try never to use it!
I'm not hunting.
I'm not shooting.

Im making images.

blansky · Nov 14, 2005

In digital they use the word capture, because it rhymes with rapture.

The person operating the digital device, goes "Oh my God, look what I found on the back of my rapture collector. I think I'll photoshop the shit out this and see if I can make a picture."

Sorry......

never mind.

Michael

MattKing · Nov 14, 2005

Just a guess ...

The reference to capture probably is an attempt to differentiate between the image stored temporarily ("captured") in the temporary memory in the camera/on the memory card (and which is just as likely to be discarded as reviewed further), and the image which is actually stored on disk or shared with others or, gasp!, printed.

If Polaroid (or Kodak) had come up with rewriteable and reusable instant film, us analogue fans might have done something similar.

I think of it as sort of high speed fishing - "catch (or capture) and release"

Matt

argus · Nov 14, 2005

capture images vs. make pictures.

Simple?

G

roteague · Nov 14, 2005

thetimedissolver said:
One of the things I find annoying about dig.. I mean, um... "non-analog" photography is the use of the term "capture." as in "Nice CAPTURE, Fred!" Why can't the term "picture" or "shot" be used? !

Personally, I would prefer it that way. I am tired of the digital crowd usurping words that have very specific meanings, like darkroom, for their processes - for example "digital darkroom" or "dry darkroom" (as I recently read in LensWork).

Loose Gravel · Nov 14, 2005

I "bag" pictures or images. Get them before they're gone.

eric · Nov 14, 2005

roteague said:
"dry darkroom" (as I recently read in LensWork).

Dry darkroom?
That's a new one. I guess I consider my darkroom dry since it doesn't have running H20. Just a nova proc. I walk to other end of the garage where I have a print washer setup on the hose.
dry darkroom
un-analog media
perhaps, they'll call "flattening" layers to "dry Fixing" the image

Dave Parker · Nov 14, 2005

To me, I guess it don't matter, I do what I do, they do what they do....Life goes on...

Dave

arigram · Nov 14, 2005

It also rhimes with "fracture" as in "digital is a fracture of the quallity of film" or "I got a fracture by using the mouse too much", etc.

I personally kidnap my photographs. I grab them, gag them, tie them and throw them inside a dark room...

blansky · Nov 14, 2005

arigram said:
I personally kidnap my photographs. I grab them, gag them, tie them and throw them inside a dark room...

Ya know Ari, lately you don't seem like the quiet young man that you used to be.

I think I'm liking the new you better.

Michael

Flotsam · Nov 14, 2005

I don't capture my images with a digital camera, I just toss a net over them.

gandolfi · Nov 14, 2005

Flotsam said:
I don't capture my images with a digital camera, I just toss a net over them.

hmm

did you know: H.C Andersen, the famous danish fairy teller once saidhe was one of the first important people in Dk that really loved the new technique)

in a sort of quote to a friend:"did you know, that in the south, the sun is so strong that a plate can drink the light".....

he used the non-danisk word "inddrikke" which means in non-english(as in I don't know the word) in-drinking..

I kind of like that sentence.

to drink light.

Dan Williams · Nov 14, 2005

Satinsnow said:
To me, I guess it don't matter, I do what I do, they do what they do....Life goes on...

Dave

I've got to go with Dave on this. It is just another medium - a new one at that. The people working in it are still developing their own vocabularies and sets of values. I really can't get too upset about cross over terms or critical of odd sounding new terms.

That alot of the digital work I see I think is crap does not surprise me. Hell, go look at a lot of the photo sites on the web - there is an incredable amount of just plain awful work around. I just pass it bye.

They are doing something different. It neither threatens nor diminishes what I do. Give them a hundred years or so and see what they come up with.

rhphoto · Nov 14, 2005

Just for the heck of it, the word "photograph" means "light drawing". I guess I think of the way light more or less "etches" into film emulsion as more like a drawing than stimulating photo sensors in a memory array.

Flotsam · Nov 14, 2005

gandolfi said:
hmm

did you know: H.C Andersen, the famous danish fairy teller once saidhe was one of the first important people in Dk that really loved the new technique)

in a sort of quote to a friend:"did you know, that in the south, the sun is so strong that a plate can drink the light".....

he used the non-danisk word "inddrikke" which means in non-english(as in I don't know the word) in-drinking..

I kind of like that sentence.

to drink light.

Inddrikke... I like that. I suppose that in English, it would be "drinking in", as in to "drink in the beautiful scenery" or to "drink in the warmth of the sun".
The term "photography", (light writing or light drawing), has always made me a bit uncomfortable because my handwriting is awful and my drawing abilities are childish at best. Drinking, however, is something for which I seem to have a natural aptitude.

Lewis Carroll of "Alice in Wonderland" fame was also an early inddrikke... uh...-er.
I suppose that a fanciful imagination is a valuable adjunct to photography.

Imke · Nov 15, 2005

Hmmmmmm, food for thought.

To take the lyrical a bit further: I have always disliked the term "taking a picture". As in: go there, take it, leave.

I see the whole process more as a "receiving", or "getting" a picture. As in getting it, or making onself available to the situation at hand, and the situation more or less dictating where and when the picture "is", and the photographer being there to receive it.

Kinda the other way around. The picture taking YOU, not you it. Hm?

End of philosophical rant.

Always nice to be here!

Imke

vet173 · Nov 15, 2005

blansky said:
In digital they use the word capture, because it rhymes with rapture.

The person operating the digital device, goes "Oh my God, look what I found on the back of my rapture collector. I think I'll photoshop the shit out this and see if I can make a picture."

As LCG says "I don't care who you are, now that's funny".

rbarker · Nov 15, 2005

Unintentionally contrary to what Dave said, the problem will be resolved when the comet hits. None of our work will turn out to be archival after all, and life won't go on. ;-)

But, that shouldn't dissuade us from having a good time until then.

arigram · Nov 15, 2005

blansky said:
Ya know Ari, lately you don't seem like the quiet young man that you used to be.

I think you have corrupted me Michael...

Actually, I am not what I look like.
I look like a sweet and innocent young boy and in truth I am
a Marquis de Sade in disguise...

I think I'm liking the new you better.
Michael

Oh, me too, allthough the change happened some years ago!
I appreciate your appreciation Michael, I enjoy your thoughfull
and seriously funny posts and take your compliments seriously!

Too bad you have that beard...

Ole · Nov 15, 2005

rbarker said:
Unintentionally contrary to what Dave said, the problem will be resolved when the comet hits. None of our work will turn out to be archival after all, and life won't go on. ;-)

I'm hoping that some of my prints (and/or cameras) will be fossilised to the confusion of future paleontologists. So I try to make them as archival as I can.

roteague said:
Personally, I would prefer it that way. I am tired of the digital crowd usurping words that have very specific meanings, like darkroom, for their processes - for example "digital darkroom" or "dry darkroom" (as I recently read in LensWork).

Now that is a sane argument. I agree!

Nice "capture!"

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