Snapshot

Definition

snapshot /'snæpƒ2t/ n = SNAP n ၂

Examples

1. ‘The canvas has often been compared to a snapshot
2. but to Sussman it looked more like a painted film still
3. art's first cinéma vérité moment.’
4. ‘Most of the time these family photos and snapshots end up in an album
5. and occasionally
6. if they're really good
7. as a framed print.’
8. ‘The thing looked most definitely out of place
9. so I had to take a snapshot with the camera phone that one of my mates has handed down to me just recently.’
10. ‘This week's photo collection features a few snapshots from a recent family reunion involving six of my mother's nine brothers and sisters and all their children and all their children's children.’
11. ‘He was no stranger to the camera: in 1895 he began to use a simple Kodak camera to take snapshots of friends and family to serve in preparing his small interior paintings.’
12. ‘Keeping a wish list
13. along with room measurements and even snapshots of the spaces where pieces will go
14. can ward off sensory overload and keep your collecting on track
15. she advises.’
16. ‘She pulled out her camera and took several snapshots of it as she approached.’
17. ‘But stars do not lend themselves to snapshots: point a camera skyward and push a shutter
18. and the film will record nothing.’
19. ‘The only danger that they present to security is the occasional tourist snapshot inside a heavily surveillanced area.’
20. ‘If you are thinking of only using your camera to exchange snapshots with your friends
21. you do not need to spend a lot for the camera.’
22. ‘Anyone who has attended one of my field landscape workshops knows that I divide photographic opportunities into three categories - snapshots
23. postcards and images.’
24. ‘More than a few handhelds also offer a built-in digital camera for taking snapshots and video sequences.’
25. ‘If you just want a standard
26. entry level digital camera for family snapshots and auction photos
27. then a point and shoot digital camera is a budget conscious choice.’
28. ‘The formal Victorian portrait gave way to the informal snapshot
29. and now to the intimacy of the phonecam and picture message.’
30. ‘Since he didn't own a scanner
31. he'd tape photographs on the wall and use his Sony video camera to take snapshots of them.’
32. ‘I had a camera for snapshots
33. just the same as everyone else
34. and that was what I took - happy snaps!’
35. ‘His photographs often include other pictures
36. for example family snapshots propped on a table or loose prints gathered in a box.’
37. ‘The final alcove was jam-packed with works that add travel snapshots and promotional photographs
38. either enlarged or regular size
39. to the dizzying mix.’
40. ‘Demonstrators yesterday testified as to how impossible it would have been to count the numbers remotely accurately from aerial snapshots or crowd flows past certain points.’
41. ‘Images of text
42. postmarks
43. snapshots and family photographs are fragments in a non-linear narrative.’