Taking pictures

Spanish translation: tomar fotos / sacar fotos / fotografiar // and in Spain, hacer fotos

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English term or phrase:	Take pictures
Spanish translation:	tomar fotos / sacar fotos / fotografiar // and in Spain, hacer fotos
Entered by:	JaneTranslates

03:14 Jun 20, 2005

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Tech/Engineering - Manufacturing / Manual for a mobilet telephone

English term or phrase: Taking pictures

Dear Spanish translators,

Market: Spain.

I am now revising some text, I found:

"Taking pictures" was translated as:

"Hacer fotografías" Is this correct?
In Spain and other countries (but particularly Spain) Hacer fotos is being used?

The term I ususally read is: "fotografiar" and "tomar fotografías". "Hacer fotografías" is also widely used?

Thanks in advance for your ideas!

Doris

Doris Fukuda

tomar fotos/sacar fotos/fotografiar

Explanation:
I´ve never heard "hacer fotografías," but I don´t know about Spain. The three I listed are, in order, the most common terms I´ve heard.

Selected response from:

JaneTranslates
Puerto Rico
Local time: 02:32

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Summary of answers provided

4 +8

tomar fotos/sacar fotos/fotografiar

JaneTranslates

4 +6

sacar fotos // tomar fotos // hacer fotos

Michael Powers (PhD)

Discussion entries: 2

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3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

taking pictures

tomar fotos/sacar fotos/fotografiar

Explanation:
I´ve never heard "hacer fotografías," but I don´t know about Spain. The three I listed are, in order, the most common terms I´ve heard.

JaneTranslates
Puerto Rico
Local time: 02:32
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Gabriela Rodriguez: Hola Janet tenés razón y para colmo un Domingo jaja. Te mando un abrazo!!!!!!!

7 mins

-> Gracias, Gaby. Parece que somos unos 5 ó 6 levantados y trabajando a estas horas...

agree

Maria_Elena Garcia Guevara

20 mins

-> Gracias, Malega

agree

Xenia Wong

25 mins

-> Gracias Xen...¡OK, somos unos 10 ó 12!

agree

María Florencia Méndez

1 hr

-> Gracias, María ... Jane

agree

MaLucila (X)

5 hrs

-> Gracias, MaLucila

agree

moken: Hi Janet! In English "photograph" can either be a verb or a noun. However, in Spanish "fotografiar" is completely unambiguous. BTW, in Spain we use "sacar", "hacer" or "tomar", probably in that order. :O) :O) :O)

6 hrs

-> Thanks, Álvaro. Good point about "fotografiar"! And I´m glad to know about "hacer"; that´s completely new to me. (And forgive me for mentioning it, but it´s Jane, not Janet. You know: "Jane Translates"??)

agree

Marina Soldati

9 hrs

-> Thank you, Marina

agree

Walter Landesman

10 hrs

-> Thankk you, landesman

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

taking pictures sacar fotos // tomar fotos // hacer fotos

Explanation:
Oxford

foto f picture, photo (esp BrE); me sacó or hizo or tomó una foto he took a picture o photo of me, he took my photo o picture;
una foto en blanco y negro a black-and-white photo

Mike :)

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Note added at 2 mins (2005-06-20 03:17:34 GMT)
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Personally I like \"sacar fotos\" although \"tomar fotos\" is very common and as you can see, \"hacer fotos\" is used also.

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Note added at 5 mins (2005-06-20 03:19:38 GMT)
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As far as frequency is concerned:

Google -

\"tomar fotos\" approximately 45,000

\"hacer fotos\" approximately 42,000

\"sacar fotos\" approximately 29,000

Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 02:32
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 48

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