Photoshoot or Photo Shoot

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I'm currently rebuilding my website and I always type Photoshoot but google is always trying to correct me with Photo Shoot. Which one is right?

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I think that gramatically it should be photo shoot but both that and photoshoot are widely used and as language is a living thing I guess either is acceptable. The on-line Oxford Dictionary only lists it as two words but that isn't really definitive. I've also seen it hyphenated - photo-shoot - but that doesn't appear to be so widely used.

Whichever way you choose to use it, an upper case "P" is only appropriate at the beginning of a sentence and I can't (off-hand) think of an instance where shoot would gain a capital "S".

Just my opinion, of course :)
 
I would go with the OED's spelling.
 
Google counts both as the same thing. I just did a check on Doncaster and it brought up a very similar set of results with and without the gap (and I'm all over it and never use the gap).
 
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