Mix Up Your Travel Photography Shots

[Jason Dunn]

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/travel-photography-mix-up-your-shots/

"Today I want to continue with the themes of Travel Photography and adding Variety to your Shots in a post with one on mixing up your shots when you travel. I recently had a friend take me through the shots that they took on their latest trip away (all 600 of them) and was amazed to see how many of his shots were of largely the same thing - buildings. Not only that all the buildings were photographed in much the same way in terms of framing and composition. Now to give him credit - he had been traveling in Europe where there are some marvelous examples of architecture, but I came away from the experience of viewing his shots wondering a few questions that I would have thought his photos might have answered like: Who did you travel with? Where did you stay? What did you eat? Who did you meet? etc..."

Truer words were never spoken - I learned this lesson myself years ago when on a trip to Phoenix I returned with eight rolls of 35mm film, and upon paying for it all to be developed (with doubles no less!) I discovered that I had many photos of the same thing: red rocks. When I was there, I was entranced by the scenery, but in retrospect there were certainly other things I should have been taking pictures of. With digital it's less a matter of not having enough storage to take the pictures, and more a matter of missing photos that you'll never get a chance to take again. A good read!

[Jason Dunn]

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/travel-photography-mix-up-your-shots/

"Today I want to continue with the themes of Travel Photography and adding Variety to your Shots in a post with one on mixing up your shots when you travel. I recently had a friend take me through the shots that they took on their latest trip away (all 600 of them) and was amazed to see how many of his shots were of largely the same thing - buildings. Not only that all the buildings were photographed in much the same way in terms of framing and composition. Now to give him credit - he had been traveling in Europe where there are some marvelous examples of architecture, but I came away from the experience of viewing his shots wondering a few questions that I would have thought his photos might have answered like: Who did you travel with? Where did you stay? What did you eat? Who did you meet? etc..."

Truer words were never spoken - I learned this lesson myself years ago when on a trip to Phoenix I returned with eight rolls of 35mm film, and upon paying for it all to be developed (with doubles no less!) I discovered that I had many photos of the same thing: red rocks. When I was there, I was entranced by the scenery, but in retrospect there were certainly other things I should have been taking pictures of. With digital it's less a matter of not having enough storage to take the pictures, and more a matter of missing photos that you'll never get a chance to take again. A good read!

[sundown]

Thank goodness for digital cameras because I'm saving a fortune on film development. I'm one of those who takes a ton of pictures and now I take even more with digital. It's true I take pictures of buildings and rocks but I try and make all of them interesting. I also take pictures of people because I love candid shots. The difference for me, though, is that I bring those 1,000 pictures home, pull out the top 50 or so and show those to people. As sensitive as that makes me sound, it's more because I want to upload those photos to my server and I only have so much bandwidth/data transfer allotment and disk space. So my thiftyness ends up saving friends and family from suffering through 1,000 pictures from every vacation.

But heck, take all the pics you want with digital cameras. I'd much rather have too many than too few. I can always hit delete but I can't retake in most cases.