You say “not the same thing…”. Why not? Just for discussion… I sat through an on-line workshop yesterday afternoon, Tim Grey on How to Plan for a Trip. His base example was Rome, whether talking about useful weather apps or packing tips or day-by-day route planning. But where/what to photograph? One approach he suggested was to start with google images. He found about 1.5 million images (Google or Twitter, I lost track) which pretty well summed up places and viewpoints in that city.
I was reminded of a few years ago, in Venice, with Gianfranco. He chided me for the photo I was setting up for, an evening shot of the Grand Canal, gondolas in the foreground, the bends in the canal, Sun on the buildings in the distance. Too cliche, too much like a postcard? Yes, he had a point. But. No one else had ever seen that scene nor would anyone ever seen that scene again. Similar, sure. But my image was uniquely what I was seeing at that point in time. And if others had had a similar experience, good on them. But I was pleased to see what I saw and to be able to capture it. Yes, we explored and found different viewpoints and different scenes, but their uniqueness didn’t make them better or worse. One fun experience: Meg was starting to take a photo of a women on a third floor balcony, hanging her laundry. The lady objected. We backed off, didn’t point cameras at her. But we did start taking pictures of her reflection in a nearby puddle! Once we started away, it was fun to see how many people stopped to look into that puddle, trying to see why we had been so intently studying it. In short, unless you are shooting for stock photos and don’t want to have your images lost in the crowd, just shoot what pleases you. And then step aside because 27 others want to capture that same view, and that’s ok. Stan Sent from my iPad > On Apr 19, 2023, at 9:59 AM, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: > > In Sept we’re going to Yellowstone for 1 week followed by the Grand Canyon > for another week. > > At least with digital I don’t have to worry about running out of film. (Just > battery life.) Except for the 6x7. At 10 shots per roll one must be judicious. > > So the question is: What should I shoot? Not just the same things that a > million other tourists have shot, that’s for certain. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
