At 06:07 PM 2/02/2005 -0700, dan wrote:
>-- but it's very difficult (I find) to exclude extra background stuff but
>still
>leave enough there to remind me where I am; I can isolate a particular
>element of the location, but the trick is then getting that bit of the
>location _on its own_ to also give the sense of being there.
When I've taken holiday photos too often they're 'location' type photos -
places I'd been to, things I'd seen.
Just places and things.
I realized later that I missed out on getting photos of the people I'd met.
And when I think back on a holiday I realize that it was the various people
I'd encountered and interacted with along the way that made a holiday special.
But I hadn't photographed them, I was too busy taking pictures of the 'sights'.
As Dan mentioned, a beach is a beach. A cityscape is a cityscape. After a
while they tend to look a bit bland and lifeless.
Next holiday I go on I'm going to treat it like a photojournalism
assignment. I'm going to try to take more pictures of the 'people' instead
of the 'places and things'. I'm going to try and capture the essence of a
city by placing people in it rather than trying to exclude them and ending
up with a bunch of tourist photos.
So I'd suggest not using telephotos - use the wideangles. Set the camera
on auto and hyperfocal and poke it into people's faces (in a nice way of
course).
As Alfred Eisenstaedt once said, "find and catch the storytelling moment."
Andrew McPhee
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