Originally posted by Culture I want to start documenting moments that family spend together on trips.
Of course some are just point and shoot.
But I want to do those staged ones for the walls without being left out.
I will like to do this with less of a hassle as possible.
What lens do you normally go with?
How do you compose your shoot on the go?
Admitted a phone on a selfie sick will be the easy option.
But the front facing camera is terrible.
Any ideas?
Culture.
Years ago I read an article by a female photographer in one of the photo magazines about this very subject. The woman had discovered the box with all the vacation photos that her late father had taken over the years when she was growing up. She was enjoying them and looking at how her family had changed over the years. Then she realized that the only person who was not in the photographs was her father. After thinking about this for awhile, she realized that her father was in the photographs after all. He was documenting the fun that those who he loved were having. What came through was the love her father had for his family.
Personally I hate photographs of me as I simply can not smile on command or pose worth a darn. I am the polar opposite of photogenic. From my point of view, I add nothing good to the composition. We took some epic family vacations in the early 1990's and I am happy to say that I am only in a few photographs taken by either my wife or the kids as they all had cameras too.
The best advice I can give you is to hand your camera to a person who is toting his or her photo gear around and have them take a for shots of you and your family. While toting gear I have been approached several times to do this and always gladly oblige. You can also be certain that they will not run off with your camera as they are already loaded down with gear and certainly do not want to lug around any more. Plus they are probably pretty good at things like composition etc.