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Forum: General Photography
12-20-2018, 05:29 AM
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A friend of mine is a professional photographer with a long and interesting career. He always emphasized the difference between taking snapshots and making pictures. Though I've often resorted to the most commonly used POV at a well known location in my haste to get to the next place, I find my shots are better when I take my time to consider a different angle, or to capture the nature of whatever it was that made the shot interesting. The Eiffel Tower, for example, is one of the most iconic tourist attractions, and one is fortunate that one can capture it from numerous angles and elevations, but what is it about this structure that captivates any one onlooker? Try to capture that, and one can create a better version of a landmarks that has been photgraphed millions of times over.
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Forum: General Photography
12-15-2018, 06:58 PM
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Maybe the fault is not using it as it is intended, after all, look at all the Pentaxians who don't RTFM and are disappointed with the results ;)
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Forum: General Photography
12-15-2018, 06:43 AM
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I should have mentioned previously that I prefer to travel in the off season whenever possible. For example, I live near Monticello, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the home of Thomas Jefferson, and visit it a few times a year, usually when we have visitors. At the height of the season, the place is packed, the gardens are thronged with tourists, there is no place one can photograph without having people in the shot, people who are holding up cellphones to get heir own shot. Not the most attractive human interest idea. Alternately, if I visit there on a late afternoon during the week in fall, or in winter, there are days when I've been nearly alone. It's a pleasant change, and I can take my time to enjoy the place and compose the shots.
Certain places, like Cape Cod, are better in the off season, the weather might be a bit too cold to enjoy sunbathing on the beach, but the autumn light and the sea make for images that are unmatchable.
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Forum: General Photography
12-15-2018, 05:09 AM
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That is a good idea.
I do not do this enough, but I'd love to carry a 10 stop ND filter and take those long exposure shots that make a crowd disappear from the scene I'm trying to capture.
For me, I don't need to make my own shot of a picture that has been taken 1,000,000,000 times before, probably in better light than I had on that day, and probably by someone with more skill in post processing than I have. I'd rather get a unique shot . I've also learned to try and use the crowd to add interest to a shot if I can't make them disappear with a very long exposure. If you watch a scene for a minute or two, you'll notice something that makes the shot a bit more than a "postcard snap"I try to take good shots, even when out and about with non-photographers, but there have been times I've left the camera at home and enjoyed time out with friends and family, then gone back alone to get the shots I wanted. My family knows I might get up early or stay up late during vacation to get a shot, too, and as long as I don't wake them up, they don't mind.
I do agree that snapping away collecting images replaces actually seeing a sight and remembering it. My memory always captures images in their best light, I'll stick to that if I had to choose.
On a related note, I think it's perfectly fine for a photographer not to publish the location of a shot to keep it from being overrun by others.
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