A different view...
12th July 2009
In: Some advice.
...you have to try to look differently at the more popular photographic spots or you go home with the same as everyone else has done.
Sometimes it 's the light or a different viewpoint, or you take your image from the totally opposite angle from the rest.
I used to love when I was a working press photographer to include the other photogs in my image, sometimes caused a bit of shouting and rivalry to get the shot.
I've said before that postcards are a good point to start off with if visiting a new place, but don't let the standard view rule your thoughts of this new place. Use them as a starting point to see what there is around to be photographed in the area. These guys have probably been here for years and know every good spot well.
As well as the standard view, look closer and see if a detail shot will do the trick for you, at home you can combine a few images into a pleasant mosaic of memories. Flowers, animals, nice pebbles on a beach, things in shop windows which will instantly remind you of a place you visited maybe years earlier.
Get out there and look is the idea, something fresh, from your own imagination. This is a view of a place I and many other landscapers visit regularly, I've never seen this viewpoint before, unless you know better of course?
All the very best
Dougie
Sometimes it 's the light or a different viewpoint, or you take your image from the totally opposite angle from the rest.
I used to love when I was a working press photographer to include the other photogs in my image, sometimes caused a bit of shouting and rivalry to get the shot.
I've said before that postcards are a good point to start off with if visiting a new place, but don't let the standard view rule your thoughts of this new place. Use them as a starting point to see what there is around to be photographed in the area. These guys have probably been here for years and know every good spot well.
As well as the standard view, look closer and see if a detail shot will do the trick for you, at home you can combine a few images into a pleasant mosaic of memories. Flowers, animals, nice pebbles on a beach, things in shop windows which will instantly remind you of a place you visited maybe years earlier.
Get out there and look is the idea, something fresh, from your own imagination. This is a view of a place I and many other landscapers visit regularly, I've never seen this viewpoint before, unless you know better of course?
All the very best
Dougie
