Being early does help if your intended location happens to be a tour bus turnout where everyone gets promptly trampled at 10:00 AM. It also helps if you want dawn light or alpenglow. Nothing wrong with eating worms either. Millions of robins can't be wrong.
as long as a photographer has his or her eyes open i don't think the location matters at all. one could ask if a location you frequent on a daily basis ( or even more frequent )... lets say one's home... would be worth photographing... someone could probably spent YEARS photographing where they live, or a tourist town or one's kitchen ... noticing the shadow on the wall on a summer morning, or the way the trees bend or the rabbits eating the garden or the silverware in the sink... everything uninteresting is interesting.. if one sees it ..
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What's wrong with touristy pictures. You're a tourist.
That's pompous crap.Tourists degrade the places they visit.
I've had this happen, though not often. Getting lost in the moment is as satisfying as getting the image.There have been times I've had the view camera all set up and even pre-focused, waiting on the light.... and then some of the most spectacular
sunsets or alpenglow I've ever seen in my life. But I didn't even pull the darkslide and trip the shutter because I didn't want even a moment of the experience interrupted.
That's pompous crap.
That's pompous crap.
That's very true. Last weekend , I was at Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh, which has become hugely popular since the publication of a little book called The Da Vinci Code. While I was wandering around, just enjoying the moment, I spotted several interesting things to photograph, not t mention the interaction between the visitors and the church. Later in the afternoon I was back in Edinburgh walking through Princes Street gardens on my way to see the Rembrandt at the Scottish National Gallery and there was a guy blowing massive bubbles right outside . Serendipity again-but chance always favours a prepared mind. You need to empty your mind of expectations, but practice, practice, practice your seeing -I don't usually do street photography, but it can be valuable to step outside your comfort zone. You always learn something doing that.I've had this happen, though not often. Getting lost in the moment is as satisfying as getting the image.
That's pompous crap.
Tourist spots are great, the tourists are your subject.
When a location descends into cliché, exploit the cliché.Yes, if you like shooting tourists. Different strokes.
That was the basis of my "Everyday Scenes" and "Too Common" themes last year. It worked out well.
At the same time, when one has redwood state and national parks within an hour's drive both north and south, it is rather nice having a place to go to away from one's actual home on a irregular basis. There is a particular creek I have been photographing up and down since the late 70s. It is sort of my backyard, but someone else does the maintenance. I have said good-by to many incredible old maples (Big-leaf) that reached their lifespans (200 yrs) along the creek. Over a few decades, I have watched elevated forests start and flourish on top of fallen redwoods. Changes in the creek, changes in my boys as I photographed them under the redwoods as they grew up.as long as a photographer has his or her eyes open i don't think the location matters at all.
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