Travelling with non photography people.

[DREW WILEY]

If I'm using a view camera, as I generally do backpacking, I either go alone or with one or two other people who know what that entails and employ those delays for their own photo interests. Since I tend to be the guide too, and go to some remote lovely locations, this works quite well. But when I vacation with my wife, I mainly use gear which I can operate very quickly like a P67 or Fuji 6X9 RF, while she is taking pictures herself with a purse camera. Or we often have our accommodations at some beach where I can just walk outside and get a few 4X5 shots while she is reading or cooking. She likes to take underwater shots snorkeling.

 

[railwayman3]

Just home from a short organised pre-Christmas holiday in the sun. I carried my main 35mm kit, and, after a week, came home with just 28 exposures (several of which were duplicates) ! As a result, I have resolved that, on future similar holidays or days-out with other non-photographers, I'll just travel light and take my digital point-and shoot (or even just my smartphone!)....these will give me all that I need to "snap" any record shots without all the frustrations !

My most enjoyable and successfully days out shooting have always been on outings (and weather, where possible) planned for the purpose, and have been on my own or with my wife (who is an equally enthusiastic photographer).

 

[rayonline_nz]

The others don't share photography. Even when I have done my trips myself they don't really look at the photographs, well maybe they would on the HDTV but you shortlist them down to maybe 24 shots or 12 and they look at it for 2mins.

I spoke to my camera club members and it's the same. While they don't do national parks, they might do Melbourne city and outskirts, the wife goes that way and the photographer goes the other way. My dentist is into landscapes and they just do a trip by himself, the wife just stays home. If they travel overseas, it tends to be city based or city with some culture but it is not really rural per se. If it is maybe it is still touristic like some rice farms for a day or two at most.

I am looking for a premium compact camera, maybe a digital. They enjoy going to large modern cities, cafes, restaurants, malls, waterfronts, ice cream, desserts, coffee and cheesecake that kinda stuff. Or in Asia - dumpling restaurants, street food markets, wet markets. Pictures of people inside the cafe or restaurant or enjoying ice cream outside etc ...

We have been to the rural side, I have gone out to do photog in the sunrise and sunsets. In the time they just in the car and came along but they didn't really enjoy it. They say it is in a middle of nowhere. No real cafes, and restaurants, just empty skies and big mountains. They said, please next time don't invite them - haha. I have come to the point that next time I will just do it myself. With them it is only to large cities.

Even something local at home, going to the local beach or fisherman wharf they are not interested. Like to the local beach which is kinda popular even on the Lonely Planet book, they drop me off, it was mid afternoon, I would never take them out for a late morning or late afternoon, then they continue driving to the supermarket or Walmart equiv. We text each other and I get picked up, we go to somewhere to eat and we head home ......... very familar.