Do they turn out the way you would like them to, or do you wish you had a professional photographer in tow when you travel?
Are you about to go on a trip and not sure about your ability to take the perfect pictures, or you would rather focus on the trip rather than lugging around the camera. Is it a good idea to hire a photographer for your trip?
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Reply to this I personally would do my best to capture what I see though my own camera. Hiring a photographer may give you, technically, better pictures than you could take yourself, but you would lose the ability to capture the world the way you see it. I would prefer to have a "bad" picture from my point of view than have a perfect picture which means nothing to me!
Reply to this I am sure of my ability to not take the perfect picture. :D
I only took a camrea with me a couple of times. My photos just did not capture the feeling I wanted them to so I stopped taking them.
One time I was in Uganda. I had spent a couple of weeks on an island with no electricity and no running water. Totally out in the wilds.
I met a Dutch guy there and we decided to ask a guy who owned a small motorboat if we could pay him to take us to another island. The sea was very rough and there was a whirlwind in the distance.
The boatman stoped at an island here and there to pick up fish and other things. We spent the entire journey bailing water out of the boat while the boat man rode the waves to stop them comming into the boat and sinking it. There might even have been a hole in the boat because there was so much water comming in, but I thought at the time better not to think about things like that or the fact that a boat had gone down in that lake a couple of days previously drowning everybody on board. At one stage the water was a little calm so we asked the boatman to take our photo. I dont know why the boatman actually took us to the other island in such bad weather. Maybe he did not know there was going to be a storm or maybe he did not want to risk losing the $20 US we offered him. It would have been a lot of money there.
I put that photo on my desk at work because it brought back memories of the island and the boat trip. Somebody walked past my desk and said ''that looks like a real touristy scene, I thought you did not like things like that''. I was astonished because that boat trip was far from touristy. :D
Mel
Reply to this Often my travel memories are invoked by crap photos that I would never display.
Reply to this As for me I think it's not a good idea to hire a photographer. I usually make as many photos as possible. When I come back home I will simply choose the most interesting photos and turn to one of photo services for improving some photos. Often I ask http://imageremake.com/ for help. I lke how these guys work.
Reply to this I take travel photos for a living and it is still challenging even when spending lots of time with it. Sometimes you will wait all day for a certain image and then the conditions you are waiting for never happen. I think its great to have your own personal photos that you take when you travel, but I also think (from a professional standpoint) that if you want really nice images from a particular place, you may need to find them after you return home (or at stores where you are visiting). Most people would probably prefer to spend their time traveling and enjoying their holiday/adventure not worrying about getting great images. Take the snap shots to look at later to recall memories, etc...However, you may need tp buy postcards, prints, etc. to get some nice images that truly showcase what a place offers.
Jacob
Reply to this Do not know where you can see we are talking about photos
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