Photography 101 Photos added
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:03 amOne of the things I love about this forum is the photographs that you all share with us, particularly of areas and countries we are not familiar with. However, there are great frustrations with what is taken and what is not. I spent a couple of years at Brooks Institute of Photography and used that training in commercial photography in a number of jobs that I have held.
What separates a professional photographer and an amateur is that the pro will take ten times as many photographs and throw away nine of them.
Nancy is frustrated because we seldom see pictures of the interior of folks trailers or to a lesser extent with the Teardrops, the galley area.
In taking pictures of people and I would guess of folks trailers there is a cultural barrier. We have a three foot personal distance, about arms length and it is uncomfortable to invade that space (I can give details of why if any one is interested). As a result most photos get taken at a distance and yes we want to see the whole trailer but also get closer and show detail. As a specific example a picture of galley in the some ones sharing of a gathering, the picture was taken at a distance (did not fill the frame) and Nancy was trying to figure how they kept all of the containers on a shelf from falling out when traveling.
Pictures of people. One of the problems my dad had when doing slide shows of his travels was his taking pictures of the tour guide and fellow travelers, they were of significance only to him and not something we wanted to see. Frankly pictures of folk eating is often not flattering. So why not get them with their trailer and at that time ask if you can shoot some of the interior (Nancy gets upset if it is a mess, and she is proud of the quilt she made...) and by all means tell us who they are . Find out what is unique about their trailer and about them, most folks are quite happy to talk about them selves and their trailer.
In sharing about where you have been and what you have done try and show us the area and what it is like, and EDL's every day life shots, how do folks prepare meals what do they do in camp and for the areas you travel through.
I am going to start the examples process with existing pictures some of which will be replaced as I go along. Weather cooperated today so I added a couple of new ones.
One of the goals might be to note unique and copyable ideas (plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery and we love others using them anyway).
The three quarter view. A good overall shot of (CR) Compass Rose and shows the size relationship to the Subaru. You can also note there are a whole bunch of openings in the side and they are gas, shower, power points, water heater, power outlet, busted radio antenna, marine deck plates for the AC and on the galley hatch you can see the two Perko marine latches because the center latch will self open traveling down the highway
Galley
Galley detail, Progressive Dynamics power center switches for the pump, water heater AC and DC, Morningstar panel and battery meter (reads through the solar controller) Power Pole connectors for the fridge when running on DC.
Interior shot with Sirius receiver, radio, second Solar converter, Vectron battery monitor (the round thingy), reading lights.
Second interior with beat driver cooling off but showing Nancy's quilt nicely.
Front cabinets with lots of storage and the TV/DVD.
Detail of the use of computer case fans.
Camp set up, with tarps flying and really an EDL sort of shot.
Hacked 5,000 Btu AC
Tongue, note the lock on the hitch and the holder to keep the 7 blade plug off, I also went with SS shackles for the safety, the plane steel tended to rust and jam.
What separates a professional photographer and an amateur is that the pro will take ten times as many photographs and throw away nine of them.
Nancy is frustrated because we seldom see pictures of the interior of folks trailers or to a lesser extent with the Teardrops, the galley area.
In taking pictures of people and I would guess of folks trailers there is a cultural barrier. We have a three foot personal distance, about arms length and it is uncomfortable to invade that space (I can give details of why if any one is interested). As a result most photos get taken at a distance and yes we want to see the whole trailer but also get closer and show detail. As a specific example a picture of galley in the some ones sharing of a gathering, the picture was taken at a distance (did not fill the frame) and Nancy was trying to figure how they kept all of the containers on a shelf from falling out when traveling.
Pictures of people. One of the problems my dad had when doing slide shows of his travels was his taking pictures of the tour guide and fellow travelers, they were of significance only to him and not something we wanted to see. Frankly pictures of folk eating is often not flattering. So why not get them with their trailer and at that time ask if you can shoot some of the interior (Nancy gets upset if it is a mess, and she is proud of the quilt she made...) and by all means tell us who they are . Find out what is unique about their trailer and about them, most folks are quite happy to talk about them selves and their trailer.
In sharing about where you have been and what you have done try and show us the area and what it is like, and EDL's every day life shots, how do folks prepare meals what do they do in camp and for the areas you travel through.
I am going to start the examples process with existing pictures some of which will be replaced as I go along. Weather cooperated today so I added a couple of new ones.
One of the goals might be to note unique and copyable ideas (plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery and we love others using them anyway).
The three quarter view. A good overall shot of (CR) Compass Rose and shows the size relationship to the Subaru. You can also note there are a whole bunch of openings in the side and they are gas, shower, power points, water heater, power outlet, busted radio antenna, marine deck plates for the AC and on the galley hatch you can see the two Perko marine latches because the center latch will self open traveling down the highway
Galley
Galley detail, Progressive Dynamics power center switches for the pump, water heater AC and DC, Morningstar panel and battery meter (reads through the solar controller) Power Pole connectors for the fridge when running on DC.
Interior shot with Sirius receiver, radio, second Solar converter, Vectron battery monitor (the round thingy), reading lights.
Second interior with beat driver cooling off but showing Nancy's quilt nicely.
Front cabinets with lots of storage and the TV/DVD.
Detail of the use of computer case fans.
Camp set up, with tarps flying and really an EDL sort of shot.
Hacked 5,000 Btu AC
Tongue, note the lock on the hitch and the holder to keep the 7 blade plug off, I also went with SS shackles for the safety, the plane steel tended to rust and jam.
I know the information you want to share, and I think it would be very beneficial.