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Look for a personal take
With so many new sights, smells and sounds in a new
location, some photographers rush around pointing their
camera at everything, often without giving much thought to what
they’re shooting. Think about what you’re really interested in, and
what kind of things you want to seek out or keep your eyes open
for. The photos you return home with should say something about
how you experienced or saw a place – your own personal take –
rather than just being a set of hurriedly taken snaps.6
Details
Little details
often reveal
something about a
place. It could be a
street sign that shows
local peoples’ sense of
humour or an item of
traditional clothing that
has a symbolic meaning.
In Mexico, for example,
there’s no shortage of
cacti, but I noticed one
that had a black line
seared down it; it had
been struck by lightning,
which was attracted
to the water inside the
towering viejito (‘old
man’) cactus. Those
kinds of details say
something: in this
case, don’t stand by
a cactus in a storm.Defining your own vision of
a location can be as simple
as working with the area’s
particular colour palette.Images:Graeme^ Greenhttp://www.digitalcameraworld.com OCTOBER 2019 DIGITAL CAMERA^27