Photos of Tourists – When the photographer is more amazing than the subject
November 20, 2009 | Francis Nicholls-Wunder
Holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Ever stopped at a famous monument, turned around, and simply observed what people do while they look at these masterpieces? Every man and his dog own a digital camera these days and the basics of photography are a skill that is getting quite common. With a practically unlimited amount of photos to take tourists are getting a bit more creative.
Some sights, such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, lend themselves to some fairly obvious posing ideas. Other attractions are starting to fall play to a similar sort of tomfoolery with photos appearing all over the place of individuals trying to create an optical illusion that shows themselves holding/eating/supporting/sitting on various famous landmarks.
As well as all the craziness you can spot the newborn breed of serious hobby photographers. They have bought themselves one of the more expensive models with a bigger zoom and a lot of mega pixels and are taking this photography thing quite seriously. Half of these people don’t actually know how to use the majority of the fancy settings on their camera. There are a select few however who seriously know what they are doing and you can see them circling monuments, snapping away, searching for that perfect spot where the angle and the lighting are just right.
In my opinion it is often the photos of people that are the most interesting shots you take. Everyone has a shot of the Eiffel tower and the Roman Coliseum but sometimes you can get some amazing shots of the people surrounding them. So if you want to be a hot shot photographer like the rest of the world then don’t limit yourself to tourist sights, turn your camera on anything that moves…or doesn’t for that matter…what have you got to lose?
That is very funny!