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My mum, who’s aged and superstitious, feels that I’m jinxed. Now at the mid-point (hopefully not end-point) of my life, I’m beginning to suspect mum has it right all the time. I’m just more susceptible to misadventures compared to your average person.
An example of this would be photography fails. I’m no professional. But I did start gearing up in 2008. What I am now is probably what Nikon calls a semi-pro or a serious hobbyist. My photography journey started after I returned from Athens and discovered, OMG, the Acropolis looks as weary as it is old in my handphone pics! Since then, it’s a long learning process, and of course plenty of travel photography fails.
My Nikon D7000
To inject a positive note though, here are two of my more recent travel pics.
The famed Beaux-Art Metropolis building of downtown Madrid.
Matsumoto Castle of Central Japan. One of the original Japanese castles still standing till today.
Returning to the topic, the following is a consolidation of my various involving travel photography fails . I’ve grouped them by their nature.
PACKING FAILS
- Forgetting to bring the charger
- Assuming one fully charged battery would last a week
- Forgetting to bring the adaptor for the Japanese style charger
- Bringing just one memory card
- Forgetting to bring the universal adaptor for the Japanese style charger
- Bringing just one memory card, that happens to be faulty
- Forgetting to bring the memory card reader for transferring the pictures to the laptop, and discovering that the memory card reader on the laptop is faulty
- Forgetting to bring lens cleaning liquid and a blower brush, and assuming my breath is just as miraculous
- Bringing a flash, but forgetting the associated batteries, cap, chargers, adaptors, wires, etc
Packing fails are nothing too disastrous. Just head for an electronics shop and waste both time and money buying solutions, right? So let’s get serious with the list.
GEAR FAILS
- Only discovering in the hotel room that the lens is rather mouldy
- Bringing only a specialised lens to a destination, and discovering it is too wide or too focused
- Fumbling with advanced camera controls at the destination, because I didn’t read the manual properly beforehand
- Bringing too many lenses, instead of one general zoom lens, and being burdened like a donkey throughout the trip
- Worrying sick and getting jumpy about getting mugged thanks to (4)
- Bringing a cheap tripod that surrenders after just one night of use, or starts toppling all over
- Not understanding that unless you’re a Nat Geo level kind of mythical pro, you really only need to shoot between the 24mm to 140mm range. Everything else is beyond your comprehension
Let’s move on to the areas beyond my control, mostly.
ENVIRONMENTAL FAILS
- Reaching a destination and finding it besieged with other tourists and photographers
- Reaching a destination and discovering the best photo-spots are monopolised by vendors. Who charge 10 dollars for one direct-flashed, unphotoshopped, inkjet printout
- It’s raining/snowing/hailing at the destination
- Getting lost/delayed by traffic on the way there, and only reaching the destination when the ideal “blue hour” is over
- Forgetting the world has very different sunrises and sunsets timings, and missing them entirely
- The destination is under renovation and all covered up
- The destination is closed for unstated reasons
- The destination is under renovation, but still open. With half of it concealed by canvas and scaffolding
- There is nothing too wrong with the destination. But it’s just an overcast, insipid day with dull lightning and dull faces
And now the crème of the crop!
EXOTIC FAILS
- Not cleaning the lenses immediately after an hour in the rain or snow, resulting in recurring fungus invasion
- Being targeted for mugging, and using the tripod in the other way it is meant for
- Having the viewfinder mirror fall out not once, but twice, on the very first day of travel
- Not having the nifty fingers to repair (4) properly, and making an irreversible mess when super-gluing back the viewfinder mirror
D7000 Viewfinder condition after failed self repair
GOOD GRIEF, as Charlie Brown would say!
PS: Most of the fails above are of my own doing. A list of travel photography tips would thus be:
- Rigorously checking all gear before departure
- Print a packing list to ensure you covered everything
- Pack early, and give yourself time to “remember” left-outs
- Read blogs and forums like Tripadvisor to learn about destination conditions
- Read the manuals, twice
- Check the weather forecast. Including sunrise and sunset times
- Always bring spares for batteries and storage devices
- Visit stock libraries like Shutterstock and Dreamstime for ideas
- Google Maps gives a good if vapid indication of how a place actually looks like, as in the surroundings, not just the attraction
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