Disney Vacation Photography and Tips Cont....
Have you ever heard of the Rule of Thirds. Located on
Shutterfly’s Picture More Community Earl wrote a great and simple article about
Don’t Always be the Center of Attention. Each time I take a photo I attempt to take it 3 to 4 different ways. You never know until you get home how you will use your photo. When you begin to scrapbook it might need to be a right side page but what if you only took the photo to the left or center. In a matter of seconds with a quick simple snap and move technique you have 4 terrific photos. I LOVE close ups so ZOOM in! Remember how I stated previously to move your family away from the background. You get two amazing effects by simply moving left and you have one side of United Kingdom move to the right and you have a whole different vantage point. Then sometimes you just have to get centered. It’s amazing how one location can create 4 very different perspectives. Besides you never know how your scrapbook page will materialize and you can’t ever recreate that moment again. Snap! Snap! Snap!
Now you have the
third and final stage which I call finalization. This happens nightly, each evening while the kids are all snug in their beds with dreams of Mickey dancing in their heads, I fire up my laptop and download all my photo’s from that day and move them to the appropriate subfolder. This allows me to re-format my memory card and prepare for the next day of photos. This is a Disney Must Do because if I don’t download photos nightly I would certainly run out of room on my card.
On the road trip home my husband is gracious enough to do all the driving (he hates my driving..sound familiar to anyone) and I ride reviewing all the photo’s from the trip on my laptop. I delete those I don’t think I will need (very few), review each photo and then rename them as needed. Whatever system works easiest for you is great. I use this to locate my photos easily when I begin to scrapbook. I also use Photoshop Organizer to tag each photo but with 5,000+ pictures that takes time too. Once I have completed a subfolder to my satisfaction I then review each picture one more time and start writing down the ones I want to load to
my Shutterfly share site and potentially use in my scrapbooking. As an example for my Magic Kingdom folder I create another folder called upload MK and copy just those photo’s to be uploaded. As you can see this takes time as each folder will eventually have an Upload folder. When I get home I use one of
Shutterfly’s Photo Upload Tools and select one of my upload folders to begin the first upload of many. Once loaded I can then add them to
my Shutterfly share site for my family and friends to see. I also use this folder to make it quick and easy to open those I’ve already identified as my favorites when I begin to scrapbook a new page in Photoshop Elements.
In all, if I can offer any advice it’s to snap, snap, snap! Take photos of the unplanned not just the planned poses, remember this is your family vacation and they are your most important subject, think outside the box and take photos of walls, floors, and signs and most importantly preserve those precious moments in photos and scrapbook memories.