Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Worst travel photography



I am not sure what travel photography is. It sounds like a scam. Isn't this just plain "snap" photography? Not that anything is wrong with it, but some people don't like snap photography. This one dude at Pentax forum left a comment saying that he would never ever vote "yes" at PPG if the photo was a snap shot. What the hell is wrong with a snap shot? Sure, less planning is put into it. Sure, it is more an accident than a well executed piece of art. But who cares? If a photo "works," then it does not matter what kind of a photograph it really is. It can be the worst photo in the world and still "works."

Here is an example of the worst kind of travel photography. One can take a picture like this from the balcony of his or her hotel room, without going anywhere. Just lazy.


Pentax K-7
DA * 55 mm f/1.4
1/250 @ f/5
0 ev
ISO 200
JPEG

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