Travel Photo Cafe 2008 - a talk about photography and travel
The concept and subsequent promotion of Travel Photo Cafe 2008 led to an interesting gathering with people who love to travel and take photos. The gathering was held at Times Square city'super's culture club classroom, which is usually used for regular cooking classes but was borrowed by me for a pleasant afternoon chat.
Speakers included a Lonely Planet writer who talked about his Morocco (mis)adventures, an architect representing Moleskine who shared his routes for Hong Kong's lesser known cultural spots, and me representing KOLO talked about taking photos with an album layout in mind. I was helped by a lomographer to add more "shoot from your hip" attitude in the talk.
I was lucky to get free sponsorship from wine department, glasses included! So the atmosphere of the talk was instantly lit up with help of such great sponsor. Also grocery department sponsored snacks! Amazing collaboration at city'super, I just love the culture here. Tables were full of travel photos, albums, journals, postcards, cameras, wines and snacks. We should do more of these sharing, tasting, eating classes :)
My part was to show participants how they can create beautiful album layouts even when they are taking pictures, yet without losing the fun and instantaneous parts of the travel. The rules are simple:
- Force yourself to take at least 3 shots from different angles for the subject matter in mind. These shots will give fuller stories and sometimes you can find an interesting angle to exploit.
- Shoot from the floor, or even better explore all shooting angles other than a typical stand-up eye level shot. All but to create new and refreshing perspective of the image other than what you can see from your naked eye
- Shoot street signs, direction signs, traffic lamp, sky, road, subway scenes etc. All these things are not going to be the main imagery of your album's story, but they are essential to add a foreign taste to your main image
- Breakfast shots are not lame, shoot what you eat and you won't regret. These shots help to strengthen your memory of the place and people you spent time with during the travel
- A cafe stop every 2-3 hours is essential to review what photos you've taken and how you can improve the next round. Best of all, take photo of the cafe and people there.
- Bring along an analog camera and shoot a digital photo through the viewfinder of your analog camera
- Photo layout on an album page is about telling a story, prepare a few layouts before you even start shooting
- Shoot people's face, shoot as much as you can, they are the souls of the country you visit
- etc etc etc etc
We also explored some techniques to get shots of people's face in travel. The consensus was that whenever you want to take a shot you are afraid to do so, ask first. You will be amazed that most people won't reject unless your look is super suspicious. We even talked about how to initiate a conversation to ease the entire process, it was fun.
I'm glad to host the talk and it was real fun. Next year, I hope I can squeeze more time into this Travel Photo Cafe fair and create even more talk sessions, bring in guest speakers, play slides with old slide machine, etc etc.
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yes, got some from citysuper and a riva from Papyrus. I did buy six or seven scrapbook-like small albums (forgot whether it's called vineyard), so that i could make a little album for my bridesmaids.
i didn't have a professionally done wedding (except for pre-wedding), i got the electronic files from my photographer and a good friend from taiwan, so that i can arrange by myself. looking forward to it.
I'm leaving on holidays next week, so your timing couldn't be more perfect. I'm trying to decide whether to continue from the end of my last travel journal or to start a new one (there are a lot of pages left in the old one, but starting a new journal is so much fun). Your ideas are great and inspiring. I especially like the idea of taking pictures of street signs. I've done that in the past, but never thought about the feeling that it provides to your journal.
patrick, i went to log-on yesterday and bought more kolos with my hubby. He loves those albums very much too. so, he was tempted to start a honeymoon journal... :)
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We need a course! :)