Creative Photographs: Tourist Locations

The Key is Aesthetic Skill.
How many times do you walk away from a scene saying ‘I couldn’t see a good picture? The tourist location is generic by definition – everyone standing in the same spot will get the same photograph; but this does not mean it cannot become a great artistic photograph. The key is ‘What you do to the photograph’. We tend to stop short - expecting the camera to do all the work; create the finished image. This is totally unrealistic – the camera can only record what is in front of it.
You record the same photograph as everyone else – but you can create a different photograph to everyone else!
The Old Town Hall, Prague, Czech Republic. All the photos were taken on a one-week workshop in Prague.
The camera records. Photoshop creates.
‘Great’ pictures rarely ‘just happen’ - those are your lucky shots. There was a saying in my Reuters news photography days - ‘if you saw it, you missed it’ - by the time you set up, it was too late. It is the ability to ‘create’ pictu...