| Over the last few years I came across zillions of | | | | 2. Center the shots on your family, not the |
| family pictures. Some are good, some are | | | | scenery |
| excellent, but I've seen so many common | | | | Again, this sounds funny, but I've seen family |
| mistakes that I decided to write this article, to | | | | pictures ... with no family! The photographer was |
| provide you with some picture taking tips. Don't | | | | so focused on capturing a road sign that he |
| treat them as state of the art knowledge, but | | | | simply forgot about his wife and kids, who |
| rather some digital camera advice coming from a | | | | appeared somewhere in the lower-left corner of |
| seasoned photographer. So you have planned | | | | the frame. |
| your vacation for months. You have everything | | | | 3. Candid pictures are good |
| set up in the back of your head, and now the big | | | | Don't always take posed pictures, it is not a |
| day has come. You have your bags packed up, | | | | studio shooting for the front page of a magazine. |
| left the front door key to Aunt Martha to water | | | | Candid shots of people in action can be such great |
| the flowers and feed the dog and programmed | | | | memories. One of my dearest family photo is my |
| your navigation system to point the route to the | | | | wife falling off a hammock on a trip to the |
| destination and you're set to go. Of course, you | | | | mountains: I managed to get her on the very |
| want to take many pictures, because this is going | | | | moment she lost her balance and was hitting the |
| to be a vacation to remember! What now? Well, | | | | ground. |
| here we go... | | | | 4. It's all in the numbers |
| 1. Bring the camera along | | | | Take lots and lots of pictures. If you don't have a |
| As silly as it may sound, one in five families have | | | | laptop to download the pictures when the |
| left their camera at home on their dream | | | | memory gets full, buy one or more spare |
| vacation at least once. I always put my camera, | | | | memory cards. They got so cheap these days, |
| lenses, batteries, charger, data cable, memory | | | | you simply have no excuse to miss memorable |
| cards and all the accessories that come with my | | | | moments due to lack of disk space! |
| DSLR in the backpack next to the laptop - it's | | | | And, of course, keep your fingers out of the |
| less likely that I leave both the laptop and the | | | | frame! |
| camera at home. | | | | |