Capturing Family Vacations

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Whether you’re children are infants or they are heading off to college in just a short while, you know how precious vacations with them are. Enjoying the moment is important, but you also want to ensure that you take pictures. Years in the future, when your kids have kids of their own, you can sit back and look at all the fun you had.

Select Your Equipment

Taking pictures with your cell phone is one way to capture the moments, and you’ll probably use that method for at least some of the photos. While phone cameras do offer high quality on modern devices, you may want extra special touches for those extra special photos. For example, if you own a GoPro Camera, purchasing GoPro mounts and adding GoPro filters can help to amplify your pictures. You may want to look into selfie stickers, underwater cameras or other devices that are appropriate for your travels.

Balance Your Poses

Snapping some photos of the family perfectly posed at every single attraction probably seems tempting. However, it can also waste time, especially when you are in a line to see the exhibits. Instead of trying to overly plan out your photos and posing your family every few minutes, take some candid shots too. Those pictures are often the best at displaying how much fun your family really had on the trip.

Don’t Miss the Major Moments

While you don’t want to spend the entire vacation positioning your family members as though they are in a photo shoot for a magazine, you also don’t want to miss pictures with the biggest attractions either. Before you go to each locale, you may want to take a mental or actual note of what attractions you want family photos at. Then, you can ensure that you get a mix of posed photos and candid pictures.

Make Safety a Priority

With modern technology, you always have to make safety a priority. When you’re on vacation, you may be tempted to post a picture on social media of you and your family enjoying time at a particular attraction. However, by doing so, you are telling a large group of people that no one is home, which can lure unsavory individuals to break into your home. Save the photos for now; upload them into an album when you get back. Also, you may want to hand your camera to a stranger so that the entire family can get in. Trusting strangers with expensive items can be a risk, however.

Remember to Have Fun

As you are busy taking pictures, you might forget to have fun yourself. You aren’t going to remember the fun that you documented if you don’t have any. Put the camera away for awhile, or ask your partner to take some pictures. When you get back to the hotel, jot down some notes about your favorite parts of the outing so that you can include the ideas in a scrapbook later.

Assemble the Photos

Don’t just let the photos sit on your camera when you get home. You could order printed copies of the images and put them into a scrapbook yourself, or you could have a photo album made online. Doing so helps you to keep better track of your pictures. Furthermore, you do not have to worry that the technology will fail and delete all of your images.

Family vacations make beautiful memories for you and your loved ones, and you want to ensure that you remember these trips. Taking pictures and putting them together in a display is one way that you can preserve these memories and look back at them in later years.

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This guest post was made by MicBergsma.tv, a videography company based in Austin, Texas. MicBergsma.tv supplies up and coming photographers and videographers as well as educates the public with guides and “How to videos”.