From the course: Travel Photography: Rome

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Unexpected changes

Unexpected changes

- When I talk with photographers about traveling for the purposes of photography, one of the things I try to reinforce as much as possible is essentially know thy subject, one of the key mantras in photography and really it's all about planning. Now, some of that is just a matter of making a list of the subjects that you hope to photograph when you're traveling, and part of that is trying to anticipate exactly when you'll want to photograph a particular subject whether it's a morning versus afternoon shot, for example. It can also be helpful to do as much research as possible about the accessibility of those subjects. For example, if you want to photograph a subject that might be closed during certain hours, you'd certainly want to be aware of that. Sometimes though, you're going to be surprised and not in a good way, and that was the case here, for example. I'm in Rome at the Trevi Fountain perhaps the most well known fountain in all the world, certainly the best known fountain in…

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