From the course: The Traveling Photographer: The Basics
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The vacuum picture: For just remembering
From the course: The Traveling Photographer: The Basics
The vacuum picture: For just remembering
Okay, so the first and, like, lowest common denominator of shot that I, I tend to think of is what I call a vacuum shot. This is basically shooting with the base of your brain, like the medulla oblongata. This is the mode that I’m always in by default. If I’m not thinking about a picture, if I’m not thinking about anything photographic, I'm probably going to have a phone with me or a camera with me. And it's almost embarrassing how much I use this because there's so many ways that you can use a vacuum shot. And by that I mean, you're just sucking stuff up basically. You are you're, you're making memories or you're keeping from forgetting I guess, more accurately. So, a good is example is, I, you know, I'm 48 year old. I'll shoot my room, you know, before I leave the hotel so I'll remember what room number I'm at or where I parked my car. And that may sound kind of silly, but having that as a, as sort of a technique, also lends itself to, like, when I was wandering in Akihabara and…
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