Feature Angles

Guide to Taking Awesome Vacation Photographs

Angle # 1
What professional photographers do?
Talk to local photographers that photograph clients in studio and on location. This will allow for some in depth ideas, tips and tricks that they are willing to share. See if they will share what types of equipment they use and what props if any they use. Ask them how they take their own family’s images. Do they use timers, or do they trust other photographers to do the work for them? What are the ideal camera settings? If a family picture on the beach is the goal, what do you dress your family in? Smile, or no smile? Posed or candid shots? Casual clothes or something a little more formal? Find out how much work they do post processing.


Angle # 2
Amateur Photographers with decent equipment
So the reader might know a little bit. Is that enough to take good images or enough to be dangerous? Talk to parents who have a nice SLR camera, and know a little bit about it. See what their ideal setting or image they would like to capture. Find out how they would approach the task of vacation pictures. Do they own or have access to photo-editing software?


Angle # 3
The struggling parent desperate to get good images of their children
Not everyone can afford a good SLR camera. Does that mean that parents can never get wonderful images of their children? The answer is no. But learn the limitations of the camera you have. Find out if the camera can be set to any manual features. When using a camera with a limitation of having no manual settings, find out what the ideal settings are. Some cameras work better under certain conditions, such as lighting, or fast action.

I prefer to go with angle #1. My goal would be to write an article like this for a photography magazine. While I like the other two angles, I think that they would be more focused toward everyday readers, and not my target audience.