Comment accepted. I am not a great photographer. When you are travelling almost every day though, you don’t really have time to scope out locations and get back there at sunrise and sunset. It’s more, “Oh! That’s a lovely scene! Let’s see if I can make something of it even though it’s 2 pm and the light is crap.” Then get in the car and drive on.
That’s why I had such a high fail. Compositions were ok and they were sharp enough but the light made for disappointing photos.
Visited Hamilton. One photo is a semi-keeper. The Renaissance Garden. The second - a panoramic photo of the food court didn’t make the cut. Sadly, we needed to get to Rotorua by nightfall. Looking forward to seeing the 3am shots though!
Thanks for the offer. I took a tripod but only used it when my wife was sleeping in. Helpfully, she slept in at Kaikoura, Wanaka and Queenstown.
Just back from three weeks in New Zealand where I took 1,600 photos. Been through about 75% of them and I have about 30 keepers. That’s about one keeper for every 40 photos.
To be fair, I took a lot of photos to stitch as panoramas. Plus, I tended to take two or more photos of the same thing and hope that one of them was sharp. Still, there were some where I don’t know what I was thinking.
If I had been by myself, I probably would have used a tripod and taken more time and had fewer duds. My wife was very patient but it was her holiday too.
This is what I wanted to say but put more eloquently