So I had signed J and I up for a photo shoot in the Deira area…and old Arab section of the city. It was advertised as “a walking tour of Dubai”. Sounded like fun.
We found the area and the group of photographers going on the walk…but no teacher. Someone managed to contact the owner of the school and “she is stuck in traffic but on her way”.
So after she arrives, she tells the group that research of the area you are photographing is key to preparing for a shoot. Then she proceeds to read from her phone the history of the area, pausing whenever the screen locked. Not a good start…she has two sticks against her and we have just met.
Then she tells us we need to shoot on aperture priorty full open before she even knows what any of us are shooting with…another strike.
After we go around the group and tell hervwhat lens and camera we are shooting with, she tells those of us that are shooting with larger cameras and lens, we have the wrong camera and lens for the shooting we will be doing. I’ve shot all over the world with this camera and lens but if there was a recommendation, knowing it before hand would have been helpful. The reason my camera was “wrong” was it was too obvious and I couldn’t get candid shots.
So the walking tour, turned into visiting a few shops and photographing in the shops. The first one was a rug shop…not interesting at all.
A few of us stepped out into the street to take photos of what was going on. The instructor came out about 20 minutes later to tell us what we could and could not photograph. Seems like that belonged in the intro.. of course what she told us contradicted the need for smaller cameras and candid shots.
By now I’m more than grumpy…J suggests we give her one more destination and if we don’t like it we leave.
We leave…and have our own ‘walking tour”. I find a button shop where they sell shell buttons individually!!!@
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Sometimes you just have to go your own way…sounds like you enjoyed your button adventure.