Oct 30, 2014
Gary Bembridge author of "The Cruise Traveler's Handbook" provides another 60-Second Cruise Tip. For more visit http://www.60secondcruisetips.com and subscribe free to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio and TuneIn Radio
Photography and cruise line excursions
If you are a keen photographer or video maker and want to ensure
that you will have time to capture the images you want, you should
avoid cruise line or independent group tours. Instead you should
plan to self-tour or hire a private guide.
Scheduled port tours are designed to visit as many sights and
attractions as possible in the limited time available. They want
passengers to feel they have seen all the key things in that
destination and leave little time at each stop to take in the scene
and to frame and take photographs and video. You will be fighting
with the rest of your busload of visitors to get a good position to
take photographs and they will also be cluttering up the scene. The
tour guides will be hurrying you along to meet the schedule and you
will have limited time to shoot the scene
You should identify the scenes you want to photograph or video in
advance and plan self tours, like on the hop-on hop-off bus, or
find an independent guide who you brief in advance to plan the flow
and timing of your day.