Some Newbie Photography tips would have been handy wile on a trip, having your camera with you but did not know what will be good shooting when looking at it years later.

My wife and I made our first trip to Europe some not very recent years ago. On that time, we acquired a nice Fuji camera but the days for digital where not there yet.

We took 40 films about 700 shots and where exited to present them to our friends back home. Many of you may remember how this was, getting home, take the films up to the printing shop and wait for them to get delivered. How many times did I look at a photo and did not remember why or where I took it. We also find some out of focus and shacked. That wasn’t nice in deed, but the worst was that even the photo was not worth it we already played for it in full.

Well, fortunately this was then. Today, the situation is entirely different. Our last trip took us back to Europe again, but this time we were equipped with a nice compact digital camera and also with our laptop. We like taking pictures, and we installed a 2G memory card in it and have a spear set of batteries.

The kids where unstoppable and at every chance they borrowed the camera and did the most crazy shots, funny and also some very nice ones. The best of all is that opposite to our older experiences, we took advice of a Newbie Photography tips book and checked it over with our boys. They learned all the basic we didn’t have in our beginnings. And believe me it makes a difference.

Also very important is that with a digital camera, you can check out the photo right away, if something does not fit or look good, clear and shoot again, at least in most of the cases. On this trip we took about 2000 shots back home and most of them where OK, including those taken by the kids. Every day at the hotel we downloaded and organized the shots of the day and in some days we even did this twice.

Now, one thing we confirmed on this adventure, is:

Allow kids to have fun just let them know the basics and safety instructions on using a camera as not walking while looking through the camera; stumble may always be a risk in doing so. We learned it the hard way, one minor bumped knee for our youngest and luckily just a minor damage to our camera, but the memory card and the shots of the morning where lost.

I hope this Newbie Photography tip will prevent your kids and equipment from any harm.