The way you can guarantee that you'll get great shots of people when you travel is to set up shots. I do this on all my photo tours for my group. I preconceive the type of image I want (like a model in an arched window, for example), and then I talk to local people about the best way to set it up.
Attached are four images that show you what I'm talking about. In each case, I made the arrangements to make these happen. In the case of the three young boys painted black and wearing shell costumes, I arranged this with the hotel concierge in the Philippines. The rearing horse photo was arranged at a festival in India, and the costumed models in a gondola were set up in Venice. In Cambodia, I hired four dancers through a taxi driver and they posed for me throughout the ruins of Angkor Wat.
Serendipity is great, and when you are lucky enough to get awesome shots by happenstance it's a wonderful experience. This doesn't happen often, of course, and therefore I make things happen with a little persistence and a preconceived notion of what I want.
If you come on any of my photo tours, you'll benefit from this kind of photographic opportunity. At the moment, I'm planning a photo tour to Ireland in 2010 (dates to be announced), and I'm working on arranging a model in a 19th century nun's habit and also a knight in armor. I really want these shots for my group, so hopefully I'll be able to set them up.
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