You have been saving up and planning for it, and it’s finally here, your vacation! At this time of year many people take a vacation. The weather is great and the kids are out of school. Maybe this year you are planning THE vacation, the trip you always dreamed of, or maybe it’s just a short trip with the kids to the beach or to Disneyland.

Where ever you end up going, one thing you don’t want to forget is your camera. Many people have digital cameras. I don’t know about you, but before digital, the only thing I had to look forward when the trip was over was seeing the pictures. But now with digital you can see them right away. Now you get to see them while on vacation (isn’t that great?) But after you get home what do you do with those pictures? Do they stay on the disk on your camera? Maybe you transfer them to your computer where you plan to print them or share them with friends. How many people get around to doing this? Maybe through email or uploading to sites you do. But they never seem to get into albums and after a while they get put into the back of your mind with your other memories of the vacation. But if you put them together with souvenirs you collected on the trip, titles, maybe some video and music, you can create a video montage that will take you back to your vacation over and over again. It is also a great way to share your good time with family and friends. For you to make a very good video, it’s good to plan out what pictures you take to tell your story. Here is a great article on the web that shares how to do that:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/activities/vacation.mspx

I won’t go into the article, but one thing it mentioned that is a great idea is when on your trip buying some music from the area to use on your video. I did this when I went to Greece and it really added to the vacation video.

After you are back from vacation call us at Tears of Joy Video to put together a professional video montage of your trip. You can check out our packages at:

http://www.tearsofjoyvideo.com/pricing.html

If you have any ideas of how to take better photographs, share them everyone in my comments. Also if you would like, share with us what interesting place you are going on vacation this year. Thanks for reading this.

Oh and by the way, have a Great Vacation!

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