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1. Introduction: Traveling is a faraway. How to explore new places as well as our inner self. It expands our world and leaves as inspired. But this modern days with the hurried pace of life, even traveling is changing. Tourists are often stopping just at the main attractions and must cease to take a picture for Instagram and many people before that. And when coming home from the travels, they've got hundreds of photos that are soon forgotten. How can we slow down and make out devils more meaningful? The answer is Joel journaling. So every journal, the one way how to record your travels and experience your trip all over again. It also helps you slow down and increases your self awareness, which makes your travels so much more meaningful. Journaling helps you explore your own thoughts, beliefs, and values. So it is a great opportunity for your growth and development. When traveling here experiencing so many new and exciting situation. And you also far away from routines of your everyday life. That's why traveling is a perfect diamond to start journaling. And you don't need to be experienced writer to give it a shelf. In today's workshop, I'll show you how I was creating a scrapbook from our travels around Australia. Small four wheel drive car. It was a great adventure that took me to many different places and gave me the opportunity to meet interesting people and listen to their stories. Scrapbook with photos, words, and drawings is a perfect way how to keep our memories alive for the rest of our lives. This is something I'll be happy to look at in a few years and remember myself, how amazing the trip loss with all those random little details. Hundreds or thousands of digitals In my computer's simply don't work for me anymore. They have a handmade for the book in my hand. That's a different feeling. In this following lessons, we're going to talk about the documenting the memories in both written words and photos. I'll give you introduction to visual storytelling to give you a better idea what kind of photos to take while traveling it make your scrapbook journal more out and I'll show you what are my next steps when I come back home and introduce you to my system of filing the photos to have an order that makes my life so much easier. We'll have the final selection ready and printed first, start creating your beforehand made. This piece of memory is Toby, get glide forever. So let's get started.
2. Before the trip: Get your tools ready: Before going for the three abuse, should decide whether you're going to be creating the scrapbook during traveling, or you're just gonna take notes and photos and collect all the material needed to do it a scrapbook of at home. I prefer the second option because while it's traveling, I usually want to explore as much as possible while being on the spot and experience as much as I can. Ended gaze. We didn't need to worry about choosing the right scrapbook yet. We can just take a simple notebook with US border trip. Small notebook is a perfect choice. The smaller the better, because it will take almost any space in your bag. So no excuses carrying the non-book always with you so that you can easily write down what interested you during the day. The other thing I always carry with me in the camera, I used to have a big DSLR and bust, but when traveling became important part of my life, I decided to invest into a mirrorless camera, which is much smaller and less heavy. With a DSLR I use study would make him or her in Macau loads of dance because it was degree a lot of ways to k For me all the time. It was always a big decision before the trip. Is it worth today the camera to this hike or not? I don't have this problem with mirrorless camera anymore. I just stay the body with at least one versatile lens and go. Of course, even a basic compact camera will work, or phone as well, depends what you prefer. My advice though, is to take pictures just on one device. Otherwise you will get crazy well, going through all the photos from two or three devices and movie too lazy to go through all of them and sort them out. Trust me. I use my phone mostly phone calls and texting. I don't use it that much for gauging photos in general. So even when traveling, if I want to take a photo, I automatically grabbed my camera. Therefore, I have all the important memories just on one device, which makes it so much easier for my future self to go through the material. These are the tools you're going to need while you are traveling. In the next part, Let's talk about a way how to document your memories and adventures while being on the trip.
3. Documenting your travels - written word: Journaling is equally important as taking photos. Sometimes A11 written word can trigger so much memories and emotions. You may think that when you look at the pictures, you'll remember the deep perfectly. But trust me, even a month of traveling creates so much memories and this will be soon blended into each other. That's why I make myself to sit every day and rated a most memorable moments from the day. The deeper you go into your own experiences, the more benefit you will have from a journal. There are no rules you can write about anything. You can read about places you visited. You've met, sounds, smells, tastes, your VMs, Deborah glands, inspiration or even poems and quotes. Get it down on paper while it's still fresh, it will be much more vivid. If there is no time for full description, just write down a few keywords that will jog your memory and fill in the gaps later will trigger your deeper memories. You can also collect items on your journey like Buster get stickers or other things that will remind you of a places and times. Sundays, I felt like writing a lot and covered many pages, done these A-Rod, only three sentences. There's nothing wrong about that. Don't push yourself too hard into writing and gone through all about everything you did. Just raid world, feels important to you and leave the rest out. That way you won't feel pressured or bored by your new hobby. I chose the writer journal multiple times in my life, but it didn't nevertheless long. The longest I managed to do it was when I moved to Australia, make yours. It was a lot of new re-entered happening and I just wanted to have all my fault on paper. I always find it easier to do journal Englanders, some new impulse in my life, literates or either doing tabling when everything around you changes or the time to sit down for five to ten minutes a day and write about those beautiful moment that they experienced became natural for me below the month. You'll have to figure out what's gonna work best for you if the rate every day or just every couple of days to write in sentences and tell the whole story or just valence single words. I usually started with where we spend the nape and what we've had for breakfast. Even if it doubles every day, almost the same. That's where the beauty is. That even when sleeping on a difference both every night, we still have this one routine every day to have a slow morning and enjoy the same breakfast with a cup of coffee. Right down the moment that are important for u. Momentum of happy or sad. When you experience something extraordinary for just a routine. Write down all those little things. There are no restrictions in journaling. Let's recap these additives that will help you to start journaling grid few minutes every day when you didn't have time or mood for a full description. First, just a keywords. Collect items that will help you recall the memories. It's your journal. You can write about anything that's on your mind. And the most important, don't push yourself too hard too, right? It should be just fun.
4. Documenting your travels - photo storytelling: Visualization became so important in the age that you live at. Metlife photographs are a key part of our scrapbook. Let's spend some time now talking about how to get the most out of it. Photography is not just a practice of creating visual appealing pictures. It's about telling stories, getting upset about the D and annoying flies around or DAG a big, enjoying a beautiful dinner on the cliff. Take exactly these small moments are both medial trips so memorable. It's not just about taking a photo of yourself or your fellow travelers with perfect posing in front of a pair effects, picturesque background. Storytelling is about much more. When taking photos, focus on documenting places as well as people should candid shot and everyday moments. For example, I remember we were bothered by the slice. A lot of venture I will link in the red sand over Australia. So I took pictures of, I don't love the most attractive in this handmade net all over my face. But that's what the trip was about as well. So before you make yourself look beautiful Florida picture, just think first. When I'm going to be browsing through to photos in a few years. Dr. honesty, the post is that are far away from everyday reality or the real picture of our funny holiday. I want to remind myself the little moments that I can laugh at. Well, to be honest, it's probably good to mix it and choose both because you just don't want your whole dribble scrapbook be full of candid, real-life pictures like this or this, or this. Some days you may think that there's nothing to shoot. Great example is when we were driving hundreds of kilometers a day, spending 12 hours in the car. Well, it is a far off traveling as well document that there's always something to shoot. Some small moments that you want to remember. I'll give you a great example from our trip. When driving for a long distances, we didn't buzz many cars on the road, even less their own strains. I've been driving for a long time. You kind of get the bit crazy and board and all that. So the thing we did was that every dime resource strain pasting a short song about it. Everybody is singing and these are the memories I wanna keep. That's why you photo overrode strain occupies an honorable place in my scrapbook. Another important point to mention is that it's always good to shoot both white angle and close-up shots to have more variety. Details are equally important to wide angle shots. Play with the different angles and photo orientation as well. Variety is the key in storytelling. Let's recap. We want variety. So take photos where you look awesome, but also a lot of candid shots where you don't shoot people but surroundings as well. Don't forget about the details. And finally, combine shooting in horizontal and vertical orientation.
5. Get the photos ready to print - workflow: When traveling, I usually take thousands of photos yes. On this photo ever who usually overshoot? That's why I tried to go through it. A fixed continuity when still on the road. Otherwise, I would be too overwhelmed by enormous numbers of photos. Mendel trip is over. On our tube around Australia. We've slipped on a different spoke every night, constantly moving. And because we were camping, if there wasn't some downs and use it to find a suitable spot where to sit comfortably and edit your photos. But then there was a chance at least once a week when we had access to electricity and acquired spoke with table. I said that my laptop for a few hours and went through all the pictures. I took so far. How my work folks like over the years I learned that creating various files and naming them with a date and place looks very effectively. We have visit those different parts of Australia while being on the trip. So I have special false for every blaze here. When filing is done, I take one file at a time and uploaded the photos to Lightroom. For example, in this folder I have older all photos from Kangaroo Island. It's hundreds over o files. So now I import into Lightroom and basically go through the photos quickly and give a star rating through the one that I like on the first side. I reduce them to photos on less than a house. So I repeat this process and go through remaining photos one more time. Now being du star ratings to my favorites. This way, I reduce similar pictures and give to the number of final photo that I'll edit and keep on my external hard drives. I have created my own filters in Lightroom, so I choose the one that best fits and a glide on all the photos. I have to slightly adjust the settings on every picture to look perfect. Wendover work in Lightroom is done. I explored them in special folder. I repeat this whole process with all the other files. But I finally have a folder. It's just edited photos that are good enough to be shared with others. It's still quite a big number. I definitely want to keep all of these in digital format to show to the family ordinates generations. But for the brand, I want to choose just the, a few of them. I went to Brin around five to ten pictures for a day spend on the trip. These will make it to describe book. Because I've decided to use small square format of mice, Chromebook, which has just forfeited double-sided pages. I need to fill it them into photos of smaller size than the classical, than the 15 centimeters for the Forma. My trick to make things easier and gets her eyes looks and sizes of file photos is to create multiple photo collages. And vendor friends are done single photos with scissors. Of course, it is more work to do collaged and just Brenda, classical format must all those different sizes of pictures will make the scrapbook so much more interesting. I used Canva, have to do the layouts where you have unlimited possibilities to create your own designs. I've had about 300 edited photos, Friends, which could never fit in my small scrapbook of thanks to assembling them together, I have just fix that final files that should easily flip it. And like this, photos are ready to print. Now stay with me. It's finally time to start making our fabulous travel photo journal. I'll see you in the next lesson.
6. Scrapbook with Words, photos and drawings: We list the list. He has everything we need in front of us. Notebook with all the nodes from our travels. Print bit photo collages, scissors, or tape to attach the photos. We also have writing and drawing tools ready. I'm using a black pen for death and domain the drawings more alive. We can add some colors, so get your water colors ready as well. Finally, we need a book that we're going to mix everything in. I was looking for a book with blank first page made of paper so that I can create the cover by myself. I also wanted to pages to be not white, but beige or brown and hard enough to be possible to use watercolors and not to make the favor soaking wet and wrinkled. I found my first like no invoke, just those few things. And we are ready to capture our adventure in a way that's will be happy to look at for the rest of our lives. So let get started. I have four pages available, so I know that I can use approximately one double-page for one day spent on some days were more special for me then the others. So these can have even the pages. There's no space I have to work with. Now. It's just about your creative. The layout is going to look like to make sure that all fits order photos in the book. I roughly half of the photos on the places where it could be. And it'll give me a better idea if I'm going to be critical that the space and need to reduce the number of photos or if everything worked perfectly. It seems that I have the perfect amount of photos and though plenty of space for writing and drawings. When we had an idea about the space, doing the layout of single pages and glue it all in. I will work with the pictures because these take the most of space. Afterwards I fill the blank spaces, but writings and drawings. I wanted to every page to look a bit different and nondegenerate. That's why I've chosen different format and sizes of your photos as well, and use both color photos and black and white. Some special moment, I print it in a bigger format. I still want the book to look at least a bit consistent. That's why I've decided to leave all the photos that byte frames. I'll create consistent tube and the braiding style as well, using same style of writing, letters to split the days and handwriting order S. If I would be changing the forms on every page, I think the book will look a little bit too messy, but it's your book, your memories. So don't be scared. Creativity and fantasy working. Finally, the highlight of her creation cover page. Take more time to create the cover of the book and think it through. It's going to be the first thing you'll see every time. So make it especially appealing. Right? Draw glue, put together whatever reminds you that trip best. And always remember that the most important when being in a creative process is to have fun and the minimum and frictions.
7. Let's recap!: Thank you so much for joining me as a discourse today. I hope you had a lot of fun and learned something valuable. Now it's time to give you a homework. It doesn't matter if you stay at home living your ordinary life, or a few travel. This exercise will help you to break this storytelling. Either way, your homework is to take two photos today or tomorrow. The first one that shows your everyday routine and the other one that shows some special moment you experience. Shooting routines is super important because it shows your real everyday life. So focus on documenting things that you would normally never take pictures of. You can try to capture the moment in a creative way though. So maybe tried to shoot from some unusual angle, do a close-up shot, and so on. The other part of the homework is to take a picture of some special moment that you experience. You may think that nothing special is happening, but you just need to think more deeply. Maybe you wake up really early that day and you finally after a long time, can appreciate a beautiful sunrise. Or you go outside on her lunch break and you just spoke the Cloud in some interesting or funny shape. These are the small moments that you can take pictures of. This exercise will help you to slow down and be more aware of yourself and the world around you. And it will also help you to appreciate all the small moments. Don't forget to write captions for both of the photos to remind you of a moment even better. If you don't feel like writing a lot, one sentence or a keyword should be enough. Share your photos with us in the project section below so we can be inspired by your work and creativity. Thank you guys again for watching until the end and see you next time.
Klara Zamourilova, Photographer/Videographer
