If you're like me, you come home from a trip with hundreds of photos on your camera. I enjoy making photo books on Shutterfly, but they are admittedly time-consuming, so I often end up working on a book literally a couple of years after my return from the trip. It's difficult to remember where every single photo was taken and cumbersome to carry pen and paper to jot everything down each time that shutter clicks. A lot of new cameras have GPS capabilities for tagging the location of a shot, but if yours doesn't, here are some pointers.
1. Take photos of signs as you go along. If you're hiking, take a photo of the trailhead sign.Take photos of informational signs so you can use them in captioning your photo album/book. If you're entering a park, snap a shot of the entry sign. You can either crop these images for use as captions or just use them for informational purposes.
2. If you have a smartphone with map capabilities, do a screen shot of the map. Set your camera's time to local time and synchronize it with your smartphone's time. Then you can match up the photos' times and determine the location of the photo. This helps a lot when you're trying to figure out where in the world that photo was taken.
Now, back to my photo book production....
