How I Plan My Photography Road Trips (one awesome tool)

In this video, I'm going to walk you through my process for planning photography road trips, including how I find interesting locations and subjects, how I map out and plan routes, and how I organize it all using a tool called Milanote. I've been using this piece of software for the past six months and it's been a game-changer for me—just having a place to store and organize creative ideas, inspiration, and photography trips. I hope you enjoy it!

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[RewDowns]

The most important part of photography that never gets mentioned is planning, incredibly useful video, thanks for sharing!

[BeckiandChris]

Oh man Kyle, this is SO helpful! I love Milanote and use it to plan my trips and videos, but i'm planning a roadtrip (never really planned one before) and love the way you use street view to plan your locations! BRILLIANT!

[jeffham]

This seems perfect for me. Want to do more photography roadtrips this year around Alberta, but with a bit more purpose and productivity to justify the fuel costs! 😂

[jeg]

Did the roof on Rua Reidh Lighthouse about 25 years ago.

[thesilversurfer]

As a Brit who now lives in Canada, i find this super interesting. I do a lot of multi-day photographic trips on the Alberta and Saskatchewan prairies and nearly always organized by pen. This app looks amazing and well thought out. It would also work for my bikepacking trips as well. My mum is near Reading and so is my sister. Small world. Great videos.

[acehanson]

Great video. Really liked the way you go through all the processes!!

[airindiana]

I lived in the Orkney islands for 2 years as a kid on a remote farm outside Stromness. You could see scarpa flow at low tide.

[JeffreyFilman]

Holy heck thank you so much Kyle, you have helped me restructure and plan any future trip by sharing Milanote. I've been using the notes application and marking places down with stars and flags for years on google maps, but this is a far better way to structure a project or trip. I am so happy to be able to use this for future trips and projects!

[SathyaPeacock]

Thanks for adding value man, this looks like a great app I'm gonna have to try it.

[MrBritishGent]

The Orkney Islands will not disappoint!

[Seun]

Hi Kyle, brilliant video! Might have to steal this for organising a bike packing tour. Loving your videos🙌🏿

[IanDocherty]

Hi Kyle, another really good vid as usual. Being a keen photographer (amateur) I have been watching your vid's for a long time now and enjoy them and your photography immensely, but never, ever did I think I would see Southend on the Mull of Kintyre mentioned in one of them. My father and his half of our family are from Campbeltown and my grandmother used to live at Stewarton which is on the main road between Campbeltown and Southend. If you have time when you are there you might try visiting the Carradale area as I am sure you will find something of interest pictorially. Aside from that I believe Carradale beach is where part of the filming for Paul McCartney's 1977 hit 'Mull of Kintyre, ' which featured the Campbeltown Pipe Band was filmed. It spent 9 weeks at number one in the UK charts and I believe for many years was the biggest selling single of all time. It is a beautiful part of the country but if you intend to visit in the winter months I am not sure that is the wisest decision. We used to go there a lot when I was young for our annual holiday and even now I can recall relatives saying "if only you had come up last week, the weather was that was in July/August!!! I haven't been there for many years now but your vid did bring back memories. Enjoy and it will be interesting to see any vid you might make of your trip.

[datboidadl]

Super helpful, I think it's a perfect activity for a slow rainy day. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[rayandrews]

Looks like something I can't do without, just planning a trip to Northumberland, interested to see if it can be dynamically linked to tide table websites, weather websites, clear outside and photopills plans . Will give it a try, really like that images can be added as story boards. Will probably have 20+ locations to shoot and this has the potential to really improve on the simple spreadsheet approach

[jerryxs]

Thanks Kyle, great ideas here. This is a great way to balance out going on an "unknown adventure" with planned ideas to bank at least a few photos. Too often I've gone on road trips and come away with very little because of poor prior planning or forgetting to bring some piece of gear. Not sure if you've done a video on your car camping set-up, but I'm always interested in how other's set-up their vehicle for overnighting and deciding where to overnight, particularly in areas without national parks and such. Cheers!

[lneleven]

I’m looking to do a solo trip in the fall of 2022 around Scotland. I’m excited to see what you get 📸

[Qinulee]

I have long wondered how you find/research prepare for trips. Saving this for forever!

[harleyjaffar]

Great video, can’t wait to see your images from Scotland

[harrymackenzie]

Im a simple man, I see Kyle McDougall's posted a new vid, I hit like. More seriously though I didnt even know I needed something like this. Excited to plan my trip to Japer on this!

[cevisuals]

Thank you for this tutorial... I've always struggled with conceiving projects on paper as it's always felt disheveled and I end uup not getting anything started. This is a massive resource for the travel documentary photo work I've been trying to get going.