In this way, you might get some helpful tips right from the start. If you want to find out more, you'll have to do some appropriate reading. Well-illustrated travel guides and magazines can give you enough preliminary pointers as to where you can capture interesting motifs. Maps with a sufficiently large scale are also indispensable for planning at home. Later, on your photography tour, making brief notes on the map can help you sort the motifs later on.
Picture books provide an initial impression and put the photographer in the right mood.
The purpose is not to copy the motifs, but rather to prepare for the trip. You can tell from the photographs what the correct set of equipment should possibly include. Doing some reading also makes this decision a little easier to make. The same applies to selecting the films. And ideas for creating your own picture stories also sometimes come to life right in your own home.