Preparing for Your Photographic Adventure
A photographic journey is 80 percent preparation and 20 percent vacation. Planning the perfect trip requires a bit of mental elbow grease and a lot of time finding resources, looking up information, and managing logistics. In the end, work you do before you go pays off in spades when you see [...]
Travel Photography
Although travel photography, like news photography, is strongly directed toward content (what, where, who), great travel photography is closer to art. It may be journalism, but it is not news. Travel images should entertain as well as inform.
To do this, the photographer must be aware of the same aesthetic issues as the fine art photographer. [...]
Share your Travel photographs using an online photograph community
If you would like to share your photographs with people around the Earth, one of the most comfortable ways is with an online photo service or a photo community. Think of a photo service (such as snapfish.com , shutterfly.com , and others) as an online photo-processing store. So much sites allow photographers to upload photos [...]
Giving Your Gear (camera) a Dry Run
You’ve assembled your photographic gear, you’ve planned a trip, and you’re ready to head out on your photographic voyage. There’s still one last thing to do. It’s time to try everything out and see how it works.
There’s nothing worse than getting to your destination and realizing your camera bag is too small [...]
Choose your Shots Wisely
Many first-time travel photographers develop a condition I call Copius Snaperitis Syndrome where the experience of taking pictures in a new place is so interesting that they take photos of everything they see. Symptoms include thousands of shots of doorknobs and poodles, the inability to put one’s camera down, and a lack of actual “relaxation” [...]