Today Peter Carey explores different photo storage options for when you are traveling. It’s very easy today to take more pictures in a single week long vacation than ever imagined possible ten years ago. For one thing, not many people had digital cameras ten years ago and those that did had a lot of problems [...]
Photo by margré It is time for another Digital Photography School Community Workshop. This week’s question is from Sandy who is asking for some Travel Photography advice in three areas. Note: check out our Travel Photography Guide – Transcending Travel If you have some advice for Sandy on any of their questions feel free to [...]
Here’s a quick Video with 10 Travel Photography Tips. Most of them are just good basic tips for all types of photography – but for beginners they’ll be helpful. I’ve also included some of my own written Travel Photography Tips below the video: More Travel Photography Tips from Digital Photography School First of all – [...]
Photo by phitar Check out our Travel Photography Guide – Transcending Travel. You’ve probably witnessed the ‘tour bus photo stop’ before. It goes something like this: the bus pulls up at the ‘scenic lookout’ 40 tourists pile out of the bus they proceed to rush to the fence separating them from the castle/ruin/coastline/authentic indigenous village [...]
Photo by spidrwegian Here’s a quick tip to add a new dimension to your travel photography. Look for and Photograph Signs Last time we took an overseas trip (we travelled mainly through Turkey) I set myself the task of photographing the ‘little things’ that we saw along the way. My hope was that in photographing [...]
An observations of fellow travelers that I made on my last trip was that most of them seemed to focus on the ‘big picture’. When the bus would pull up at a tourist destination they always seemed to step as far back from the scene before them in an attempt to fit as much as [...]
Check out our Travel Photography Guide – Transcending Travel. When photographing people in their local context there are a number of techniques that I try to use (not all of them in every shot as some are mutually exclusive). Keep in mind the principles of treating people with respect mentioned in our last post: Choose [...]
People are not ‘Sites’ One realization that I had a number of years back after a trip was that I was actually thinking in terms of ‘capturing’ photos of people. In a sense I was photographing them in a similar way to the other tourist ‘sites’ that I was photographing along the way – almost [...]
Don’t spend your whole trip with your camera to the eye I’m often amazed to see groups of travelers driving up to a location – all piling out of the bus for a 2 minute stop so that all forty people can run out and take exactly the same shot. Sometimes travel groups look more [...]
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