Indholdsfortegnelse for Travel Photography 2016 i Photo Review

Two critical factors can influence whether you get good photographs when you travel: your choice of equipment and how you use it. Making the right choices will help you to enjoy your trip and knowing how to use your gear will enable you to come home with memorable shots. Packing a camera bag for a holiday trip is a very personal matter; we all have individual preferences and experience different constraints, depending on the type of holiday we take. People staying in one place will want different equipment from those who will be on the move throughout their vacation. Those holidaying by the sea will require gear that can withstand salt spray and sand, while those going inland may have to provide dust protection for their equipment. Choosing a camera…

Every trip contains a story and it’s the travel photographer’s job to tell that story in pictures. So, before you leave home you should have some idea of what types of pictures you want to record and how you will record them and manage them while you’re on the go. If you’re returning to a place that’s familiar this will be easier than if you’re going somewhere new. But most trips take you to particular destinations and involve specific activities so you should be able to predict most of the situations you’re likely to encounter. Techniques for story-telling There are lots of ways to tell a story with pictures. Simply taking a photo of a person in a particular context can be enough to tell a story. Well-chosen portraits can…

Although almost any lens can be used for photographing landscapes, most photographers prefer wide-angle lenses because they better encompass scenic panoramas. Your choice of focal length will vary with the type of scene, how much of it you wish to record and the presence (or absence) of objects in the foreground. Timing can be critical to obtaining exciting shots. Make sure you’re up by sunrise, even if it’s an overcast day. Late afternoon and early evening are also good times for attractive lighting. Low sun angles produce elongated shadows, which can add depth to scenes. Helicopters and hot air balloons can provide stable platforms for photographing landscapes and they provide a radically different angle from shots taken on the ground. Many destinations with dramatic landscapes have companies that offer rides…

Most people enjoy a fireworks display and photographers usually flock to venues where light shows like Sydney’s Vivid Festival have been scheduled. It’s not difficult for rank amateurs to take pictures at these events; even point-andshoot cameras include ‘Low Light’ and ‘Fireworks’ modes to make it easy to obtain shots that can be shared via social media. Better results will be obtained when photographing light displays with more sophisticated cameras, particularly interchangeable-lens models with a full range of user-adjustable controls. Because you will be shooting at night, some specific conditions apply and you’ll need the right equipment to obtain optimal results. Light installations often involve projections of moving images that change rapidly. Because their intensity is lower, high ISO settings are essential to provide short enough exposures to minimise blurring.…

Great travel photos tell a story by opening our minds to interpretation and allowing us a glimpse into the lives of others. By considering each image as an individual story we can transform visually stimulating locations, landmarks or scenes into visual drama and a more intense experience for the viewer. Travelling provides many opportunities to capture candid or quirky moments of a particular time or place. Candid photography can be quite personal and provides an interesting narrative of your experiences on the trip. Your narrative becomes what you include or exclude from the shot. I try to find a location that provides a clean frame for the image and wait for the right moment to appear. Of course, being an animal photographer, I always try to include animals in my…

Most people in the world live in cities and cities are normally the first point at which photographers see new places. All cities have landmarks that most tourists want to photograph: the Sydney Opera House, the Statue of Liberty in New York, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in London, the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, the Acropolis in Athens and places like the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe and Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, to name a few. Looking for different angles can lead to you produce more interesting pictures. So can different times of the day. Often the best pictures are obtained early in the morning before crowds arrive to get in your way. But the most interesting places to photograph are often away from these highlights…

Close-up shots pull you directly into a subject and make you focus in upon details in the scene – or within individual subjects. They’re great for highlighting something most people normally overlook and revealing intimate details and interactions. They will also add richness to your collection of images and provide a more personalised perspective that will make your shots stand out from the crowd. If you’re planning a photo book, a collection of close-ups will make a nice page layout highlighting a specific area of your trip. We often hear the term ‘macro’ used interchangeably with close-up photography. But there is an important difference between these genres: whereas close-ups refer to images shot at close range and isolated from their surroundings, macro shots are extreme close-ups that portray the subject…

The gear I travel with often depends on the purpose of the journey. If the trip’s focus is just to shoot then I load up with two camera bodies, usually one with a 35mm sensor and one with an APS-C sensor. This effectively gives me two sets of lenses as each body gives different viewpoints with each lens. As I walk around a location I have both cameras ‘out and ready’ usually with a 70-200mm lens on the 35mm body and a 10-24mm lens on the APS-C body. This gives me a good, versatile range to walk around with and will cover most of the ‘reaction’ shots – the ones where you walk into a scene that grabs your attention and you need to shoot straight away so you don’t…

A significant part of any trip involves getting to your destination and most photographers like to take at least a few shots while they are on the way there – as well as while returning home. With a large percentage of trips involving flights, we’ll start with a few tips on shooting from commercial aircraft. 1. Go online and book your seat in advance, selecting a window seat that is in front of the wing, if possible. This makes it less likely for images to be distorted by heat and turbulence from the engines. You’re also less likely to include parts of the plane in the shot. 2. Depending on the direction of your flight, one side of the plane may be in deep shade and the other side glaringly…

The first bit of advice is get good travel insurance and make certain all of your equipment is covered. No matter what policy you have, it will not help you recover any stolen memories. While no system is fool proof, I do try to make time every evening to download the day’s images from the card and save a copy to an external hard drive that I travel with. The hard drive is small enough to store with my laptop in the hotel safe. If I have internet access, I will also upload copies of the JPEGs to a private folder on Flickr. Wi-Fi has been a game changer for me, especially when travelling. I can share the images I take with my camera via my tablet and/or phone without…