Travel photography has seen a huge rise in popularity in the last ten years or so. This is because there has been a surge of affordable professional standard cameras, and so it is not just the professionals who can get amazing looking photographs of their travels. There are many reasons for taking photos of your journeys, maybe just to prove you've been there or to solidify a memory, but some have sought to do it as an art and a profession. To do this, a nice SLR will only take you part of the way, but this article will point you in the direction of the rest.
Most importantly you have to buy some decent equipment and get an understanding of how it works. If you want to take photography seriously, you will need a digital SLR, because the money you save on film will soon pay for the extra money forked out, and the ability to review photographs straight away is invaluable. A decent lens is also a necessity as many cameras come with a fixed focal length lens which can be very limiting.
Equipment is useless without knowing how to use it. You should spend some long hours poring over the manual and tweaking the camera settings to determine the effects of changing the aperture, shutter speed and ISO (film speed) paying attention to the effect they have on each other too.
Once you've got a feel for the equipment it's just about going out to some amazing places and taking a lot of photographs. The skills you pick up just doing the photographs are far more valuable than any you read about, but there are some things you can be told. For example, you should stick to mornings and late afternoons for shooting, because the long shadows will make any scene much more dramatic, and pictures at noon tend to look flat. Another thing to remember is to use your environment. Tree stumps or walls can be used as make shift tri pods, and no matter how silly you look you should try taking a photo from all angles.
Practice makes perfect with this, like with many things. The more you photograph in different conditions the faster you will learn and the better you will become at improvising. At some point along the line you will start seeing everything through a lens.
Most importantly you have to buy some decent equipment and get an understanding of how it works. If you want to take photography seriously, you will need a digital SLR, because the money you save on film will soon pay for the extra money forked out, and the ability to review photographs straight away is invaluable. A decent lens is also a necessity as many cameras come with a fixed focal length lens which can be very limiting.
Equipment is useless without knowing how to use it. You should spend some long hours poring over the manual and tweaking the camera settings to determine the effects of changing the aperture, shutter speed and ISO (film speed) paying attention to the effect they have on each other too.
Once you've got a feel for the equipment it's just about going out to some amazing places and taking a lot of photographs. The skills you pick up just doing the photographs are far more valuable than any you read about, but there are some things you can be told. For example, you should stick to mornings and late afternoons for shooting, because the long shadows will make any scene much more dramatic, and pictures at noon tend to look flat. Another thing to remember is to use your environment. Tree stumps or walls can be used as make shift tri pods, and no matter how silly you look you should try taking a photo from all angles.
Practice makes perfect with this, like with many things. The more you photograph in different conditions the faster you will learn and the better you will become at improvising. At some point along the line you will start seeing everything through a lens.
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