To celebrate the launch of my new PDF ebook ‘101 Tips for Travel Photography’ and because July and August are top travel months worldwide, I’ll post 10 tips from the book over the month of July. Where the previous tip was very practical ("What kind of photo gear do I take with me on a trip?"), this one is of a more philosophical nature: how do you deal with "travel photography stress", the sometimes overwhelming and frankly paralysing urge to score great images when travelling?
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One good image a day…
… is more than many pros can say
This is tip #22 from the book ‘101 Tips for Travel Photography’: One good image a day… is more than many pro’s can say
Do you know travel photography stress? It is the pressure you feel as a traveling photographer to return home with a series of killer images. Or maybe you make it even harder on yourself by wanting to update your Instagram or Facebook feed while traveling. The fact that we are all continuously exposed to a stream of high-quality travel photos from others through the same social media channels does not help things, of course. Personally, I prefer quality over quantity: one really good photo per day that you are traveling, is already fantastic. The great Ansel Adams, one of the giants of landscape photography, considered as little as twelve good photos a year to be ‘a good crop’. So don’t try (or expect) to put together your entire travel portfolio over an extended weekend and if you do succeed, you should be writing this book instead of reading it! I took this photo of a charcoal monger in Old Delhi at the start of a two-week trip. I was so happy with this image that any other good photo I took on that trip would just be icing on the cake.
“Twelve significant photos a year is a good crop”
The man stood outside in harsh, unpleasing sunlight. I tried toexplain to him that I wanted to do the portrait in his shop. There was much less light over there, but the light that still came in was of a much better quality. In addition, I could also keep the background dark. I was only too happy that I had a fast portrait lens on my camera instead of a travel zoom (see also tip 8). Even at an aperture of f/1.2, I had to raise my ISO to 1.600 to get a fast enough shutter speed.
I also tried a wider environmental portrait as you can see in the bottom right of the screenshot, but I like the classic portrait shot much better, mainly because of the strong look in his eyes.
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