One of life’s greatest pleasures is holiday travel. Capturing photographs of those prized and thrilling occasions that make the journey so memorable is intensely satisfying, particularly so if the trip is unlikely to be repeated. Creating a travel journal offers the opportunity to reference a storehouse of memories and if well put together can offer friends and family a vicarious taste of your travel experiences. Shooting lots of photos is a great way to start however taking a few hints, tips and tricks on board before the journey begins will yield a much more pleasurable result.
Gaining an understanding of the places you are visiting enables planning the excursion in detail and what should be in mind is to enhance the quantity and the quality of potential photo opportunities. Reading travel articles from magazines and newspapers, travel guides from tourism agencies and obtaining maps of the areas you intend visiting will help in this process, not only from the standpoint of increasing photo ops but also for suggesting add-on destinations or points of interest that will enhance the travel experience.
Further research the journey by visiting the local library where you can often find a great source of information pertaining to your travel destination. If at all possible try and find someone who has already visited the places you intend traveling to. Their experiences and knowledge of the area could prove helpful.
Chronicled and organized, your pictures should tell a story. Dates, times, place names should be recorded in a journal or diary along with brief comments about the particular scene photographed. Entries made to coincide with each shot will be invaluable later on.
Photographs of the more mundane, day to day living scenes will involve the viewer in the atmosphere of the journey. Mood shots evoke feelings and expressing how you feel through the camera lens likewise induces appreciation for your experience.
With memory so cheap for digital compacts and DSLRs, these days, plan to have plenty of memory for your digital camera and if at all possible take a back up storage device with you. Take lots of photos to improve your success rate. It is always better to discard images that aren’t quite up to speed than to not achieve the desired objective. If taking an SLR, make sure that you have a good telephoto lens. My experience has been that a good telephoto lens will significantly increase the potential for additional photograph opportunities.
If you are still using film then it is important to make sure that you have enough – try taking double what you think you will use to be sure that you won’t run out. If your travel intentions are international make sure you store your exposed film in a lead lined film bag to protect the film from x-ray systems at border stations.
Finally, remember to have fun with your camera. Shooting candid pics of family and friends can be very rewarding and capturing that special moment may well turn out to be the highlight of your photographic journal.
Hundreds of photography books and magazines detailing all manner of hints, tips, techniques and tricks for use of cameras and camcorders can be found at www.photographyglobal.com. Unbeatable prices on cameras, camera lenses, tripods and other photographer’s accessories are also available on-line.
About the Author:
I’ve walked this earth for the last 56 years and started taking pics as a kid on a “Box Brownie” before migrating to a Kodak Instamatic 110. I moved up to 35mm with a Minolta 7 Series II in 1976 and eventually made it to SLR via the Canon T70 and some decent Tamron Telephoto and wide angle lenses in 1983. I recently moved into digital photography and just love the instant immediacy and myriad options that the new technology brings.
I specialize in landscape photography. Living in New Zealand (Godzone), I am blessed with many spectacular photo opportunities. These days my camera is almost always close at hand and I have been rewarded with some awesome results.
I have twice been the recipient of the Editor’s Choice Bronze Award from the International Library of Photography and have been involved for the last 10 years in my church video team where my responsibilities include cameraman, director, team manager.
A foray onto the Internet a couple of years ago led to the establishment of my first photography website (since sold) and I have a string of similar projects in train including a photography store-front,
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