The Traveling Photographer: A Guide to Great Travel Photography [Paperback] Author: Sandra Petrowitz | Language: English | ISBN:
1937538338 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Traveling and photography is a perfect match, but photographers are often disappointed that their images fail to meet the quality of their artistic aspirations. This book combines theoretical information, practical advice, and helpful suggestions for taking better pictures while traveling, whether you are on a local trip, enjoying your annual summer vacation or exploring a more exotic, remote destination. This book includes descriptions for how to carefully compose photos, avoid common mistakes, and achieve a unique perception of places that have been photographed many times before. Beautifully illustrated with photographs from all over the world, this guide will help you find your personal point of view, which will lead to exceptional travel photos.
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- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Rocky Nook; 1 edition (November 27, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1937538338
- ISBN-13: 978-1937538330
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I'd finished reading The Traveling Photographer by Sandra Petrowitz but I had not yet begun to write about it when I was sitting in a coffee shop with friends when one pulled out his phone to pass to me to show me the pictures of the weather he had encountered the previous weekend on a shopping trip out of town. Snow, ice, cars off the road and broken trees abounded. My second friend reciprocated with a quick draw of his phone to show pictures of his son's wedding done just the week previous to that one when the weather was sunshine and sparkling and in the mid 80's.
I was thinking—first that this is Texas where the weather can change in the blink of an eye, and second that it seems that everyone is a photographer today with their phones and tablets with cameras—even if they left their point-and-shoot or more potent DSLR at home. The camera is everywhere. The snapshot is ubiquitous. The final thought that came to me was that as a somewhat aesthetically judgmental photographer, maybe I could pass out copies of The Traveling Photographer to upgrade the quality of my friends images. Having been a photographer for much more than forty years and a photography teacher for thirty three of them I well know that the possession of a camera does not guarantee the aesthetic quality of an image. The cameras today are smart enough to correctly expose most of the time, but none yet have a button or menu item to guarantee a well-designed image with a real story-telling quality. The snapshot is still very much with us.
The old days of spending the evening at a neighbor's house looking at slides of a vacation are long gone by almost twenty years; now everyone is ready to show their pictures of vacations or the new baby in the blink of an eye and the whipping out of their phone or tablet.
Early in "The Traveling Photographer" author Sandra Petrowitz tells us that travel photography is really landscape photography, portraiture, architectural photography, photojournalism and so on. She also tells us that the main task of the traveling photographer is to capture something new other than the standard postcard or iconic shots that everyone takes.
The book then proceeds through a basic introduction to photographic composition, including off-center photography, filling the frame, point-of view (which she calls perspective, a term some other photographers reserve for the effects of angle-of-view of different focal length lenses), placing the horizon, removing clutter and so forth. She describes the gear she uses, mainly a DSLR with a several lenses (although she also recommends supplementing this with a compact camera) and a good tripod. With a nod to the digital age she recommends backing up one's images. She concludes that it's okay to take a day off from photography when one is on vacation.
Thus the book is mostly a primer on composition and seems more appropriate for the traveler going on vacation to brush up on composition. There is no general discussion of basics like exposure or focusing. The book is well illustrated, mostly with the author's photographs, but her pictures do not rise to the level of works by a photographer like Art Wolfe. In an already crowded field of basic books on composition her book is acceptable but nothing out of the ordinary.
It's too bad that after identifying that the main problem of the traveling photographer is finding a new take, she couldn't tell us how to do that, other than to be alert for the opportunity.
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