Never has it been easier for you, than in today’s digital age, to photograph travels that can be shared with the world. Make the most of your vacation by taking stunning photos that capture the heart of the place you visit. Here are 4 books that might help you in your travel photography…
1. Photo Trekking: A Traveling Photographer’s Guide to Capturing Moments Around The World
Author: Nick Onken
Price via Amazon.com: US$16.49
It’s a 49 page, travel photography tip book by traveler Nick Onken.
Onken shares, with both hobbyist and pro photographers, tips on how to capture moments around the world as well as selling and professionally sharing them. The book shows how a real traveler photographer prepares his trip’s logistics and preparation, planning stock and editorial shoots. Readers can pick up tips on how to capture unique images that tell the story of the location.
2. Within the Frame
Author: David duChemin
Price via Amazon.com: US$26.39
Professional photographer, Scott Kelby, endorses this book and said, “David does something here that few have ever done—he not only shows his absolutely captivating images, he shows the thought process behind those images, as well as how to start capturing the types of images we all long to take. People will be talking about this book for years to come. It’s that good!”
The travel photography book is instructional and inspirational. DuChemin believes that personal vision is important in photography. The author gives advice on how you cultivate and find your own vision, and then fit it within the frame.
3. Visual Poetry: A Creative Guide for Marking Engaging Digital Photographs
Author: Chris Orwig
Price via Amazon.com: US$29.69
Orwig tries to simplify travel photography, rather than over intellectualizing the technicalities. Readers said this book is realistic, practical yet inspiring. This book is targeted toward users who are already equipped with pretty strong basic photography knowledge such as exposure, composition, equipments, but need inspiration and a push in the back to try out new things.
Orwig is a popular workshop speaker and a faculty member at Brooks Institution.
4. Vision and voice: Refining Your Vision in Adobe Photoshop
Author: David duChemin
Price via Amazon.com: US$29.69
David duChemin writes another travel photography book, this time focusing on the power of Adobe Photoshop to transform travel shots.
According to duChemin, there are three images that go into making a photographer’s final image: the one he envisions, the one he shoots, and the one he develops. Vision and Voice is about this third and last component, as the photographer brings the image into the Develop module of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom–today’s most popular digital darkroom.
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