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Travel photography
Any trip is an event. Wherever you go - always have a camera at hand. A change of scenery, new cities and countries. Upon returning home, everyone is eager to share impressions and pictures with loved ones. At the same time, every journey is fraught with difficulties. In order not to get into an unpleasant situation, you must be 100% ready for the trip. In this article, we'll talk about how to better prepare for new adventures and bring great travel photos.
Before visiting another country, you should study its culture, national habits and behavior patterns in order to understand what kind of people you are visiting.
Every travel photographer should definitely study the religious rules and canons of the country. For example, in Muslim countries, you cannot photograph women and children, as this is contrary to their religion. In the United Arab Emirates, if a woman notices that you are photographing her, she can come up and ask to remove the photo if her face is visible on it (that is, in the case of Arab women, only her eyes!). The worst thing that awaits you is a scandal with the presence of the local police and a fine. It is better not to bring the matter to this point, or even from the country you may be expelled for disrespectful attitude to religion and traditions. My advice is to photograph so that people are unrecognizable in the photograph (from the back or in the distance) - then they will not be able to find fault with you. Or, shoot discreetly. If you are suspected of breaking the rules, pretend you didn't know and delete the photos right away.
At the same time, photography is allowed in some mosques - nobody forbids taking photographs of the beauty of architecture. But always check the rules of a particular temple (mosque) about photography.
What equipment should I take with me?
It all depends on your goals and intentions. Whether it's a short trip to another city or a tour of European countries, it's best not to burden yourself with photo equipment. Sooner or later you will get tired of constantly carrying a heavy bag with you, and you will not be able to fully enjoy the beauty around.
You can pack all the lenses you have in your travel backpack, but take one or another of the set for filming in turn, depending on the situation. Better yet, pack a versatile zoom lens for all occasions. If you are not very picky about the quality of travel photos, then you can take an inexpensive sultin such as 18-135 mm, 18-200 or 18-250 mm - it will cover almost all commonly used focal lengths, does not take up much space in your luggage, and will save you from the need to change objects on the go. If something happens to such an object while traveling, then it will not be as pity as the new 24-70 mm 2.8.
At the same time, you will have to sacrifice such parameters as aperture ratio (you will have to forget about apertures 1.4 - 2.8 for now), increased resolving power and focusing accuracy. But these are rather privileges than vital parameters.
If you deliberately go on a photo tour, then take with you everything that may come in handy - a full set of lenses, filters for landscape photography, a tripod, a flash, etc.
On your journey, you will meet a huge number of genres and a shooting plot - landscape, portrait, subject, macro - whatever. Therefore, you need to be prepared for anything. But if you have any ideas and preferences ahead of time, remember to prepare for the shoot from a technical point of view.
Beautiful landscapes and endless fields, fiery sunset and pale pink dawn will most likely require a wide angle lens (15-40 mm).
Although in many cases you will be able to photograph a beautiful landscape with a 50 or even 70 mm lens. The wide-angle is also indispensable in the city, and even more so in a large metropolis, for shooting skyscrapers, streets, intersections (for example, in Tokyo, at the Shibuya station there is the largest intersection in the world).
In general, when traveling, the wide-angle will be your right hand. In addition to landscapes, you will probably want to photograph architecture, beautiful interiors, and capture as many details as possible in the frame. Or, in confined spaces, shooting with lenses longer than 50 mm is generally problematic. Another technical advantage of Shirik is the ability to shoot handheld at slower shutter speeds than with standard and telephoto lenses. Remember the rule of golden exposure!
Travel - photography combines several genres and directions at once - from landscape and portrait to reportage, street photography or genre "life" sketches. When you walk around new cities, you are interested not only in the sights, but also by the locals, their behavior, habits, life, clothes, plot sketches.
For successful shots on the go, it is best to use a zoom lens (for example, a standard 24-70mm), or at least 50mm. As I mentioned earlier, zooms (especially inexpensive ones) are inferior to fixed focal length lenses in terms of clarity and saturation of the picture, but they are more convenient for travel.
It is important not to forget about your own safety and keep a close eye on things. There is always a risk that expensive equipment can be stolen from you. Keep a close eye on your backpack, always zip up, keep your camera bag as close to you as possible, and on public transport, keep your camera bag in front of you and hold it with one hand.
Photo storage
The next common question is how many memory cards to take and where to copy the captured frames when you are on the road?
On average, you need 300-500 frames per day. But if you tend to take pictures often and a lot, it will most likely take you at least 1000 frames. I also noticed that if, for example, on a trip, we go on excursions or a walk in the morning, then we return to the hotel in the afternoon, and in the evening we go for a walk again, then we can safely assume that you will take 2 times more frames. But then again - if you have something to shoot (you won't take a lot of pictures in a bar or a nightclub, but during a city tour - oogo!).
The number of frames should be multiplied by the size of one photo of your camera. You will receive the approximate amount of GB you need for 1 day. Remember that when recording on a memory card, about 7% of the space is spent on cataloging, so it is advisable to have at least 2-3 cards with you in reserve.
images-11 I usually take 2 flash drives of 16 GB - usually one is enough for a day, but there is always a second one in reserve. And this is taking into account, if I shoot in RAW, but when traveling, you can quite afford to switch to JPG, then more frames will fit on one memory card.
At the end of every day in the evening on a flight, I usually download footage from flash drives to my laptop. We always take a laptop with us on trips, because we need to stay in touch with the office, and sometimes we need wi-fi to look for interesting things in the vicinity. If you do not take your laptop with you, but you can simply stock up on additional memory cards and carefully calculate the free memory to be enough for the rest of the trip. I would definitely recommend shooting in JPG instead of RAW.
Appliance care
When you take pictures in the field, and especially when you change the camera on the go (and even more so on the beach!), Then dust can not be avoided on the matrix.Change the mesh carefully and quickly, with maximum observance of "sanitary conditions".If dust or sand still gets inside the camera and you cannot return the camera to the service or wait for it to return home, you can blow off some of the dust using a special (or non-special) blower.
Do not forget that shooting on the beach or in the desert is fraught with the danger of sand getting not only inside the camera, sand can clog under the buttons or clog the lens. To avoid this, it is best to use a storage case or wrap your camera in a large scarf. Sand can not only clog the lens, but it can also get into the seams and buttons, which will cause the camera to make a noise and creak when focusing.
Keep a cleaning kit or just a soft, clean cloth with you to clean the front lens element. A soft T-shirt, or better yet, the cloth provided for cleaning your sunglasses will do.
Weather.
"There is no bad weather, there are bad clothes." Also in photography. There is no bad weather for photographers - this is just a small obstacle to an unusual, interesting shot.
If the sky is suddenly covered with clouds - do not be sad. Cloudy, overcast weather gives you the ability to get soft, diffused light coming through the clouds. In cloudy weather, portraits, as well as cityscapes and street sketches, come out best - try to follow how the locals behave when suddenly a downpour began for no reason.
If it's raining heavily, you don't have an umbrella at hand, and you can't wait to take a great shot - put your technique in a simple transparent bag, making a hole in it for the front lens of the lens.
Traveling to another country will be a real pleasure for you if you prepare for it in advance. Inspiration comes naturally when you see new places and find yourself in the atmosphere of something unusual and interesting.
