Lonely Planet - Lonely Planets Guide to Travel Photography

CONTENTS

TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY

4th edition October 2013

ISBN 978-1-74360-103-7

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PHOTOGRAPHS

Cover Image: Eiffel Tower at dusk, Paris, France

Cover Design: Mark Adams & Mik Ruff

Title Page Images:

Giant Sky Wheel, Melbourne, Australia

Gellert Baths, Budapest, Hungary

Woman in sea, Puri, India

Hot-air balloon, Amber, India

Images in this guide are available for licensing from Getty Images (www.gettyimages.com) or National Geographic Stock (www.nationalgeographicstock.com).

Text & photographs Richard IAnson 2012

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THE AUTHOR

Richard IAnson is a freelance photographer who has built a career on his twin passions for travel and photography. Over the past 30 years he has travelled the world amassing a substantial and compelling collection of images of people and places in more than 90 countries on all seven continents.

Richard received his first camera as a gift from his parents when he was 16 and has been infatuated with photography ever since. After studying photography, film and television for two years at Rusden State College in Melbourne, he worked in a camera store and minilab before going freelance in 1982.

His work is published worldwide in books, magazines, newspapers, brochures, calendars, posters, cards and websites. He has published numerous books: Chasing Rickshaws (1998) and Rice Trails (2004), both collaborations with Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler; Travel Photography (2000, 2004 and 2009 editions) and Urban Travel Photography (2006); and the large-format pictorials Australia: 42 Great Landscape Experiences (2006); Nepal: Kathmandu Valley, Chitwan, Annapurna, Mustang, Everest (2007) and India: Essential Encounters (2010).

Richard is a double Master of Photography with the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) and was judged top travel photographer in Capture Magazines 2007 Australias Top Photographers Awards.

Lonely Planet has been using Richards photographs for 21 years and his work has been featured in over 500 editions of Lonely Planet titles. When hes not on the road Richard lives in Melbourne, Australia. To see more of Richards images log onto www.richardianson.com and www.facebook.com/richardiansonphotography.

FROM THE AUTHOR

Its a pleasure to be able to share what Ive learned and seen in more than 30 years of shooting travel photographs. Thanks to the rapidly evolving developments in the world of digital photography, its a serious challenge for all of us involved in the imaging industry to keep up to date with equipment and software offerings. Writing this book gives me the opportunity to gather, assess and present a relevant snapshot of this information alongside the more creative and timeless elements of the art, subjects and practicalities of travel photography.

Its also a great opportunity to thank again the people who have played a significant part in my journey and contributed in various ways to my body of work from which I draw the contents of this book. Thanks then to Tony and Maureen Wheeler, Lonely Planet founders, Nick Kostos and Sue Badyari at World Expeditions, Peter Cocklin at Kodak Australia, Lothar Huber and Doug Porter at Bond Imaging, Rick Slowgrove at Canon Professional Services and Rik Evans-Deane at Camera Action Camera House in Melbourne.

At Lonely Planet, Ben Handicott and Ryan Evans made significant contributions to this edition.

THIS BOOK

USING THIS BOOK

Travel is an exciting experience and your photography should reflect that. Travel Photography introduces you to every aspect of the picture-taking process and the wide range of subject matter that youll encounter on your travels, to help you produce vibrant and meaningful images. It aims to increase the percentage of good photographs you take and to lift your travel photography to the next level of creativity. No matter where youre going or what camera you use, youll find the information you need to make the most of the picture-taking situations that come your way. It will help you create photographic opportunities and to make your travel experience more photo friendly, with practical advice, tried-and-tested tips and inspirational images sure to get you thinking about both your photography and your next trip.

With film cameras no longer being manufactured, every new camera these days is a digital model. Although film still has a loyal following, the book assumes readers will be travelling with a digital camera. And although there is a substantial amount of technical information, the heart of the book lies in the images. The advice and suggestions are just as applicable whether you capture your experiences on the pixels of a sensor or the silver halides of a film emulsion.

Although the focus of the book is on capturing great still images on digital cameras, digital technology has opened up other possibilities for recording images. In the (not so) old days, you needed a camera for taking photos, a phone for making phone calls, an MP3 player for listening to music and a video camera for taking videos. Now you can do all of these things on one device. This is called technology convergence and it is leading to some truly exciting innovations. The most relevant examples to image-making are the camera phone, allowing both still and video images to be captured on a device made for making phone calls; video-capture mode on digital still cameras; and still-capture mode on video cameras. The introduction of video mode on digital cameras and mobile phones has introduced many people to the world of video-making for the first time. This book follows the convergence trend and offers advice about making photographs and videos with camera phones, digital cameras and video equipment.

deals with photography post-trip, including digital workflow, image editing, sharing and selling your pictures, as well as an insight into the business of travel photography.

This 4th edition of Travel Photography