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Travel and Street Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots
Whether you’re heading to Paris or San Francisco, Patagonia or Yosemite, you need a book that goes beyond the camera manual to teach you how to take great shots. This guide by pro photographer John Batdorff will help you conquer the fundamentals of travel and street photography and capture stunning pictures.
Batdorff starts with the basics–composition, light, and exposure–and how to plan and pack the right equipment for different types of shooting conditions. He also covers all the key camera features that affect your image. Once you’ve captured those shots, John takes you step-by-step through an effective workflow in Lightroom to organize your images and develop your own personal style.
This guide is for beginning-to-intermediate digital photographers to understand the basics and bring their own unique artistic expression to any situation whether you’re taking landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, or food and drink shots.
Beautifully illustrated with large, compelling photos, this book teaches you how to take control of your photography to get the image you want every time you pack up your camera and take it on the road.
Batdorff starts with the basics–composition, light, and exposure–and how to plan and pack the right equipment for different types of shooting conditions. He also covers all the key camera features that affect your image. Once you’ve captured those shots, John takes you step-by-step through an effective workflow in Lightroom to organize your images and develop your own personal style.
This guide is for beginning-to-intermediate digital photographers to understand the basics and bring their own unique artistic expression to any situation whether you’re taking landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, or food and drink shots.
Beautifully illustrated with large, compelling photos, this book teaches you how to take control of your photography to get the image you want every time you pack up your camera and take it on the road.
264 pages, Paperback
First published September 30, 2014
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October 7, 2017
Here John Batdorff walks a person who has bought a fairly decent camera (ideally DSLR or mirrorless) through all the typical situations one finds oneself in traveling or on a city street.
The book is divided into the chapters “Equipment”, “Planning the Journey”, “Finding the Light”, “Composition”, “Observation vs. Engagement”, “Cities and Streets”, “Landscapes, Rural Life”, “The Legalities”, “Workflow”, and “Sharing Your Work”. Generally the book assumes that the prospective traveler with a camera has not yet learned much about how to actually use it, so many of the tips are general ones applicable to a wide array of photography contexts, but Batdorff tries to keep each tip rooted in situations that come up during travel or one the street. The book is lavishly illustrated with Batdorff's own photos, though they don’t come from all that many places, and Richard I’Anson’s Lonely Planet Travel Photography has a lot more variety, from all around the world, and is more inspiring.
The “Planning the Journey” chapter has some obvious padding. There is absolutely no reason for a guide to travel photography to present general travel tips like how to not lose your passport or how to keep in touch with friends and family back home. The “Workflow” and “Sharing Your Work” chapters are also meagre and already dated. Nonetheless, while this book is nothing terribly special, I did learn a few things from it and I think it has improved my photography.
The book is divided into the chapters “Equipment”, “Planning the Journey”, “Finding the Light”, “Composition”, “Observation vs. Engagement”, “Cities and Streets”, “Landscapes, Rural Life”, “The Legalities”, “Workflow”, and “Sharing Your Work”. Generally the book assumes that the prospective traveler with a camera has not yet learned much about how to actually use it, so many of the tips are general ones applicable to a wide array of photography contexts, but Batdorff tries to keep each tip rooted in situations that come up during travel or one the street. The book is lavishly illustrated with Batdorff's own photos, though they don’t come from all that many places, and Richard I’Anson’s Lonely Planet Travel Photography has a lot more variety, from all around the world, and is more inspiring.
The “Planning the Journey” chapter has some obvious padding. There is absolutely no reason for a guide to travel photography to present general travel tips like how to not lose your passport or how to keep in touch with friends and family back home. The “Workflow” and “Sharing Your Work” chapters are also meagre and already dated. Nonetheless, while this book is nothing terribly special, I did learn a few things from it and I think it has improved my photography.
August 22, 2018
Çok geniş bir konu skalasını ele aldığı için konulara derinlemesine değinememiş. Daha dar bir konu seçimi ve daha fazla detay görmeyi isterdim. Konu hakkında giriş yapacaklar için oldukça iyi fikir verecek bir kitap.
January 20, 2022
Il manuale alterna buoni spunti creativi e consigli pratici per aspiranti fotografi a considerazioni superflue e/o datate (es. sistemi di backup fermi alla prima edizione del libro, procedure per visti e viaggi anacronistici e comunque non specifici della materia trattata). Il giudizio è tutto sommato positivo, ma la sensazione è che alcune sezioni siano state aggiunte per allungare il libro e (forse) farsi pagare di più dall'editore
July 28, 2017
Love it so much. I had it to support a photography course. Nice tips and good to learn a bit about the photographer mental model! I really enjoy it.
March 17, 2016
Useful tips and nice photos. Author went through all the basics of photography and gave good tips in more complex aspects of photography. I found night shooting tips interesting whereas rest was something I know. Good refreshing of the basics and how find your style of photography :)
September 22, 2016
I loved this book, probably because I love to travel and I love street photography. My street photography is somewhat different than the authors but still, it was so enjoyable to read. I also found a few new tricks to try.
July 31, 2016
I should have read this before I went to Toronto on vacation a couple of weeks ago, but I have Chicago coming up in September, so it will still be useful.
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