Travel photography tips- Basics a photographer should know
November 29th, 2007

    Travel photography is not equipment or gadget-intensive like scenic or architectural photography.

    If anything at all, it is less so, because of the need to travel light. Fortunately, you can take some great pictures with only some basic equipment. This is an advantage to all travellers. While they take very less equipment with them, they get to see sceneries and shots that none others have.

    Let’s see if you are a light traveler or not.

    Keeping It light while traveling

    Experienced travelers will tell you one important thing: Travel light, because once you leave your home, everything you take will have to be carried with you where ever you go. You’ll want to take everything you need, but nothing else. I didn’t always believe this, especially when venturing some place I had never been to before, eager to capture every possible detail with every possible piece of equipment I owned. Well, after half a dozen trips to Europe, I actually was daring enough to go carrying a single camera body with just a 35mm f2 and 105mm f2.5 lens. Those two optics and some bloody fast footwork let me take just about every photo I wanted to take during my journey. Thinking back, I’m very glad that my camera didn’t malfunction during the trip, because that would have really put a damper on my photography.

    So essentially, one basic requirement in travel photography is that you travel light at the same time have the enough armory to get those shots you need.

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