TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY – QUICK TIPS FOR SUCCESS
TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY – QUICK TIPS FOR SUCCESS
Posted by: Ryan // I AM NIKON – March 24, 2011– Category: D-SLR, Pro Photographers, Tips
Summer, or spring at least, is just around the corner – and our thoughts are already turning to holidays. For many people, this means travel… which also means more photography!
Ensuring you get the best possible results from your travel photography is about much more than having the right equipment and finding the right location. We caught up with internationally renowned and award-winning documentary and travel photographer, Martin Edström, who shared some tips on what to consider when taking photos abroad. READ MORE
Reuters Full Focus
Editor’s choice
4 Times Journalists Held Captive in Libya Faced Days of Brutality
John Moore/Getty Images
TYLER HICKS The New York Times photographer near the front line during a pause in the fighting on March 11 in Ras Lanuf, Libya. Four days later, he and three other Times journalists were taken captive by government soldiers.
By ANTHONY SHADID, LYNSEY ADDARIO, STEPHEN FARRELL and TYLER HICKS
Published: March 22, 2011
This article is by Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario, Stephen Farrell and Tyler Hicks.
As the four of us headed toward the eastern gate of Ajdabiya, the front line of a desperate rebel stand against the advancing forces of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, a car pulled up alongside. READ MORE
Improve your vacation snapshots
Improve your vacation snapshots.
This weekend, photographers, writers and editors from The Times will be present at the Los Angeles Times Travel & Adventure Show at the L.A. Convention Center.
Beauty, Through Pinhole or Plastic
Beauty, Through Pinhole or Plastic
By DAVID GONZALEZ
Otto Kitchens has found the perfect camera for an imperfect world: a plasticHolga.
Although the black box with the lousy lens is dismissed by some as a distortion-prone, light-leaking toy, it is also beloved by Mr. Kitchens, who has embraced the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi: finding beauty amid everyday flaws. He has used a slightly modified Holga to take pictures of decaying, abandoned buildings. CLICK HERE FOR MORE
Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands
Lens: Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands
By By MATHEW R. WARREN
Published: March 4, 2011
“Sunder” is a collection of photographs by Bruce Haley documenting the former Soviet republics. Mathew R. Warren describes its origins.
Mongolia Photos — National Geographic
Mongolia Photos — National Geographic.
Mongolian Man
Photograph by Charles Meacham, My Shot
A man in western Mongolia wears a fur-trimmed hat as protection from the bitter cold of winter. Sprawled across mountains and plateaus, Mongolia has an average elevation of 5,180 feet (1,580 meters).
