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How -To Digital Photography Techniques Better Travel Photos Made Easy
How -To Digital Photography Techniques Better Travel Photos Made Easy
Better Travel Photos Made EasyGo for the great shots you can hang on the wall or use in a dramatic slideshow of your trip |
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Page 5 of 5 I won’t travel without some sort of backup for my photos, however. We never could do any backup when we had to shoot film, but this has become easy with digital. Many photographers travel with a laptop for viewing and editing photos on the trip; having a built-in CD or DVD burner makes that laptop more useful. In addition, there are excellent stand-alone CD and DVD burners that allow you to plug in a memory card and automatically record the images from the card onto a disc. You even can make multiple backups of particularly important days of shooting. CDs are especially useful because any computer can read them (assuming you use quality media and not the cheapest on the shelf), and little can hurt them while you’re traveling, short of being run over by a car. Another option is a portable hard drive device with an LCD screen, a great way to view and edit images in the field. They’re even small enough to fit in a gadget bag. I still don’t feel completely secure without using a CD- or DVD-burning device of some sort to create backups of all my photos while traveling, however. Get Out And Photograph! One of the advantages to using digital cameras is that you can photograph under all conditions—low light, bright light; incandescent light, daylight; on the run, on a tripod—and get excellent results. You’ll know how each type of light will look because you can check your shots by reviewing them on the LCD. There’s no cost to experimenting or trying different shots. Not sure about using flash? Try it! Want to try an odd composition? Why not? You learn from it all and can erase anything you dislike. That can be a huge help for travel photography. We often reach destinations that we might not visit again for a long time, if ever. We want to be certain we “get the shot,” so it’s easy to be conservative and not push for the better photo. That was encouraged by film because of the danger of running out or at least “wasting film.” You can’t do that with digital, so use that freedom to find your best shots. Go after images that might have seemed unattainable before. Experiment, play and enjoy! I guarantee that will give you better images from any trip, anywhere.   |
