The Photographing Tourist

Résumé du livre

Beautifully illustrated with over 300 photographs from around the world, and featuring twelve magazine-style travel narratives, The Photographing Tourist takes you on a journey to remote corners of our fascinating world. Through a blend of tips, techniques, advice, anecdotes, and stories, this book will help you develop the well-trained eye of a travel photographer and inspire you to explore new places and cultures in more depth than a simple snapshot can reveal.As the title suggests, The Photographing Tourist explores the photographic challenges of traveling on a guided or escorted tour--the "tour" in tourist. For a photographer, traveling as a tourist presents many challenges, the most significant is the constraint of an itinerary. "Meet back on the bus in 30 minutes" are dreaded words if you hope to create beautiful photography in an unfamiliar place. That doesn't mean that you can't produce great photography on a tour; it just means you need to work faster and learn to make the most of the thirty minutes, hour, or two hours you have before moving on to the next location.Filled with stories about isolated cultures, exploring local life, and challenging personal adventures, this storytellers guide to travel and photography reads like an eight-month collection of your favorite travel magazine. From environmental portraits and local lifestyles, to landmarks and sacred places, the chapters explore different photographic subjects that a tourist photographer will encounter. Sprinkled throughout the book are also technical shorts with valuable information on elements of design, composition, depth of filed, exposure, using lines, and developing a point of view. The Photographing Tourist was written to be a timeless book that is as much about the experience of traveling as a photographer, as it is the techniques of travel photography. You will learn to think differently about travel and photography and to investigate a destination as part of the human condition. Above all, this book will encourage you to truly cherish your chance encounters as you photograph the world.