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Preparation<br />
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2Introduction<br />
7From the author<br />
8About the book<br />
9Using the book<br />
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Exploration<br />
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140 Patience and waiting 224<br />
142 Shooting around a subject 226<br />
144 Shootingdetails <br />
Profession<br />
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294 Working professionally<br />
296 Focuson: Bathing pilgrims<br />
at the Maha Kumbh Mela<br />
298 Equipment<br />
300 Taking pictures for sale<br />
301 Organization and working practices<br />
302 Pitch<br />
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About the author<br />
Steve Davey is a photographer and writer, based<br />
in London. Blessed and cursed in equal measure<br />
with a low boredom threshold, he has turned travel<br />
photography into<a title="Footprint photography page 1" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=1"> </a>
<a title="Footprint photography page 2" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=2"> Contents Execution Preparation 2Introd</a>uction 7From the author 8About the book 9Using the book Exploration 60
<a title="Footprint photography page 3" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=3"> 140 Patience and waiting </a> 224 142 Shooting around a subject 226 144 Shootingdetails
<a title="Footprint photography page 4" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=4"> Profession 294 Working professionally 296 Focuso</a>n: Bathing pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela 298 Equipment 300 Taking pictures for sale 301 Organization and working practices 302 Pitch
<a title="Footprint photography page 5" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=5"> From the author About the author Steve Davey </a>is a photographer and writer, based in London. Blessed and cursed in equal measure with a low boredom threshold, he has turned travel photography into
<a title="Footprint photography page 6" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=6"> Digital photography A film camera uses a lens</a> to focus light from a subject onto light-sensitive film. As each piece of film is exposed, it is wound on, so that an unexposed piece moves into posi
<a title="Footprint photography page 7" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=7"> Film SLR There are three main types o</a>f film that you can choose from: colour negative, colour transparency and black-and-white negative. Colour transparency gives a transparent positive i
<a title="Footprint photography page 8" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=8"> Whatmakesagoodpicture? As a travel photograph</a>er you will always be battling a number of things beyond your control: weather, building work or even other travellers getting in to your picture.Two
<a title="Footprint photography page 9" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=9"> slow speed, have a large depth of field or virtua</a>lly none at all, and compose your pictures boldly. Many of the characteristics of creative photography – blur, shallow depth of field, distortion and
<a title="Footprint photography page 10" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=10"> Photographic decisions It is all very well ad</a>vocating pre-visualization and encouraging creativity but how should you approach the practical steps of creating your photograph?With such a range of
<a title="Footprint photography page 11" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=11"> 4 Select which lens to use The choice of lens can</a> affect a number of elements in the picture. On the most simple level the power of the lens will dictate the level of magnification and the crop of th
<a title="Footprint photography page 12" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=12"> Angleandviewpoint Thinking about the angle an</a>d viewpoint of your picture is a simple photographic technique that can be exploited no matter what type of camera you have. It utilizes the most acce
<a title="Footprint photography page 13" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=13"> As with most things in photography, th</a>e most striking results come from wildly exaggerating visual effects. Standing on tip-toe or slightly bending your knees won’t make much difference to
<a title="Footprint photography page 14" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=14"> JokhangTemple, Lhasa,Tibet Nikon F5, Provia 100 </a>ASA film. 17-35 mm zoom. Exposure not noted There is no convenient vantage point from which to shoot the Jokhang Temple. I went to a courtyard off th
<a title="Footprint photography page 15" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=15"> Miseenscène Comp</a>osition is about more than just making your images look nice, it is also a way of introducing meaning. If you photograph an object on its own, then yo
<a title="Footprint photography page 16" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=16"> Colour temperature Although light appears whi</a>te, it is actually a bundle of different coloured wavelengths, from red through orange, yellow and green to blue then on to violet. Different light so
<a title="Footprint photography page 17" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=17"> 1 Shooting RAW If you are shooting RAW, then the </a>white balance can be set during RAW processing, non-destructively, without any loss of quality.There is more about changing the RAW white balance in t
<a title="Footprint photography page 18" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=18"> Leaping polar bear, Svalbard, Norway Nikon D2x, </a>ISO 160, RAW. 420 mm lens (630 mm equivalent). 1/1600 sec, f9.0 Shot on a daylight white balance setting,thisimage(right)was toocoldbecauseofthelight
<a title="Footprint photography page 19" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=19"> Film SLR Traditionally, camera film i</a>s balanced for daylight, which has a colour temperature of approximately 5500°K.You can also buyTungsten-balanced film for incandescent studio lights.
<a title="Footprint photography page 20" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=20"> Close-up photography </a> If you get into close-up photography, you will never run out of interesting subjects to shoot on your travels: food, vegetables, flowers – even Mad
<a title="Footprint photography page 21" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=21"> Digital compact Due to their small</a> sensors and inherently large depth of field, compact cameras are ideal for close- up work, generally giving closer focus and more magnified results t
<a title="Footprint photography page 22" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=22"> Shooting black-and-white Black-and-white phot</a>ography used to be a complicated process involving tanks of noxious chemicals to develop the image on the film, followed by hours spent in a darkroom
<a title="Footprint photography page 23" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=23"> It sounds obvious, but compositions</a> that rely on colour will not work in black-and-white.The compositional classic of introducing a red object in to a picture – such as a single red app
<a title="Footprint photography page 24" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=24"> Portraits It doesn’t matter where you are tra</a>velling, sooner or later you will see someone you want to photograph. It might be a woman from the Akha hilltribe in northernThailand, a cheeky child
<a title="Footprint photography page 25" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=25"> just a good way to secure permission to take pict</a>ures, it can also result in more expressive and sympathetic portraits. If you have a guide, use them to translate questions about your subject but mak
<a title="Footprint photography page 26" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=26"> when I gave the photos to him. I have done a simi</a>lar thing with Indian sadhus at festivals. As well as getting me really good access at future festivals, it has added to the number of friends I have
<a title="Footprint photography page 27" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=27"> I Pro tip More than most styles of travel photogr</a>aphy, portraits suffer from poor light. If the light is coming directly from overhead, there will be horrible shadows in the eye sockets and across th
<a title="Footprint photography page 28" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=28"> Sunsets and sunrises </a> Sunsets are perennial favourites for all travellers, especially sunsets over water. Every night in ‘sunset points’all over the world, coac
<a title="Footprint photography page 29" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=29"> Digital SLR If you use the AutoWhite Bala</a>nce facility (see page 123), all of the lovely rich colours will be filtered out of the picture.You should either set the white balance to daylight or
<a title="Footprint photography page 30" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=30"> Deserts Deserts need to be photographed in th</a>e early morning or late afternoon light. Much of their detail and texture is subtle and can be lost if you take pictures when the sun is higher in the
<a title="Footprint photography page 31" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=31"> Climbing Big Daddy, Sossusvlei, Namibia Nikon D2</a>x, ISO 100, RAW. 185 mm lens (277 mm equivalent). 1/640 sec, f5 Although around 480 m high, and reputed to be the tallest sand dune in the world, the
<a title="Footprint photography page 32" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=32"> Adventure sports Thesedaysitseemsthatthereisn</a>olocationso remotethatitdoesn’tofferthechancetotryout excitingsports,suchasbungeejumping,whitewater rafting,duneboardingorzorbing.Theseadventure sport
<a title="Footprint photography page 33" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=33"> can be achieved by using a remote camera. A numbe</a>r of the close-up pictures that you see of the bull run in Pamplona in Spain are shot in this way. If your camera doesn’t come with a remote, third-pa
<a title="Footprint photography page 34" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=34"> Photostories A photostory uses a group of ima</a>ges to work together and tell a story that imparts greater meaning than the individual images themselves. The‘story’can either be the narrative of a j
<a title="Footprint photography page 35" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrspgs&pageid=35"> of shot that you aim for will depend on the story</a> that you are trying to tell: some photostories will demand a lot of people shots, others none at all. When shooting a photostory, bear in
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