Today I attended this lecture given by David H. Wells at B&H Event Space
Making Your Travel Photos Work Sponsored by Olympus
Monday, March 7, 2011 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: David H. Wells
Event Type: Photography
Exceptional travel photography encompasses a variety of genres, including street photography, still life, and portraiture. In a typical day of travel, you can photograph busy festivals, quiet buildings, people, open landscapes or close-up imagery of nature. The best travel photographers are versatile in their skills and fluid in their process, using minimal gear to achieve maximum results. In this two hour seminar, David H. Wells shares his strategies on the following topics:- The traveling photographer’s camera and bag
- Being in the right place at the right time
- Varying the time of the day
- Understanding the light
- Portraying people
- Composition
- Stopping action vs showing motion
- Framing and scaling
- Thoughts on tripods
- Using the appropriate lens
- Basics of flash
Here are my notes:
Mood -moment -document
Workflow why career path
Naming convention month2 year2 place number4
Scale repetition
Mantras
Position and angle: go low or high/ giraffe or dog
how much do you "work" your situations
Best get it in camera with little post
right left horizontal vertical from above below
Quality and direction of sun
wait for your situation - choke points
Get high clear the clutter
Nat geo golden hour
Wells point 45 degree angle
other times 10am-3 or 4 pm) aerial, interior, portraits in shade
shadow only 1 or 2 stops
For more dramatic dead on can be 5 or 6 stops
Importance of Detail shots
Overall medium detail
Likes people in photos sense of scale how its used
Vary lenses
Lensbaby
People!
Interesting face interesting experience with
Power of silhouettes
Default largest aperture
Walk around people to change background
Eye goes to white
Personal ISO, his is 1 off look at raw file histograms
Importance of fill flash
Light the plane
Olympus FL-36 wireless Flash
Ways to show time- Stop action- pan -blur (w some static items)
Pan with IS off
pan perpendicular follow thru is important
Race cars 1/125 waking 1/8
Visualize places
Reflections
Thing being reflected is in brighter light than the subject being reflected
Closer to reflecting surface better the refection
Table top tripod
Ball head
Flip bac LCD protector and angle view finder
Give something back to the people you photograph
Polaroid photo printer pogo pict bridge
Putting it all together to get the moment
The importance of working your situation
Amateurs borrow Pros steal
18-36 (9-18)
28-300 (14-150)
EVF
On belt very small pouch with lenses
Travels with 3 bodies
Bruce glibin in your face street
Shoots Sunrise to 9:30 10 am
Photogs
