B&H Event Space Making Your Travel Photos Work

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

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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

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/EventSpace.jsp

thewellspoint.com

davidhwells.com