Shortlisted in the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022: Photography Travel Book of the Year Nori Jemil's ground-breaking practical photography book considers not just how to get better images, but also why and when to take them. It guides you to becoming a more confident and reflective travel photographer, as well as covering all the technical knowhow needed. Taking a journey around the seven continents, each chapter focuses on the main areas of travel imagery, from people and landscape to architecture and adventure. Bite-size advice on how to get the best from your camera is contextualised throughout the book, so you learn as you go. Travel photography has exploded across the world thanks to the huge leap in quality of both mobile phone cameras and bridge cameras, as well as the ease of public posting on social media. Award-winning travel photographer Nori Jemil has been riding the wave of these advances and has created a 'how to' guide with a difference. Her book is not an attempt to replicate other reference works on the subject, top-loading technical information and addressing an expert reader. Nor does it focus on gadgetry the proliferation of new hardware means camera-based information can become obsolete quite quickly. Instead it is a travel companion, a book that can be read for the prose and stories, as well as the information it contains. It covers the main elements of travel photography in eleven sections, including advice from some of the best travel photographers working around the world. Technical information is embedded, given in the context of each shot, but personal travel stories are at the heart of every chapter, linked to key travel images as well as the full camera settings and detail of how and why each photo was taken.

Vorwort
. An inspiring practical guide - a 'how to' guide with a difference - by a multi-award-winning photographer . Covers mobile phone cameras and bridge cameras, as well as DSLRs . Handsomely produced with stunning colour/b&w images throughout . Eleven detailed steps to improving your travel photography, suitable for professionals and enthusiasts alike . Includes all the necessary technical information in an approachable fashion, assuming no prior expertise . Features exclusive insider tips from professional travel photographers

Autorentext

Nori Jemil is an award-winning photographer, writer, teacher and videographer. Her work has appeared in publications including National Geographic Traveller, BBC Travel, Adventure.com and Conde Nast Traveller. Over the past decade she has won numerous awards, including Travel Photograph of the Year from Wanderlust travel magazine, and Travel Photographer of the Year from the British Guild of Travel Writers. She teaches film and photography in London and on specialist overseas tours. Her photos have been exhibited in London, Milan, Barcelona and Madrid. She regularly takes on regular public speaking engagements at literary festivals, travel photography events and as part of National Geographic Traveller's Travel Geeks programme.

Klappentext

Nori Jemil's ground-breaking practical photography book considers not just how to get better images, but also why and when to take them. It guides you to becoming a more confident and reflective travel photographer, as well as covering all the technical knowhow needed. Taking a journey around the seven continents, each chapter focuses on the main areas of travel imagery, from people and landscape to architecture and adventure. Bite-size advice on how to get the best from your camera is contextualised throughout the book, so you learn as you go.

Travel photography has exploded across the world thanks to the huge leap in quality of both mobile phone cameras and bridge cameras, as well as the ease of public posting on social media. Award-winning travel photographer Nori Jemil has been riding the wave of these advances and has created a ‘how to' guide with a difference. Her book is not an attempt to replicate other reference works on the subject, top-loading technical information and addressing an expert reader. Nor does it focus on gadgetry – the proliferation of new hardware means camera-based information can become obsolete quite quickly. Instead it is a travel companion, a book that can be read for the prose and stories, as well as the information it contains. It covers the main elements of travel photography in eleven sections, including advice from some of the best travel photographers working around the world. Technical information is embedded, given in the context of each shot, but personal travel stories are at the heart of every chapter, linked to key travel images as well as the full camera settings and detail of how and why each photo was taken.

Nori Jemil is an award-winning photographer, writer, teacher and videographer. Her work has appeared in publications including National Geographic Traveller, BBC Travel, Adventure.com and Conde Nast Traveller. Over the past decade has won numerous awards, including Travel Photograph of the Year from Wanderlust travel magazine, and Travel Photographer of the Year from the British Guild of Travel Writers.

Zusammenfassung
The Travel Photographer's Way: Practical Steps to taking Unforgettable Travel Photos - Inspirational and expert advice and tuition on becoming a confident travel photographer, including practical steps, bridge cameras, mobile phones and getting published. People, landscapes, wildlife, cities, adventure, food and wild places are all covered.

Inhalt

Waiting on a hillside

How to use this book

Part 1: PREPARING THE GROUND

1 Do your research

2 Right tools for the job

3 Know before you go

Part 2: ON THE ROAD

4 People

Focus on Central and South America

5 Landscapes

Focus on Australia and Oceania

6 Wildlife

Focus on Africa

7 Urban culture and street

Focus on Europe

8 Action and adventure

Focus on The Arctic and High North

9 Food and markets

Focus on Asia

10 Wild places

Focus on Antarctica and the Extreme South

Part 3: BACK HOME

11 Telling your Story

Appendix

Technical Glossary

Acknowledgements