As any travel photographer knows, taking great pictures is largely a matter of location. As we’ve shown right here
in our POTD series, lots of amateurs take kick ass photos not because they’re technical experts, but because of where
they are and when. It’s not that hard to snap a great photo when you’re standing beneath the
Towers of Paine on a beautiful day. Trust me.
That said, there are certainly plenty of things to learn, techniques to employ when you’re out shooting photos,
whether you’re doing so for your personal album, a blog or for a great travel magazine. So I thought I’d just post a
few online primers i found that the budding travel photographer might find useful.
Fodor’s has a simple (perhaps too simple) online
package about how to take better travel photos. There are sections on technique,
metering and composition that are pretty
insightful.
Of course, the king of great travel photography would have to be National Geographic. Who wouldn’t want to learn the
tricks of the masters at a place like Nat Geo? Well, it so happens they have
a micro—site dedicated to just that. Here,
too, there is lots of good advice on technical aspects as well as composition. I spent several fruitful minutes going
through these pages and am ready to hit the road, camera in hand. Now if I only had a plane ticket somewhere
warm.