Travel Photographers Network

1. Get in Close The most common way to improve a camera phone image is to get in closer to the subject.  People become very small, very quickly if they are a distance away, and can drop to just a few pixels, especially when displayed on a small screen. So move in close to your subject and let them dominate the frame.  There is...

Here are a few Tips and Tricks I give to the folks that attend my photography workshops. I hope you get some good use out of them and they help you out like they have helped my students. Want SOFT FOCUS in the camera? Use a UV filter and smuge a little Vasolene on the filter in a circle...Now you have a Soft Focus Filter that can be ...

Double Bubble Spirit Level (also known as a 2 axis spirit level) Cost: Approx £5 on Ebay Purpose: Ensuring your photographs are level Ever got home thinking you had a wonderful shot, you couldn’t wait to fire up the computer to upload and see it on the big screen? It’s only then you realise that your horizon was of...

Text and Photos by Ian Lawrence - All rights reserved.Jim White asked me to discuss some of the techniques I use to capture moving trains in low light conditions. I’m sure some of these may be useful for other types of travel photography too.Nobody taught me how to photograph trains so I’ve developed my own style over the ye...

Understanding Light & Revealing Texture Using Different Qualities and Quantities of Light What is LIGHT & TEXTURE and how do we record it? Good Question! Texture by my definition is to reveal texture; to show shape and form void of a smooth surface. Sounds pretty simple right? Is it? Let's see, as a photographer we seek ou...