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ICELAND LANDSCAPES TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY ROADMAP

Neha & Chittaranjan

Travel Photography Roadmap


Information Resources Highlights Itinerary Kit & Packing Pictures to be Clicked Data Management Process Workflow Tips

Information Resources
Web Lonely Planet, NG, Friends who have been there

Highlights
Must See Places

Unique but Far flung places


Flora & Fauna Events & Celebrations

Plan the Itinerary


Weather Itinerary Tickets Visas

Car Hire
Food

Baggage
Airlines Limit <20 kgs Weather suitable wear Layers of clothing Special Goretex Shoes Medicines Khakhra!

Camera Kit
7D & 5D III Lenses 10-20, 17-40, 24-105, 70-200 & 100-400 Two Tripods Flash CPL & ND8

Extra Memory Cards & Batteries (Thanks AP & HS)


Plug Adapters

Driving
Driving Skills - Right hand driving Different conditions Gravel Roads Every one practices I-Follow GPS & Maps

Driving
Driving through the rivers in Iceland

Picture Ideas
Make a Word File of Ideas Landscapes

People & Street


Birds & Mammals

Data Management
100 to 200 GB of Data

Bags for Full/ Empty Cards


Date wise Folders in 120901 Place Two Backup Hard Disks

Travel Photography Tips


Talk to Locals

Whats the Story?

Travel Photography Tips


Light is the Key!

Work the Scene

Landscape Photography Tips


Eyes need to see a frame like a Lens

Light maketh a Landscape outta Mundane

Landscape Photography Tips

Look for Interesting foregrounds

Shoot max in Golden Hour & Twilight Zone

Landscape Photography Tips


Shoot in RAW

f/16 to f/22, with a Tripod


IS/ VR Off Use a remote Mirror Lock & 2 sec shutter release

Landscape Photography Tips


Focus 1/3rd into Frame

Use Live View with Magnification

Focus & Exposure Lock

Landscape Photography Tips


Blinkies

Histogram Total & RGB

Expose to the right, but Not touching

Landscape Photography Tips


Exposure Bracketing

Manual Blend in CS6

Layers & Masks

Landscape Photography Tips

Walk that Extra Mile away from the crowd


Software Aids The Photographers Ephemeris

TimeandDate.com
Tide Tables DOF

Compass on your Cel

Weather.com

Street Photography Tips


Tricky to shoot strangers in a foreign land

Intimidating & Scary


Ask permission If they dont, .what the heck! Click!

Street Photography Tips


9 outta 10 Smile Back! & this one made us too! Smile!

Street Photography Tips


Tell them they look Good & theyll pose

Street Photography Tips


People make a Destination ISO 1600 to get faster shutter speeds

Processing Workflow
Lightroom 4.1
Profile & Modes
Exposure, Curves

Vibrance

Processing Workflow
CS6
Dodging & Burning

Layers & Masks Sharpening

Travel Photography
Take Pre Dawn & Dawn shots alone

Day with family


People make a Destination Shoot Sunsets & late Nights alone

Travel Photography
Take loads of pics

Dont fret if images are not good


Do what I do.

Pilfer from the Web


Buy Post cards & take their pics!

Merry Clickin!

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