Holiday Photography

In this tutorial George Barrie describes you some digital photography tricks. It could be applied for every day photos as well as for holiday photography.  He tells you which photography settings are used to get desired result.  Also you can find some useful landscape photography tips.

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I told you I was going on holiday this week. Will I, as a professional photographer be taking photographs on holiday, of course I will.

As I am going to Canada, near Niagara Falls, I will take every opportunity to add to my stock image library. Last time I was there, as well as views of the falls in winter, I got some amazing shots of the atrium interior of the new casino, some of my best ever building shots.

I also have some wonderful shots the interior of Seville cathedral, and the sun at noon shining through the stained glass oriole window in Palma cathedral, the different coloured shafts of light are very atmospheric. All shots were hand held.

It drives Julie, my wife, mad. I have to be forced into taking the “family” shots.

Anyway I will tell you about the shots I have taken when I get back.

How do you get the best of your holiday photographs? Try to look at what you are about to photograph prior to pressing the shutter, that way you might avoid the lamp post appearing out of a head shot.

The other thing you will find, if you are taking landscapes, you will not photograph what you see. The human eye sees through haze, the camera doesn’t. As a minimum, if you can fit a UV filter to the front of the lens. It does 2 things, cuts down the UV glare and protects the surface of the lens. I have a UV filter on the front of all my lenses.

In most cases you will need a polarizing filter, it cuts through UV and gets rid of unwanted reflections in glass and on water, and you will be amazed at the difference it will make.

The best light for landscape photography is early morning in early spring, when the air is clean and the light is pure.

We all like sunrises and sunsets, no one more than me. My best sunsets were in the Maldives. They are awesome and change by the minute. Try to think of the effect you are trying to achieve. Don’t just point and press. Look through the viewfinder, compose the shot, try different exposures, from over to under exposure, you will be surprised at the results. As it’s sunset, you need to set the film speed on your digital camera to a high ASA setting, 800ASA if possible. Most of us don’t carry a tripod on holiday, try to use 45th sec shutter speed or better to avoid camera shake. Or prop the camera on something solid, if you want to use a time exposure.

I remember a couple of years ago doing some night shots around Manchester for a client. I got some great images.

As always, if you need advice, email me. Even on holiday, I will try to respond to you.

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I hope you have got some photography idea for your holiday.  These digital photography tricks you can use to improve your digital photography technique.

For more information contact George Barrie:

Contact details:
George Barrie
Summit Studios
Pioneer House
Lodge St
Middleton
Manchester
M24 6AA
Tel:  (+044)0161 643 5892