Better Travel Photos With
the Light in the Morning and Late Afternoon
By: Soren Breiting
 You
probably know the yellow "National Geographic"
magazine. If you browse through its colorful pages
you can see that many of the pictures are taken in
the low, warm light of mornings and late afternoons
or evenings.
The photographers of National Geographic are
among the best we have. You can easily mimic this
practice and create much more interesting pictures
than most people bring home from travels.
The low light will model the landscape you see
for your eyes, so for example the plough furrows or
differences in topography and texture are
highlighted.
As a traveling photographer I know, that even on
a photographic mission time is limited and your
circumstances are often less that optimal.
I can recommend you to take the pictures you must
take during the day. And then take a walk around
your hotel or campground during the last two hrs.
before sunset and shoot additional pictures in this
special light. Try to do the same next morning
before breakfast. In that way you will combine the
best possibilities.
With a digital camera you can easily delete the
less successful pictures later.
Low light gives long shadows, so be careful with
these. Normally you should not expect parts of a
picture to show up properly in both strong shadows
and in full sunlight.
If your digital camera allows the raw format you
will keep more details in shadows to work with in
Photoshop later if you choose the raw format instead
of the usual jpeg compression. But it depends on how
much you like to optimize your pictures at home in a
picture editor program.
 In
practice you should avoid the heavy shadows. When
you shoot your photos in cities the big buildings
are among the difficult objects. So take them from
an angle without the big shadows, if possible.
If you follow these instructions I am sure that
the appeal of your travel pictures will increase.
Have good travels and enjoy your travel
photography during the trip as well as afterwards.
Soren Breiting is a traveling stock photographer.
See examples of Soren’s travel pictures in his photo
galleries at A-Z Fotos,
http://www.azFOTOS.com and read about pictures
and marketing in Soren’s ezine ‘Stock Photo News’ at
http://www.StockPhotoNews.com
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