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As we travel to new places, digital camera in hand, we all feel the desire to capture them forever in images: the scenic vistas, the unique architecture, the people who inhabit that landscape. With this magnificent new study, award-winning National Geographic photographer Bob Krist can help us achieve our goal. It’s distinguished from other digital how-tos by its comprehensive scope, easy-to-grasp explanations, inspirational attitude, and upscale aesthetics.
Krist examines the technological aspects of shooting digitally on location, and explains how to select the right equipment, from cameras and lenses to flashes and tripods. He offers tips for saving, backing up, and sending images on the road, and gets to the heart of what it takes to portray the true spirit of your subject. He poses such questions as: What makes a truly great photograph? How can you create a well-rounded portrait of a place through its geography, people, and culture? The answers are all illustrated with the author’s collection of stunning travel photography to inspire us along the way.

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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Lark Books (October 7, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1600591108
  • ISBN-13: 978-1600591105
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #86,265 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ideal Read Before the Trip of a Lifetime, December 10, 2008
Long-time travel shooters may well be familiar with many of the techniques Krist discusses in this book, but where I think it shines is at the overview level. Among other things, he talks about packing light for maximum impact, RAW workflow, archiving, lighting (both flash and ambient) and things like how to approach people for photography on location.

One of his key approaches is choosing minimum gear for maximum impact on the road. This, for instance, is of great value to me on my upcoming trip to Central America. Old shooters with bad backs (and young shooters who *will* one day develop bad backs) will both benefit form this advice. I am transitioning from the latter to the former, FWIW.

It is an excellent overview for people who had long travelled with their film cameras but are a little overwhelmed on how to approach the 10,000-slides-of-the-Grand-Canyon problem with digital. He spends a chapter on organizing and sharing photos in the digital age. (Thankfully, hard drives now take up far less space than did boxes of chromes.)

If you have been shooting travel for the last 30 years (like Bob has) the travel shooting techniques will be a refresher course, but a look into his modern workflow and approach more than justifies the ridiculously low price of this book.

If you are just starting out on your journey as a travel photographer, this book will serve as en excellent guidepost. It is a shame to invest so much time and effort into the trip of a lifetime and have your photos suffer for not having had this kind of overall advice.

And that is the main value of this book -- it is the ideal "Survey of Travel Photography" course. It is systemic, and up to the minute. It will not turn you into a travel photography rock star. That part is up to you. But it will absolutely keep you from doing something photographically stupid on a major excursion and regretting it later.

Which to me, was far more important.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Pretty disappointing!, December 7, 2008
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I have read Bob Krists other travel photography book "Spirit of place" and that was quite good, in fact much much better than this book. I was hoping for something reasonably in depth but unfortunately I have found this book more geared towards the beginner photographer. Most of the information is reasonably basic and not for someone with a deeper knowledge. There are much better books on the subject.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Starting Point, December 29, 2008
This book would be a great gift to the new dSLR owner. Someone new to the field of digital capture could stand to learn a great deal from this book. For the newer photographer, tips on blending flash with ambient, dragging the shutter, finding vantage points and composition are invaluable.

Unfortunately, for those who already know about those techniques, there is not a lot of new information here. There are some great pictures, and it never hurts to review the images and techniques of a legendary shooter, but outside of some information on approaching people in different countries to take their picture, you probably won't pick up anything new.

For someone new to photography, you can't go wrong. And, considering the low price, experienced photographers won't feel jipped either. But if you are already pretty comfortable with your camera, you would be better using the $16 to take even a small trip to a neighboring city and try some "travel" photography of your own would be a better suggestion.
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3.0 out of 5 stars An okay overview to photography generally
This book tries to be an intro to photography and a book on travel photography and because of this it falls a bit flat on both. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Christopher A. Craig

4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping
Bob knows his stuff. This book is not a technical know how but is great advice from a great shooter. Must read!!
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I sometimes wonder if there is such a thing as travel photography. Isn't what the travel photographer does already covered by such genres as landscape, architectural and portrait... Read more
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