Kodak Guide to Shooting Great Travel Pictures: How to Take Travel Pictures Like a Pro, With 250 Color Photos and 90 Tips [Paperback]

Jeff Wignall (Author)

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Publication Date: May 30, 1995

KodakThe Most Authoritative Guide to Travel Photography For Vacationers

Here, for the first time, Kodak and Fodor's come together to show you how to get the very
best photographs on your vacation, whether you use a point-and-shoot camera or a single-lens reflex.

As Wignall explains approaches and essential techniques, terrific photos from Kodak's extensive archives illustrate every important point.  In special 6-page albums within the book, three distinguished travel photographers, Peter Guttman, Catherine Karnow, and Boyd Norton, give you in-depth looks at shooting portraits, keeping a travel journal, and capturing wildlife on film.

Tips for every travel subject
Architectual details - Canyons - City streets - Deserts - Faces - Fireworks - Landscapes - Markets - Monuments- Mountains - Museums - Panoramas - People at work - Places of worship - Royal dwellings - Stage shows and events - Under the sea - Wildlife

All the how-tos you need
All about patterns, available light, choosing equipment, filters, flash, keys to great color, placing the horizon,secrets of black and white, setting exposures, using the right film, and much more.

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KodakThe Most Authoritative Guide to Travel Photography For Vacationers

Here, for the first time, Kodak and Fodor's come together to show you how to get the very
best photographs on your vacation, whether you use a point-and-shoot camera or a single-lens reflex.

As Wignall explains approaches and essential techniques, terrific photos from Kodak's extensive archives illustrate every important point. In special 6-page albums within the book, three distinguished travel photographers, Peter Guttman, Catherine Karnow, and Boyd Norton, give you in-depth looks at shooting portraits, keeping a travel journal, and capturing wildlife on film.

Tips for every travel subject
Architectual details - Canyons - City streets - Deserts - Faces - Fireworks - Landscapes - Markets - Monuments- Mountains - Museums - Panoramas - People at work - Places of worship - Royal dwellings - Stage shows and events - Under the sea - Wildlife

All the how-tos you need
All about patterns, available light, choosing equipment, filters, flash, keys to great color, placing the horizon,secrets of black and white, setting exposures, using the right film, and much more.

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KodakINTRODUCTION

This is a book for people who like to travel and who like to take pictures of the places they visit -- a group of which I am happy to be a member.  Whether you travel to rationalize shooting lots of film or your photography habit drives you to find new places to shoot, and whether you're an experienced SLR (single-lens reflex) photographer or a casual point-and-shooter, this book is meant for you.

It is a book as much about how to find and approach different subjects as about camera settings. Many of the concepts discussed can be realized with the simplest point-and-shoot cameras, but where the SLR shooter would benefit from specific information about apertures and shutter speeds, I have included them.

Because travel itself is such a broad subject, covering everything from a Saturday drive to a round-the-world cruise, I have approached travel photography through both broad themes and specific topics: by types of subjects, by compositional devices, and by camera technique. Being aware of and making the connections between these four image building-blocks -- and applying them to your own situations -- should enable you to see consistent (and relatively rapid) improvement in your travel pictures.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Fodor's (May 30, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679028307
• ISBN-13: 978-0679028307
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #621,540 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Quick fix remedy type of book, September 7, 2003

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This review is from: Kodak Guide to Shooting Great Travel Pictures: How to Take Travel Pictures Like a Pro, With 250 Color Photos and 90 Tips (Paperback)

This book contains many good points on taking good pictures and the content is very well classified.
The main reservation on this book, though, is the feeling of lack of 'substance'. The reason is that instead of starting the chapter with a quick overview the principle of photography/camera (aperture, speed, lighting), it starts immediately with composition/subject issue by giving one suggestion after the other. In the end, the author superficially covers camera basics (aperture/speed) in a very confusing manner. This sudden return to basics, seems somewhat strange since he has not touched them at all during the first 95% of the book.
A reader with prior knowledge of camera basics wouldn't have any problem, however, one without a good understanding of camera basics would gradually become very confused and feels trapped in the end.
If you have already have some photography basics, you could get some useful ideas from reading this one. Otherwise, get a more authorative, very well written book for your starting point: Upton's Photography, then maybe read this one.

5.0 out of 5 stars linda's reviews, December 11, 2010

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This review is from: Kodak Guide to Shooting Great Travel Pictures: How to Take Travel Pictures Like a Pro, With 250 Color Photos and 90 Tips (Paperback)

I was looking for a book to help me learn more technique for photography. I find the book very useful.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff, June 3, 1998

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This review is from: Kodak Guide to Shooting Great Travel Pictures: How to Take Travel Pictures Like a Pro, With 250 Color Photos and 90 Tips (Paperback)

All I can say is that Wignall's book is just great. It's easy for beginners, yet it adds up to the whole package. It shows you classic tricks (and some new ideas) in a very nice and easy to understand way. It's both great to learn from, and a joy to look in.