I think of travel photography as being a composite of several other styles or types of photography including - landscape, architecture, portrait, event, and photojournalism. Today I want to take a look at how each of these fits into travel photography.
Let's start with Landscape and Architecture photography. Every time a travel photographer grabs a snap of the pyramids, or the Vatican he's doing architectural photography - photography of buildings. The same is true of landscapes like the Gobi Dessert or the beach in the Bahamas. They are landscapes too.
The same can be said for portraits of interesting people, and of course those everyday shots of eating, sleeping and just being us are all examples of photojournalism because they tell the story of our life, and of this particular trip. truly that's journalism in pictures, photojournalism.
So being a travel photographer means being a little bit of all of these styles; or perhaps a lot of each one individually at any one time. This time we are going to talk about landscape and architecture and the design styles and challenges laid out in this area.
In short, and we'll talk more about each of these styles as we go along, Travel Photography is just a composite of any group of these different styles of photography. If you have learned to become comfortable with one or more of these styles then you are comfortable with that part of travel photography. Do you need to be comfortable and capable in all of these styles, no I don't think so. But it would help to become well rounded in more than one. The more different styles you know the broader your appeal to viewers. If your doing it commercially you'll have a boarder (read larger) market for your photography. And if your an amateur photographer who just shoots for his family and his own pleasure; well you'll get more out of each trip and have much better memories.
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