I’ve been a fan of Harry’s Exposed Planet.com for a while now. It’s one of the many blogs that I got to know via the Travvies. When I published the A First Experience PDF, Harry and I got in touch and I asked him if he’d like to write-up some tips for the photography category of my site. Here are his 10 travel photography tips. In my opinion these tips are not the obvious, no-duh ones you’ll usually find online. They’re golden.
Here are some basic travel-specific pointers. Many have been uttered by fellow shooters and some might seem too obvious, so use them as deemed necessary! As every photographer is (fortunately) different, this might not be useful for you, but for others this might help 
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This one’s a simple tip that can help you greatly in the long-run. When you’re doing those once-in-a-lifetime trips, do yourself a favor and save your photography in the highest quality possible. Now that doesn’t mean that all those high-end cameras should be set to capture in RAW format (huge file-sizes), but set them to the highest quality .JPG save with the highest resolution possible.
Why? Let me show you why…
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Two months ago I started work on a book that would hopefully show in images some of the different experiences I had when traveling through Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand in the summer of 2006. A few days ago my order arrived and it looks great! I never had such positive feedback before. Click here to keep reading…
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I had a fun time taking this one. A few friends and I drove up to the beach and I set up my tripod and took a shots with shutter speeds ranging from 1/500th to 5 seconds. We had a few beers in between shutter releases. Good times.
Yesterday I compiled my shots in Photoshop by superimposing the pictures to fit the path the moon took during the shots. Fred Espenak has detailed explanations of various lunar eclipse photography methods. He also has some great stuff on solar eclipses.
In addition to Fred’s site, Kottke points us to some other great shots from last night. Some of these guys must have had amazing lenses. Also, check out upcoming eclipses.
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