Photography
With Siem Reap having been my home for nearly 18 months now I’ve had a pretty good bite of the cherry when it comes to photographing the Angkor temples. For the first time photo-enthusiast-visitor here are some of my personal suggestions for capturing the main temples… Read more “Photographing The Angkor Temples”
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There is this view. As views go it’s a pretty special one and I have been dreaming of photographing it for a long, long time… Read more “The View: Phou Phra, The Sacred Mountain”
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Known as the ‘Golden Hour’, the first hour after sunrise and last hour before sunset are generally considered by photographers to be the best times of the day for capturing outdoor images. If you’ve ever been inspired by a wonderful landscape or travel shot the chances are it was taken either early morning or late afternoon. You will notice an instant improvement in your own photos, regardless of what camera you use, just by taking your pictures at these times of day. Read more “Photo Blog 7: Golden Hour”
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Processing your images in Adobe Photoshop, or other photo editing software, can greatly improve your pictures but is it really necessary – or worse, is it cheating? Read more “Photo Blog 6: Should We Post-Process Images?”
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There are many advantages to using a Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera over the basic point-and-shoot variety; the versatility of being able to change the lens, shooting in RAW format and a larger sensor to name a few. One of the most fundamental advantages of investing in a DSLR is having control over shutter speed and aperture settings. Read more “Photo Blog 5: Using Aperture For Creative Effect”
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The world is in motion; more often than not there’s something moving, flowing or flapping! Expressing that motion brings pictures alive; transforming them from a static record to a dynamic image.
Read more “Photo Blog 4: Using Shutter Speed For Creative Effect”
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Some black and white images are simply classics; Ansel Adams’ ‘Clearing Winter Storm’ or ‘West Gate – Angkor Thom’ by local Siem Reap-based photographer John McDermott are good examples. While certain pictures are well suited to the black and white (B&W) medium, others lose their impact once stripped of colour. What types of images naturally lend themselves to monochrome? Read more “Photo Blog 3: When Black and White Works”
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With today’s modern cameras, the sheer complexity of the available settings can seem overwhelming. In this blog I will attempt to explain three of the most important settings and how adjusting them can improve your travel photos… Read more “Photo Blog 2: Basic Camera Settings”
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The composition of an image, or the way in which the elements of a picture are arranged within the frame, is crucial to the success of any photo. What compositional rules can be applied (or ignored) to create the best travel photo’s possible… Read more “Photo Blog 1: Composition”
Travel
Last stop on our trip is the mighty Khumbu, home to Mount Everest, along with two other peaks in the world’s top ten (Lhotse and Makaulu). It’s cold, high and the very definition of bleak, with pretty basic accommodation. Iced over toilets are a new experience forus and most of the dhal bhats comes without popadoms for God’s sake – but when you are making a pilgrimage to the top of the world there should be some hardship involved, no? Read more “Travel Blog Part Fourteen: The Khumbu, Nepal”