Digital Photography Bible by Dan Simon

Author:Dan Simon
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Published: 2012-06-09T16:28:23+00:00

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Chapter 12 ✦ Photographing Travel Destinations 223

Figure 12-4: Shooting through aircraft windows presents some obstacles (like shooting around your neighbor’s arm), but it can also result in some interesting images.

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Figure 12-5: Be sure to have your camera gear ready to go before you get in the air!

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224 Part III ✦ Tackling Different Photographic Subjects Some Tips on Shooting from the Air

If the pilot offers to take a slow pass around a particular landmark, politely decline.

Although slowing the aircraft’s speed gives you more time to take pictures, it often creates excessive vibration that even fast shutter speeds can’t overcome.

This same vibration makes it hard for you to keep your camera oriented for proper composition.

This is also a good time to use a polarizing filter if you have one, because the higher up you are the more ground haze becomes apparent. A polarizing filter can help penetrate this haze.

One last thing: This is one occasion where bracing your camera against a wall or cabin isn’t a good idea. Aircraft (particularly helicopters and small fixed wing planes) vibrate tremendously. Bracing you camera against the wall of the cabin will increase camera vibration instead of reducing it.

Shooting from a Train

Most of us don’t travel all that much by train anymore. Sadly, modern train cars don’t offer the same character and elegance as they once did. So why even worry about this type of travel photography?

Well, trains can still be fun to travel on, particularly if you’re riding one of those antique trains that are so popular in many places.

Trains, particularly the older ones, can make interesting shooting platforms.

Although modern trains may offer picture windows, you still have the problem of shooting through glass or Plexiglas. With older trains, you can get lucky and find yourself shooting off an observation deck or through open picture windows.

This can make your images that much more appealing. Certainly, if you ever have the choice between shooting through glass versus being out in the open, choose the latter.

When shooting from a train, it’s important to remember that you’re still in a moving vehicle. So you need to use fast shutter speeds to compensate for the train’s movement and vibration. Try not to shoot at anything slower than 1/500th of a second if possible. Slower shutter speeds may be okay if the train is heading up an incline and has slowed its pace, but there will still be plenty of vibration.

One nice shot to look for is the front of the train as the engine rounds a bend in the track. This gives you a chance to photograph the engine while you’re inside one of the trailing cars.

Photographing the train itself

Although train travel photography may not be that exciting when you’re using the train as a means to get from point A to point B, there are still many

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