Category: Travel
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Going through Customs with a photo bag
When you’re traveling far in order to satisfy your complementary needs for exoticism and photography, you will have to go through the Customs and/or boarding controls of the airplane. A few things would be good to keep in mind in order to ensure this is a better experience. Here are mine: Pack everything really fragile…
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Wildlife Photography Fail
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Wildlife photographers, shut up!
It has been revealed by a scientific study that ecotourists (and certainly wildlife photographers like you and me are falling in this category) are actually much more disturbing to wildlife than initially supposed. As written by New Scientist, “The sound of even a quiet conversation caused the birds [hoatzins in the Amazonian forest] to begin…
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Photography in a forest
Sometimes, in the past, I wondered if it would be difficult to shoot animals in a forest. When I traveled to Amazonia, I could observe by myself that it is much more difficult than elsewhere (and specifically more difficult than in Brazil’s Pantanal). The obstacles: Animals are often high in the trees (nearly never creeping…
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Photography in the Third World
In the coming months many people will travel abroad, possibly to some developing country or or near very poor people. And if they bring their camera, they will want to take snapshots from the place and the people they find there. There, in a different country, in a different culture, when the difference of economic…
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UK: Kingdom of low-flying plane photo
Did you know that the United Kigdom is certainly the country where photography of low-level flying military airplanes is the most developped? Hundreds of enthusiastic amateur photographers catch amazing pictures of flying planes seen from above on a background which is no longer the usual bright sky. Why United Kingdom, would you ask? Because this…
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Nature and wildlife photography
Nature photography and wildlife photography are two specialities that can be classified as difficult. Here, nothing beats advice from great photographers. This is why I noticed those two great articles, though they are very different: Mark Godfrey explains on Nature.org how are made some superb nature images. The pictures are permanent in their classic vibrance…
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Photograph hummingbirds
Hummingbirds are definitely difficult to shoot as anybody who tried will confirm. They move fast, they’re small and somewhat shy. But they are quite nice to see in a picture (and in the wild), and they are specially spectacular if they are caught in mid-flight. This is sometimes seen as a kind of Graal for…
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13 photo safari tips
When you go on a safari tour in order to shoot photos, whatever the organisation, there are a few things that you should always keep in mind, that are very easy to apply and that bring a lot of good results. Here’s my list: Lion – Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles Be ready. Always keep…