Travel Photography Tip: Using flash for the perfect images in North-East India – Part II
Travel Photography Tip: Using flash for the perfect images in North-East India – Part II

Also see: part I – using flash for indoor portraits In the last edition, we wrote about using an external flash for getting better portrait indoors. This part addresses using flash as fill light when photographing outdoors.  Travelling in North East India on our yearly photography tour…

Travel Photography Tip: Using flash for the perfect portrait in North-East India – Part I
Travel Photography Tip: Using flash for the perfect portrait in North-East India – Part I

Travelling through North-East India last December during our ‘Photography in North-East India and Hornbill Festival‘ tour, we visited several small villages, spent time chatting with people in rural areas in their homes and made many photographs in the process. Often when shooting indoors, we ran…

Travel photography tip: Introducing a sense of scale at Mingun Pagoda, Mandalay, Myanmar
Travel photography tip: Introducing a sense of scale at Mingun Pagoda, Mandalay, Myanmar

If the giant pagoda at Mingun was completed, it would have been the largest in all of Myanmar and perhaps in the entire world. But when astrologers advised that the king would die on completion of the structure, work was suspended. Some ancient structures are charming…

Photographs of Chandratal Lake – Tranquility in the High Mountains
Photographs of Chandratal Lake – Tranquility in the High Mountains

Also see: ‘Our Photography Tour to Chandratal and beyond in Lahaul & Spiti‘ Few places can match Chandratal in beauty and grandeur. Nestled in the middle of snow-peaks in in the Himalayas, the deep blue waters of the mountains reflect equally blue skies and the heavenly…

Knowing Badami as a destination for photographers
Knowing Badami as a destination for photographers

When we announced our travel photography workshop to Badami (July 5 to 7), many of you were fascinated by the location but also had a lot of questions. Where is Badami located? What kind of place is this and how is it conducive for a…

Travel Photography – Landscapes that characterize a location
Travel Photography – Landscapes that characterize a location

This is second in the series of travel photography articles that we are publishing this week. See the earlier story on travel photography – understanding the scope. A few years ago, editor of a travel magazine asked me for an article and photographs on…

Travel Photography – Understanding the scope
Travel Photography – Understanding the scope

This week on this blog, we will be publishing a series of articles on understanding and learning the concepts of travel photography. We begin first with an attempt to understand what comprises travel photography. Travel photography is a much used word. The term is…