Travel Photography: Take Beautiful Photos on Your Adventures

Learn how to prepare for travel, prioritize safety, and choose essential cameras, lenses, and gear through research and practical tips to take better travel photos.

Plan your trip with research on destinations, photography goals, and local culture; engage with people, learn phrases, and assess weather and gear needs to protect your camera.

Use whatever camera you own for travel photography and prioritize portability and the right lenses over the body. Weigh options from DSLR, mirrorless, point-and-shoot, and smartphones, focusing on weather sealing.

Enhance your travel photography course experience by adjusting playback speed, selecting video quality, and using auto-generated captions and transcripts, while your reviews help improve the course.

Evaluate zoom versus prime lenses for travel photography and choose versatile options like 24-70mm f/2.8 or 35mm primes. Prioritize compact, fast glass for low-light performance and easy travel.

Prepare and test travel photography gear in advance, choose low-profile bags with inserts, and back up memory cards and batteries with external drives to stay organized on the road.

Explore the ultimate resource for new photographers at photography and friends dotcom, with guides by topic, a start here library of 48 free lessons, and a Will Carnahan podcast.

Sam demonstrates a travel shoot prep routine: researching photogenic spots in downtown Los Angeles, checking weather, and packing light with one camera and one lens for a one-day trip.

Explore Sam Schmoes Jones's travel photography kit, featuring a Shimoda action 30 backpack and a Leica-Sigma lens lineup. He includes a film option for portraits, wildlife, and travel shots.

Learn to prep for travel photography by researching locations, packing two bag setups for day trips and longer trips, and selecting gear and lenses for client work and adventures.

Explore how to capture portraits, landscapes, and nighttime photos on the road, embracing spontaneity and preplanning to seize markets, sunrises, and iconic views.

Forge a connection with subjects through dialogue and time, balancing candid and staged portraits to tell a story. Choose lens and setting to place the person within their surroundings.

Master landscape and cityscape travel photography by planning sunrise and sunset shoots, using light, tripod, and long exposures to capture iconic landmarks with your own style.

Explore street photography by capturing candid city life with the right lens, settings, and lighting. Be mindful of surroundings, ask for permission, and share photos with locals.

Capture a travel narrative by weaving portraits, landscapes, and street scenes into a cohesive story of your journey, from city streets to landscapes and people you meet.

Explore a downtown Los Angeles photo walk through Grand Central Market and Bradbury Building, using minimal gear and a polarizer to capture reflections and leading lines.

Learn to elevate travel photography by mastering composition, rule of thirds, leading lines, and paying attention to backgrounds, while using sunrise and sunset lighting for landscapes, street photography, and portraits.

Learn practical storage and backup strategies for travelers, including organizing by country and date, labeling, duplicating to two external drives, and optional cloud or phone backups.

Learn to edit travel photos efficiently on the road with mobile apps like Lightroom and Snapseed, transfer via wifi, save presets, and refine on a laptop after returning.

Sam outlines his travel photo editing workflow: organizing RAW and JPEG, backing up, keywording, creating a three-star collection, selecting favorites, and refining edits in Lightroom with presets.

Phil demonstrates a start-to-finish landscape edit in Lightroom Classic, using crop, white balance, tone adjustments, filters, range masks, and noise reduction for a dramatic sunrise.

Master on-the-go photo editing and secure travel storage with robust sd cards, external drives, and mobile-to-desktop workflows using lightroom, snapseed, and na box integration.

Plan how you share travel photos across Instagram, blogs, websites, and photo sites, store images for later posts, and develop your style to boost branding and engagement.

Grow your travel photography brand by consistently sharing travel stories and your style on Instagram and across platforms. Foster engagement through collaboration, tagging, hashtags, and geo tags to attract followers.

Explore Sam's travel photo posting workflow from Lightroom edits to Instagram posting. See how he uses cropping, tagging, hashtags, drafts, and cross-posting across platforms.

Phil shares a case study of his Hawaii trip, detailing how he crafts descriptions and uses location and camera-related hashtags to boost travel photo discovery on Instagram.

Share your travel photos to build your photographer brand and grow Instagram followers, using curated posts, stories, and prints—from photo books to gallery displays—to tell memorable travel stories.

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Phil presents a Japan case study photo essay, detailing his Fujifilm X-t4 kit, prime lenses, and Lightroom edits to craft depth, framing, and storytelling across Osaka, Nara, Kyoto, and Tokyo.

Explore Lightroom presets in this bonus section of travel photography, learn to install and use them, and discover monthly packs from black and white to vintage vibes and street grunge.

Learn to install Lightroom presets on desktop (classic and cc) and mobile, apply non-destructively. Import presets, organize into groups, rename, and sync across devices with exposure and color profile tweaks.

Explore the flat matte travel photography presets, including 11 options (4 black-and-white, 7 color), and learn to adjust exposure, white balance, and hue-saturation-luminance in Lightroom Classic.

Explore the Street Grunge Style Lightroom preset pack to transform travel and street photography with saturated colors, retro vibes, and portrait edits, using color-heavy adjustments and shadows.

Explore bold contrast and color presets that make nature and sunset photos pop, with adjustable sliders to tailor hue and achieve a cohesive vibe across multiple shots.

Discover the Vintage Vibes Lightroom preset pack, a ten-presets collection that emulates old film stocks to give retro portrait and travel images, with fully customizable tweaks.

Explore the desaturated colors preset pack for travel photography, adjusting saturation and tones to create moody, warm, or cool looks. Downloads are available from the lesson or course resources.

Explore black and white photography with preset pack 7, offering styles from flat to high-contrast to brighten brights and deepen darks; download the pack from the course or lesson.

Explore how the hdr nature pop preset pack enhances travel photos by boosting colors and exposure for vivid nature and wildlife shots, with options from bold to softer hues.

Explore the tropical vibes preset pack for orange and teal tones, available in course downloads for members, designed to stylize greens and blues while intensifying yellows and reds.

Explore the cool blues preset pack, a free travel photography tool for nature and night scenes, to add blue hues, desaturated vibes, and ethereal moods.

Leverage the golden hour preset pack to enhance warm light at sunset or sunrise. Create warm portraits, cityscapes, and night photos with both subtle and dramatic looks.

Explore the soft pastels and newborn photography preset pack to soften colors, bloom tones, and reduce clarity for warmer, pastel results. Download the pack and share your edits on Instagram.

Explore 2023 travel photography contest winners across portrait, landscape, wildlife, street, architecture, and night sky categories. Discover how storytelling, composition, and gear choices shape award-winning travel photos.

The video announces the 2024 travel photography contest winners across five categories—portrait, landscape, wildlife, street and architecture, and night and astrophotography—and highlights the top three overall winners.