Comments on: Say cheese. http://www.brianthacker.tv/blog/travel-photography-tips-for-travelling-photographers/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:04:45 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Brian Thacker http://www.brianthacker.tv/blog/travel-photography-tips-for-travelling-photographers/comment-page-1/#comment-1029 Brian Thacker Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:12:06 +0000 http://www.brianthacker.tv/blog/?p=1691#comment-1029 Hi Epiphanie Thanks for the nice words about my shots. I do love the digital camera and it took me a while to get on to it because I wanted SLR (and they were so expensive in the beginning). What i love is that you can snap like crazy and experiment like crazy, which you just couldn't do with film (unless you had lots of money to process them all!). cheers brian Hi Epiphanie

Thanks for the nice words about my shots. I do love the digital camera and it took me a while to get on to it because I wanted SLR (and they were so expensive in the beginning). What i love is that you can snap like crazy and experiment like crazy, which you just couldn’t do with film (unless you had lots of money to process them all!).

cheers
brian

]]> By: Epiphanie http://www.brianthacker.tv/blog/travel-photography-tips-for-travelling-photographers/comment-page-1/#comment-1025 Epiphanie Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:06:51 +0000 http://www.brianthacker.tv/blog/?p=1691#comment-1025 I absolutely love the contrast and the almost surreal visuals of the people upon the branches, overlooking the sea... the first photo evokes the mystery of people from a different culture for me, since the man is only a silhouette. It's complemented perfectly by the second, in which the young people's enthusiasm and sense of adventure is something I can readily relate to. I think a photo can often be improved by a tilt of the camera - thanks for reminding me to do it more often myself! :) It's such a simple technique, but few people think of it. I like the sense of being in motion, and at odds with the ground. Also, you know that the camera was hand-held! The Bagan girl's outfit is amazingly beautiful to see close up (see, I learnt something from Ewen's site already :) ), and makes me want to go to Burma myself (not that it's not already on my list)... From these photos, you seem to have a strong interest in capturing the locals as they're going about their lives, or at special moments, preferably in atmospheric surrounds, and I think that's more important than having perfect technical skills (though I think you're doing great in that area as well). Hope to see more soon! :) I absolutely love the contrast and the almost surreal visuals of the people upon the branches, overlooking the sea… the first photo evokes the mystery of people from a different culture for me, since the man is only a silhouette. It’s complemented perfectly by the second, in which the young people’s enthusiasm and sense of adventure is something I can readily relate to.

I think a photo can often be improved by a tilt of the camera – thanks for reminding me to do it more often myself! :) It’s such a simple technique, but few people think of it. I like the sense of being in motion, and at odds with the ground. Also, you know that the camera was hand-held!

The Bagan girl’s outfit is amazingly beautiful to see close up (see, I learnt something from Ewen’s site already :) ), and makes me want to go to Burma myself (not that it’s not already on my list)…

From these photos, you seem to have a strong interest in capturing the locals as they’re going about their lives, or at special moments, preferably in atmospheric surrounds, and I think that’s more important than having perfect technical skills (though I think you’re doing great in that area as well). Hope to see more soon! :)

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