Travel Photography How To

At this moment there are 32,527,830 #travelphotography posts on Instagram. With so many travel images posted online, and available for free, our business concern is that clients may find a great deal of those photos “good enough” to use. All of which makes it harder and harder to get a paying job as a travel or landscape photographer these days.

Given skill, experience, and the awesome capabilities of today’s gear, what else is it that makes a great travel photographer?

If you’ve ever gone shopping for camera gear in a foreign country, you know it can be an unusual experience, especially if you don’t speak the language. Travel photographer Pierre T. Lambert had an even more unusual time while shopping for a new lens at a crazy camera market in India.

Have you ever made that bucket list trip to follow in the footsteps of the great masters of landscape photography by visiting places like Yosemite or Yellowstone but wished you came home with photos that didn’t look like those taken by everyone else?

Here are seven things you didn’t know you need to take on your photo vacation, plus some photo travel tips from an experienced road warrior.

We’ve all been there. You’re packing for a big trip that will have dozens of great photo opportunities but you realize your camera bag is getting heavier and heavier with every lens you add. Don’t you wish you could just bring one piece of glass to do it all?