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Richard I'Anson

Travel Photography: a Guide to Taking Better Pictures (Lonely Planet Travel Photography) Paperback – 22 Oct. 2004

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This second edition of this best-selling guide to taking photographs while on the road has been thoroughly updated and revised to include a special new section on digital photography. Also includes new information on black and white photography techniques.

Print length

264 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Lonely Planet Publications
Publication date

22 Oct. 2004
Dimensions

12.7 x 1.91 x 19.05 cm
ISBN-10

1741041848
ISBN-13

978-1741041842
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lonely Planet Publications; 2nd edition (22 Oct. 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1741041848
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1741041842
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.91 x 19.05 cm

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Richard I'Anson

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Richard I’Anson is a freelance photographer who has built a career on his twin passions for travel and photography. Over the past 33 years he has traveled the world, amassing a substantial and compelling collection of images of people and places in more than 85 countries on all seven continents.

Born in Leicester, England, Richard moved to Melbourne, Australia when he was 10 years old. He received his first camera as a gift from his parents when he was 16 and has been infatuated with photography ever since.

His images are published worldwide in books, magazines, newspapers, brochures, calendars, posters, cards and websites. Richard has published eleven books including four editions of the best-selling Lonely Planet Guide to Travel Photography , Lonely Planet’s Best Ever Photography Tips and the large format pictorials: Australia: 42 Great Landscape Experiences, Nepal and India: essential encounters.

Richard is a Master of Photography awarded by the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) and has been selected to represent Canon Australia as a Canon Master Photographer.

His photography is represented by Getty Images. When he’s not on the road Richard lives in Sydney, Australia. For more information about Richard and his photography log onto www.richardianson.com, www.facebook.com/richardiansonphotography and richianson on Instagram.

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Mr. S. Crook

Good advice, but dating rapidly in some areas

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 June 2007

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For my taste there's rather too much at the start on selecting your camera, different types of film etc and digital comes a very poor second best. There are more interesting words on ancillary equipment to take with you (choice of filters, lenses, flash and tripod) and preparing for a trip so you get the best out of it.

However, when it comes to the meat and bones of how to take good photographs, the book has a lot to offer with advice on just about everything, ranging from people, through landscape and wildlife to cities and parades. The photographs are well reproduced on decent paper, many are duplicated with one showing a 'average' version of a view, and another that's special, just taken at a different time or with a slightly different perspective. They really do show how small the margin between an average photograph and a great one can be, sometimes just a matter of taking a few steps...

The book is small paperback sized and would fit into a travel bag to have to hand for a quick browse now and again.

A new edition should probably ditch a lot of the basics about choosing a camera and any mention of film in favour of expanding the words on kit to be purchased after the camera, and a short piece on digital processing.

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Sam

The clearest possible guide to improving your photography.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2001

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This book told me many things I'd read before, but in a way that finally enabled me to understand them. It is an essential guide for anyone who wants to get started in photography or improve their skills. The clarity and simplicity of the writing puts it ahead of anything else I've read in the field. The supberb design and photographic illustration is icing on the cake.
I read it over a couple of days in North East Thailand. On the first day it caused me to to remove the polarizing filters I'd kept on as standard. On the second day I discovered, too late, that with a 200mm lens, hand held, 1/250th of a second is the desired minimum shutter spead - I'd just been using 1/125th.
The book is full of simple, practical advice on almost any photographic topic you need to know about. My photos are already showing signs of improvement.

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angela

A photography gem

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2012

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Travel Photography is an excellent value for money book. Packed with information and superb photographs, Travel Photography would be too big (and too heavy) to easily take with you as a reference book which is its best use. The best feature for me is the simple breakdown on each page of the camera, lens, and so forth used for each indivual shot. Far from discouraging me it makes me think that, with a bit of practice and taking each section as a mini lesson I might be able to produce much better photographs than I had realised with a not expensive digital camera. My one concern is that there is no section on good museum photography, an important part of travel photography.

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JF Rodrigues

A start to travel photography

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2015

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Great tips and information for photographer looking to take up travel photography which is a lot more involved if you are looking to capture those those amazing and professional shot. This book will hlep you on the way.

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Rui

Used just like new! Nice book on the subject but for begginers!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 March 2012

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I bought the book as used but it seems like a brand new one! This is the good news.
But the bad news is that I must say that I was a bit disappointed with the book. I was expecting to learn something from it but I did not. It's fair to say that I already have some travel photography experience and that might be the problem. I think that this book is more aimed to begginers.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 December 2015

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Great product, swift delivery, highly recommended

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 February 2015

excellent poroduct

A great book for reference and to build on a basic knowledge

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2005

I have read a few photography books in my time and I have also been on an expensive photography course. This book is the perfect accompaniment to the knowledge I already have as a reference guide and to reinforce the knowledge I already have. It also provides excellent tips and advice based on Richard I'Anson's considerable experience. I have learnt lots from this book and it is the first guide book I have ever read literally every word of. The book is well structured, well indexed and well written to it's easy to look things up quickly in the field. There are also masses of fantastic photographs that illustrate every technique and learning point in the book. Looking at a photograph illustrating the point being made by the text is absolutely the best way to understand and learn so this is really valuable.
If you know what an aperture is and have a basic understanding of how that affects the light hitting the film/pixels in your camera then I really can't recommend this book highly enough as it is pitched at someone who gets the basics. This avoids patronising and tedious basic explanations that fill half of many guidebooks.
If you don't know the basics of apertures and shutter speeds then I would recommend finding out from the many excellent websites out there and buying this book anyway.
Basically - I rate this book extremely highly and thoroughly recommend buying yourself a copy!

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