Informative Essay: An Inside Look At Travel Photography

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Travel is an amazing source of inspiration. The architecture, culture and history of different locations are mind blowing. This is why travel photography is such an undefined sub-genre as it includes a wide range of things and can link to lots of other genre of photography such as; documentary, landscape, portraiture, still life can all come into travel photography. The best thing about travel photography is that it can be used as a toll to make the viewer see things they wouldn’t be able to see personally themselves weather that’s because they choose not to or because of danger or a negative opinion given by others. These images can create awareness of thing people didn’t know where going on in the world or of misunderstood things. It can …show more content…

However this was not easy for the photographers it’s not like today when you can just pull out your phone and take a quick picture. Photographer would have to carry round massive amounts of equipment. Bedford carried tripods, lenses, chemicals and a darkroom as well as the camera itself and this equipment was not cheap or replaceable so it could not be lost or damaged along the way. Transport was also not as easy luckily for Francis Bedford he was traveling with royalty his journey was written in the price of Wales’s journal it says “we left London, by the 8:30 train in the evening for dover.” Then “crossed over to Calais at 11 same evening” and then “1:30train to colone.” They then got another train to Mayence and crossed a river on a “small steamer” then got on another train to Darmstadt where when they got there they were drove to a house. To then walk back to the train in the morning to Munich. They then “drove to the railway station” to proceed by train again to Vienna. finally they got on ship called “the Osborne” Most of their traveling was done by train which had only recently in the past 60 year been invented and built .The rest done by ship or steam boat and walking or camels ,horse when they reached the …show more content…

Everyone travels and takes photos of what they have seen to show friends and family all you have to do now to see the world is type the place in on google and click images and you can see millions of images of one place in hundreds of different ways this made being a professional travel photographer I completely different job before all travel photographers had to do was take one picture of another part of the world and it would be breath-taking. Travel photography is now the art of being able to go to another part of the world and photograph someone no one has seen or photography something they have in a way no one has seen it before. Things change and people see picture of Venice Italy and see beautiful canals with wooden boats but when an average person visits that’s exactly what they see because that’s what they want to see. A travel photographer won’t see this but will see what is really there what the everyday tourist won’t see for example instead of the canals they will see clogged up with traffic canals with wooden boats full of tourists with backpacks. The key to travel photography is keeping a open mind and not to base your photographs on human assumption the things that don’t change and base them of the things

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