TC020 Travelogue Show Presentation Basics
Travelogue Creator
Putting on a great travel show presentation is the last and equally as important step to creating a memorable travelogue story experience. You want to get it right, after all those miles traveling and hours editing, don’t you? At this point, the same way one would frame an art print on the wall and hang it in the appropriate place. So to are you going to play your travel show of your trip in the best possible way to entertain and do it justice. What I'm going to talk about this time around covers a lot of different types of travelogues. The two basic camps are hard copy (prints, photo...
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TC019 Sports, Action Cameras for Travelers
Travelogue Creator
I am really keen on bringing with me everywhere I travel a “sports, action, rugged” camera. This category of compact digital camera, are light, tough, water and dust proof. They are so handy for many occasions when my main DSLR or camera phone are at risk of getting damaged or drown at sea. The last few years has brought on a ever growing collection of sport cameras from most manufacturers. Then the other favour of action camera are the smaller GoPros and similar type that you wear or mount just about anywhere. The concept is so well suited for traveling, how can you not agree. Often...
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TC018 Where to Find the Best Travel Photo Destinations
Travelogue Creator
The world is a big place with lots of beautiful scenery and cities for us to explore and take pictures and videos. As you prepare your next trip, you may be wondering how and where do I find those awesome photos and how do you seek them out? I know many of us love to explore and find random surprises during our holidays to photograph. Now that's a great buzz when you chance to come across an unusual and interesting place to take a few pictures. It happens to me often, yet I also plan some of those chance photo occurrences and so should you. You might think if you do some research and plan out...
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TC017 Shoot Vacation Videos Worth Editing
Travelogue Creator
The fact most travelers have the capability to shoot video is an invitation for us to give it a try. Yet it seems we take very little on our vacations. Shooting video clips on our holidays seems to be an afterthought for most travellers. I want to change that, and make your travel videos stand out. Well it’s time put video shooting in the spotlight, with the quality and convenience, taking a few holiday videos is so easy. Every camera and smartphone now comes with a video mode. Plus there is the added experience of motion and sound definitely making your travelogue shows that much better....
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TC016 Blogging While Sailing the Caribbean
Travelogue Creator
I had a chance to do an interview with Joanne, a sailor doing America’s Great Loop with her husband David and their dog. She has been writing a travel blog since they left Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada many months ago. Their journey took them across the Great Lakes to Chicago, where the mast was taken off and trucked down to the Gulf of Mexico. With too many low bridges, they did the route down to the mouth of Mississippi River by motorboat. They have been sailing the Caribbean Seas for a few months living a dream. Plans are to put the boat up on dry dock during the hurricane season in...
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TC015 Build a Travel Blog Website
Travelogue Creator
For those of you wishing to create a travelogue of your holidays in a website blog format, here are the basic concepts to help you sort it out. This article covers what a beginner needs to know to decide if this is the method they prefer to post and share their travels with family, friends and the world. (It also can be applied to other blog and website projects) This method of recording your vacation adventures is not the easiest way to share those stories. Certainly it can offer the most control and perhaps expand to a professional travel blog that could make you some money one day. I have...
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TC014 Traveling With Your Camera Phone
Travelogue Creator
Cell phones have many advantages for a world traveler andthe obvious one is size and convenience . When I travel, there certainly is compromise in what I bring and how available that equipment is to capture what I see. A smartphone that fits in your pocket, that you can carry everywhere is a natural choice. They are not that complicated and the results are not bad for a lot of applications. And that’s why everyone is out there are taking selfies and shooting tons of content -- it’s just so darn easy to do. I am not saying it was best quality,...
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TC013 Lighting for the Travel Photographer
Travelogue Creator
Photo light sources on your holidays will be many things, let me briefly cover the basics. In the daytime, the sun would be a traveling photographer's main source of illumination. At night and indoors we encounter many types of artificial lights so even a fire pit could light your shot. You have little control over these light sources so here is how I work with what there is on my vacations. Working with a mix of lighting to get natural, evenly exposed photos takes practice and a little bit of knowhow. Notice how I mentioned natural lighting as the goal. Unless you are going with a freaky...
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TC012 Build Better Travel Slideshows
Travelogue Creator
You are back from your trip and the photos are sitting there in memory on your home computer HD. Make a slideshow! It’s easy and works well to build that travelogue story you have of your favourite holiday adventures. Refrain from showing random shots, or everything you took. Boring! There are many ways to put together a slideshow, from just showing a folder of pix to a full-blown production. (Including beer & popcorn) Otherwise these days it has all gotten so much easier and better in every regard. Anyone can put together a slideshow. It depends how much time, and interest you...
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TC011 Add WOW! to Your Travel Show
Travelogue Creator
You are about to head out the door on a holiday, camera at the ready. So what does one take on a vacation? Well most of us shoot a collection of random photos and videos as we go along over the span of our trip. Sometimes this works and when we arrive home there is a travelogue show we can cobble together, other times there is too much of one day and less of another. What is left to work with could be disjointed and may not produce a smooth coherent travel show. Now you could just shotgun the trip with endless photo/video coverage of places, people and events but that is more work and less...
info_outlineYou booked the trip and now you are dreaming of the adventure and counting the days. Your awesome vacation will have photo opportunities, so you need to bring a camera. Who knows what you might find on your journey. Don't waste those weeks before you leave.
Be prepared for success by doing a bit of planning and maintenance.
There is nothing worse than being on the trip of a lifetime and having your camera fail or run out of memory. I remember climbing to the top of a mountain only to have my film camera exposure meter battery die on me. I had to guess the exposure; I guessed wrong. :^(
Holidays need to be fun and stress free, not disappointing where gear and photo opportunities go wrong. A little pre-planning can put the odds in your favour that you will capture the moment and bring it home to build your future travelogue show!
Do not assume anything! Test your gear a week before you leave.
Here are a few tips to keep your camera(s) rolling and you smiling. There is a bit more to just pack and go, you need to make ready. Let’s break it down into four parts then you can pack and head out:
- Requirements
- Purchase
- Maintenance
- Backup Plan