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The Travel Photographer’s Way
A ground-breaking practical photography book considers not just how to get better images, but also why and when we should take them. It guides the reader to become a more confident and reflective travel photographer, as well as covering the technical know-how they will need.
Taking a journey around the seven continents, each chapter focuses on the main areas of travel imagery, from people and landscape to architecture and adventure. Bite-size advice on how to get the best from your camera is contextualized throughout the The Travel Photographer's Way so you learn as you go.
Travel photography has exploded across the world thanks to the huge leap in quality of both mobile phone cameras and bridge cameras, as well as the ease of public posting on social media. Award-winning travel photographer Nori Jemil has been riding the wave of these advances and has created a 'how to' guide with a difference.
Her book is not an attempt to replicate other reference works on the subject, top-loading technical information and addressing an expert reader. Nor does it focus on gadgetry - the proliferation of new hardware means camera-based information can become obsolete quite quickly. Instead it is a travel companion, a book that can be read for the prose and stories, as well as the information it contains.
It covers the main elements of travel photography in eleven sections, including advice from some of the best travel photographers working around the world.
Technical information is embedded, given in the context of each shot, but personal travel stories are at the heart of every chapter, linked to a key travel image which also gives the full camera settings and detail of how and why it was taken.
Taking a journey around the seven continents, each chapter focuses on the main areas of travel imagery, from people and landscape to architecture and adventure. Bite-size advice on how to get the best from your camera is contextualized throughout the The Travel Photographer's Way so you learn as you go.
Travel photography has exploded across the world thanks to the huge leap in quality of both mobile phone cameras and bridge cameras, as well as the ease of public posting on social media. Award-winning travel photographer Nori Jemil has been riding the wave of these advances and has created a 'how to' guide with a difference.
Her book is not an attempt to replicate other reference works on the subject, top-loading technical information and addressing an expert reader. Nor does it focus on gadgetry - the proliferation of new hardware means camera-based information can become obsolete quite quickly. Instead it is a travel companion, a book that can be read for the prose and stories, as well as the information it contains.
It covers the main elements of travel photography in eleven sections, including advice from some of the best travel photographers working around the world.
Technical information is embedded, given in the context of each shot, but personal travel stories are at the heart of every chapter, linked to a key travel image which also gives the full camera settings and detail of how and why it was taken.
- GenresPhotography
431 pages, Paperback
Published October 15, 2021
About the author
Nori Jemil
1 book1 followerAward-winning photographer - writer & videographer - Nat Geo Traveller, Lonely Planet... Public speaking & tours.
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February 28, 2024
La autora repasa todo el proceso de un viaje fotográfico, desde la preparación y documentación previas, hasta el proceso de selección de cara a publicar un libro o reportaje. El grueso del libro son consejos sobre cada estilo de fotografía, siempre desde las vivencias personales de la autora a lo largo y ancho del mundo. Lo más interesante, quizás, son las entrevistas con otros fotógrafos, por aquello de tener otras perspectivas.
September 23, 2022
I am by no means a professional photographer, and I've only recently been getting into photography. So my perspective may be wildly different from that of a professional.
This was a fun read. The book is packed with practical tips and ideas for what kinds of photos one might be able to take during travels. The book isn't technical but reads more like a commentary on how you should behave as a travel photographer. As someone who has never done travel photography, it was an interesting perspective.
The author is a professional travel photographer and publishes photo stories for professional travel magazines. I had never even considered what goes into that, and this book opened my eyes to everything that goes into a trip like that. From shot lists to itineraries focused around lighting conditions to previsualizing the story you want to tell. My vacation trips are much less impressive than voyages to Antarctica, but I feel inspired to make my own photo story the next time I go on a trip.
Overall, this book was a fun read, and it opened my eyes to what it means to be a travel photographer -- most things I had never even considered. I will revisit the book in the future for photo ideas and other tips. I couldn't really connect with the writing style, and some of the themes/chapters didn't really resonate with me. I can't say I enjoyed this book, but I'm sure it will come in handy in the future.
This was a fun read. The book is packed with practical tips and ideas for what kinds of photos one might be able to take during travels. The book isn't technical but reads more like a commentary on how you should behave as a travel photographer. As someone who has never done travel photography, it was an interesting perspective.
The author is a professional travel photographer and publishes photo stories for professional travel magazines. I had never even considered what goes into that, and this book opened my eyes to everything that goes into a trip like that. From shot lists to itineraries focused around lighting conditions to previsualizing the story you want to tell. My vacation trips are much less impressive than voyages to Antarctica, but I feel inspired to make my own photo story the next time I go on a trip.
Overall, this book was a fun read, and it opened my eyes to what it means to be a travel photographer -- most things I had never even considered. I will revisit the book in the future for photo ideas and other tips. I couldn't really connect with the writing style, and some of the themes/chapters didn't really resonate with me. I can't say I enjoyed this book, but I'm sure it will come in handy in the future.
April 17, 2024
Over the years I’ve read through a succession of books on travel photography. This one by Nori Jemil stands out in a few ways. For one, while a lot of books first walk readers through the technical basics of photography in general like aperture, shutter speed, etc., Jemil assumes that the reader can get that elsewhere, and thus the book focuses on real travel-specific guidance.
The book is divided into thematic sections, and in each the example photographs are taken from a specific region of the world, lending some unity to the chapter: people; landscapes; wildlife; street photography; action and adventure; food and markets; and wild places. There is good advice here on how to interact with local people to avoid offending them, win trust, and get a more relaxed portrait. The chapter on street photography has a few cool tips for both getting better photos and not creeping passersby out.
In spite of its strengths, the book has enough weaknesses that I cannot give it more than an average rating. There is some obvious padding. The author frequently refers to her colleagues in the professional travel-photography world and links to their web presence, but the cynic in me wonders if she is simply trying to use this book to help drum up business for them.
The book is divided into thematic sections, and in each the example photographs are taken from a specific region of the world, lending some unity to the chapter: people; landscapes; wildlife; street photography; action and adventure; food and markets; and wild places. There is good advice here on how to interact with local people to avoid offending them, win trust, and get a more relaxed portrait. The chapter on street photography has a few cool tips for both getting better photos and not creeping passersby out.
In spite of its strengths, the book has enough weaknesses that I cannot give it more than an average rating. There is some obvious padding. The author frequently refers to her colleagues in the professional travel-photography world and links to their web presence, but the cynic in me wonders if she is simply trying to use this book to help drum up business for them.
April 27, 2022
This is exactly the type of book I've been looking for as a food and travel journalist early-ish in my career. It's highly readable and doesn't get too bogged down with tech talk—but there's enough to ensure a comprehensive understanding and to, you know, actually learn something. There's as much emphasis on *why* a photo should be taken in the first place (and how to do so respectfully) as there is on strategy. I love the different sections of the book and the advice on how to put it all together once the trip is over. And I guess this might be standard in photography books, but I appreciate how each photo is captioned with lens/aperature/f-stop/shutter/ISO specs. Can't recommend this one enough!
February 16, 2026
Great book for those aspiring to be (professional) travel photographers. Nice emphasis on telling a story, respecting the environment, putting in the work to prepare, etc. But I would have liked to see more for people using smart phones who aren’t professionals and don’t necessarily want to be professionals… who just love travel and want to take better, more thoughtful photos.
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