Workshops, commercial and editorial jobs, and travel assignments often take me to places like Vietnam, India, Jordan, Bhutan with camera equipment in tow. Depending on the assignment, I take as much or as little equipment as I need, but my packing procedure is the same for each photo trip. Packing for an overseas photo trip […]
Author: alohal
Aloha Lavina is an Asia based photographer and writer whose photographs and writing have appeared in CNNTravel, Canon PhotoYou Magazine, Seventeen magazine, The Korea Times, and several books. You can see her work at her website and follow her on her blog.
When people mention Thailand, some of the images that come to mind are the postcard photos of beaches, the water festival ‘Songkran,’ or their favorite Thai food. For a photographer, Thailand has a lot to offer. If you are ever in Bangkok for a few days, one of the places you just have to shoot […]
“Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.” When he said this, Charles Baudelaire was talking about how photography seems to be a way to copy nature and present it as an archive of how we live. Baudelaire talked about photography as documentation and nothing more. He relegated its usefulness and […]
One of the most important things we have to remember if we want to stay inspired in photography is to give ourselves photo projects. Engaging in a photo project is a lot of fun and a lot of learning. A couple of weeks ago, a reader asked us how we’d go about shooting martial arts. […]
Like everything in photography, shooting in color is a decision. That sounds weird, right? After all, the world is in Technicolor and we can’t really turn all the color off. Color has emotional content. We use it a lot in the ways we express our feelings. “Red as a beet” for both embarrassment and anger. […]
The impressionist painters have taught us that it doesn’t take a whole lot of detail to suggest meaning in an image; so it is with photography. Instead of snapping what is literally in front of us, we can capture in a photo the images we have in our minds. With the right content, lighting, and […]
