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Reader Question: Which exposure mode should I use with my camera? What’s the difference between “Auto” and “A”?
Reader Question: What is meant by good composition and how do I achieve it?
Reader question:
Is it true that a great landscape image will almost always be better if there’s a human presence in it?
My answer:
It depends on the intended use of the picture.
As a photographer and photo editor for National Geographic Traveler, people often ask me how I approach strangers when I want to take their picture — especially when there’s a language barrier. Here are my thoughts.
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National Geographic Traveler’s Senior Photo Editor, Dan Westergren, has the distinct pleasure (and sometimes pain) of choosing which photographs run in the magazine. The award-winning photographers assigned to our stories come back from the field with such a rich variety of images that it can be hard, if not impossible, to make the final cut.
So we asked Dan to make an even tougher call: out of all the photos that ran in every single issue of Traveler this year, which ten were his favorites and why?
In the age of Instagram, everyone’s a photographer. But a few simple tricks still make snapshots actually worth showing off. National Geographic Traveler’s senior photo editor Dan Westergren offers his top three tips for shooting in the field.
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Who doesn’t want to be a travel photographer and earn their keep by exploring the world and capturing its essence for the rest of us to see? I know I do.
I was lucky enough to sit in on one of Traveler’s photo seminars earlier this month, led by award-winning photographer Jim Richardson and the magazine’s senior photo editor Dan Westergren. Though Jim and Dan believe in the importance of technique, they stressed that “the secret is in how you look at the world, not in how you turn the dials on the camera.”
Here are a few of Jim and Dan’s tips on how to get into the right frame of mind when you’re making pictures.
Kodachrome Tourism
Posted by Marilyn Terrell on June 25, 2009 A new exhibit opened today in the National Geographic Museum here in DC at the National Geographic Society headquarters. It’s called “Kodachrome Culture: The American Tourist in Europe” and it features wonderfully retro travel images from the pages National Geographic magazine. Here’s one of my favorites, a photo of people lounging on the rocky beach…
The Legend of Kodachrome Flat
Posted by Dan Westergren on June 24, 2009 Ever since Monday’s announcement by Kodak that they’re discontinuing production of Kodachrome film, professional and amateur photographers this week have been busy discussing its demise. Kodachrome was known for its rich color saturation and was widely used by National Geographic photographers in the first decades that the magazine printed in color. In fact, it was…
Behind the Lens: Photo Tips from Dan
Posted by it on March 13, 2008 Senior Photo Editor Dan Westergren oversees the photographic vision of Traveler magazine, but when he himself is taking the shots, it’s often hard for him to know what will work best. We asked Dan to offer up some blog-worthy tutorials, and are already making the most of his advice. Sometimes the best photo is the…
