Travel PhotographyRON MARTINSEN

Gear

Paid Shoot

Everything needed to do the job right

Pleasure Shoot – Alone

As much as you want to carry – you bought, bring it

Business Trip (X-E2 / a6300)

Keep it light unless you are going to take extra days

Family Trip (iPhone & x30)

Point & shoot, Minimal with one zoom, or just phone

Travel – It doesn’t have to be RAW

vs JPEG

Why not both?

JPEG for the snapshots so you can share with friends or family quickly

Use the raw as needed for the wow shots

I do both

Think about cards and storage before travelling

RAW’s are Great Insurance

Correct capture mistakes for exposure, etc…

Single Exposure HDR

Single Exposure HDR

Workflow Tips

My Workflow

Import to Lightroom

Triage

Leverage Collection Sets & Collections

Storytelling images – Lightroom

JPEG if possible, RAW if needed

Portfolio Candidates – Photoshop (sometimes both)

RAW only

Print – 4x6 for All + More for Portfolio

Books vs FotoMagico Slideshows

Triage Tips

Filter by JPEG (if you did both)

Flag any shot that makes you pause - trust your gut

Move quickly and ignore imperfections

Don’t forget you can crop only what you love

Keep technically wrong shots that speak to you

Save only flagged items into a new collection in set

Set rating to 1

Clear flag & repeat

At least three passes

Back to back isn’t always best

Adjustments Before Exporting to

Plug-Ins

Lens Corrections (Profile & Transformations)

Camera Calibration

Alignment – NOT crop

Noise Reduction (If Lightroom Only)

Spot removal

Plug-ins as Layers

Think of each Export with Lightroom Adjustments as a basic layer

Takes space, but so do layers – sometimes it’s still less

Stacking or collections useful to keep edits together

I like ProPhoto RGB color space and TIFF

Finish with a Virtual Copy

Final Edits

Final Crop

Always 2nd to last step

Using multiple Virtual Copies

Different Crops

Lightroom Presets (i.e., Color vs B&W)

Export & Sharpen

Sharpen last and after crop and resize

Using Photoshop or other tool

Export to PSD for Print

Dealing with CrowdsTIPS & TRICKS

Blur the crowd using long exposure

Isolate your subject

Embrace The Crowd

Be Patient

Think Different

Other Tricksfor Dealing with People

Multiple Shots

Same concept as a pano, except tripod head doesn’t move

Make sure each frame has part of the scene unobstructed

Manual aperture, shutter speed, white balance, ISO, etc…

Must match first shot

Erase Them

Content Aware Fill / Patch

Clone

Heal

TipsEnhancing Shots with Perfectly Clear

Don’t think too hard

Take the shot

Capture the memory

Experiment after

Make your own tripod

Pay Attention to the Details

Experiment with Black & White

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Q&A