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You have a mobile phone with thousands of megapixels, but do you know how to take good photos of your trips?

2023-03-29T10:54:57.875Z


Professional photographers Tino Soriano, David de la Iglesia, Iván González and Javier Martínez Morán explain the techniques to get better images with the camera or smartphone


Travel and document it.

That has been the passion of not a few travelers throughout history.

In the era of analog photography, that noble intention meant having more or less expensive and heavy equipment and some notions of photography.

Concepts such as lighting, composition, focal length, depth of field, white balance or ISO were within the reach of only the initiated.

The rest were content to carry the Kodak Instamatic or buy postcards.

But the arrival of

smartphones

democratized and popularized the image.

Now we all carry a camera in our pocket, of quality sometimes even higher than those heavy SLRs.

We shoot compulsively —because, furthermore, there is no longer the cost of developing a reel— and we do not see a show, enjoy a sunset or tour a city if it is not through the screen of our phone.

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The result: millions and millions of bad photos occupying millions and millions of gigabytes on our hard drives for nothing!

How can you commit the sacrilege of photographing a sunset with a flash or trying to capture the magic of a landscape at two in the afternoon on an August day?

Please, a call to the educational authorities.

Now that we are all photographers and video directors: couldn't you eliminate some absurd subject that will be useless in life and include in the academic curriculum another more useful in these times called "Learn to use your camera well? mobile"?

For this reason, until this arrives —which it will not arrive— I find collections of practical books very useful, such as PhotoClub, from the Anaya publishing house, which dedicates entire titles to basic aspects of image-taking, written by some of the best active Spanish photographers. .

Always with a multitude of practical examples and easy-to-understand advice for those who want to get started in the wonderful world of traveling and documenting it.

Here are some of them:

'The colors and you.

Understanding colors and emotions in photography', by Tino Soriano

Tino Soriano is one of the best contemporary Spanish photographers.

A master in the use of light and color, he dedicates a good part of his work to documentary, humanist and travel photography.

A regular contributor to

National Geographic

, in this book he teaches to understand how we perceive colors, the importance of a correct choice of color temperature and white balance, curiosities of each of the basic colors and how to incorporate them into your travel narrative.

In the same collection he has another essential title:

The secrets of travel photography

.

Anaya 2021, 272 pages.

On paper, 30.95 euros.

'The adventure of landscape photography', by David de la Iglesia

If there is an object of desire in travel photography, it is the landscape.

But capturing a good landscape is very difficult, in fact it is perhaps one of the most complex disciplines of photography.

It is not enough to just pick up the camera and shoot.

You have to look for the light, the framing, use the lens that each moment requires... This work by this image professional is about all this, and much more, who has been documenting the world for many years and publishing it in books and on his social networks. .

Anaya 2022, 280 pages.

On paper, 29.95 euros;

in ePub, 14.99 euros.

'Macro photography.

Welcome to the microworld!', by Iván González

For many travelers and nature lovers, beauty is in the small.

They are the fans of macro photography, that specialty that consists of seeing —and documenting— what others do not see.

Iván González, who in addition to being a photographer is a forestry engineer, specialized in macrophotography of insects and plants.

Another branch of the image that requires very specific equipment and very specific knowledge about, for example, lighting, focus or image stabilization.

This book is about all of this.

Anaya 2023, 320 pages.

On paper, 29.95 euros.

'Light in landscape photography: From dawn to sunset', by Javier Martínez Morán

It is said that if there is a complex specialty of travel photography it is the landscape.

So much so that the PhotoClub collection decided to dedicate an entire 320-page title just to how to work light in these types of shots.

If photography is "the art of light", at no time does this phrase become more truthful than when it comes to capturing nature.

The same frame is completely different if you shoot at dawn or at noon, in summer or in autumn, on a cloudy day or on a sunny day.

This work written by Javier Martínez Morán, a multi-award-winning author specializing in travel photography, astronomy and architecture, deals with all of this.

Anaya 2022, 320 pages.

On paper, 28.50 euros;

in ePub, 14.99 euros.

Other useful titles from Anaya's PhotoClub collection for a traveler are:

The photographic composition.

Eye, mind and geometry

, by Consuelo Cabiedes;

The portrait.

Lighting techniques

, by Antonio Garci;

The art of documentary photography

, by Javier Sánchez-Monge Escardó;

and

mobile photography.

Vision and photographic technique

, by Rodrigo Rivas

.

You can also follow Paco Nadal on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter.

And listen to him every Friday, at 7:00 p.m., with Carles Francino in 'La Ventana', on Cadena SER.

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Source: elparis

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