subject: Scenery, Wildlife: Photography Holidays Booked With A Professional Guide [print this page] Have you ever toured scenic parts of the world, snapping pictures like mad, only to come home with a load of dud shots? Frustrating as it is to try and capture the image in your mind, there are those with keen eyes who can help you on your way. Photography holidays booked with a professional guide may give you the edge when it comes to honing your skills.
Such tours offer particular advantages over regular holidays without a photographic guide. Staff may know the best positioning or light for certain shots. They even recognize places to stop and those to avoid. Still other tours pair small groups with a professional photographer for extended lessons with computer programs for use when enhancing or presenting digital images.
Namibia, Botswana and Tanzania are among the most sought after locations in Africa for snapping exciting pictures of wildlife and exotic scenery. Namibia, for example, offers tours that take guests through Namib-Naukluft National Park plus a ghost town and dune, all of which allow for practise with light and shade and how to breathe life into an unmoving subject. Explore desert, camp at Fish River Canyon, or wander a giant aloe forest before stopping in a village centre to shop and experience some of the culture.
Explore a spectacular giant aloe forest in Namibia. Camp out at Fish River Canyon or examine a ghost town. Capture the coexistence of wildlife and unforgiving desert from sandy dunes to Namib-Naukluft National Park. Guides will help you get close enough to get the pulse of your subject, helping you bring it to life.
In Tanzania embark on an exciting tour of the Ngorongoro Crater and take on the challenge of capturing at least some of what you feel in this atmospheric setting. Learn not just how to compose a good photo, but to add some of yourself to it. Meet some of the friendly Maasai, though avoid meeting any of the local lions if you can. They are one good reason for a zoom lens.
Europe is no slouch when it comes to scenic beauty. Though their cities can be as sprawling and thick with smog and cars, their natural beauty is as worthy of photographic effort as any African setting. Consider Camarque in southern France. Here you will admire the famous wild white horses that splash their hooves along the edges of the Mediterranean Sea. Feel inspired by their grace and freedom. Train your lens on stilt fishing huts and wooden boats amid marshland in Gironde.
Ah, the gondolas of Venice, its historic buildings: who can forget this Italian city? Explore side streets and landmarks such as the Bridge of Sighs and the colorful houses of fishermen. Head north to Iceland for a tour by four by four to examine volcanic beaches, ice flows and practice snapping effective images by different qualities of natural light. Consider China, too, also with a photographer. Here you can mark contrasts between ancient temples and modern cities. Zoom in on terraced rice fields full of laborers and the elegant flow of river through mountain.
Of course, Australia and New Zealand offer unique creative palettes to the photographer. Australia is a vast landscape unique in all the world with many types of wildlife that live nowhere else. There is a majesty in the empty harshness that inspires. New Zealand of course was made famous by the Lord Of The Rings movies and is wild and rugged; it is approximately the same size as the United Kingdom in land area, yet has a population of only 4 million. Solitude can be easily found - a rare pleasure in today's busy world - and a professional guide can take you to places and people that you would struggle to find alone.
Add a further educational element to your holiday. Since experts travel along side you, they can share their expertise with digital photography. This includes how to make the most of your computer software to produce great work, whether you are a beginner or an expert.
