Blogging Abroad

After weeks of looking around for the perftect point and shoot camera I found it! Countless hours were spend over at dpreview.com tallying up the pros and cons of the small digital camera heat. One camera stood out from the beginning due to a friend’s recommendation, the Fuji Film F30.

The F30 is about the size of a deck of cards, and it packs plenty of tricks. This 6.3 mega pixel camera has a wolloping 3200 iso level. The higher the iso level the better and more natural your low light shots come out. I am now the proud owner of the F30 and bring it with me everywhere.

This camera is the size where you can put it in your pocket and not miss any shots. The pics that I’ve taken are miles and miles better than my two year old kodak easyshare camera. If you are in the market for a point and shoot for your trip save yourself the time of researching and go snap this bad boy up!

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I just came across this site with tons of tips and lessons on photography. Anyone can use these to make their travel blog just a little bit better!

http://www.dg28.com/technique.html

Check it out and let me know what you think!

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Travel blogging has become an addiction shared by backpackers around the globe and those who digest these blogs on a daily basis. Blogging with excellent descriptive writing is a lure that interests me on different travel blogs over and over again. Photo blogging takes it a step further and keeps me coming back again and again.

Photo blogging backpackers have that special sauce that makes any backpacker blog become a hit with everyone who reads it. Travel photos take you to that location and let your mind run wild with excitement and aww.

I am always adding new photo blogging backpackers to my blogging abroad directory so you who love the photo blogs can check out photos that are as exotic as their locations.

For a ever growing list of travel photo blogs check out our list of photo blogging backpackers. Feel free to add your own travel photo blog with our 30 second sign up that will get you more readers!

Casey

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So you’re going on a trip and you’ve cleaned and charged your digital camera for the journey. You are going to snap shots of the sights of a new world. A digital camera’s storage card can only hold so many photos, so where are you going to store all those new shots? Luckily in this wonderful tech age we live in there is solutions to your photo storage problem.

• First and probably the most obvious is a laptop computer.

There are is an abundance of good, small, portable laptops out in the market right now, such as apple’s new macbook or the dell xps 1210. There are pros and cons of having a laptop while traveling though. Pros it is a portable work station that you can use to communicate, blog, edit your photos, and keep up on whats happening in the world. Cons it is something that will make even non criminals turn to theft, laptops are highly sought after by everyone so you have to take extra security measures. If that laptop gets stolen, your precious photos go with it, unless you back them up on CD or DVD R’s.

• The next option is online photo hosting solutions such as Flickr. With these online storage services you can upload your images right to the site, you can even send your link to family, friends and blog readers so they can view your photos. This is an awesome, amazing, fantastic photo storing solution, IF you have high speed internet access. If on the other hand you are in a place with a 14.4 dial up modem, you might end up snapping and smashing the computer you are on and end up in a third world jail. No one wants you to end up in a jail cell so keep this as a back up option!

• Some countries have capitalized on the amount of travelers with digital cameras and opened up shops that allow you to upload and burn your travel photo’s to a CD or DVD for a few bucks. This is an excellent option and I highly recommend it as long as you aren’t the type that loses CD’s or DVD’s!

• And finally, one other option I have read about but have not yet had the opportunity to try is the digital camera to ipod connecter.




Ahh the ipod, is there anything this little electronic super hero can’t do? Basically from my understanding you hook up your camera cable to the adaptor that plugs in your ipod and hit a few buttons and badda bing your ipod now is holding your photos. For users with a large capacity ipod this would be my ultimate recommendation!

Happy snapping and saving your photos! If you have any travel photo’s I would love to see them so feel more than welcome to send your travel photo links to me so I can check them out!

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Photography while traveling tells the story of your travels a thousand words at a time. It can also bring to life a person you met or a sight you saw. Make sure you tell the story that is true, and don’t leave out anything. This article from Digital Photography School helps you do this.

Today I want to continue with the themes of Travel Photography and adding Variety to your Shots in a post with one on mixing up your shots when you travel.

I recently had a friend take me through the shots that they took on their latest trip away (all 600 of them) and was amazed to see how many of his shots were of largely the same thing - buildings. Not only that all the buildings were photographed in much the same way in terms of framing and composition.

Now to give him credit - he had been traveling in Europe where there are some marvelous examples of architecture, but I came away from the experience of viewing his shots wondering a few questions that I would have thought his photos might have answered like:

• Who did you travel with?
• Where did you stay?
• What did you eat?
• Who did you meet? etc

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Awesome blog post from the digital photography school. Have you ever wondered how to create breathe taking sunrise and sunset photos? Well look no further Blogging Abroad found this informative post for you:

No good travel photo album is complete without the token sunrise or sunset picture!’

This was the comment of a friend who recently took me through some photos from his recent trip overseas. He obviously strongly believed in the above mantra because there were ALOT of sunset shots in his album - but unfortunately most of them looked very similar to one another and while they were beautiful, they didn’t really end up being the highlight shots he’d anticipated them to be.

Here are a few tips for making sunrise and sunset shots the best that they can be:

Click here to read the article

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