The Traveling Photographer's Manifesto: A Guide to Connecting with People and Place

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The best travel photos you've ever seen weren't accidents.They’re made by photographers who know something most people don't: The picture is set in motion long before the shutter fires. Before the flight. Before the hotel. Before the light is right.The Traveling Photographer's Manifesto is a field guide for serious amateurs and working photographers who are tired of coming home with technically correct pictures that somehow feel like they’re missing something.Written by a photojournalist with 40 years and 10,000 assignments behind him, this book will reframe your approach to both photography and travel. You’ll learn to see your camera as not just a recording device, but also as your passport to a deeper, more personal travel experience.From David Hobby, founder of Strobist®, the photography education resource that has taught millions of photographers to see and use light.What you'll learn:How to create a self-assignment, to arrive with a story already in motion the moment you get off of a planeHow to build genuine human connection with people who don't speak your language, have no reason to trust you, and will open doors once you've earned itHow to strip your gear bag down to what actually matters and move through a place like you belongHow to read and protect light in-camera, instead of correcting it away in postHow to see composition as architecture, not arrangement, and wait for the moment that makes your frameIn short, how to grow as a thinking photographerThis book will take you on a photo trip to Vietnam. But that's just the vehicle. The principles work in Portugal. In Detroit. In local neighborhoods you've driven past a thousand times without stopping.Fifty-six lessons, from a lifetime behind a camera, across 312 pages. No padding. Actively updated based on reader feedback to stay current."Easily the best photography book I've read on craft, technique — and written with soul.""I read it start to finish in one sitting.""Don't be alarmed at the lack of photos. The lessons are the point."Available in Paperback, Hardcover, and Kindle.