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By Darren Stones

"You can improve your travel photography knowledge and skills by participating in my travel photography workshops. Learn how to research, plan, and undertake travel photography in the field. Designed to be informative, interactive, practical, and fun, the workshops will inspire your creativity to make better travel photographs." - Darren Stones

How to shoot a paraglider and spectators in one shot

Travel Photography - Advice and Tips

By Darren Stones

One of the fascinating aspects of travel photography is photographing people watching action. It's a good idea to keep looking at the crowd and see how you can work spectators into your action shots.

Paragliding is not the easiest sports to combine the action and spectators, but it can be done with an appropriate selection of lens and vantage point.

Near Bells Beach in Victoria, there is an excellent lookout for spectators to view paragliding. It's a brilliant spectacle to see the paragliders flying over the heads of onlookers on a sunny day, and the use of a wide-angle lens provides the photographer the chance to get up close to the spectators and photograph them and a paraglider.

Travel Photography Tip: Put a wide-angle lens on your camera, get in close to the spectators, and capture them watching the action. It makes for interesting people shots.

Paragliding at Torquay by Darren Stones

Photograph details:
Camera: Canon EOS 20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Lens @ 10mm
Filter: Polariser
Exposure: f/8, 1/640sec, ISO-400, RAW

Gloomy weather photography at Port Campbell National Park

Travel Photography - Advice and Tips

By Darren Stones

Gloomy weather provides landscape photographers the opportunity to get creative. With a wide-angle lens, you can create drama in your landscape scenes by including plenty of foreground interest and a threatening sky.

This image taken in the Port Campbell National Park in Victoria was made using those exact principles.

Travel Photography Tip: Shoot wide when it's gloomy. Use a wide-angle lens.

Port Campbell National Park by Darren Stones

Photograph details:
Camera: Canon EOS 20D Body
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Lens @ 10mm
Filter: Lee Graduated Neutral Density .9ND G S
Exposure: f/14, 1/15sec, ISO-100, RAW
Other: Manfrotto 190PROB Tripod, Canon Remote Switch RS-80N3