Improving your Travel Photography by Working From a Shot List

Travel photography instructor, author and international guide Ralph Velasco discusses the importance of using a Shot List for creating a varied set of images from any destination. He defines what a shot list is and explain how to effectively develop and use one in order to bring back a more interesting and well-rounded set of photographs from your travels.
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[@roysaswata]

amazing photos .. Brilliant tips..curious whether most of the images were taken with wide/ultra wide !! :)

[@positiveendtimes]

Impressive you can be a pro with so few WOW images

[@Tzadeck]

Well, good travel photos aren't usually so WOW. The more time you put into a photo, the better chance you have of taking an amazing photo. But when you're traveling, you have a limited time at each area and it's not always in ideal lighting conditions. Great landscape photographers, for example, always talk about spending multiple sunrises and sunsets in the same location. If that's the sole reason you traveled somewhere, it's fine to do that, but most of us want to take photos alongside seeing a lot of different places and seeing multiple things per day. So mostly you get good photos, occasionally a great one, and rarely a WOW one, but the experience itself is more enjoyable.

[@AydinProductionsLtd]

Last 15 minutes of video (starting at 1:21:00 ) was the info for new shooters looking to watch this video.

[@ThomasFullSpeed]

thank you for the tip!

[@amourdeparis]

"Non" just means "hat" in Vietnamese. Those pointy hats are called "non la." "La" means leaf. Those hats are made of banana leaves.

[@josephlim2406]

He just showed his snapshots. Not much tips on the topic at hand.

[@NegativeCompensation]

Interesting that there were no DSLRs in the group. I'm totally with you, and while I only travel internationally around a couple of month a year, I too have moved to taking my mirrorless instead of my DSLR (which sits inside a bag in a closet). Taking trains, buses, walking 8+ hours a day in cities, etc. is just not made for the DSLR era any more.

Awesome pictures and very useful tips. You should travel and visit Portugal, especially Oporto city (my city), named the Best Eropean Destination for 3 times, 2012, 2014 e 2017. You will be very welcome.

[@geneherz]

I was a bothered by your decision to take a photo of the saffron sellers face "surreptitiously" when he had apparently said he did not want you to take his picture.

[@DANVIIL]

Virtually no mentioning of how he uses or creates his lists. Fairly ordinary snapshots.

[@purialok]

😮

[@hernanenriquez1804]

Superb video!

[@EdwardFielding]

Good tips!