Ron Martinsen of ronmartblog.com shares some of his tips and tricks for travel photography.

1. Travel Photography
RON MARTINSEN

2. Gear
 Paid Shoot
 Everything needed to do the job right
 Pleasure Shoot – Alone
 As much as you want to carry – you bought, bring it
 Business Trip (X-E2 / a6300)
 Keep it light unless you are going to take extra days
 Family Trip (iPhone & x30)
 Point & shoot, Minimal with one zoom, or just phone

3. Travel – It doesn’t have to be RAW vs
JPEG
 Why not both?
 JPEG for the snapshots so you can share with friends or family quickly
 Use the raw as needed for the wow shots
 I do both
 Think about cards and storage before travelling

4. RAW’s are Great Insurance
 Correct capture mistakes for exposure, etc…
 Single Exposure HDR

5. Single Exposure HDR

6. Workflow Tips

7. My Workflow
 Import to Lightroom
 Triage
 Leverage Collection Sets & Collections
 Storytelling images – Lightroom
 JPEG if possible, RAW if needed
 Portfolio Candidates – Photoshop (sometimes both)
 RAW only
 Print – 4x6 for All + More for Portfolio
 Books vs FotoMagico Slideshows

8. Triage Tips
 Filter by JPEG (if you did both)
 Flag any shot that makes you pause - trust your gut
 Move quickly and ignore imperfections
 Don’t forget you can crop only what you love
 Keep technically wrong shots that speak to you
 Save only flagged items into a new collection in set
 Set rating to 1
 Clear flag & repeat
 At least three passes
 Back to back isn’t always best

9. Adjustments Before Exporting to Plug-
Ins
 Lens Corrections (Profile & Transformations)
 Camera Calibration
 Alignment – NOT crop
 Noise Reduction (If Lightroom Only)
 Spot removal

10. Plug-ins as Layers
 Think of each Export with Lightroom Adjustments as a basic layer
 Takes space, but so do layers – sometimes it’s still less
 Stacking or collections useful to keep edits together
 I like ProPhoto RGB color space and TIFF

11. Finish with a Virtual Copy
 Final Edits
 Final Crop
 Always 2nd to last step
 Using multiple Virtual Copies
 Different Crops
 Lightroom Presets (i.e., Color vs B&W)
 Export & Sharpen
 Sharpen last and after crop and resize
 Using Photoshop or other tool
 Export to PSD for Print

12. Dealing with Crowds
TIPS & TRICKS

13. Blur the crowd using long exposure

14. Isolate your subject

15. Embrace The Crowd

16. Be Patient

17. Think Different

18. Other Tricks
for Dealing with People
 Multiple Shots
 Same concept as a pano, except tripod head doesn’t move
 Make sure each frame has part of the scene unobstructed
 Manual aperture, shutter speed, white balance, ISO, etc…
 Must match first shot
 Erase Them
 Content Aware Fill / Patch
 Clone
 Heal

19. Tips
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20. Don’t think too hard
 Take the shot
 Capture the memory
 Experiment after

21. Make your own tripod

22. Pay Attention to the Details

23. Experiment with Black & White

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25. Q&A