The Lifestyle Jan - Feb 2023

TRAVEL
Photography
With January the busiest month of the year for booking holidays,
Fiona Turnbull, co-owner of Lacock Photography, gives her top tips for travel
photography to help you take the very best holiday snaps in 2023
One of the joys of travel is
observing the differences in
the places we visit
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I always ask my students what their
motivation is for coming on a course,
and a lot of the time people say
they’d like to improve their travel
photography, in preparation for an
upcoming trip. So, if you’ve got an
exciting excursion on the cards,
do get in touch with us and we can
recommend a workshop that will
best suit you! In the meantime, here
are a few of my top tips for travel
photography to get you in the holiday
mood!
CAMERA
EQUIPMENT
Let’s start with some practical advice.
First of all, you don’t need a digital
camera to take stand-out holiday
shots; photography is really not about
having the best, most expensive
equipment! So if you have a decent
camera on your phone, don’t be
afraid to use it! However, if you do
have a digital camera and don’t mind
carrying it around with you, your
vacation snaps will be better quality,
and therefore more likely to stand
the test of time. When I’m on holiday,
I always pack my digital camera
but only take one lens (my 24mm-
105mm kit lens), as I don’t want to
be overloaded with equipment. The
24mm-105mm lens enables me to
take a great variety of images, it
works well with landscapes, portraits
and gives me a bit of a telephoto
which helps with close up images.
ALTERNATIVE
POSTCARD SHOT
When my daughter went on a trip of
a lifetime to Egypt a few years ago,
she asked my advice on getting
the ultimate photograph of the
pyramids. I suggested that whenever