Avalaible Light and Travel photography

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I organize photo tours and, in travel photography  I am usually faced with a scenario that is hardly controllable: people are what they  are and objects  are where they are.... Finally,  light is where it is.

Published in LSR Magazine, USA

When you work in  a studio, you control the variety, intensity and origin of light; when on a photo tour, your chances are limited to choosing, within a narrow margin of possibilities, the best time to be at the location and placing  characters and objects according to the scenario and the existing light.

Picture taken at Ethiopia, during a Nomad Xpedition photo tour

On a Nomad Xpedition photo tour when my customers  find themselves in a field in Tuscany , the Malecon of Havana or among the members of a tribe in Ethiopia, they  can normally only count on their  camera and little else.

They  usually do not carry reflectors, or large flashes. The only advantage they  can have at the time of taking a decent photograph is to understand how light works and, above all, how the camera “sees” light. While landscape photographers often repeat their photographs on several consecutive days at the same location, this is a luxury you can rarely afford in travel photography.

The risks of Travel Photography (Part I)

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The risks are not those we are told about: no tiger will devour us and it is unlikely that we will be speared by a savage. A “savage” who, by the way, no longer uses a spear, but a “Kalashnikov”, a much cleaner and safer method of killing, something else that the consumer society has brought with it.

Sometimes the risks come from drinking tea in cups of dubious aspect - to put it elegantly- and of a disquieting color. At other times they come from getting “Holy Water” from the Ganges in the face. But most times, they come from using rusty taxis that have never had a technical inspection as transportation.

On this trip I was lucky: I wasn't required to ingest “Prasat” (the sweet food that you get at the temples as the highest blessing of all), nor to share my plate with the workers at the salt mines (it is interesting to see the level of hygiene of crockery at some places in this part of the world).

I have decided to draw up a list of potential risk factors for travelers/photographers, all of them undoubtedly of great interest to insurance companies. Their order does not imply a risk hierarchy...

Los riesgos de la fotografía de viaje

Los riesgos de la fotografía de viaje

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Fotografiando en el Ganges. Varanasi.

La contaminación de las aguas del río sagrado es alarmante.  El gran misterio es ver cómo los barqueros extienden la mano para llevarse el agua a la boca mientras reman o cómo la gente se baña, día trás día.

Lo cierto es que algunos sobrevivimos al contacto a pesar de la polución.

Aquí os remito a un interesante artículo sobre las aguas del Ganges, en El País ... ¡Publicado en 2009!

¿Es esto Fotografía de viaje? Is this Travel photography?

Harry Fisch. Swiss Banker at the beach...

Esta fotografía la tomé en un viaje familiar. ¿Es fotografía de viaje ? ¿Cuanta distancia hay que recorrer para viajar?

I took this one during a family trip. Will you call it "Travel Photography? Which is the needed distance you need to cover to consider it a trip?

 ¿Qué es un viaje? ¿La separación de lo cotidiano? ¿La visión de otra realidad?

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Entrevista de Harry Fisch en Encuadre Global

Entrevista en Encuadre Global.

 
La fantástica revista de viaje y fotografía, Encuadre Global,  me ha realizado una entrevista excesivamente amable. Casi no me reconozco... ¡En fín!, me ha gustado tanto y me he visto tan alto y con tanto pelo, que no resisto difundirla a los cuatro vientos...Lo que más me gusta es ser el tercer entrevistado detrás de referencias y referentes para mí de la fotografia como son mi admirado Tino Soriano y Gervasio Sánchez. 



Os la transcribo a continuación:

 " Hemos tenido el privilegio de intercambiar impresiones con Harry Fisch, fundador de Nomad Expediciones Fotográficas. Español a pesar del nombre, políglota, originalmente abogado de formación y empresario, fotógrafo desde hace más años de los que querría recordar, ha realizado viajes fotográficos a más de 27 países especializándose en Asia y, entre otros destinos, Tailandia, Camboya, Laos, Vietnam, Nepal e India.
De su carrera profesional destacaríamos muchas cosas, pero sobre todo queremos hacer especial hincapié en que en este año 2013 ha sido seleccionado como finalista en los Sony World Photo Awards entre más de 46.000 participantes de 140 países. En 2012 fue el ganador del National Geographic Photo en la sección “Places”, premio que, por cierto, le fue retirado posteriormente por razones técnicas. Fisch fue seleccionado en 2010 por Photoespaña – posiblemente el más prestigioso evento fotográfico español – en su sección “Descubrimientos”.

Travel Photography, the seven rules to take goog blurred pictures

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Travel Photography: The 7 Rules to Take Good Blurred Pictures

 

Harry Fisch. – Bath in the Ganges at night

(Publicado en la revista USA SLR LOUNGE)

Taken on occasion of a Nomad PhotoXpedition Workshop in  Varanasi, at 5 a.m., this photograph manages to reflect the magical moment of bathing on the banks of the Ganges. Being obsessed with definition and light might have spoiled such an extraordinary shot. Beyond aesthetics and composition, common to every photographic activity, technique plays an important role in this kind of pictures.

Rule # 1: There Are No Rules

Creativity rules, actually. There are photographers such as Antoine D'Agata who turn blurry photographs into a form of expression, almost the author's signature.

Others like Mc Curry use it only in specific situations to signal movement. The appropriate speed doesn’t actually exist, unless you can repeat exactly the same conditions

Tips and Secrets of a Travel Photography from Harry Fisch

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Travel photography often requires efforts and planning, in addition to technique.

I am going to share with you some of the techniques for approaching people I have developed after years of experience of taking photographs  with Nomad Photo Xpedition at the most remote locations around the world.

It took me three two-hour sessions at 5:50 am on the banks of the Ganges at Varanasi to make a Sony World Photo Awards finalist. In midst of the mud, of the fog and of masses of pilgrims...

Whenever I organize a photographic journey with Nomad Photo Xpedition for my clients, I reserve about five days, at the end, for my own photographic work.

On such a trip, a small oversight or lack of planning can ruin much of the adventure. The loss of a battery charger has spoiled the day for more than one photographer who finds himself just somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Not to mention shattered memory cards or the worst of all, a broken camera.
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Harry Fisch: How to find perfect composition for your street photography

Published in Digital Camera World  UK.

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A good travel photographer is, above all, an observer. In my experience, the ability to pre-visualise an image is the key to taking good photographs.

Capturing a great shot is not just a question of looking, but also of paying attention to all the details that might somehow influence the end result: light, shape, colours and hues of the objects and the people in front of the lens.
In my street photography, I take a brief moment to take in peoples’ body language and the dynamics of their every day life in the street. Interpreting and anticipating the scene in front of me helps me to find an appropriate focus to my images.