MPB: Traveling Tips for Photography

Hey, what's up guys? Professional outdoor photographer David Johnson here for Outdoor Photography Guide, and in this video I wanna talk to you about what to know when traveling because there are important things to know when you're traveling, flying on airplanes with your camera gear. Number one, I just quickly want to hit on organization. I like to use one bag when traveling, so I'm not checking bags and possibly getting those lost. I put all my clothes, try to get them in these little packing cubes, and fit them in my backpack with my camera gear.

Now, we're here to talk about photography, not clothes, so let's get to my camera bag. One thing that I always love to do inside of my bag is use one of these packing cubes. I like to have a small one because it carries two lenses, which I'll get to in just a second and also a camera in there. Now, the two lenses that I like to use are one wide angle lens and one telephoto lens. Now, they do make lenses that are kind of all in one lenses that I do think are great for travel, but if you have something like this, this is an 8 to 25 wide angle lens, and then I also have a 50 to 200.

When you're traveling, you want to take lenses that give you optimal zoom and optimal chances. To get a lot of different shots when you're out traveling so that you're not having to pack so many lenses in a bag and you have to switch out lenses constantly. You want one to two in there with a lot of zoom, give you a lot of options for your outdoor photography when travel photography when you are out traveling. Now, for tripods you want to be able to keep your camera sturdy, right? But how do you know which tripod to pack with you going somewhere on a plane.

Obviously, you want a tripod to be firm and sturdy. I have here a tripod that I like to carry with me on travel because it collapses pretty nicely. It has four sections on here that can all collapse up. If I unscrew these and then collapse it, you can see how small it gets, and it really packs down. Now, honestly, when I'm traveling internationally or going on a big trip where I have to take a lot.

Camera gear, a lot of extra clothes. This camera tripod might be a little bit too much for travel photography. One thing that you might consider with your tripods is going with a travel tripod option. Like this one here. There's a Benro tripod, that also has 4 sections of legs on here and collapses really, smoothly.

The one size difference here is that a lot of travel tripods have an extendable center column, where you can raise your camera up, but the reason this is a little bit smaller, it still gets you the height as the other tripod had. The reason this one is a little bit smaller is that it collapses to be a little bit smaller, and that pays dividends when you're traveling, you're getting on an airplane, and you don't want a giant tripod sticking up halfway above your bag that won't fit into the luggage section. Of the airplane. So all these travel tripods are really good options. Just be sure that it's going to hold your camera really still when you're out taking photos in windy conditions like this, when maybe you're down by the coastline.

A lot of water is washing in down at the bottom of your photo, and you don't want your camera to shake for any long exposure photos that you might be trying to get. A travel tripod is a great option to do that. This video and all the gear included are brought to you by our friends at MPB. MPB is the world's largest global platform for buying, selling, and trading used photo and video gear. Use MPB.com to sell or trade your used photo gear because they are the best.

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at MPB.com or check out their educational and entertaining content at the MPB content hub. So let's talk about a couple of different camera systems that you can have and take with you on your travel photography when you're going out of town. You're going to a new place. We're on the seascape right now in Oregon. I have two different camera setups with me right here.

This is a Canon 5D. and it's a great camera to use for travel photography. Remember, all the cameras lenses that we're talking about are available on MPB.com. This is a great camera to take with you, compact camera body, and it's used with a 16 to 35 millimeter lens. Remember when we were talking about packing for your travel photography and what to know when traveling?

This is a great lens to use because it has tons of zoom capabilities from 16 millimeters all the way to 35 millimeters. What that gives you on a trip like this, let's take for example for seascape photography where we are in the Oregon coast. What you're going to get out of that is a super wide kind of look, but you're also going to get a minimal 35 millimeter. Kind of look, which is your classic film photography kind of look for your outdoor photos. Now you also want to take plenty of batteries with you, plenty of memory cards, SD cards, but this is a great camera body set up and a wide angle lens like this one is going to give you a lot of capabilities as you go out and photograph your travels when you're out shooting.

Let's switch over to this camera here. This is an OM system OM1 Mark 2 with a 50 to 200 lens attached. Now this is going to be your telephoto option. What I love about not only this camera, but also this lens is that you can take some really long exposures, single out different options. With your telephoto lens for your outdoor photography like this, single out those little small minute details.

A wide angle lens like this is going to get you grand landscapes or grand views of your traveling. This telephoto lens is going to get you more Secluded options, the little small details that make a place beautiful. So this is a great one to use for that. Now, filters are also a great option. On this camera is an ND filter.

What that does on a day like today, very bright and sunny, but you still want a lot of that wave action. What this filter allows you to do is lengthen your exposure to show motion in the water as you're taking photos. So an ND filter like this is great. It's a small little extra add-on you can put on your camera, very little weight, won't take up much space in your camera bag. Easy to throw in for traveling when you're going out shooting photos.

This camera right here, one reason that I like this camera a lot is that it has built-in ND filters into it and built-in graduated ND filters. I can electronically lengthen my exposure by making my sensor a lot less sensitive to light and use the built-in filters so I don't have to pack in ND filters with me. One filter that I always recommend photographers have in their bag is a circular polarizer. On situations like this where you have a lot of tide pools in the foreground or you want to darken the water up a little bit, you can use an ND filter to help you look through and remove glare off the surface. The water so that you can photograph a lot of the features that are going on inside of the water just barely below the surface.

So these are great options. Just remember, have lens options where you have a lot of zoom capabilities to those 16 to 35 millimeters or 50 to 200, you're really capitalizing a lot of that space, a lot of that movement that you can get in a photo. Pack a compact camera body with you and remember to have fun, be safe, travel compactly, and take tons of photos on your travel. If something makes you say, wow, stop and take a photo, because you could only be at that place one time.