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TIPS: Travel PHOTOGRAPHY…Part one (1) Protecting YOUR Camera Equipment from the extreme environment…Raincoats & Waterproof Camera Bags…plus PopPhoto.com presents 20 plus Simple, Useful, Clever, Fun Ways to Get Better Photos

Last year PopPhoto.com Online Home of Popular Photography & Imaging and AMERICAN PHOTO presented… A Tips & Tricks Special! Pros, readers, and Pop Photo editors share their secrets for taking your photography beyond the ordinary.

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Below are 2 tips which I had published in the PopPhoto.com last year, the article is still very popular and I decided to add a few extra tips for our travel Photographers on today’s blog. Other cool tips and the complete article in PopPhoto.com @
http://www.popphoto.com/popularphotographyfeatures/4776/20

12) Oil's Well.

Need soft focus in only part of a scene? And you still don't have your soft-focus filters? Gunther Deichmann suggests using your finger to very gently apply oil from your forehead to your lens (or better, UV filter) at a point that corresponds to the area you'd like softened. After shooting, be sure to remove the oil with a lens-cleaning cloth or tissue.
10) Reflection on You.
When pro Gunther Deichmann (www.deichmann-photo.com) makes portraits in areas where the subjects might be shy, such as a remote village in Tibet, he doesn't use large, intimidating reflectors. Instead, he wears a white T-shirt.
"If you position yourself correctly in natural light, the T-shirt is a very nice reflector," he says. "No need for anybody to hold a reflector, and your hands are free."

1) Plus added today…More tips with the white T-shirt…
also very handy for a nice soft fill in flash…just point your strobe at your T-shirt and you have a very nice soft fill.
This is a great OUTDOOR Fill and so much better than all these gadgets on your Strobe…plus you look smart in white, reflecting the heat during the day… feeling cool…until later when you crawled around some ruins got sweaty and dirty, I guess you just have to bring a few extra white T-shirts, they are small enough and take up very little space in your suitcase.

2) Walking in the tropical rain…
Shooting in the rain can be challenging but also very rewarding, I just love it… especially when you live in the tropics like I do.
Creating images in the rain can be easy but risky for your equipment… I always carry 2 simple inexpensive (no more than US$5.00 each) Poncho type Raincoats, one for myself and one for the camera bag. Make sure they are the Poncho type, easy to put on and they have enough opening to get to your Camera quickly.
(You can find them usually at Shopping Centers or Department stores.)

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The cool thing about these inexpensive raincoats, they fold up very small (approx. size of an A5 Note Book) and they have an opaque appearance. This is perfect for your portraits in the field if you have to use flash or you can use them as a small soft box for the odd macro shot, great for some artefact you might come across. Now you covered up for the rain but also have a small soft box when needed.

I am also using different Camera Bags; but which one I choose before going on a trip? Well, that really depends on the shoot, the location, if I bring the Computer and if I am traveling alone or with an assistant, etc., etc.
But this Bag from Lowepro is fantastic; the DryZone is the world’s first totally waterproof, soft-sided camera backpack.
When choosing a Camera Bag think of it like buying a Condom for your Cameras “health and protection must be guaranteed.”

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This is not the cheapest one…but your Cameras and lenses, etc., etc. need to be protected they are worth a lot more than your bag.
You need to get the Job done, and a good Camera Bag can help in protecting your equipment. I have been using the
DryZone 200 for a couple of years now and I am very happy with it... a super cool bag for the most rugged situations.
From the dust bowels in Tibet to the Beaches and remote Islands in the Pacific this bag provided me with the comfort and security I needed.Perfect for some real Island hopping, given you the security in rough or rainy weather when travelling in a small boat from island to island. (See below some specs. on the
DryZone 200.)

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The DryZone, even fully loaded, they float so your gear is always protected. The inner drypod with patented, waterproof TIZIP™ zipper provides 100% watertight protection. It’s like a drysuit for your equipment. When less protection is needed, leave the TIZIP™ open and fasten just the inner zipper and top clip for easier access. The heavy-duty, padded camera compartment inside is fully customizable while the outer shell comes complete with a technical backpack harness. Also included, ergonomic lumbar support, fully adjustable CollarCut™ shoulder straps, tuck-away tripod holder, self-draining mesh pockets, drain hole, rubber handle, and attachment loops for SlipLock™ accessories. DryZone packs are comfortable to wear and give you total peace of mind in extreme environments.
More details and Photos at:
http://products.lowepro.com/product/DryZone-200,1935.htm
Stay tuned or subscribe to this blog for Part (2) Tips on Travel Photography, for some images taken in the rain in Cambodia last year go to:
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/newimages5.html

From Mumbai in India to Spanish…fotoaldia.com has just posted a photo selection from my Mumbai trip… View from my Car Window on their Website Gallery…

If you can read or speak Spanish you might find this article and the images interesting, fotoaldia.com is a very cool website with a lot of information and great Galleries…however it is in Spanish.
I guess some of you have to get that dictionary out and start reading…
GD

fotoaldia
http://www.fotoaldia.com/GALERIAS-6-1293-0-1-0.html

Mostrando la Galeria de :"Gunther Deichmann"
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Título:"Escenas de Bombay, India"

El fotógrafo australiano Gunther Deichmann ha sido galardonado con numerosos premios internacionales. Es miembro del Instituto de Fotografía Profesional de Australia (IAPP) y ha sido merecedor de 14 reconocimientos al mérito en sólo 3 años. Como fotógrafo ama los colores fuertes, las combinaciones de contraste y las situaciones de gran dramatismo. Ha tenido además el honor de haber sido juez en los premios anuales Professional Merit Awards. Fue a partir de entonces que empezó a enseñar fotografía en el Community College de Darwin. En marzo de 1983, la Revista Time publicó en su portada una foto auya sobre la gran sequía australiana. En 1985, the IAAP lo premió como el mejor fotógrafo profesional de paisajes de ese año. Ha publicado más de 12 libros, incluyendo su obra más importante

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“Journey Through Color & Time”, en edición limitada de 360 páginas. Sus imágenes han visto la luz en muchas publicaciones internacionales como: Airone, en Italia, Geo, en Alemania y Francia, la Revista Stern, el New York Times, Grand Reportage, Figaro y también en VSD, en Francia. En la actualidad Deichmann reside con su familia en Manila, Filipinas, desde donde cubre como fotógrafo todo el Sudeste de Asia y el Pacífico.
Desde marzo del 2007 está certificado como entrenador de Apertura por Apple. También integra la Junta Asesora de la Apple para este programa. Para más información sobre este fotógrafo visite esta página: http://www.deichmann-photo.com/
La página web de Gunther es:www.deichmann-photo.com
Gunther también escribe regularmente una columna en este blog: :www.deichmann-photo.com

Smart Photography Magazine in Mumbai, India published an article on Travel Photography “Chronicles of a Globe Trotter” & Aperture 2 was instrumental getting it out in time via the .Mac Web Gallery for the high-resolution images...plus a lot more.

Strange… it seems we are going back in time a lot these days…restoring images from Australia (my previous blog) and now back to Mumbai India… but all of this is related to Aperture 2 including the uploading of low (for selection at first) and high resolution images using the .Mac Web Gallery
in Aperture 2.1

Then only yesterday I had another request for images on Cambodia
“Saffron Antiquity” again an “almost impossible” deadline…we are going to print in a couple of days and need the high res. Images now…less than two hours later it was done via the Aperture .Mac Web Gallery…email reply was… Wow! Thanks so much for this fast response and thanks again for all your help....
Aperture 2 has something for everybody…but for me…I just LOVE the build
in
.Mac Web Gallery!

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Above a screenshot and sneak preview of the up coming
article from Angkor Wat in Cambodia.


The article “Chronicles of a Globe Trotter” in the Smart Photography Magazine is a good example how digital Images and scanned tiff files have been used for a story working only with Aperture 2 for the selection, adjustments and the final delivery.
I am sounding like
Time Machine… which is super cool by the way…but more on that in a few weeks…

N
ow back to Mumbai… Smart Photography Magazine in India published a nice seven-page article on travel Photography…
The complete article is available on my website as a PDF file for downloading under Publications, or use this link.
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/publications.html
See below a sample from the article and some interesting information on India’s
Smart Photography Magazine. This issue is available in July 2008 at Newsstands throughout India.


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Gunther Deichmann, Photography, Travel Photography, Australia
Samples from Smart Photography Magazine India, for the complete
article and more pages as PDF file click the images or use the link
.
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/publications.html

Below excerpts from their website:
http://www.nextgenpublishing.in/smart_photography.htm#

Smart Photography, the premier magazine launched by Next Gen Publishing Ltd. has become India 's No.1 imaging magazine within just nine months of its launch. Moving ahead of several other photo magazines, not only is Smart Photography the largest in terms of circulation and readership, but also the largest in terms of the number of pages per issue and advertisers patronizing the magazine.

Smart Photography is a classy, well-designed and informative monthly printed on glossy paper for enhanced color reproduction - an essential for a quality photography magazine. Every issue covers the entire spectrum of the imaging industry and related products through interesting sections… for more info visit the website @
http://www.nextgenpublishing.in/smart_photography.htm#

More images by Gunther Deichmann @
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/home.html

More NEWS just arrived from the Smart Photography Magazine in Mumbai India...the best exhibited images this year...

A small world it is… Smart Photography Magazine India’s leading Photography Magazine based in Mumbai has send me this published article from the Environmental Exhibition which was held in Armenia recently.

Remember from my earlier blog I contributed some images for this Exhibition, but had no idea about
the best exhibited images of this year, Kavita Dadhe from Smart Photography told me about it and send me a PDF file, (thanks Kavita) read the article below.
Smart Photography is also publishing a nice spread of my images in the next issue on Travel photography…stay tuned and once it is published I share it with you.
GD

VOICING FOR THE VOICELESS.
DAVOS Film and Photography Annual Exhibition recently concluded in Armenia. It was curated by Ovsanna Hovsepyan, and co-organized by film director and working partner of DAVOS studio, David Sarkissian. The organization works for the cause of nature and environment protection using various media. The exhibition’s aim was to create awareness and reduce the constant pillage of natural elements across the globe. Fourty two photographers from all over the world participated in the exhibition and their images were showcased in Yerevan in Armenia from 28th March to 14th April. The best exhibited images of this year went to Gunther Deichmann of the Phillipines and Nikoloz Tabukashvili of Tbilisi.
To view all contestants and their images log on to
www.davosstudio.com

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NEWS WATCH in the Smart Photography Magazine, India

APERTURE 2 & the .Mac WEB GALLERY…keeping tight schedules and deadlines is easy now…delivered Tibet on time…a real live scenario.

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delivered Tibet on time…


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For more images on Tibet by Gunther Deichmann visit
his website @ www.deichmann-photo.com
or visit his PhotoShelter Archive & Collection @
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/stock.html

Deadlines, deadlines and more deadlines…the last minute changes by editors or the production staff from magazines… an all to familiar story.

Take this very recent case; I submitted images from Tibet for a story in the Asian Geographic Magazine, the first images where in low resolution…for selection purpose.

Weeks went by and yesterday the shout for the high-resolution images came in

”we need them today”
… OK. No problems…I got Aperture 2 and since all my high and low resolution images are stored in my Aperture Library I quickly selected the “CHOSEN ONES” had them up for downloading on a New .Web Gallery with username and password…that was last night. (see the email correspondence below)
Today I received the email below…do I have to say anything else? I guess not…once the story is out this month I let you have a preview until then…if you need your images out there fast from one publisher to another, use the
Web Gallery in Aperture 2, so easy now and happy faces at the production department.
GD

See below the original email correspondence from the last 24 hours…

First email…

Hi Gunther,

Thank you for providing us with the requested information so promptly under such short notice, we really appreciate it. :)
Here are the images we require hi-res versions of, (see attached).

Thank you,
Sabrina

A few hours later…

Second email…

Hi Gunther,

Thank you for your quick reply, we do apologize for the short notice.
I have managed to download all the hi-res images from the link you provided.

Thanks again,
Sabrina

Popular Photography & imaging and American Photo presents

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20+ Simple, Useful, Clever, Fun Ways to Get Better Photos

PopPhoto.com the online home of Popular Photography & imaging and American Photo, they have just published a small article/tip of mine on photography plus a lot more. Read the whole story and many tips from other pro Photographers,
20+ Simple, Useful, Clever, Fun Ways to Get Better Photos

A Tips & Tricks Special! Pros, readers, and Pop Photo editors share their secrets for taking your photography beyond the ordinary.

By PopPhoto Staff
December 2007

When it comes to great photo tips, we find them everywhere. In our daily shooting. In interviews with pros. In our e-mails from you, our readers.
On the web. In books. And, of course, on our blog, Pop Photo Flash. Here are some of the best we've come across lately.

10) Reflection on You.
When pro Gunther Deichmann (
www.deichmann-photo.com) makes portraits in areas where the subjects might be shy, such as a remote village in Tibet,
he doesn't use large, intimidating reflectors....
click here to read the whole story.

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Books, Photoworkshop and much more in the current issue of i-mag magazine

New guidebooks on Palau Micronesia and Puerto Galera in the Philippines have been given some nice write ups in the i-mag Photography Magazine, a paradise pair, Palau and Puerto Galera two of the best dive destinations in the Asia pacific region. Thanks to i-mag Magazine for publishing this four page article in their current issue.
They have also published in the same issue a nice article on the recent
GD PhotoWorkshop in Cambodia with the Philippine Center for Creative Imaging or PCCI.
You can download all of the articles as pdf files under Publications/Spread on my website at:
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/publications.html

For dates on photo workshops in Cambodia, Palau and Tibet please go the link provided below:
http://gdphotoworkshop.com/

For all your diving needs and or next vacation please check out the Philippine-Micronesia Alliance.
The Divers Choice.
It is here where you can order these latest books direct online at:
http://www.alliancediving.com/book-orders.html

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The i-mag Photography Magazine was very quick and published in their current issue a nice article from our GDPhotoWorshop in Siam Reap, Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
The images are from the workshop participants and text by Jun Miranda, including the image from Luis Harder, who won the Apple Aperture software, with his photo of the little boy, the bike against the brown wall. If you like to read the whole story you can download it as a pdf file here located under Publications/Spreads
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/publications.html
For more information or if you like to view some of the images in our Gallery from the participants, please click this link:
http://gdphotoworkshop.com/

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The great sunrise shot was taken by no other then Bebet Gaudinez,
the group photo is by my good friend and guide Savuth.

The last few month been very hectic

The last few month have been very hectic with workshops on Photography, Aperture and the Web at the Power Mac Center in Manila, organizing my workshop to Cambodia for September in cooperation with the Philippine Center for Creative Imaging (the Cambodian workshop is now fully booked) and preparing a lot of articles for magazines, including images to Forbes Traveler for an article on Palau.
Other media events last month have been the
Philippine Star Fotofest and MEDIA IN FOCUS hosted by Che Che Lazaro at ABS CBN on the ANC Channel, which featured
a one hour on Photography.
Two new-revised edition from our Series of
Guide Books, Palau and Puerto Galera have just been released and we completed the production of the small book “Palau Crown Jewel of the Pacific”.
The Asian Photography Magazine in the July 2007 issue used my images on the cover and a pro profile over 12 pages on “Shoot for yourself”
CLICK Photography Magazine from Malaysia, in August 2007, used one of my images on the cover and an article over 6 pages on “Photography Philosophy with Gunther Deichmann
iMag Photography Magazine used my Image “The heat is on on their current issue, (August) an image created for environmental awareness, mainly Global warming.

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For you to view and read all of these stories I have provided them as a PDF file for download at the direct link below to my website.

Under publications; covers or spreads:

http://www.deichmann-photo.com/publications.html

To find out more about the latest Book productions, please use this link:
http://www.alliancediving.com/book-orders.html

Enjoy,
GD

Cover of i-mag Photography Magazine

Check out the latest i-mag Photography Magazine,
Cambodia made it on the Cover plus there is a 9 page story
on my travel Photography and Book
"Journey Trough Colour & Time."

The whole article is available as download in a pdf file below
the cover image.


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Click on Gunther Deichmann for the whole story as pdf file.
Gunther Deichmann