Travel Photography

What Sean Tucker's Amsterdam Street Day Actually Teaches You About Shooting Light (Not Gear)
Video Tutorials

What Sean Tucker's Amsterdam Street Day Actually Teaches You About Shooting Light (Not Gear)

Street photography has a gatekeeping problem. Open any forum thread about it and you’ll find someone insisting you need a rangefinder, a specific focal length, or a decade of experience before your shots are worth anything. I’ve been pushing back on that narrative since I started this site, and most of the time I do it with price tags and test results. But sometimes the most convincing argument isn’t a budget lens review.

The Sigma 50mm f/2 DG DN Made Me Rethink What I Actually Want From a Lens
Video Tutorials

The Sigma 50mm f/2 DG DN Made Me Rethink What I Actually Want From a Lens

I have a spreadsheet. It has every budget lens I’ve ever tested, ranked by sharpness per dollar. For years, that spreadsheet was my entire lens buying philosophy. If the math didn’t justify the price, the lens didn’t make the cut. So when I first heard people raving about the Sigma 50mm f/2 DG DN at over $600, my instinct was to write it off before I even looked at the specs.

The Best Travel Lens Isn't What You Think — A Breakdown of Tony & Chelsea Northrup's Framework
Video Tutorials

The Best Travel Lens Isn't What You Think — A Breakdown of Tony & Chelsea Northrup's Framework

Every time I’m packing for a trip, I fall into the same trap: I start with “just the essentials” and end up with a backpack that weighs more than my carry-on limit. The lens question is always the worst part. Do I bring the fast prime? The wide zoom? The telezoom just in case there’s wildlife? I’ve wasted more mental energy on that decision than on actually planning the trip itself.

How to Travel Smart With Your Camera Gear: Lessons From Tony & Chelsea Northrup
Video Tutorials

How to Travel Smart With Your Camera Gear: Lessons From Tony & Chelsea Northrup

Every time I book a flight to shoot somewhere new, I spend about three days obsessing over what to pack and maybe thirty minutes actually planning the shots. I’ve shown up to airports with a bag that triggered secondary screening, forgotten which parking garage level my car was on, and once nearly missed a connection because I didn’t account for the security line eating twenty minutes of my buffer time. These are not glamorous problems, but they are real ones that cost you time, money, and the mental energy you actually need for shooting.

What Pierre T. Lambert's Nepal Camera Bag Teaches Us About Packing Smart (Not Heavy)
Video Tutorials

What Pierre T. Lambert's Nepal Camera Bag Teaches Us About Packing Smart (Not Heavy)

Packing camera gear for an international trip is one of those problems that sounds simple until you’re standing in your living room at midnight surrounded by three camera bodies, a tangle of cables, and a carry-on that weighs as much as a golden retriever. I’ve been there more times than I want to admit. The question is never really “what do I want to bring?” It’s “what can I actually justify carrying through two airports and a crowded street market?

Peak Design Travel Tripod: We Put It to the Test—Here's What We Found
News

Peak Design Travel Tripod: We Put It to the Test—Here's What We Found

Peak Design Travel Tripod: We Put It to the Test—Here’s What We Found After spending weeks testing tripods across different shooting scenarios, I wanted to dig into Peak Design’s Travel Tripod—a piece of kit that’s been generating genuine buzz in the photography community. And honestly? The hype might actually be justified this time. Why Peak Design Gets the Design Right Here’s the thing about Peak Design as a company: they don’t seem interested in reinventing the wheel just for the sake of it.

What a Pro Travel Photographer Actually Packs in 2019 (And What You Can Learn From His Logic)
Video Tutorials

What a Pro Travel Photographer Actually Packs in 2019 (And What You Can Learn From His Logic)

Every few months I’ll watch a gear video from a photographer whose work I respect, not to copy their kit, but to reverse-engineer their decision-making. The interesting stuff is never the gear itself. It’s why they kept something, why they almost cut it, and how they organize the bag for a real trip. That thought process is harder to find than another 4K lens review. In this Pierre T. Lambert tutorial, filmed on location in California while he was preparing for a trip to Polynesia, Pierre walks through every piece of gear in his travel and street photography bag for 2019.

Why I'd Swap a Heavy Zoom for a Tiny Prime on Any Travel Trip (And You Probably Should Too)
Video Tutorials

Why I'd Swap a Heavy Zoom for a Tiny Prime on Any Travel Trip (And You Probably Should Too)

There’s a version of gear ownership where the “best” lens becomes a liability. I’ve watched it happen to shooters who carry a $2,000 zoom to a street market and spend more energy protecting the glass than actually shooting. The lens wins. The photos lose. In this Pierre T. Lambert tutorial, Pierre walks through a decision he’d been wrestling with for over a year: leaving his Sony 70-200mm f/2.8 at home for a trip to Tulum, Mexico, and replacing it with the Sony 85mm f/1.

One Camera, One Lens, No Bag: Scott Kelby's Japan Strategy Proves Minimalism Wins
Video Tutorials

One Camera, One Lens, No Bag: Scott Kelby's Japan Strategy Proves Minimalism Wins

There’s a version of travel photography that requires a rolling carry-on full of bodies, lenses, filters, and backup batteries. I know that version well because I spent about two years convinced it was the only way to come home with serious images. Then I watched photographers I respected keep showing up with one small bag and leaving with better shots than mine. The math stopped adding up. In this KelbyOne tutorial, Scott Kelby walks through an entire Japan expedition and the gear list is almost offensively short: one mirrorless camera, one lens, and an iPhone.

What a Pro Photographer Actually Packs for Iceland (And What You Can Learn From His Choices)
Video Tutorials

What a Pro Photographer Actually Packs for Iceland (And What You Can Learn From His Choices)

I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time researching other photographers’ gear lists. Not because I’m chasing the same kit, but because the reasoning behind someone’s choices is often more useful than the choices themselves. When a working professional explains why they packed three lenses instead of five, or why one camera goes in the carry-on and another doesn’t, that’s real-world decision-making you can apply regardless of your budget. In this Nigel Danson tutorial, he does exactly that, walking through everything he brought to Iceland for a landscape photography workshop, including cameras, lenses, and the supporting accessories that actually made the trip work.

iPad Pro as a Travel Editing Powerhouse: A Practical Walkthrough with Lightroom Mobile
Video Tutorials

iPad Pro as a Travel Editing Powerhouse: A Practical Walkthrough with Lightroom Mobile

I’ll be honest: I spent years assuming the iPad was a consumption device. You watch videos on it. You scroll Instagram. You do not edit RAW files on it at a professional level. That assumption cost me a lot of unnecessary weight in my camera bag and a lot of frustrating evenings hunched over a hot laptop in hotel rooms, waiting for Lightroom to catch up with me. Then I came across a Tony & Chelsea Northrup tutorial where Tony walks through his full photo editing workflow on the 12.

Two Lenses, One Year of World Travel: What Pierre T. Lambert Got Right (And What I'd Do Differently)
Video Tutorials

Two Lenses, One Year of World Travel: What Pierre T. Lambert Got Right (And What I'd Do Differently)

There’s a question I get more than any other: “What lenses should I actually carry?” Not what’s on the spec sheet. Not what a camera store employee suggests because it moves margin. What actually works when you’re out in the field trying to cover a wide range of subjects without blowing your back out or your budget. In this Pierre T. Lambert tutorial, he answers that question from a very specific and useful vantage point: a full year of shooting around the world, covering landscape, portrait, street, and lifestyle work with just two lenses.