Travel Snapshot – Freeze it or you will lose it!
What you see here below is not a sneak preview photo from Terminator 5 movie with that T-1000 assassin made from mimetic poly-alloy liquid metal. Nor it is fracturing piece of glass. It is actually a fountain display in front of The Garden shopping mall entrance in Kuala Lumpur, which IĀ freezed it instantly with my super fast Nikon D7000! š
Some EXIF info: Photo taken with my Nikon D7000 and Nikkor 18-105mm kit lens. Shutter speed 1/1000s and Aperture F4.2. Focus distance was set to 32mm. ISO 1400. Auto White Balance. No flash fired and no exposure being compensated with Matrix metering.
Speed is the next most important factor in travel photography, apart from lighting. Time to take photos is always limited on travel, especially budget travel when we have limited budget to stay at one tourists attraction much longer than we would prefer. On top of exploring and admiring the travel site with our naked eyes, we also wish to capture it with our camera. However, some exciting travel moments happen so fast that we could just miss it if we don’t take action fast enough. For example, the sparkling night lighting display of Eiffel Tower, or the amazing sunset colour in Port Dickson.
Also important is our camera speed. Under certain condition and for appealing result, we sometimes set a much faster shutter speed to freeze the moment. Programmed Auto’s shutter speed will sometimes produce dull photos, especially when shooting water. We need to push it a bit. Try setting your camera’s shutter speed to either extreme to create impact. Slow shutter speed will create a silky smooth result while fast shutter speed will create a dramatic result which we couldn’t see with our naked eyes, just like the photo above. 
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Cecil Lee
The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.
