Photo Tips USA

The travel guide to the most beautiful vacation pictures

Do you want to conjure up eye-catchers for your photo album on your trip to the USA?
Photo Tips USA will tell you what the normal travel guides don’t: All the tips and tricks with which you can turn the great American motifs into your most beautiful vacation pictures!

A trip through the USA is an experience that you will remember and talk about for a long time. Everything there is big and wide, simply oversized. Good preparation is important so that you don’t miss any of the highlights. It is easy to calculate the distances from home so as not to overpack your travel days. However, if a tourist interested in photography wants to get a picture of the motif worlds in order to bring back as many good photos as possible, the conventional travel guides will leave him out in the cold.

To avoid this, you have to put in a lot of effort. You have to pore over travel guides, illustrated books, maps and websites to locate potential motifs. You have to apply the well-known maxims of “the good picture”. You need to know in advance what lighting conditions will prevail at such prominent locations as the witness mountains of Monument Valley or El Capitan in Yosemite NP: Backlighting increases the contrast to silhouette effect. Frontal lighting levels out the shadows that create depth. Grazing light from the side enhances the three-dimensionality of the subject. Only with this knowledge can you take the randomness out of the subject and light and obtain first-class shots.

The Photo Tips USA take this laborious preparation off your hands. Their particular strength is their visual approach. The natural landscapes are the focus of the descriptions of the locations, which have been obtained on numerous research trips, and the specially developed maps. This allows you to get a feel for the local motifs while reading at home and to creatively anticipate really strong images. This photographic perspective is rounded off with a wealth of practical photo tips and advice on how to make the most of your valuable travel time.

All the advantages at a glance

• Detailed descriptions of all scenic highlights and photo opportunities
• The best times of year and day to visit the major national and state parks
• Reliable and up-to-date directions to mysterious ghost towns, enigmatic Native American rock paintings and other off-the-beaten-path gems
• Practical tips on photographic equipment and techniques
• Tips on creative image composition, exposure and difficult subjects

Based on my personal experience I wrote Photo Tips for areas in southern Utah, northern Arizona and central California. A detailed list will follow. All content will be online as soon and as fast as I can code it in. So check back often if this is of interest for you.