TRAVEL EGYPT; PHOTOGRAPHING THE ANCIENT SITES
Travel ebook about Photographing the Ancient Sites of Egypt
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SPECIFICATIONS:
Author: Janet Wood
Type: EBook
Format: Adobe pdf
Illustrations: Over 80 colour
Publication Date: February 2005
Publisher: M J Wood Digital Media
ISBN: 0-9548049-1-0
Delivery: Download via the Internet
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EBOOK CONTENTS: (printable pdf format)
Photographing the Ancient Sites: 24,000 words, 96 (A4 size) pages and 250 colour illustrations.
This book has been written for the average traveller, on an average package holiday to Egypt, with average photographic skills. Our aim when writing this book was to demonstrate what is possible with the most basic of camera equipment and technical know-how. Therefore the vast majority of photographs in the book have been chosen simply because they can be easily replicated by most people. Plus, we have also tried to keep the technical side of photography down to a bare minimum so that the vast majority of the information will be of use to the vast majority of readers.
As most tourists on package holidays will find out on their first trip to Egypt, basically they are put into groups and herded around the main sites like cattle in order to keep them moving, because frankly without this, the whole place would become grid locked. So, as soon as one group have finished looking at a particular place of interest, another group is immediately ready to step into their shoes. Naturally, this leaves very little time to browse and take in the wonderful sites, let alone photograph. On such example of this is Karnak Temple, which is a huge complex and impossible to get around in one visit.
One of the most common feedback comments I receive is that many people at the end of the guided tour, when they are given – say thirty minutes to spend on their own, have no idea how to spend that time wisely, and are simply overwhelmed by the size and complexity of the sites. Therefore what we have tried to do is highlight some of the better areas to photograph in the very limited time you will have at each particular site - areas, which your guide may have omitted, due to time restrictions, accessibility and numbers. So hopefully, be the end of your hectic schedule you will have some decent and fascinating photographs to show your family and friends rather than just reams and reams of hieroglyphic walls and blocks of stone, which, whilst fascinating at the time, become pretty boring to look at over and over again.
Let me say that this book has not been written for the professional photographer or the physically adventurous type traveller who wants to get off the regularly beaten tourist track and photograph uncommon photos.
The book offers hints, tips and suggestions and covers the main tourist sites such as; Karnak and Luxor Temples, Theban Necropolis, Colossi, Nile Cruise, Pyramids and Sphinx, Sound and Light show, Cairo Museum.
It discusses digital photography, different film types, lenses, tomb photography, photographic vantage points, the use of photo software such as Photoshop and Paintshop Pro, etc.
The book contains over 250 original photographs including; Nile views, Pyramids, Sphinx, Cairo Museum, Karnak, Luxor, Balloon Trip, Obelisks, Various Temples, Scarab, Sacred Lake, Sound and Light, Tutankhamun Mask, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb Interiors, Valley of the Kings, Various Statues, Nile sunset and Manipulations (‘Before and Afters’ and ‘Creative Imagery’).
There is also a list of useful links for both photography and Egypt at the end of the book.
Happy shooting!
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This ebook, plus our 'Nile Cruise' and 'Around Luxor' eBooks make ideal travel companions and are available in our discounted Three ebook package Offer
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