With its striking blue-and-white contrasts and landscapes that vary from coast to country to ancient architecture, Greece is a photographer’s dream. But how do you translate what you’re seeing into professional-looking holiday photography, without lugging around a ton of equipment or getting a master’s degree in fine arts? You learn some simple tricks and tips. Here, Gourmet Traveller photographers Taryn Peck and Elise Hassey share advice on shooting all of Greece’s beauty – from the Aegean to Athens – which can easily be applied to wherever you may be heading next.
FILTERS AND EDITING
Both Peck and Hassey use professional editing software: Hassey likes Adobe Lightroom with a few extra tweaks in Photoshop, while Peck likes Lightroom and Capture One. However, both photographers say that smartphones have a few neat editing apps that also do the job: Peck likes the VSCO app and Hassey says that she’s a fan of the filtering tools available within Instagram. When shooting holiday shots, Peck says she tends to warm up her images a little to make them feel sunnier, but the main trick is practice. “Play around until you find what works for you,” she says.
This story is from the February 2024 edition of Gourmet Traveller.
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