Travel photography books can help both amateurs and pros hone their skills with travel and scenic photography. Travel with your camera, and you are sure to encounter many varied and wonderful photo opportunities. Don't come home with mediocre photos when you can get tips from these top travel photography books.
1. Frommer's Digital Travel Photography Field Guide
It's no surprise that the travel experts at Frommer's developed a great layman's guide to taking your digital camera on your travels. This covers most anything you'd encounter when shooting on a trip, such as how to get great pictures in low light when a flash is banned (quite a common situation), how to capture scenery and wildlife, and what you must bring versus which accessories are optional but handy extras. The digital photography focus is also nice, including tips on posting your pictures online when you return home.
2. John Shaw's Landscape Photography
This book on landscape photography covers all the techniques you need to shoot breathtaking scenic images. Find out about tripods, filters, lenses and lighting. Also find out why it is that, contrary to what you might imagine, bad weather is actually a good thing for travel photographers.3. Spirit of Place: The Art of the Traveling Photographer
Many times, you shoot like crazy on a trip only to return home and be disappointed by the results. This book provides insight and valuable advice on truly capturing the essence of destinations and attractions you photography. It's a bit large to take on your travels (10.5" by 8.5-inch, or almost letter-sized). But you will be inspired before you go by the many beautiful travel photos inside.4. Lonely Planet Travel Photography
The latest edition, updated with a new section on digital cameras, features some great advice for travel photography. It includes common mistakes to avoid, photography etiquette while traveling, protecting your camera during your travels and how to make money with your photography.5. Travel Photography: A Complete Guide to How to Shoot and Sell
The best thing about this book is the 10 self-assignments to allow readers to test their skills in the field. This approach is a great way to hone skills before you hit the road, or even while traveling. This book also takes travel photography to the next level, with a focus on skills needed and information on selling travel photographs.6. Blue Pixel Guide to Travel Photography: Perfect Photos Every Time
This book features great advice from photographers on the Blue Pixel team, who are instructors for the Nikon School of Photography. There is basic advice like general tips and equipment needed, and more advanced advice on lighting and composition.7. A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Travel Photography
What's great about this book is it is specifically for digital photography, and has very specific advice on using your digital camera to take travel pictures. For instance, find out about photographing buildings, ancient ruins and religious sites.8. The Ava Guide To Travel Photography
This book's, written by the founder of Outdoor Photography magazine, makes travel photography tips easy for rookies to understand through use of travel images with accompanying analyses. It includes travel photography advice for quite specific situations like underwater photography, fireworks and shooting with tropical sunlight.9. Digital Photography Outdoors: A Field Guide for Travel and Adventure Photographe
If your travels lean towards the adventurous and the great outdoors, this book is ideal. It covers basics such as color and lighting, as well as equipment like filters and photo-editing software. There is a whole section devoted to "the digital darkroom."10. National Geographic Photography Field Guide Travel
This book truly covers everything in a compact book that is easy to bring with you on your travels. Beyond general tips on shooting travel photos, find out about which equipment you need for a travel photography kit, how to protect your camera from the elements and lots of color pictures to demonstrate technique.