Finding great photo locations

Ever struggled finding a great photo location?

Today finding inspiring photo locations is easy. Internet offers an endless resource of hints, tips, and examples.

While in big cities obviously good photo locations can be found by just screening travel guides the more special photo locations can rather be found in blogs or image repositories in the internet.

I recently visited Tokyo. And picking two to three touristic hot spots already gave me a series of very good and interesting locations. - See my gallery at: link

A great resource of photography ideas and inspiration when visiting Toky is the shoottokyo.com blog by Dave Powell.
The page offers a blog, an inspiring portfolio, a book, and many more.

Explore just one example, which is Dave's blog post about "Analog Sunday", a series of Hasselblad 501 cm images on film: link

Or in preparation of your next Tokyo trip. The post about "Shooting Tokyo". A series of inspirational images opening your eyes for the unusual.

Black and White Tokyo Photography

Alone - Arts Chien (flickr)

Tokyo subway scene - Piero Damiani (flickr)

Alley - Satoshi Inagaki (500px)

Yakitori - Marco Patella (500px)

Black Tea - Olivier Cruciata (500px)

Street photography in interesting cities

"Street photography is photography that features the chance encounters and random accidents within public places."

"Street photography is disinterested in its nature, allowing it to deliver a true depiction of the world. Street photographs are mirror images of society, displaying unmanipulated scenes, with usually unaware subjects."




Here a documentary on street photography in Marrakech, Marocco by Zack Arias. Lots of good hints on technique. I especially like the explanations of magician techniques at (0:47 ff) where Zack pretends taking pictures of roof tops while taking pictures of a man sitting on a chair smoking his cigarette totally unaware of what is happening.
Or the scene using WiFi remote control to take close up pictures of cobra snakes on the market.


And a second movie from the streets of Mumbai, India. Lots of very impressive images of Mumbai city life. Zack elaborates on the advantage of using a compact mirrorless camera with high quality lenses.


Zack Arias is using Fujifilm X-series cameras in both documentaries.

See some of my own street photography from Shanghai, China using the Sony RX-100 Mark III camera:

Shanghai - Images by Andreas Mueller

New York - City Life

A selection of images of New York city life.
The photographs have been taken in a one day walk around down town Manhatten.


New York - Images by Andreas Mueller