How to Get The Most Out of Your Gear: Adventure and Trip Photography

Love your iPhone camera, but want to snag those dreamy shots you see in Nat Geo? Experienced in digital, but curious how to navigate the world of film? We’ve got you! Let’s chat about how to get the most out of your travel photography, and make art our of your adventures!

We’ll share our tips for how to get you out of ‘auto-mode’ and how to utilize your gear to get the best pictures, including choosing lenses, picking film to use for different environments, and how to approach different types of subject matter and frame your shots. We’ll get into the differences between digital and film, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Afterwards, we’ll do a little Q+A, and share some of our work.

This is an event for all experience levels, whether you’ve been shooting for years or you just found an old point and shoot in your grandma’s basement. We would love for more experienced folks to chime in and share their own practices—there’s always something more to learn!

Interested in sharing your knowledge? We’d love to have you participate! Shoot an email to hannah@joingearhouse.com and we’ll chat about getting you in as a presenter, or including some of your work for the Q+A portion

Luke (@skywalker_was_here) has an Associates in Fine Arts with a focus on photography. He shoots mostly landscape and architecture, but he also loves shooting portraits, cars, bikes, and astro. Photography has been a passion of his for more than half of his life, and he pursued freelance work for brands before COVID.

Hannah is a newbie to the art, and sticks to film. She carries a Canon AE-1 on all of her hikes and shoots mostly landscape, but has been branching out into street photography. She has recently started doing C41 developing in her kitchen, and is working on getting into printing.