# Travel Photography: How to Document & Share Your Next Trip - review & insight | Gareth B. Davies Source: https://garethbdavies.com/course-insights/travel-photography-how-to-document-and-share-your-next-trip/ [← All courses](https://garethbdavies.com/course-insights/) Photography · Quick win · Rated 6 /10 # Travel Photography: How to Document & Share Your Next Trip Updated September 2026 Sean Dalton · Travel Photographer Beginner · 68 min A charming personal walkthrough of one photographer's travel workflow, light on technical depth but strong on mindset. [Get a Free Month on Skillshare](https://skillshare.eqcm.net/c/3155494/298081/4650?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skillshare.com%2Fclasses%2Ftravel-photography-how-to-document-and-share-your-next-trip%2F39266253) New to Skillshare? Your first month is free, enough to take this course at no cost. Sean Dalton's "Travel Photography" is less a photography course than a philosophy of documentation wrapped around a handful of practical habits, filmed as Dalton walks through Venice over what appears to be a short multi-day visit. At 68 minutes across fourteen lessons, it moves briskly from gear talk to shooting philosophy to a post-trip workflow, and it never pretends to be more technical than it is. ## What it actually covers The course opens with an honest, useful reflection: how much of your trip do you want to spend behind a camera versus living in the moment? Dalton frames this as a real tension, admitting he once left his DSLR home in Europe specifically to avoid that trade-off, then ended up shooting on his phone anyway. That kind of candid self-correction sets the tone. The gear lesson that follows compares a smartphone, the Fuji X100V, and a Sony A7III with a full-frame lens, landing on the sensible conclusion that the right camera depends on intent rather than specs, and that a phone is genuinely sufficient for most travelers. The strongest material is the four-part framework for evaluating a scene before shooting: subject matter, light, color, and composition, with a bonus nudge to include a human figure for scale and relatability. It is not a novel idea in photography instruction, but Dalton ties it directly to what he is seeing in Venice in real time, old doors, canal light, a stranger walking under a streetlamp, which makes it stick better than an abstract rule would. ## Where it thins out Once the course leaves the streets of Venice and heads into editing and organizing, the depth drops noticeably. The Lightroom segment walks through cropping, a white balance check, vibrance versus saturation, and a light-color-effects-detail sequence, but it stays surface level, more a demonstration of Dalton's own workflow than a teachable system a beginner could replicate independently. The same is true of the sorting lesson, which amounts to making an album, star-rating favorites, and deleting the rest. The back half leans heavily on Dalton's personal habits: his Apple Notes travel journal, his Instagram story highlights, his preference for physical prints from a service like Artifact Uprising. These sections are pleasant and sincere, but they read as one photographer's personal system rather than instruction, and a viewer hoping for a repeatable method for building a shareable travel archive will come away with anecdotes more than tools. ## Bottom line This course succeeds as a mindset primer for someone who has never thought seriously about documenting a trip, someone who takes photos reflexively and ends up with thousands of unsorted images and no plan for them. It fails to deliver technical depth anywhere it gets close to one, whether that's composition rules, manual camera settings, or a genuinely systematic editing process. The class project, post 3 to 5 favorite images from any trip, matches the course's low-stakes, reflective tone rather than pushing for a demanding skill check. Given its 68-minute length and beginner framing, it delivers roughly what it promises: an easy, well-shot, gently instructive companion for someone about to travel who wants a philosophy rather than a manual. The standout The four-part shot evaluation checklist, subject matter, light, color, and composition, gives beginners a concrete mental routine to run before raising the camera. ## What you will learn - · How to choose between a smartphone, a mid-range camera like the Fuji X100V, and a professional DSLR for travel - · How to evaluate a scene for subject matter, light, color, and composition before shooting - · How to shoot both vertical and horizontal short-form video for social media and archiving - · How to sort, star-rate, and cull photos in Adobe Lightroom after a trip - · A basic Lightroom editing workflow moving through light, color, effects, and detail sliders - · How to build a lasting home for photos and text through a phone travel journal and physical prints Best for: Total beginners and casual travelers who want a simple, low-gear mindset for capturing and preserving trip memories, not technical mastery. Skip it if: Anyone with prior photography training or looking for camera settings, manual exposure control, or advanced editing technique. Engaging Teacher Clarity of Instruction Audio & Video Quality Organization of Lessons [Get a Free Month on Skillshare](https://skillshare.eqcm.net/c/3155494/298081/4650?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skillshare.com%2Fclasses%2Ftravel-photography-how-to-document-and-share-your-next-trip%2F39266253)