Forbes Magazine points out that travelers tend to look for simplicity and in a nutshell light, small and easy to operate cameras to record their adventures.

Here’s their list.

Olympus FE-310

Canon PowerShot A470

Olympus 1030SW

Panasonic Lumix TZ5

Canon PowerShot SX100 IS

Fujifilm FinePix S8100fd

Canon S5 IS

Sony Cybershot H7

Canon EOS 450D | Digital Rebel XSi

Nikon D60

Most people would not think of going on vacation or traveling without their digital camera. In line with that most people use their camera to record the various sites and experiences. Here are 12 really creative and I might add VERY useful tips on how to think outside the box and extend your camera’s travel usefulness.

Read all 12 digital camera travel tips here…

If you have tried to take pictures while on vacation inevitably you have run into the age old problem of tourists in your photos.

Here is a Photoshop technique/tutorial that’ll show you a very clever way to take next travel photo and take it in such a way as to need little Photoshop work. However, using this simple technique will all but insure you can take almost everyone out of the photos.

This is technique is brilliant.

See the full tutorial here.

Here is a well done and concise explanation of how including foreground can dramatically improve your travel photographs.

Digital photography school has published an article on the techniques of capturing great photos of people in their environment.

8 Tips for top people pictures while you are traveling

• Choose your Background
• Fill your Frame
• Go for natural (un-posed shots)
• Add another subject
• Photograph a variety of people
• Arrange an extended photo shoot
• Get Candid

For a complete explanation of each tip jump over to DPS.

Are you and your digital camera headed for a cruise? If so PhotoWorks Inc has announced it will help cruise-goers do more with their digital photos as part of the SeaMobile Web Portal, an interactive portal allowing travelers aboard cruise ships access to important information to customize and enhance their cruising experience.

The technology will feature PhotoWorks’ easy-to-use book creation experience customized for on-ship use. It will allow cruise passengers to use their digital photos to create high-quality, professionally-bound glossy photo book. On board, PhotoWorks will offer its 8.5-by- 11.5 personalized- cover photo book. Customers can choose from an array of colors, layouts and themes to personalize their books. Printed on thick stock archival-quality, acid-free paper, personalized-cover photo books provide a keepsake people will want to put on display and show to all their friends.

“Cruises offer great opportunities for incredible photographs, and PhotoWorks is thrilled to partner with SeaMobile to provide cruise ship adventurers new ways to document and commemorate their travel experiences,” said Andy Wood, President and CEO of PhotoWorks, Inc. “This new service will give passengers sophisticated and creative ways to express themselves, indulge their passions and preserve their digital memories.”

Guests can access the PhotoWorks content on the SeaMobile Web Portal by using their own laptop WiFi connection on the ship or by visiting on-board Internet cafes.

The LA Times ran an article on how travelers taking digital photos can make their life easier and end up with better organized and nicer looking photos. Taking along a portable or stand-alone storage device is a smart travel decision. Once home the article shows us how to categorize and store vacation photos on your PC. Next we learn how to make your photos look better by the use of a little digital alteration. Last but not lest is how to put your photos into a presentation slide show so everyone else can enjoy the fruits of your labor.

[Organizing And Tweaking Vacation Digital Photos]