Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia — October 2017

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PHOTOGRAPHED BY LESTER LEDESMA

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How to reconcile the constantly competing desires to take great vacation photos but

to do so as simply and subtly as possible? The Canon EOS M6 with a f lip touch screen

LCD, interchangable lenses and 24.2-megapixel APS-C sensor had travel photographer

Lester Ledesma blending in all over Italy—and returning home to Singapore with an

SD card full of beauty shots.

To capture unusual angles, “you literally just f lip the screen, move your hand high

or low to capture the right framing, and compose the scene as you wish,” he says. “It’s a

great way to take photos unobtrusively; I just shoot from the waist with the screen

angled accordingly. This makes me look like I’m fiddling with the controls instead of

taking pictures.” On this trip, he used an 11-22mm superwide lens, a 55-200mm

medium telephoto lens, and a 15-45mm lens of which “the 15mm end was wide enough

to shoot those grand Italian interiors and the 45mm end let me quickly switch to human

subjects at the turn of a zoom ring.”

The camera challenged many rules-of-thumb learned from a lifetime of DSLRs. “I

was pleasantly surprised at the quality of images I got after dark even at ISO settings

well above 1000,” he says. “The Dual-Pixel CMOS AF locked on to my subjects at almost

DSLR-like speed. It was also accurate—spot-on even in low-light.”

We call that a photographic renaissance.

Italian Enchantment

Travel with a Canon EOS M6 to shoot like a professional, but look like a local.

EF-M15-45MM F/3.5-6.3 IS STM

EF-M11-22MM F/4-5.6 IS STM

EF-M55-200MM F/4.5-6.3 IS STM

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP:

1. Construction on Il Duomo di
   Firenze began in 1296 and took 140
   years. To blur the pedestrians, I
   mounted the EOS M6 on a tripod and
   used a slow shutter speed.
   F4, 1SEC, 11MM, ISO 100


2. Tuscany has some of Italy's
   dreamiest landscapes. It was hard to
   drive and look at the same time, so
   I found myself stopping very often.
   F4.5, 1I500, 2 00MM, ISO 12 5


3. Locals in the medieval town of
   Lucca out for the customary
   passagieta, the practice of
   strolling, which presents a great
   time to make friends.
   F4, 1I100, 15MM, ISO 100


4. Naples is the home of pizza, with
   fresh cheese and a crunchy-chewy
   crust. It is impossible not to
   photograph food in Italy!
   F5.6, 1I40, 22MM, ISO 6400