Notes from our crews
Blog & guides
The archive
More guides from the crews
About these guides
Written by the people who shoot these places
- Guides published
- 6
- Written by
- Our photographers
- Places covered
- 12
- Sponsored posts
- None
These are working notes rather than travel writing. Each one exists because the same question kept arriving in enquiries, and the answer was long enough to write down once: which hour Kelingking is still quiet, how long the queue at Lempuyang can be, what a drone flight in Indonesia actually needs before it can go up.
Several of them save a wasted morning. Photography rules in Bali are set as much by temples and parks as by law: temples ask for a sarong and sash, priests may restrict a shoot during a ceremony, there is no flying near Ngurah Rai airport, and national parks such as Komodo and Bromo Tengger Semeru charge entry and may need separate permits. Knowing that before you plan a shoot around one is worth more than any advice about composition.
Others are about timing, which costs nothing to get right. The dry season runs roughly from April to October; in the wet season, November to March, mornings are usually clear and storms come in the afternoon. Nyepi, the Balinese Day of Silence, shuts the whole island for a day, airport included. Popular viewpoints are worth a sunrise start.
If your question is not answered here, ask it directly on Telegram or WhatsApp — the answer usually turns into the next article.
Next step
Read enough? Book the shoot
Tell us the place and the date — a coordinator replies within 2 hours with the light, the timing and a fixed price.