Photography and traveling are two factors that go together. When we are in new and beautiful places and have new experiences, we want to capture them for remembering. But most of the time the photos’ output doesn’t go the way you want. there are a lot of reasons to get this type of bad output. But with the best preparations and tips, we can take good photos. In this article, we are going to talk about the tips you want to make a good travel photography process.
Know the Camera
This is one of the basic ones. If you don’t know how to take a good photo with your camera, Try to know your camera before you start to travel. Use the user manual and read guides. Try to capture simple day-to-day life scenarios and practice well. With good practice, you can use your camera without any hassle.
Rule of Thirds
Rule of Thirds is one of the best rules that can make your photos more visually interesting and more attractive. In this, the photography will be divided into three grids, both horizontally and vertically. To do this, use two horizontal and vertical lines. Here you can see four points where horizontal and vertical lines intersect. Put your most important objects on these four spots if there is a human in the photo, place the person on the left or right gridline. If there is a horizontal line place it on of the horizontal line. Nowadays most cameras give this grid view to get the rule of thirds to our photos.
Try Unique Angles
Most time, people try to get photos by raising their cameras to their eye level. Even though this can give you a good output. But when it comes to travel photography the more your photos are unique, the more you get attention from viewers. This may be a unique way only you can capture photos. Maybe when you do it, it appears as a crazy stance, but it can give you a good output
Do Some Research
Before you go to a place to travel, do some research about that place. Go to Google and look for a travel guide or a blog. From these sources, you can see what are the places you can get the photos you want and what are the best places to visit. This information also helps you to book hotels in these areas. After you travel to the desired place, take a look at souvenir books and postcards. With them, you can get an idea about popular travel destinations. With this effort, you can get some of the most amazing photos.
Try to Capture the Golden Hour
The Golden hour is the first hour of the sunrise and the last hour of the sunset. At this time the light is perfect and good for photography. If you can capture your photos in that time your photos will be much greater than others. To do this you have to do some planning. Wake up before sunrise and go to the desired place or stay out till sunset. Also, at this time most places are empty than at other hours of the day.
Try to Create Depth
Good landscape photos have three layers. Foreground, background, and middle ground. The foreground is the one that attracts the viewers to your photos. The background is the one that keeps the viewer with your photos. The quality of each layer comes together to give a great output.
Get People to Photos
Each place has people with their unique identity. People in India are different from people in Africa. If you can capture this diversity into your lenses it can give you a lot of attraction. Before capturing anyone ask their permission politely. If you can’t speak their language just hold your camera and give a gesture. Some may say no, if that happens say thank you and move on. Most people are super friendly and help you.
Color and Light
Try to do color balancing and mostly light colors attract people than dark ones. If you can add some contrast between your background and your main subject it will pop up mainly. Try to get natural light and make your photo colorful. There are three main directions in which light comes naturally, and each has its pros and cons. Choose the one you want.