A beautiful travel picture can be with you for the rest of your life: on your laptop, on your desk or even on the wall, as an element of interior design. However, it is not a long ago when many of our travel photos were taken, developed and then dumped into boxes and are hardly seen again unless a basement flood forced someone to throw them all away.
Great photography is very much about the photographer. In fact it is a skill that takes time, effort and practice to master. However, with the busy schedule people do not have much time to learn this photography skill. Therefore, here are some important and helpful tips which will help you to take better pictures while you are travelling.
Think about the people , pictures and objects
While taking the better photos you must think about the people, objects and pictures very carefully. For example: -if you want to take a photo of the Tower of any city on a rainy day then you must put (your favorite people) with the Tower glimpsed over (the place of interest), visible just under (a very specific thing that evokes the conditions). In this way you will have a great shot rather than taking snap of the Tower in the gray light.
Get closer
It is being said by the best photographers is that the closer you get to your subject, the more detail and interest you can capture. There are many ways to get a valid and effective pictures. One is to use the telephoto features found on most cameras to zoom in on your subject and the other is simply to walk closer to your subject.
Be in the thick of it
In order to get the best possible during travel is to capture on moving objects rather than standing still. The photos should be more intimate, engaged or intimately involved in the photos.
Consider the light, not the view
The human eye is vastly more adaptable and clever than the lens of your camera and what you see when you are standing in front of your intended subject may not be what your camera ultimately reproduces. When staring directly into the sun, you may be able to make out colors and people, but your camera is going to reproduce mostly shadows. Or when shooting into shadows, you may be able to see features, but your camera will reproduce a lot of dark stuff.
Know where the sun is
The easiest way to flatter your subject is to put it in the best light. If you want your subjects’ faces to shine, turn them so the sun is shining on their faces. If you want your photo of your cruise ship to look like the brochures, take the photo on the sunny side of the ship. Alternately, if you want to catch the glistening of light on the ocean, take the photo when the sun is low enough to bounce off the waves.
Consider the time of day
There is no time like sunrise or sunset to take compelling, interesting and even stunning travel photos. Sunrise in particular can produce very striking images, in part because most people are not awake at the crack of dawn, and so can still be surprised by a sunrise photo.
Turn the camera on its side
In some situations, turning the camera on its side to take a vertical shot is just not good composition, it is almost essential. Taking vertical shots also has an added benefit as it will enhance the interest of your overall photo collection considerably by adding geometrical variety as folks flip through your vacation slideshow.
Fill the frame
For those who are new photographers, the interesting parts of the scene should start at the left edge of the viewfinder and end at the right edge. The reason behind it is the subject should absolutely fill the frame such that the edges of the photo will include as little superfluous imagery and information as possible.
Divide the scene into threes
If you put something right in the middle of the frame, the photo is about that thing. The other great tactic for creating visual interest in a somewhat routine shot is to frame the shot such that your subject is not in the dead middle of the photo, but is placed off-center in the frame. The most important and easy way to think about this is mentally to divide the frame into three sections (left, center and right), and put the main subject of the photo either entirely within the left or right section, or perhaps right on the line dividing two sections.
When taking a photo of a person, emphasize the person
When taking photos of traveling companions, it is easy to prop them up in front of something interesting and then take the picture. If you put some effort to get the attraction behind them then cut off the top of someone’s head or include a sloppy untucked shirt or cut the photo off at someone’s socks, you have a good photo of the sight and a terrible photo of your friends.
Move
A decent photo could have been a great photo if you had just moved a little bit, whether to reframe the photo slightly, or to put something interesting into the background. This can involve moving a few steps forward or back, shifting to one side or the other, or crouching down. As a photographer, you must have much more control over what you are doing and where you are standing than what you do over the subject matter. If you just stand lead-footed in one spot then your photos will reflect this.
Zoom in and out until you like what you see
If your camera has a zoom feature and most do these days, you can help yourself to move by zooming in and out on your subject. At the point the scene becomes most interesting and your eye will notice.
Hope, such tips could help you to take up the best pictures for being a beginner while you are going for travelling.