Point. Click. Maybe ask some people to say “cheese”. Click again. Walk closer. Take five steps back. Look over the top of the camera and ask people to stand closer together. Click again. Perhaps the light is wrong. Maybe you need to be higher. Perhaps the lens doesn’t have a sufficient wide angle. Maybe you just have no idea what you’re doing and you need some travel photography tips. Whatever has gone wrong, your photos look dreadful. Next, you thank everybody and say “got it!” as if the awful pictures now clogging up your memory card are exactly what you were after.
Let’s face it, there’s a reason some photos look great and some photos look like a child was waving a camera around and pressing buttons. You need to know what you’re doing. Otherwise, all hope is lost. First, it goes without saying that you need good equipment. I found crkphotoimaging.com.au to be useful. Next, well, let’s get into it…
Get Original With Reflections
If you’re looking for a few happy snaps to remember your travels by, with some being good enough for a blog or social media, you have two options. Option one is to start at the bottom. You’ll need to research different lenses, apertures, exposure times, photo editing, the works. That can take a while. Worth doing, but time-consuming. Option number two is to fake it with the help of originality. What do we mean? Find a reflective surface. It could be a pond, your sunglasses, a shop window, anything. Now, angle yourself so that what you want to take a photo of is reflecting off the surface and straight at you. This way, the shot is no longer completely about professionalism, but more about art and originality.
Above and Below
Another great tip for sidestepping the need for an understanding of professional angles is to do away with the expectations of perspective altogether. Take the Eiffel Tower, for example. It’s big. Really big. It’s hard to get in the shot. You need to stand way back. That’s going to leave a lot of empty space either side of the tower. Adding balance is going to be difficult. Some people use a tree branch creeping into shot. Some people use low angles to include nearby buildings in full view. Or you could stand directly beneath the tower and get an amazing symmetrical shot looking directly upwards. The possibilities are endless.
We hope these travel photography tips help if you are a beginner.
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