Quick hacks to better photography for travellers

It’s a new week and I’ve got a new set of tips to improve your photography. This week’s tips focus on planning and decision making while taking your shots…. Eventually it will feel like second nature and you won’t even be aware of the process, until then… keep these tips in mind

Daydream

Pre-Visualize in your mind what it will look like and walk through the steps you need to take to get it. This is a shot before finally setting it up and taking it.

Use wide lens 

Try to use wide lenses for landscape shots when you want to create an impact of size. By this you get a bigger angle of view.

Keep it Clean

Keep the background clean, simple and clutter free. Think about where the viewer should be focused, that’s the real object.

You Can’t Have Too Many Clouds

The sky is now a giant soft box. This is the time to shoot portraits or waterfalls and streams with a motion blur effect.

Sharpen Your Subjects

Keep your main subjects sharp. Sharp details in the image truly draw the viewers’ eyes towards the subject. Use your tripod in low light conditions to make sharp pictures.

Behind Every Great Shot is the Sun

Stand with the sun at your back and the light of the sun falling on your subject. Unless you are making artistic pictures always try to keep the sun behind you.

Top to Bottom

There are great shots from every vantage point, including an unexpected angle. Sometimes we focus so much on the obvious shot that we miss something special just a heartbeat away.

 It’s a Camera not a gun

Don’t just fire away hoping for something good to appear during editing. Think, move, and adjust your framing before you click the shutter. You’ll develop better instincts and save hours of time editing those hundreds of extra images.

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