Top seven tips for better travel photography
Gathering memories and reliving or recalling them, is an instinct in almost all human beings. When one travels to particular place, he/she collects many memories some by their eyes in their hearts and some by camera. Every place that someone goes has its own looks, characters and atmosphere that differentiates it from others and make it worthy enough to remember and recall it. Travel photography is genre of photography dedicated for collection of memories of landscapes, people, cultures , norms and history of an area in the form of photos. Travel photography is a very inspirational and exciting task. so for having a better and more electrifying experience below are some pro tips that can help you in travel photography.
Right selection of lenses
When a passionate photographer travels , he/she finds many things which captivates him/her to capture them in camera. A right selection of camera lens can be both helpful and exciting while you are doing travel photography. There are many types of lenses which can aid you in our travel photography , they have different specifications and different prices. For instance if you are short on budget and can only buy one lens then you can go for a fast zoom such as 18-200mm or 28-300mm lens whereas you can go for a portrait prime lens 50mm or 85mm, a wide angle lens 10-24mm and a telephoto 70-200mm if you have a wider choice and a heavy budget.
Shooting and storing in the right way
While you are doing travel photography try to capture your photos in RAW or JPEG image files . they are more flexible and provides you more range as compared to other image file formats. RAW and JPEG image files save more information of the object like contrast and sharpness as compared to other file formats. But while you are shooting in RAW or JPEG you need to have high capacity storage devices like memory cards. besides this you should download your pictures in you laptops as soon as possible so that the memory gets free and you more space in your memory card to save more pictures.
Researching the location
If you are a travel photographer or you are interested in travel photography then before going to any place always try to do sufficient research about the place where you intend to go . read about the resorts , landscapes or any other intriguing thing that can haunt you. You can go to post card stands and find more about the place,or you can ask the experiences of your friends or family who have been there before, or you can simply do a web based research of the place to know more about the place.
Capture more and more pictures
While you are traveling you must capture more and more pictures. Because sometimes it may happen that for the time being you do not find a scenery or object very interesting but later you might regret to skip that. So it is better to capture more pictures specifically of natural scenes like sunset, sunrise, stars, waterfalls or some other moments. Besides this you must be sharp and efficient enough to see that beauty in a thing that can be captured by camera and admired by the viewer.
Confidence to capture a portrait
While doing travel photography everyone loves to capture beautiful portraits of that specific area. These portraits express the culture, features and characters of the people of any specific area and take travel photography to a next level. But many photographers have a fear of getting refused and so they capture a telephoto from distance. This is not the right approach and the photographer should be confident enough to ask people for their pictures . most of the people will agree but if they refuse you shuld just thank them and find someone else without getting disheart. Capturing smiles of people from different demography can be an astonishing experience.
Spend most of the time outdoors
While you are traveling to some place you must try to spend most of your time outdoors exploring nature . this will be very helpful for good travel photography because you never know when you find a very pecfect scene for an amaizing photograph. Try to sleep less , sleep only to meet the requirement of your body spend all other time in wadering and try to explore every inch of the place as sometimes you find out perfection in most unexpected places.
Be Enduring patient and creative
Travel photography is a skill that only improves with the passage of time . you need to learn from self experience . besides this you must be enduring and patient because travel photography can never be learned in only a single day or week . it may take your months or even year to polish your skills. Moreover this you may face many hardships while you are going through a learning process . but you must stand strong and stick to your passion to reach your destination. As a newbie often it may be difficult to decide what is an appropriate thing to be photographed or sometime you may not be skilled enough to see the beauty of the things .
furthermore adequate editing of photos can also be very helpful in getting high quality pictures but often in a learning stage it can be difficult for you to properly edit the pictures but it is nothing to pay much heed as you will learn with the time by with your creativity. Moreover this if you have an artistic mind you can see and pick out the capturable beauty from a certain place.
To conclude , travel photography is a passion worthy enough to take it throughout your life . but it is bit more complex genre of photography because it requires a lot of attention, time and endurance to attain perfection. But nothing is impossible if you are passionate for it , and you follow some basic tips which help you to get perfect results.