11 Travel Photography Composition Tips That Will Instantly Improve Your Shots
Do you want to take more interesting travel photos? Well, I do, and I hope that you do too. It is too easy to go somewhere and take average, boring photos of something you never do anything with. I have taken loads of these myself, so don’t worry. And it is so easy to take the same photo of something we have all seen a thousand times. Let’s not do any of that.
No, there is so much more that we can do, and in this episode, I am going to tell you 11 things you can do to help you take better travel photos.
Do You Want To Know How I Edit My Travel Photos In Lightroom?
There are two stages of editing photos. The first stage is to choose the photos to edit. I choose the best of the best only. And then I process them in Lightroom with the freedom to create stand-out, bright, vibrant, and different travel photos that I hope make the viewer want to be there. Travel photography is all about making the photos of interest to someone who has not been there, and to make them curious about a location.
How To Organise Travel Photos In Lightroom To Save Time Later
I have a dead simple way of organising my travel photos in Lightroom. This is what I do.
Import the photos
Apply some processing on import.
Quickly go through the photos and delete the ones that I just do not want.
Select the photos that I like the look of quickly – hit P
Create a new folder
Create a new sub-folder called Picks
Add the picks
Create a new sub-folder called All
Add the rest
Add all the photos to a collection and sync with Lightroom Mobile
Backup and format the memory cards
And that is that. I use this process on every trip and it means that I never have a backlog of hundreds of images to go through.
Is Travel Photography A Good Career? Sounds Lovely But What Is The Reality?
Travel photography can be a career but there is tons of competition out there. To be successful in travel photography you need to be an excellent photographer, but more importantly excellent at marketing yourself and your excellent travel photos to the right people at the right time. The reality is that you can make some money from travel photography for sure, but I recommend that you have travel photography as part of a broader portfolio of products and services.
How Do You Take Great Travel Photos Explained In Less Than 10 Minutes
Here is the answery bit – this is what I do to try to take great travel photos
Research the area
Look at other people's photos of a location
When you get there find things to photograph that no one else is publishing
Check the weather
Check the timings of things
Get the headline photos
Explore, explore, explore
Then look a bit deeper
Get different things from the headlines
Look for details
Try unusual viewpoints and angles
Remember you don’t have to travel to take travel photos
Be prepared
Gear choices
Memory card management
Put yourself in the frame!
Try some new stuff
Enjoy yourself
Share what you have created
Again not the usual list but the things that I have learned to help me take good travel photos – let's look at these quickly.
11 Excellent New Essential Travel Photography Tips For Beginners
I love travel photography, and in this episode I am going to give you 11 tips, 11 things for you to think about if you are considering getting into travel photography. These are not your usual tips, but the 11 things that came into my head that I think will help you. These are very wide-ranging tips based on my experiences as a travel photographer over many years.
What Is Travel Photography?
Travel photography is the art of capturing all aspects of a place to inspire others to go there. Travel photography captures and conveys the physical location, landscape, people, and culture. Travel photography educates people not able to visit a location by providing interesting and informative photographs that convey what a place is really like.
Travel photography should make you want to be in that place. This is what travel photography is to me. Okay, all my own words there.
Photos Of Santorini Is My New Travel Photography Website
I am delighted to be able to announce that my first travel photography website is now complete – it is called Photos of Santorini. It was completed when I finally got around to buying a logo for this website, which is taken from one of my photos. In this post I will tell you all about this website and my plans for future travel photography websites.
How I created my Top 11 Travel Photos of 2018 - Part 2
How I created my Top 11 Travel Photos of 2018 - Part 2
How I created my Top 10 Travel Photos of 2018 - Part 1
How I created my Top 10 Travel Photos of 2018 - Part 1
Aurora HDR vs Lightroom – which is best?
I have been thinking about my photography for some time now. I feel like I have been doing the same things for a long time now. This is both image capture and image processing.
I am looking to change things in 2019, starting with my image processing. My needs have changed recently, so now I am asking myself the question - Aurora HDR vs Lightroom – which is best? Can Aurora HDR replace Lightroom in my workflow?
And can I use Aurora HDR 2019 to batch produce images for an entire website?
Paxos Travel Guide – the creation of my new travel website
Paxos Travel Guide – the creation of my new travel website