photography has ended up being such an important part of everyone’s travel modus; making the most of your travel photography is essential. right here are our top tips to ace your travel photography as well as come house with the shots you want.
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Capturing those memories while you’re travelling has never been easier. Cameras are more approachable as well as take much better shots. Post-production editing software application is getting more advanced as well as accessible.
And of course, choices for sharing your pictures seem to be growing every day.
Still, just since there are more choices as well as things are easier doesn’t mean that travel photography is simple.
We’ve got the tips to take your travel photography to the next level as well as leave you with pictures that your good friends will be asking to see.
Here are our how-tos that have assisted us with our travel photography as well as that will likewise assist you make the most of your finest pictures when you get back home.
How to take your travel photography to the next level
Before you go
1. research study your destination for the very best shots
Whenever you see those candid natural photos in travel magazines, the professional photographers have most likely spent weeks discovering that excellent place as well as building connections to snap them.
It’s unusual that those ‘accidental’ pictures truly occurred by accident.
To catch those iconic scenes, research study your destinations before you go. For us, that research study starts with inspecting Instagram, Pinterest as well as picture tags on Google Maps for great locations.
2. set a theme
Give your travel photography a story – set a style for your trip. It doesn’t have to be totally prescriptive, however it will influence you to take more photos.
Make the style something you are thinking about – perhaps food or design or people. Every day, look for a shot to add to your style and, throughout your trip, it’ll develop to produce a lovely cohesive vision.
3. A look inside our camera bags
Mrs romance likes to travel rather incognito with a little purse that hides the camera. A cross-body bag is more comfortable to bring as well as evenly distributes the weight of your camera gear. It’s likewise a bit bit safer when you’re travelling as well as lets you blend in.
Even in this little shoulder bag, Mrs R can in shape her camera, a different lens as well as whatever she needs for the day.
We changed to these Olympus mirrorless cameras about 3 years ago. one of the reasons was that they’re smaller as well as more compact than a huge DSLR without sacrificing functionality.
If we’re out for a long time or on a trek, we’ll take the backpack with additional gear – most significantly a tripod. The tripod’s excellent for taking selfies with both of us in. It’s likewise necessary if you want that lovely waterfall impact or shooting moving water.
Tripods are likewise necessary for doing any type of time-lapse videography. This is super simple with the Olympus OMD EM5 mark II, which has time-lapse settings in the menu. Slow-mo as well as time-lapse add a lovely accent to your travel videos.
Whether we’re travelling or at home, we like settings for catching moments like these.
4. pack the right gear
Switching from huge DSLR to these smaller, lighter mirrorless cameras has made a genuine difference to our travel photography.
Because they’re smaller as well as less confronting, they likewise enable you to get a bit bit better without freaking people out. If truth the cameras are such a excellent conversation point, everybody likes seeing them as well as utilizing the touchscreen to take photos.
This is Christina’s favourite camera – the Olympus OM-D E-M5 mark II – since she likes the video functions, the time-lapse performance as well as the size.
I prefer the OM-D E-M1. The grip shape is truly comfortable for my hands as well as the flip-down screen enables me to get to the shot angles that I wouldn’t normally be able to see.
Christina is the genuine professional photographer in our connection as well as shoots in different modes as well as comprehends the difference between shooting in aperture concern or shutter concern as well as can even shoot in full handbook mode.
I’m happy to trust the camera most of the time as well as utilize the auto functions. as well as that’s what I like about the Olympus cameras. Whatever level of photography you’re at, they’ll make your pictures look as great as possible!
5. Lenses – our favourites
As for lenses, this truly depends upon the destination. Christina likes the 25mm lens as a excellent all-rounder. It’s unobtrusive, amazing in low light as well as is likewise still excellent for taking landscape shots or street scenes.
The 12-40mm pro Zoom lens is incredible for almost any type of situation. It works well with anything from portraits to landscapes to quite much any type of scene. It’s even the very best one for shooting video. The versatility a zoom lens provides you while you’re travelling is likewise excellent for street photography.
The 45mm F1.8 lens is the most lovely lens for portraits. It’s likewise amazing photographing food as well as scenes as you go.
These lenses are a excellent upgrade to make when you want to take your travel photography up a notch. At the exact same time, the Olympus set lens – the 14-42mm – is perfect if you’re just starting out.
6. begin a Series
While a style can assist your general travel photography, starting a series is one level deeper. It assists you produce a vision that goes with all of your travels.
For Mrs romance it’s photographing doors.
From an elaborate antique door of a Japanese temple to a humble farmhouse door in the countryside of Provence, in producing her series Mrs romance sets guidelines so all the pictures will look great together.
She frames them so that, when all the pictures are put together, a simple door suddenly becomes so much more fascinating when contrasted with the collection.
Think about other collections you might start. Whether it’s doors, birds or beaches, a simple framework of concepts can assist you produce a cohesive travel series.
7. set up your camera before you leave
One of our favourite settings tips is to turn off your camera’s auto-bleeps as well as auto-flash. This means your camera won’t bleep every time you press a button as well as the flash won’t go off without you telling it to. This is excellent for when you’re in museums, churches or other peaceful places.
This is likewise much better for street photography – to take those peaceful shots that nobody notices. nothing worse than the flash going off or your camera beeping when you’re trying to be discreet.
On Location
1. Timing is everything
Taking pictures in the key times of golden hour (around sunrise as well as sunset) as well as Blue hour – that perfect inky blue sky just after the sun sets as well as before it rises – truly adds expression to your landscape photographs.
Golden hour is likewise a excellent time to photograph people.
There are some excellent apps that assist you track sunrise as well as sunset times so you can catch the very best golden hour as well as Blue hour shots while you’re travelling. This website likewise calculates everything in much more detail.
2. Explore
Researching a destination before you go is great. however nothing beats just exploring. research study will assist you discover those iconic spots, however beyond that, just see where your feet take you.
We like to shoot a mix of photos. looking for those ‘social media famous’ shots is always fun, however for us it’s when we’ve gone off-road as well as off-path that we’ve discovered a few of our favourite shots.
3. discover some regional language
It truly assists to understand exactly how to ask, “can I take your picture” in the language of the country you’re visiting. even a few words like “excuse me” as well as “thank you” will assist you get the message across.
It’s important to ask when you’re taking pictures of strangers, as well as by starting that conversation you can get a picture that’s even much better than the one you are hoping for. Smile, be friendly as well as most people will state yes.
You can likewise develop a connection keeping that person – offer to send them the picture or show them a copy before you leave.
4. Be curious
Pretty great life advice generally, this is likewise a excellent travel photography mindset. let your curiosity guide you in a new place.
Communicate with the people you meet. You only get to understand a location by satisfying the people there. It’s what takes you from being a tourist to a traveller.
And catching moments in those connections take you so much further.
5. always pack extras
Make sure you’ve got a spare battery as well as great deals of memory cards. When you’re travelling, you never understand where you’ll end up as well as there’s nothing worse than running out of area or power at that key moment.
6. Back it up
At the end of every day we like to download our memory cards as well as produce a bit back up on our computers. We don’t like to dwell on worst-case scenarios, however it’s possible your camera might be stolen or cards damaged as well as thereby losing the shots from the whole trip.
By doing a download each night, we minimise these risks. It has the added bonus offer of assisting us keep pictures in order as we go.
Back home
1. Do more with your photos
The finest method to get over your post-holiday blues is to book one more trip! however if you can’t do that, going with your pictures is the second finest thing. Take time to edit your pictures as well as put those series together.
Once you’ve edited as well as organised them, there’s so much you can do with your photos.
You can produce books, calendars, magnets as well as even slide shows that you can have as your screen saver or on your TV to keep those travel memories alive.
Here’s a more detailed publish on what you can do with your travel photos.
2. keep publishing on Instagram
It’s fine to keep sharing pictures post-trip. We relive memories all the time on Instagram, showing our favourite moments. keep sharing your series over the next bit while – people don’t like it when you publish as well many pictures in one day.
Instagram’s likewise a excellent location where we can see the results of our travel motivation in our own pictures as well as the process comes full circle. It means there are some excellent travel neighborhoods there you can tap into.
Follow the #OlympusInspired hashtag for more travel photography motivation as well.
So, you’ve had a peek into what we we’ll be handling the next trip as well as we can’t wait to share our travels with you.
We’d like to understand what your favourite photography tips are. exactly how do you discover the very best places when you’re travelling?
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