Tips For Travel Photography
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Hi Dale,
I'd like to share some simple shooting techniques that can be used repeatedly, no matter what the subject. This approach is particularly useful for me when I'm shooting in new, unfamiliar locales.
About These Pictures:
I took a Spring transatlantic cruise to Europe.
As you look through my photos I suggest you examine them to see some key composition techniques I use regularly:
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An Easy Approach To Show the Size of Objects
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Variations on the Rule of Thirds
Also, you may want to check out my "editorial" style of story telling, where I attempt to:
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Integrate People Into Their Surroundings
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Contrast or Compare Visual "Ideas"
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Use Visual Humor & Sight Gags
I hope you'll find these photographs and my observations useful for your travel photography.
Good shooting!
Dale
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Incorporating People & Objects To
Show Size and Scale
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These Photos Illustrate How Including
People or Objects (Like the Truck in the
Lower Right of Coliseum Picture) Can Be Used To Emphasize The Size of the Main Subject
- Scale: The same use of this scaling technique that illustrates the immense size of the Coliseum works with the far smaller sized statuary and waterfall in the botanical garden. The key is incorporating people and objects in the composition.
- Rule of Thirds: All three photos have the primary subject being photographed in 2/3rds of the upper portion of the picture.
- Color: Having muted or bright color makes no difference. It's the design elements that count. Note how dots of color can bring the viewer's eye into the photographs to show people and their relative sizes.
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Take Advantage of Diagonal "Lines"
Within Images To Create Impressive
Rule-of-Thirds Compositions
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How To Use the Rule-of-Thirds Diagonally
- We tend to think of the Rule of Thirds as applying only to horizontal or vertical compositions. But, you can capture really impressive images if you take advantage of diagonal patterns.
- Technique: Notice that the diagonal yellow line in the bottom right of the Coliseum picture is very much the same as the blue deck "line" in the ship & shore photograph.
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- In both cases the visual line delineates 1/3 of the image in the bottom right, leaving 2/3rds in the top and upper left.
- People were incorporated on or within the diagonal line to draw the viewer's eye.
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Contrasting Foreground
& Background Images Can Add
A Historical Context
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Modern, But Traditional Roman Bread
In Front of a Two Thousand Year-Old Temple
I shot this picture on an iPhone 10 from a sixth floor restaurant that overlooked the temple of Portunis (which dates back to 100BC). The iPhone's wide angle lens gave me the depth-of-field I needed ... with acceptable sharpness from front to back. |
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Saintly Statues Versus Modern Images & Devices
Italy is a country full of visual contradictions. You'll find classical statues nearly everywhere. So, they are easy to include in compositions with modern design (like the "with it" billboard I found in Sicily) or the juxtaposed solar panels and saint's statue that I shot from the Hilton Hotel's front entrance at Rome's airport.
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Add A Bit of Humor ... It's Free!
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Sight gags of people and how they interact with their dogs generally produce a chuckle. |
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There's always a wise guy in the crown who thinks it's cool to mess with tourist photographers. Instead of getting mad, I try to utilize these local "characters" in some of my travel shots.
In this shot I actually got two spectators to play my game. We all shared a good laugh when I showed them this picture.
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The Point In All This?
Photography should be fun. Take advantage of simple, repeatable techniques and you'll get better pictures. You'll also enjoy taking your travel photos even more.
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Dale Laboratories is here to give you creative imaging options, the easy way:
Any of our
free programs will allow you to print your
photographs to perfection.
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Our friendly photo experts will help you get the best prints ever!
Best regards,
Dale
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