What are the skills of travel photography? Tourism photography skills

Travel is a wonderful thing. Everyone will record the beauty of travel with a camera. What are the skills of travel photography? Let me introduce it to you. Let's study together.

First, plan a trip.

More than 90% of the author's trips abroad are "self-help tours" (self-parade). Although it is troublesome to arrange accommodation and transportation for scenic spots. It can give you "freedom" and "flexibility" that you can't get with the group! For example, you can watch local scenic spots worth shooting on Google, Flickr or 500px in advance, and get there at "appropriate time" (such as sunrise and sunset, MagicHour, festivals, etc.). ), it can definitely greatly improve the chances of taking good photos!

Second, the basic photography skills

Many times, the opportunity is fleeting when traveling, especially when shooting humanities, you should at least know the following equipment and skills:

How to quickly change the aperture and shutter speed of the camera, how to confirm the shutter speed being used by ISO, so as to avoid taking blurred photos (or especially dynamic photos of lakes), and how to understand the relationship between aperture, focal length and background distance and "depth of field".

In order to take good photos at the same time, you must be familiar with the settings and characteristics of your equipment.

Third, be patient.

Normal people travel for fun, but those of us who like photography should not only bring all kinds of cameras, lenses, filters, tripods and other equipment, but also often go up and down the mountain to find the best shooting point, which requires a lot of physical expenditure. So to take good photos, we must have the determination not to be afraid of hard work!

In addition, especially landscape photography, sometimes you go to the same scenic spot for the first time, the weather is bad, or the time you go is not suitable, and you may need to go again the next day to shoot satisfactory works; Furthermore, some subjects, such as shooting stellar orbits or waiting for sunrise and sunset, also need to test your patience, but as long as you take wonderful photos, it is worth it!

Fourth, go into battle lightly.

Besides equipment, you should also bring other necessary items, such as food, water, mobile phone, clothes, etc. When traveling, please try to bring light things, especially lenses, and don't bring all the equipment at home! If the burden of the journey is too heavy, it is easy to reduce the desire to take pictures because of physical exhaustion, which will hinder you from taking pictures, thus reducing the chance of taking good pictures.

Fifth, train your photographic eyes more.

If you want to take beautiful photos in a short time in a foreign country, you must practice your "photographic eyes" more in advance. There are a few points you can write down and make some suggestions:

Looking for a special shooting angle.

Does the photo have a good prospect?

The protagonist should be prominent, and it is better to add "interesting points", but it should not contain too many elements, up to three elements, so as to avoid messy photos.

The above are the travel photography skills I introduced, hoping to help you.