Photography skills you should know when traveling.

Everyone can't help shooting beautiful scenery during the trip. I sorted out the photography skills that I should know during my trip. Welcome to read the reference!

1 making list

Moonlight Valley, one of the beautiful scenery I missed when I first went to La Paz, Bolivia.

Find photos of places you want to go online-Google, Flickr, 500px and other websites, and have a first impression on them. Pay attention to the light, color, the possibility of field exploration, and find out where you can take the best photos.

For example, on Flickr, you may also see the shooting time in the photo, so that you can know what the light is like at a specific time and place. Although it takes some skill, this function is very helpful to me.

You can do many other similar studies online, and the number is so large that you are surprised. For example, in food photography, you don't need to find a restaurant to look at the pictures on the menu, and you don't need to spend some time looking at what people around you ordered before.

You can find the food information and pictures of these restaurants online in advance, and you can directly order the dishes you want to shoot and eat after you arrive.

Don't regret when you travel home and find that you missed a good scenic spot and didn't do the corresponding investigation in advance.

Take more time and don't worry.

Dublin, Ireland This photo is my 15 attempt, which is totally worth waiting for and trying before.

You must have heard this advice from others before, but this is definitely my most important advice in photography: spend some time shooting on the spot.

Spend more time in scenes where you think you have the potential to take good photos until you get the best photo position you can get.

Always remember this: landscape photography is not taking more than 200 beautiful snapshots; It wants you to take a first-class photo of 5 to 10. So, spend your time and energy on taking some excellent photos.

Don't worry. Never be satisfied with the first photo you take. If you can study the scene carefully, you have a 99.9% chance to take better photos. Try different angles when shooting.

Walk around, get closer to the target, stay away from the target, and try another lens. Pay attention to the details in the scene-they may be just what you are looking for. Finally, find the most suitable background to match.

After doing your best in a scene, you can move on and find the next scene to shoot. There's nothing more disappointing than looking at your photos when you get home and finding that you might be able to take them better from another angle.

3 wait for the opportunity

This proposal is basically the same as the last one. Only this time I emphasized the situation after finding the best angle somewhere. Look at the scene more and you will find that the composition is good. Now it's time to spice up the scene.

In both cases, you may have to spend more time waiting for the best shooting opportunity.

Chev Shawan, Morocco I wanted to take a picture of a person wearing the same clothes as the one in the picture, so I waited for a long time until the perfect subject passed through the picture.

First of all, the scene itself is great, but you think it will be perfect to shoot anyone in this scene. Or, a dog, a bird, a group of passers-by, or a lady in red, etc. Can make this scene perfect. In short, wait patiently until you film it.

Saxon Hausen concentration camp-Oraninburg, Germany When I arrived here earlier, I thought it would be a good place to take pictures, with great potential. So after I visited this concentration camp, the light was perfect.

The second is that many times, you have to wait for the best light. If so, you might as well take a photo first, write down your shooting position and angle, and wait until the light is good.

In both cases, you may need to be more patient than before to find the best shot. No matter how long it takes, you need to wait there.

When you wait patiently, it may be difficult to keep your concentration. However, if you miss it, it's easy to regret not taking more photos when you get home.

Don't be lazy.

"Cave"-Zhiruoka de Gericault Acoala, Brazil. Many friends asked me why this place looks completely different from when they visited in my photo. When they came, they looked bored. My secret is shooting in the morning.

You should get up early and make the most of the morning sunshine.

Setting the alarm clock at 5 am sounds cruel, but you will be happy when you find that you can find many great photos in the morning-most of them are much better than the photos you took around noon.

Morning and evening are two prime times for photography. In these two periods, the light when shooting is completely beneficial to your play. In addition, although other tourists may take photos in the same place, most of them will not wake up so early.

Because the sun illuminates everything from the opposite side in the morning, your photos will be different from those of other tourists. In addition, one advantage you can take advantage of is that it is usually quieter in the morning than in the afternoon, which is beneficial to your creation.

When you get home and see these beautiful photos you brought back, you will never regret getting up so early to shoot.

5 Prepare enough choices

When you organize and crop photos, it is always good for you to explore more possibilities and have more choices. For example, even after carefully creating and looking for the best image, horizontal and vertical photos of the same scene will still be taken.

If you take random photos of people to help you build a picture, take more photos of men, women, children, couples and others.

Don't be too limited to the subject when shooting. It is best to take a wider picture and cut it moderately if necessary. For example, in magazines, photos are sometimes cut to fit the spatial arrangement. In short, let your editor (and yourself) have enough space to edit photos.

When you have a chance to look at each photo carefully, choose the best one. If you shoot for another company, let your editor have a choice.

Let strangers be your role models.

When you ask the second stranger, it will be almost as difficult as asking the first stranger, because the first one. And it will be easier when you ask the third person. If you shoot too much, ask for 1 00th time, and it will be as easy to communicate with strangers as1,2, 3.

You will feel disappointed when you are rejected for the first time, but sometimes you just have to adapt to being rejected by others. Believe me, you must ask strangers if they want to be your models.

Please check it carefully before taking the next photo.

When you finally get a great photo, be sure to check the LCD screen carefully to see if the photo is shaking or out of focus.

At the same time, check the histogram to see if the picture is underexposed or overexposed (don't rely on the photos on the LCD screen to see if there is any exposure problem, especially on sunny days).

Always keep the equipment clean.

Ahutongriki on Easter Island. It's been a while since I took these photos, but I'm still cleaning up the stains on these photos taken during my trip.

Sometimes, only when you adjust the photo contrast and edit the photo can you see the small black spots on the photo, and then you know how dirty the sensor and lens of your camera are.

Clean the photosensitive element of the camera with a blower, a brush or a suitable cleaning solution, and wipe and clean the lens surface, lens and filter with a clean lens cloth.

Although you can use Photoshop to deal with those black spots after taking pictures, these stains are really annoying and need time to clean up. You'd better avoid these extra jobs in advance.

9 take notes

When you upload photos to your computer, you begin to sort and organize them. When you take these photos, you must want to know the names of places and landmarks, especially when you find that the photos you upload need a title.

So you should take some notes or, if possible, take some photos of landmarks or landmarks in this area.

Sometimes you will find the corresponding information you need online in the future, but even so, it is better to record this information in a small book for easy reference at any time.

10 Pay attention to yourself, equipment and safety.

Keep yourself safe and look at your equipment. If your device is lost, you can buy a new device, but the photos in the lost memory card will be lost forever. So you have to reduce the risk. Please pay attention to yourself and the equipment.