How to choose the right subject for travel photography?

The subject matter of travel photography is all-encompassing, and almost everything that appears in front of travelers can be the object of shooting. However, beginners often don't know how to find interesting themes or arrange useful pictures. Most of them follow the crowd to recognize the "beautiful" tourist attractions "beauty pageant" and ignore the "characteristic shots" that may appear anytime and anywhere. From the shooting content, the subject matter of tourism photography can be divided into astronomy, geography, scenery, folk customs, daily life and so on. Each theme has different observation angles, performance characteristics and creative techniques, and the standards and value orientations of appreciation are also quite different.

Astronomical astronomical content mainly affects photography creation through weather, such as seasonal climate and time changes in nature, which are mainly reflected in the changes of light and color, and act on the appearance of light and color sense of natural scenery. Of course, it is more direct to record the wonderful and vivid "expressions" of the sky as the main body.

Facing the changes of the sky with a nervous attitude of snapping or grabbing shots is a crucial creed of celestial photography. The change of seasons and climate makes people appreciate the endless drama on the sky stage, and at the same time, they also realize the hardships of catching wind and catching shadows and chasing wonders.

Geography The so-called geography refers to the ever-changing physical form of geographical landforms in nature. They are reflected in the line sense, shape sense and color attributes of natural scenery, and are the primary factors of the general traveler's tourism value orientation, because the natural aesthetic value of geographical landforms is relatively obvious and stable, unlike astronomical phenomena, which are not as changeable as people's customs, and are not affected by social environment as the theme of daily life. The beauty of natural geography and landforms lies in the appearance of formal beauty. Point, line, surface, shape, color and other modeling elements show relatively independent aesthetic value under the action of light and shadow. The so-called ideological connotation, social significance and value of the times have all been diluted, and people pay attention to expressive vivid lines, interesting shapes, rich colors, changing light and shadow, and various wonderful changes in nature.

Landscape is a combination of nature and man-made, which endows a specific area with local characteristics, characteristics or specialties, and is an objective product of the ecological balance between man and the natural environment. For example, the man-made landscape transformed by human beings, the historical relics precipitated by regional culture and history, and the living, eating and production conditions of people with local flavor. Feeling the local scenery is an interesting way for people to know and understand the world scenery and human living conditions. It is often accompanied by magical legends of long-standing regional culture and human history, which makes the local scenery unique and connotative. From the perspective of travel photography, the landscape theme without artistic skills may have cognitive value, but the intensity of image expression undoubtedly plays an important role in deepening the theme.

Folklore catching up with folk activities is an opportunity for many photographers to travel. Most tourists are also willing to spend a lot of film on the scene of folk activities. Many times, they can't help but press the shutter because of the influence of the atmosphere. In normal times when there are no large-scale folk activities, there are a large number of customs and feelings of different nationalities and regions, which constitute the most attractive tourist photography themes, such as various folk festivals, distinctive costumes, village fairs, religious ceremonies, labor technology, weddings and funerals, eating habits, architectural styles, transportation and so on. , will bring people rare curiosity, as well as taking pictures or collecting pictures. Although there is no special skill in shooting this aspect, it is the most extensive and extensive subject in travel photography, which deserves enough attention from the perspective of photography.

The themes of daily life in daily life travel photography are endless, which seems to be readily available, but what really touches people or makes them look more, are those interesting and vivid details, or strange living habits and articles with local characteristics that travelers rarely see. Don't deny that this theme comes from curiosity and sympathy. Without compassion and curiosity, there is no concern for the daily life of others, and there is no sensitive heart to discover and taste the beauty of life.

Many times, it is with the help of interesting modeling forms to absorb the content of daily life. Without these modeling factors, we may not pay special attention to its content. This seems to be a "common problem" of quite a few photographers. Although suspicion is more important than grace, it is also a pleasure to feel the American photography skills. Moreover, sometimes it is difficult to separate content from form.