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How to take good travel photos

Introducing a few tips for taking good travel photos.

1. Accurate focus

When taking pictures, aim the camera's focus frame at the subject person or scene, and press the camera shutter release button halfway to make the camera focus automatically. When you see the focus frame on the LCD screen changing from red to green, and you hear a "beep" sound, it means that the focus is complete. Then you can compose the picture, and then quickly and gently press the shutter release button. After you hear a "click" sound , the photo is taken. When pressing the shutter button, remember to hold the camera steady and avoid shaking your body and arms to avoid losing focus and causing blurry images.

2. Avoid shooting with backlight

When shooting with backlight (that is, the subject’s back is to the sun), the face of the person is often dark due to underexposure, which affects the quality of the photo, so take When shooting, avoid shooting under backlight conditions. Of course, if you want to highlight the outline of characters or scenery and create a different artistic conception, you can shoot with backlight.

3. The background is simple and the subject stands out

When shooting, you should pay attention to choosing a simple background, so that the subject can stand out and avoid overpowering the subject. Try to avoid noisy crowds, and don’t let passers-by suddenly break into the picture to disturb the attention of the photo viewer and destroy the beauty of the picture.

4. Rich expressions and poses

Put on different poses and play with various expressions to make your travel photos more interesting, not just dull. Standing in the center of the screen and gesturing.

5. Try shooting from multiple angles

You can try shooting from many different angles around people or scenery - front, side, overhead, overhead, flat, etc. Shooting from a variety of different angles can make your photos more varied and avoid being the same and giving people a monotonous feeling.

6. Characters occupy one-third of the frame

When taking travel photos, it is the best ratio for people to occupy one-third of the frame. In this way, the scenery can be taken into consideration while also highlighting the characters, so that there are people in the scenery and scenery outside. Of course, you can try to make various changes to the position and proportion of characters or scenery in the picture. You will find that different composition methods give people different feelings.