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50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

50 photography tips summarized by selfie experts, friends who like to travel may wish to try them.

First of all, when traveling, especially when traveling abroad, don’t let others feel after looking at your photos that what you want to express is “Damn it, I finally saved up money to apply for a visa and travel, and spent a lot of money to get here in the future. There must be some evidence of coming to a place where you will never have the chance to come again. Take a look hahaha"

You should let others have the impression after looking at your photos that "Oh, he lives a carefree life abroad where the moon is rounder, I am so envious" or "Oh, he is traveling around the world. I am so envious of travelers who have all kinds of crazy experiences in their youth and whose motto is 'carpe diem'."

Although in fact your purpose of uploading the photos yourself is still "Damn it, I finally saved up money to apply for a visa, it took time, effort and money to go abroad to a place where I will never have the chance to come again. I must have some evidence of coming. Take a look." Hahaha!"

Secondly, follow the detailed rules as follows:

1. Observe how tourists around you take photos at scenic spots in a unified way. After the observation is completed, eliminate their methods of taking photos.

2. If their photo-taking behavior is highly consistent, use their dicks as the foreground and scan the things you really want to take a photo of, and then look back at them on Weibo and laugh at them. (For example, under the Leaning Tower of Pisa, there are people pretending to hold the tower with their hands. Stop pretending to hold the tower and look at them. If you happen to have a big brain, just high five their outstretched palms and then ask your companions to Photographic record.)

3. Don’t feel like you are taking a photo with other objects. Interact with them. (For example, the red telephone booth in London. Don’t just stand there stupidly. Try to open the door and walk out from inside to create the feeling of being photographed by pedestrians after making a phone call.)

4. Don’t do scissors, pout, point far away, and use your arms to form a heart shape with other people’s arms. In addition to the above, boys should not stand in a military posture or put their hands on their hips.

5. Bring up the level or tic-tac-toe pattern in the camera and use it.

6. Positioning the camera straight is not a very vulgar thing, but it is not a very vulgar thing either. So, square it up. Some things can be hard to see as long as they are properly photographed and re-photographed.

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

7. Move the subject you want to photograph from the middle to the golden section.

8. It is best not to take selfies. If you really like taking selfies or traveling alone, don’t use a selfie camera and buy a GoPro for half the price.

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

Does it feel like it’s much better than Casio’s selfie camera?

9. You can take selfies with your mobile phone if you like, but don’t let your face take up more than two-thirds. If your face must account for more than two-thirds, don’t shoot from a 45-degree angle. If you have to use your mobile phone to take a picture of a big face, be careful when posting it on Renren Weibo Moments.

10. The lighting point should be low, because there will not be magnificent scenery to be photographed everywhere. The photo point should be low enough to take pictures of the condiments on the table.

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

11. If your feet don’t look good,Don't focus on it. Even on the beach, don't.

12. Early morning and evening are the best times for taking pictures. This time is commonly known as blue hour. Don’t stay in the hotel at that time.

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

This is a photo I took while looking at the window while I was writing my thesis until sunrise

13. When traveling alone, it is not recommended to put a doll in every scenic spot and take pictures of it because you think it is very creative. Everyone has seen Amelie, so save yourself the trouble.

14. If you are a girl and you see a handsome guy abroad and you like it, but you don’t have good equipment, don’t take secret photos of him. I went straight up and asked if I could take a photo with him.

15. If you are a boy and you like beautiful women when you see them abroad, but you don’t have good equipment, don’t take secret photos of her. Take the time to watch.

16. When taking pictures of pedestrians, tell yourself that you are not taking candid photos, but that you are sweeping the street and taking photos. If someone grabs you by the collar, tell him the same thing.

17. Do not use the built-in flash.

18. Do not use fully automatic transmission.

19. Simplify the elements in your photos.

20. Always pay attention to places with strong contrast between light and dark.

21. Take photos from various angles.

22. If you really feel that your photography skills are poor, go to the website "Zhongguancun Online" to find a camera of the same model as yours, and check the relevant forums. Most of the photos inside must be worse than yours.

23. You don’t need to waste time reading the notes in museums or attractions. You won’t look back at them again.

24, if you think you look average, you can choose to make yourself smaller

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

25. Choose the photos you think are good and upload them on social networks. Don’t upload more than a hundred photos at once like uploading to a network disk and add it to the photo albumName it a few-day trip to a certain place.

26. It would be better to have one or two people or animals in the photo.

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

27. If you are taking a photo of a beautiful storefront, building or graffiti, take the photo directly and wait for a passerby to walk by.

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

28. Take photos in places with strong color contrast.

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

29. Try every means to let people know which famous attraction you are at. These methods do not include standing by the gate of the attraction.

30, clouds may be a good embellishment.

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

31. You can use what you really want to take as the background or even blur it.

32. Try changing the photos you want to delete to black and white.

33. Try adding an artistic filter to the blurry night scene and upload it with a sentence such as "Disappear in the urban neon".

34. Find something reflective, such as standing water, sunglasses, etc., to see if it can reflect any scene, and then take a photo of it.

35. Learn to leave blank space or engage in Minimalism. Once you get it right, you will be very pretentious and have a high production rate.

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

36, Bokeh!

37. Don’t let others look at the travel photos you took for your girlfriend as if they were looking at private photos without a soul.

38. If your girlfriend is beautiful, the photos will have soul no matter how you take them.

39. If you think the other person is not good-looking, don’t use the app to put a cat or bear face on his face before sending the photo. Just make him smile happily when taking the photo.

40, it is recommended to use raw format.

41, late period. Regardless of whether you use photoshop, lightroom or snapseed or vscocam on your mobile phone, it must be post-processed anyway. It’s not too late to take photos with a digital camera. Are you taking photos to extract criminal evidence?

42. For daily p-pictures, all the above software are not that difficult, and you can learn it by yourself without any tutorial.

43. Post-production is just like makeup. The purpose is to make others think you are beautiful but also think you don’t wear much makeup. But in fact, the time it takes you to put on makeup may be longer than that of non-mainstream heavy makeup.

44. Everyone is taking pictures of food, but actually taking pictures of food is not a simple thing. According to my observation, in addition to the difference in the level of the p-map, what is important is the difference in angle. Most people take diagonal shots from the perspective of sitting on a chair, naive! In fact, it is often better to look down vertically.

50 tips on how to take great photos while traveling

45. Crop your photo.

46, try using a fixed focus lens.

47. Using Flickr, I personally think the users there are generally pretty good. And the website itself is easy to use.

48. When taking photos of people, pay attention to the background, and be especially careful not to stick out flagpoles or other stick-like objects above your head.

49, take more shots.

50, more! Shoot!