Taking Amazing Travel Photos on your SmartPhone - Tips For Travellers Podcast #263
Release Date: 03/27/2017
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info_outlineIn this episode of the podcast Gary Bembridge of TipsForTravellers.com, shares ten tips on how to take amazing (and professional looking) travel photographs that you and your friends and family will be blown away by - just with your SmartPhone or Tablet.
All you need to take incredible travel pictures is your SmartPhone or Tablet and these ten simple tips. You do not need expensive equipment and know all the technical settings to create fantastic images.
The episode covers the following essential tips to take fantastic pictures with your SmartPhone or Tablet on your future trips:
- Avoiding the cliche shots everyone else around you is taking.
- Using the "rule of thirds".
- Framing the subject.
- Using leading lines to lead the viewer's eye.
- Foreground, middle ground and distance composition.
- Golden hour (sunrise and sunset).
- Getting close.
- Getting high or low - avoiding eye level.
- Switching off the Flash.
- Post-production
Resources:
- Picasa (now Google Photos): https://photos.google.com
- Gimp: https://www.gimp.org
- Photoscape: http://www.photoscape.org
- Pixlr: http://pixlr.com
- Apps: PhotoToaster, Justaposer, LensLight, DistressedFX
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