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1. Choose a Theme
You can take photos of whatever you desire when you travel, but try posting them online by theme. People might get bored when browsing through hundreds of shots of your night at the bar. Try posting numerous sections of photos with titles like “The People of _____” or “_____ Culture”.
2. Get a Good View
When you’re traveling with a tour-group, it can be hard to find high points or interesting angles. If you have to get down on the ground, go for it! If you have to climb up on a ledge or mound of dirt, be careful, but go ahead!
3. Don’t think like a Tourist
It can be difficult to come up with interesting ideas every time that you want to take a photograph, but try to think outside of the box. If everyone else is taking a shot of a street performing-monkey, take a photo of the man holding the monkey. When others are snapping the famous landmark, stick something in the foreground, and have the landmark unfocused in the background.
4. Take Self Portraits
Don’t be afraid to take your own photo! Get yourself a tripod and wireless shutter release and strike a pose. It might be embarrassing to take a photo of yourself in front of strangers, but it can be great to actually have photos of yourself on your trip, especially if you are traveling alone.
5. Keep your Camera Out of the Bag
We all know that lugging a heavy DSLR camera around can be a pain in the neck—literally, but if you want to catch that cool street performance or that cute little Italian Villa that just passed by your window—you need to have your camera handy!
6. Know which Lens to Use
If you carry two lenses with you, and you come across a beautiful temple-sunset scene, get out the wide angle lens. If you’re wandering through the hallways of a spice Bazaar you’re probably better off keeping the lens with the lowest Depth of Field on your camera to get intimate and detailed close-ups.
7. Keep a Photo Log
It is a good idea to keep track of where each bunch of photographs were taken. Traveling can become hectic and whirlwind trips might cause you to forget where you took that amazing shot of those ancient ruins; keep a photo log.
8. Research
It can be handy to know what you’re going to be photographing beforehand when visiting a new place. Heading to a city that you haven’t heard of before? Type the name into a search engine, check out the images listed and think about ideas on the way there.
9. Photoshop
Your shot of the Stonehenge Monument in the dusk of a dull English day might not be entirely worthy of showing off—but boost the sky’s levels, brighten the foreground and adjust the color, and you could have a full blown photographic masterpiece on your hands!
10. TRAVEL!
This might seem obvious, but you cannot take travel photos if you do not travel. You don’t necessarily have to fly half way around the World just to take a good photo, but a photo of your neighbour’s garden sculpture from Greece is probably not going to cut it.
