10 tips to capture great travel photos

by
Jeremy Gray

posted Monday, July 18, 2022 at 12:30 PM EDT

 

 

If you’re in a position to journey to new and delightful locations, capturing nice journey images is an superior technique to improve the general expertise. An necessary step towards making nice journey images is knowing what makes them “nice” within the first place. Skilled photographer and educator Scott Kelby not too long ago introduced at B&H Optic 2022 and delivered 10 ideas for taking wonderful journey images.

Kelby outlines two major kinds of journey photographers. One is an individual who travels someplace to take images and takes as a lot time as they should get the shot. The opposite is the photographer who goes on trip with household or associates and needs to seize wonderful images of the expertise and sights. Kelby falls into the latter class. “I wish to have a good time the place I am going, however I nonetheless wish to come house with some good images,” Kelby says.

The presentation under is damaged down into 10 major segments. Every section talks a couple of particular high quality of an important journey picture. If somebody requested Kelby what crucial points of an important journey picture are, these are his solutions. They embody timelessness, nice gentle, attention-grabbing gentle, storytelling, eye-catching colour, simplicity, an attention-grabbing composition, efficient picture modifying, attention-grabbing locations, and at last, placing all of it collectively. If you wish to bounce to particular sections, head to YouTube, and there are timestamps within the description.

After discussing every of the ten segments intimately, there is a bonus part on the finish that’s an “task shot record.” It’s best to give attention to these items, regardless of the place you journey. They embody photographing the meals and the locals and discovering a excessive vantage level to {photograph} town (assuming you are visiting a metropolis). To study the remainder of the “task shot record,” watch the complete presentation above.

To see extra from Scott Kelby, go to his website, his schooling web site KelbyOne, and comply with him on Instagram. You possibly can see extra from B&H Optic 2022 by clicking here.

In the event you’re interested by studying extra about journey pictures, you need to take a look at this video we shared final month: The art of travel photography with Nikon Ambassador Deborah Sandidge.

(Through B&H)