Hopefully by now you will have had a chance to practice the first four techniques in my 8 Top Tips to Truly Tremendous Holiday Photos Part One. These are simple ideas to help you make the most of your camera when you are on holiday with your family or friends, so you can enjoy photography more.
This is not about getting award winning photos with thousands of pounds worth of photo kit, but about getting photos of your family that will make you smile.
So, without further ado….
Five: Start to see the light… (Daaaahling)
Your brain is incredible – it distinguishes a huge range of light and dark, and automatically adjusts for the colour of the light (without being technical daylight is bluer, tungsten is orangey and florescent lights are greeny, but your brain corrects them all so they look ‘normal’). This can be frustrating when your photos just don’t look like the scene does in real life. Photography is all about compromises – you cannot correctly expose a photo so that the brightest whites and the darkest darks still have detail in them, so you have to choose – which part of the photo is most important, or how can I change the photo to make it better?
If you are shooting in bright harsh light you can either
- - live with it
- - find some shade – the sun is diffused and softer
- - add some fill-in flash – if you can’t take light away, can you add some in to fill in the shadows?
- - put the sun behind the subject (effectively they are creating their own shadow, but you have to be careful you don’t just make them into a silhouette, usually by filling the frame with their faces as much as possible)
- - what were you eating and drinking?
- - what surprised you or made you smile?
- - look at the less obvious details not just the usual tourist snaps
- - if everyone is looking one way, try looking the other way
- - print them out and frame them
- - make them into a photo book – there are many online companies that make photobooks easy to build, including Apple, Snapfish and others
- - put them in a digital photoframe or set your computer screen saver to scroll through
- - print them on a mug… anything, just make sure you do something with them otherwise there is almost no point in taking them
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Your hints and tips are on taking good photos are great! I am reading a book about photography at the moment, having recently bought a brilliant bridge camera, the Lumix TZ45. I have been down in Hawksbury Upton where Mum now lives experimenting with some creative pictures! I saw your mum yesterday and she said no-one in the family had visited your Blog. So here I am! Nick
Hi Nick,
Great to see some family actually visiting my blog… they keep asking me what I am up to but never think to look on here to find out… Glad you are enjoying your new camera – will have to meet up soon to have a look at the results.
James
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