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Travel Photography Tips: The Rules of Composition

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Because I’m not a pro photographer (I just  love taking photos of my travels ), I’ve learned that there are different key strengths you can have when capturing a moment on your travels. The types of skills that don’t involve going to school and obtaining a degree in photography. Don’t get me wrong, I would love to be able to shoot like the pros and admire their work, but I just know that I don’t have the time to commit to doing so! And so I find other ways to make my travel photography special and memorable! Here are some rules I follow (and don’t follow) on composition: You may have already noticed that the cover image isn’t just because it shows me taking a photo, but it also shows the first point there is to make about composition: #1 A Picture Tells a Thousand Words There are many ways in which one could capture Lake Bled in Slovenia (pictured above). The typical “taken from a vantage point” I am shooting on my camera is one ...

7 Editing Tips to Improve Your Travel Photographs

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Updated: 12/09/2018 | December 9th, 2018 Today, professional photographer Laurence Norah of Finding the Universe, finishes his five-part series on taking better travel photos. In part five, Laurence is giving some simple post-processing techniques that you can use to make your travel photos wow your friends and family! Editing your photos is just as important as how you compose them, so I hope you’re ready to take some notes! One of the most misunderstood parts of digital photography is what happens after you take the shot: editing your photos, aka post-processing. This is where you edit the images you have taken, to create the final product. Post-processing is the equivalent of the darkroom from the days we shot in film. In today’s post, we’re going to be covering some ideas for editing your photos, from the basics (cropping and leveling), through to more complicated actions like recovering shadow and highlight information. Editing Photos: 7 Editing Tips for Your Travel Ph...

Things to do in Puglia, Italy: a photo guide to Italy’s dazzling heel

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Things to do in Puglia, Italy: a photo guide to Italy’s dazzling heel Italy | Europe Published: July 2019 | Disclosure: Produced as part of a campaign with Puglia Tourism. Contains affiliate links. There are countless reasons Italy has become my favourite country to travel, and the diversity between the North and South is the prime one. Puglia, sitting in the ‘heel’ of Italy’s boot feels a world away from the famous tourist city’s such as Rome, Milan or Venice, and provides an entirely different holiday destination to the North of the country. It’s more than just geography that provides a change of scenery; historical and economic differences are defined, from the food (olive oil v’s butter) to the architecture. Italy is one of the most visited countries in the world, but somewhat surprisingly the North still takes the bulk of the share of tourists. But if you are looking for what many would call a more ‘authentic’ Italian ...