Photo Composition on the road: how to set up travel photos
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Composition on the Road
Composition on the Road
how to set up great shots when you don't have time for setup
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Some of my favourite photos:
my best composition examples
Cardinal Rule:EDIT EDIT
EDIT
4 days in Las Vegas
500 photos (125 photos/day)kept 150 photos= deleted 350 photos that didn’t pass my standards
*set your bar exceptionally high for the photos you keep
Three Scenarios
1) Urban settings
2) Crowds
3) People you’re traveling with
#1Urban
Settings
1) Take lots and lots and lots of the same shots. One will be perfect.
2) Keep a close eye of the edges of your frame: don’t cut out essential parts of buildings and backgrounds
3) Look for interesting lines within buildings/towers/trees/people and use those to frame the shot
4) Move yourself to position your subject
keep an eye for the edges of photos:I didn’t cut off the top of this building
look for neat angles to frame your shot
look for neat angles to frame your shot
keep an eye for the edges of photos:I didn’t cut off the name “Rectory” on the building
position yourself to align your subject:I couldn’t move the tricycle, so I moved myself to centre the tricycle in the window pane
look for neat angles to frame your shot:I walked around to the back of the Capitol building and shot it from the side
look for lines in buildings to follow: I kept the edges of the arches of the Eiffel tower
look for neat angles to frame your shot:I used this pool to create a foreground for the Louvre Pyramid
keep an eye for the edges of photos:I didn’t cut off the words in the “Moulin Rouge” sign
look for neat angles to frame your shot:I used the lawn to create a foreground for the lake at Versailles
position yourself to align your subject:I moved around until the “Tate Modern” sign fit within the bridge opening
look for neat angles to frame your shot:I used this small park to create a foreground for Buckingham Palace
position yourself to align your subject:I moved around until the statue of Saint Peter was framed in front of the Vatican
#1Urban
Settings: Continued
5) Stand in the middle of urban scenes:I love (safely) getting into the middle of roads
6) Crop out the stuff you don’t want (roads/people/etc) by cutting out the bottoms/tops of photos: results are impressive
Crop out stuff you don’t want:I moved the camera up and cut off the crowds below the pagoda in Burma
Crop out stuff you don’t want:I moved the camera up and cut off the street around Westminster Abbey
Crop out stuff you don’t want:I moved the camera up and cut off the crowds below Notre Dame
Crop out stuff you don’t want:I moved the camera up and cut off the streets in Hong Kong to focus on the living conditions
Stand safely in the middle of urban scenes: traffic islands work great! It looks amazing when you stand in the middle of a street
Stand safely in the middle of urban scenes: be very careful taking photos while crossing on a red light
#2Crowds
1) Stick your hand up and point the camera down at the crowd
Result: a shot of the top of the crowd that makes it look like a sea of people
2) Don’t cut off people’s legs. Crowds look great when you can see them walking
3) Capture a crowd doing something: like shopping in a market: get inside the crowd
Don’t cut off people’s legs:crowds look great when you can see them walking
Step back from crowds to capture their relation to the scene
Don’t cut off people’s legs:crowds look great when you can see them walking
Stick your hand up and tilt the camera down to capture the tops of crowds and make them look like a sea of people
Capture what the crowd is doing
Capture what the crowd is doing
Don’t cut off people’s legs:crowds look great when you can see them walking
#2Crowds
4) If you’re really lucky: get the crowd to interact with you
#3People you’re traveling with
1) Walk ahead of behind your friends so you can place them within a scene.
2) Either frame theme tight (portrait) or get their whole body: don’t cut off legs/feet.
Walk ahead or behind your friends to capture them within the context of a scene
Don’t cut off feet/legs: show their whole body within a scene
Walk ahead or behind your friends to capture them within the context of a scene
If you aren’t capturing their whole body, crop nice and tight to show emotion
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