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Traveling can be the best opportunity to take great photos. If you are planning a trip, one of the most important things you will never forget is to bring your camera with you. If you’re traveling alone or with a family, try to bring tr pod also. Advance planning can avoid frustration and instead great memories and album. I’m the type who do take photos every time I travel. If you find this interesting, these are my tips based on my experience and some of my friend tips: 

  1. Bring camera  bag or pack – If you don’t have a camera or custom camera bag for your camera and accessories, a small backpack or purse will do.
  2. Bring extra battery or charge battery to avoid losing some moments shots or a perfect shots in front of you because your battery drain or die.
  3. If you’re using film camera, bring extra films.
  4. If you’re using digital camera you, must have either additional memory card or stick don’t waste your time transferring photos on your laptop. Sometimes laptop costs you extra laggage.  Stop wasting your time erasing photos from your camera memory or you risk accidentally erasing some of the best shots (it happened to me). Sometimes a common frustration is being ready to take photo and realizing that you’re out of space or memory or out of film in a remote area where no available store that sells your kind of film.
  5. Small portable or big tripod is important too. If you want to document your travel and you wanted to see your self in the place and there no one there to take some photos or knows how to use your camera. Sometimes if you will ask someone to take a shot and he doesn’t know how to use the camera like what happened to us in Baguio. We requested a waiter to take us a photo. It took the waiter almost 20min to take just 3 shots and the results are not so good. We are not in focus and  sometimes we’re cut. Tripod is invaluable when taking highly composed shots, low light pictures, or capturing a great photo of friends and family at a get-together.
  6. Different techniques can also be used while taking some photos. In digital photography, the key is to take multiple shots or photographs of the same scene and later select the best. It’s better in digital photography as you have enough storage to spare but its hard and expensive in film photography as what I was doing before.
  7. When taking photos landscapes, object or landmark taking it in a wide angle is the best. Applicable if you’re using some wide angle lens such us 18mm wide.
  8. Also try different vantage points for the same scene, and different angles for the composition. This helps to ensure that you have a broader range of compositions to choose from once you’re gone, as many trips only come once, so you might not have the opportunity to go back and take the picture again
  9. When taking photos of landscapes, objects, or landmarks, a good technique is to start out by taking a photo with the widest angle your camera will allow, and then zoom in closer until you are tightly framing the landmark, people, or objects of interest for your photo. You can’t go back in time. Taking photos is a great way of capturing the memory, documents your past,  but don’t forget to enjoy the trip itself. This is just my simple advise and maybe the advise of some expert photographers as well. Enjoy what you do or what you are doing, enjoy the trip don’t miss out on the vacation itself, as well as miss the time spent with families or travel companions.
  10.  Lastly, take good care of your camera and all of your accessories. All of your films and all of your memory sticks. I remember traveling to Ilocos, Laoag,  Baguio and Subic  in a straight once week of travel and I almost consumed 10 films, which I left in the taxi on our way back to our hotel!!!