Digital Camera will be a big thing when travel. Before you hit the road, here are some tips to make sure you can capture all or almost all your exciting moment.
#1 The first and the very-very-very important tip, Don’t Forget Your Camera,(I know, it sounds silly). Pack all the equipments, lenses, memory card, batteries and all other stuff and put them in your car. Many has bad experienced when forget to bring their smart, expensive, great camera when travelling, and end up with photos from disposable camera.
#2 Storage! Extra Storage! Extra extra storage. Clear your memory cards, upload all the photos in your memory card to your computer before go. If it is your first time travelling with your digital camera, never think 500 photos will be enough. You will need more than that, thus extra memory will do. Other tips: Bring your laptop, external hardisk, or get accounts at virtual space, i suggest http://www.flickr.com.
#3 Energy, battery. Get your battery fully charged. if can, get extra battery. Make sure you bring charger. Travel charger is the best because it will charge your battery faster and it is can use universal volt range it is useful when travelling across country. Buy universal electric adapter because you will see different plug in different country.
#4 Candid. Not all the pictures have to be posed. Candid shots of people in action make much better photos. You are capturing whot they are at that moment, their real personality. Years from now you can look back at the photos and see how they’ve changed.
#5 Practice how to take panorama. When you travel, you will see many great panorama such as sunset and sunrise. You will find useful technique here http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-photograph-sunrises-and-sunsets/.
It is better to have tripod, small tripod will do for travel when shooting panorama.
- a great technique to take a big picture http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/1807.
#6 Detail. Shoot thing in detail or closer shot. Some things need closer shot such as craft stone, small insect, flowers. It will make your photo look more interesting. But be carefull when try to capture dangerous creature such as snake and scorpion.
#7 Take a lot of pictures! One of the great things about digital cameras is that you can see the photos you take and delete them if you don’t like them. People often set up an entire shot of the family, and then shoot one picture. How many times have you later realized someone’s eyes were closed or someone’s face was turned to the side? Don’t be stingy. Shoot several pictures and you have a better chance of getting a good image.
http://www.camera2photo.com/2006/08/02/7-top-tips-when-travel-with-your-digital-camera/
