Travelling with a mobile phone to take photosThere are the following tips for taking photos with your mobile phone when traveling:
* * 1. Pre-filming Techniques **
1. * * In terms of composition **
- * * Third-division composition **: Activate the grid lines on the camera, divide the picture into nine grids, and place the subject along these lines or at their intersections, avoiding placing the subject in the center of the picture. This kind of composition is more attractive. For example, this method could be used when shooting people in the scenery or individual buildings.
- * * Frame-in-frame composition **: Use natural or man-made objects in the scene, such as trees, windows, etc., as a frame to construct the main shooting subject, increase the depth and level of the picture, and make the main subject more prominent. When traveling, the scenery inside an ancient building through the windows and doors belonged to this kind of composition.
- * * Fills the picture **: Get close to the subject and make it an important part of the photo. Eliminate unnecessary interference from the surroundings and show more details, modes, and emotions of the subject. For example, when taking pictures of flowers or small local specialties, they could take pictures close up.
- Guiding Line composition: Use vertical, horizontal, parallel, diagonal, converging lines to draw the audience's attention to the main theme. For example, when shooting an old street, the lines of the street could be used as a guide.
2. * * Shooting angle and focal length **
- When the picture was shot from a normal angle, it could be switched to 2x focal length to reasonably allocate the proportion of the sky and scenery in the picture. If you want to highlight the character and make the picture more beautiful, you can use the three-fold focal length to raise the shooting angle and put the character on the three-point line. The character only occupies the bottom two squares of the picture, and you can also switch to portrait mode.
- Shooting from a special angle, such as shooting from outside the guardrail, could make the scene even more special.
3. * * camera settings **
- Turning on the reference line to assist in shooting, such as the nine-square grid, helped to make the picture horizontal and vertical when shooting, especially useful when shooting objects such as buildings or boxes that needed horizontal and vertical composition.
- Choose the highest quality photos to improve the texture of the photos, but be careful that the photos may take up more memory on the phone.
- If there was a need to focus during the shot, such as when shooting a specific object instead of the background, click on the main prominent part of the photo to make the background blur and highlight the subject.
- During the shooting process, the brightness function could also be set according to the actual situation to adjust the brightness of the picture.
4. * * Shooting Mode Selection **
- When taking pictures of people, whether it was the front camera or the back camera, it was recommended to choose portrait mode. This would highlight the person and make the background blurred or invisible, thus emphasizing the theme. When taking pictures of scenery or other things, you could use normal photo mode.
- If you want to take a selfie, turn on the selfie mirror to avoid the scenery or other elements behind being reversed.
* * 2. Post-editing techniques (The specific post-editing techniques for travel photos were not mentioned in the reference materials. The following are general ideas)**
You could use some powerful and highly-used photography software and post-editing software to process travel photos, such as adjusting color, contrast, saturation, etc., to make the photos more beautiful.
* * 3. Sharing photos **
After the travel photos were taken, they could be quickly shared on social platforms such as Weibo and WeChat to share the beautiful moments of the trip with friends.
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