Travel Snapshots: Ram V Chary on Taking Professional Photos

Take Professional Travel Photos with Ram V Chary

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Veteran photographer Ram V Chary says that photography is a skill that takes time and practice to master. Great travel photography is very much about the photographer, not the camera.

Patterns The human brain is a sucker for patterns. We always look for symmetry in buildings or colors that complement each other. There's something about patterns that the human brain loves. Understanding what our brain loves is one of the best shortcuts to taking great photos.

Before taking your photos, ensure that your camera is level. The brain hates wonky horizons. Next — don't move. Be still as possible when shooting to avoid blurry photos. If you can't be steady, use a tripod.

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Foreground, Background, and Midground Have you ever photographed a mountain and wondered why the photo wasn't as good as what you were looking at? This is because your photo is a two-dimensional image, explains Ram V Chary. Two-dimensional photos lose the sense of scale apparent when you are in the moment. Think about the foreground, midground, and background when composing a shot.

If there's a mountain you want to shoot, look around and see if something is interesting in the foreground to incorporate into the photo. For example, it could be a rock. Elsewhere it could be a barn.

If you're taking photos of a city scene, look around you. People, modes of transport, and street food carts can all be incorporated as foregrounds to provide scale for the city skyline.

Leading Lines When taking a photo, you want to make it easy for the people looking at it to figure out the subject of the image, notes Ram V Chary. The best way to do this is with leading lines — using natural features that the viewer will naturally look at, like roads. Roads or railway tracks are excellent leading lines that will lead a person's eyes to the main subject.