Comments on: How To Take Better Travel Photos Without Getting A Better Camera

By: Anil Polat

Anil Polat — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 18:08:13 +0000

In reply to Let's TRAVEL. Thank you for your comment and happy photo-snapping :)

By: Let's TRAVEL

Let's TRAVEL — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 06:14:57 +0000

Hi Anil!
Thanks for your post! It’s very important for me. Now i can take a better photos 🙂

By: Anil Polat

Anil Polat — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:49:26 +0000

In reply to Tyler.

Thank you Tyler and appreciate you pointing out the Panorama app (available on iPhone 4S and above).

I still don’t know why Facebook treats photos like it’s 1998 Netscape. It seems like they really want to begin highlighting images but one step forward – two steps back. (And then kicking privacy down the stairs altogether.)

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:09:26 +0000

Great article, Anil. A couple comments on panoramas – more recent iPhones (maybe 4 and above?) have panorama built in to the Photo app. There are guiding lines to follow as you move the camera left to right or bottom to top. Why is this an innovation? Because the traditional stitch method that “stitches” 4 or 5 photos together has a really tough time rendering sky (in particular) properly. Each individual photo has a gradated sky, and that’s tough for the software to stitch together right. But with iPhone’s one-shot moving panorama, it creates much more fluid results.

Unfortunately on Facebook, photos tend to get cropped or framed as roughly square. Meaning that at a glance on a Facebook wall, you can’t see how cool that panorama actually looks until you click on it.

One more comment – on point-and-shoot’s, there are often some nice effects that can be applied as you shoot (not just post). So for instance, on Canons, you can go into SCN mode, and use miniaturization (tilt-shift) or boost the colors on an otherwise cloudy day. Fun stuff.

Couldn’t agree more: take lots of photos, practice, clean ’em up as you go, share the best.

By: Anil Polat

Anil Polat — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:38:00 +0000

In reply to Valary. Thank you Valary; that's understandable. I too tend to take many less photos with my phone so when I do snap one, I think more about it. On my other camera there's a lot of editing going on where I only end up using an average of about 15% of the photos I take :)