Tina Dean is the founder and editor of the family Friendly Oz Camping Guide.
Capture your precious camping & holiday memories and take photos of your family, amazing wildlife photos, and awesome landscape pictures and use your imagination to make memories to treasure.
Part of the fun of any holiday is browsing through your photo album, you will be taken back to your favourite camping trip every time you view and share your photos.
These tips will help you take great camping and holiday photos
Have you got a newish camera, the digital camera has improved amazingly in the past few years, they are getting better, far better value for their price than they used to be.
Check that the image is set to a high quality image and set the time and date, so when you return and upload your photos you will know exactly when they were taken.
Take a lot of photos, the beauty of digital is that the unwanted ones they can be deleted. Pack a spare battery or charger, make sure you have plenty of memory card space.
Be inspired by your surroundings, take photos on different angles, have a look at postcards of the area, this will show what the pros have captured and the local highlights. You don’t have to do the same try something different.
Take some detailed photos like your family with an amazing view behind, sunrises & sunsets create superb photos, capture a sign that says where you are as part of your photo, get close-ups of foliage or natures wonders, or before you start your journey pick something in particular that you want to photograph in every town or place you visit and make it a collection or series of photos.
Get up early sometimes and catch the morning light sparkling on the water, or the animals and birds out early, the sunrise can make the everything glow.
Before you take a photo think about it (if you have time) and make it interesting, instead of just the beach, try to add a few subjects, like people swimming or walking on beach, maybe there is a ship out on the horizon. Look along the beach rather than standing back on the sand, maybe someone has left footprints, take a photo looking along the footprints disappearing.
Most of all enjoy taking photos and bring home some great memories.
Take Photos and only Leave Footprints wherever you go!
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