Travel Photography: 3 Shots to Capture a Complete Story of Your Trip

1. Class Introduction : [MUSIC] For me, the best travel photos are the ones that tell a meaningful and captivating story of a place and experience. [MUSIC] Hi, there. My name is Rose. I am a self-taught photographer from the Philippines and a top teacher here on Skillshare. My husband and I started our photo and video business back in 2017. It all started with a borrowed camera and our travel photos. Before we got married, we did our very own engagement photoshoot. We did not hire a photographer and just went on a trip with their friends and took DIY photos. Surprisingly, our friends and family loved it, so we ended up doing it for them too, and it grew to be a real business for us. Fast-forward today, we gather all kinds of photography and videography gigs. But for this class, we will focus on the passion that started it all. Travel photography. Through the years, we developed a technique to efficiently and effectively photograph our travels and that is what I will be sharing with you in this class. First, we will talk about your gear and photography basics. Then we will move on to the three essential shots to completely tell a story. The last part will be about photo editing and sharing with the world. For the class project, we will create a succession of images that when combined will tell a story and captivate your viewers, leaving them wanting to see more. You don't need prior skills to join this class and it doesn't matter what camera you are using. As long as you want to tell stories and take better travel photos, this class is perfect for you. My goal is that by the end of this class, you will be more confident and motivated to photograph your travels. Let's get started. 2. Class Project: [MUSIC] Let's talk more about your class project. It's going to be easy and fun. You will just need your camera made be DSLR, mirrorless, or your smartphone, and a photo editing app. You just need to capture 3 to 5 photos from your trip. Those photos will be one wide shot, one medium, and two to three detail shots. Later in the following lessons, I will explain the importance of those three shots. Now, when I say trip, it does not have to be big and fancy. Your shot trip to the market is a fun way to do the class project. It can also be your trip to a family or a friend's house. For example, this is our trip to a cafe near our house, so here's my wide medium, and detail shots. Here's another example. This is a quick trip to an amusement arcades. Here's my wide, medium, and detail shots. Don't worry, all throughout the class, I will be sharing my framework, tips, and techniques to best capture those 3 to 5 photos. Plus, you can download the PDF file in the resources to guide you through the class and the project. If you get inspired to go out and take pictures in the middle of the class, feel free to do so. Don't let inspiration pass you by. Just make sure to share your work and upload it in the class project gallery. You can do this by going to Projects and Resources. Then click the "Create Project" button. Then you will get this screen for a short description of your trip in the class title, then upload your 3 to 5 photos here in the project description using the image icon. Finally, choose your favorite photo and upload it as your class project cover image. If you have an upcoming trip, the class project is a great way to practice and level up your travel photography skills. I am super excited and I can't wait to see your work, so good luck and have lots of fun. 3. Purpose: Why We Take Travel Photos?: [MUSIC] Before we jump into the nitty-gritty and technical staff of this class, let's talk about why we are doing this? Why do we take travel photos? For me, my main purpose is to create, and preserve memories, especially now that I have a son. I love being able to capture all these precious time with him, and have access to it forever. For example, in this class, I will be showing you our trip to Boracay island, Philippines. This is my son's first inter island travel, so I am super excited to document it. My priority for this trip is to capture the moment. They're a complete story through photos, and still be able to spend a lot of time with my family, and not let photography get in the way. Now, as I go on more trips, and improve my photography skills, I noticed that people, especially friends, and family are getting inspired to travel. That became my other purpose, to inspire other people to travel through my photos. How about you? What is your purpose? Do you want to improve your Instagram grid? Do you want to print, and collect photos? Or you want to inspire other people to travel like me? I asked because your why will fuel, and determine your how. Travel photography is really fun, but it can also be exhausting, but if you have a purpose, and a goal for what you're doing, you can always go back, and stick to the plan. Hopefully, the framework and techniques that I will be sharing in this class will remove the exhaustion part. With that said, let's move on to gear. 4. Gear Overview: Welcome to the 1st part of this class. For the next two lessons, we will talk about smartphones and DSLR or mirrorless cameras. So why these two? Because these cameras are most commonly used for travel photography. Plus you will most likely be using one of these two types of cameras. I really want for you to be equipped and confident in doing your class project. First, we will talk about smartphones and my personal tips when using it for travel photography. Then we will quickly talk about a few photography fundamentals that will support and make sense of the camera functions that I will be sharing with you. Then we will move on to DSLR and mirrorless cameras while I touch on a few lighting techniques. My top tip for you is to practice and really get to know your camera. Explore its functions and features. Make sure that you are comfortable and confident using it before going or before bringing it on your trip. This will save you tons of stress and will make your travel experience more pleasant and memorable. 5. Smartphone Cameras: [MUSIC] First, let's talk about smartphones. Did you know that you hold a very powerful camera right there in your pocket? Most smartphones nowadays have features like HDR, macro panorama, ultra-wide, telephoto and many more. For example, if you will check out the camera specifications of the iPhone 13 Pro, you will get this list, and it is mind blowing. But with all these amazing features, why do we still get blurry and poorly composed photos? Because it's less about what you use, but more about how you use it. In this lesson, I will share tips on how you can maximize your smartphone camera. My Number 1 tip is to turn on the grid lines. This is a rule of thirds grid. This is a famous composition technique among photographers and it's one of the available grids for most smartphones. To use the rule of thirds grid, you simply position or place the subject or important elements in your scene on the third line or intersection. This grid is extra helpful too when positioning horizon or horizontal lines in your photos. Your goal is to position horizontal lines at the top or bottom third line. Now, why is this important? Because this is how you properly compose your photos. Composition is how you arrange the elements in your photo. Following composition rules and techniques can make your photos pleasant and easier to look at. To turn on the gridlines on an iPhone, you just go to Settings, then Camera, then Turn on grid. If you are using an Android smartphone, you can just open your camera app, then tap on the three lines that represent settings, then tap on Show grid lines. Easy. Now, moving on to capturing sharp images. My tip Number 2 is to clean your lens. Yes, it's a very simple and easy step that is often neglected. To show you how important this is, let's look at these two photos. The photo on the left is taken before I cleaned my lens and the one on the right is after I wiped it with a soft cloth. These photos are straight out of camera and no edits at all. The best thing with smartphone cameras is that they are compact and accessible. Since you can bring it anywhere, it can accumulate dirt and smudges on your lens. Before taking a photo, make sure to clean your lens by wiping it with a soft cloth. Either use your shirt if it's cotton or dedicate a small cloth that you can carry around with your phone. My tip Number 3 will help to avoid blurry images. Again, it has nothing to do with how advanced or basic your smartphone camera is. It's all you. My final tip is to stop and take the photo. For example, this is a photo I took while walking along the shores of Boracay. This is another photo after I stopped and intentionally took the photo. Whenever you travel and do photo walks, take a couple of minutes to stop and compose your shots. You can't use blurry images anyway and you will end up deleting them. So take that extra step and pause to take that beautiful photo. To recap, smartphones nowadays have amazing features and functions that you can explore. But creating sharp, pleasant, and satisfying photos is less about the gear, but more about how you use it. Three tips on how you can maximize your smartphone camera is first, turn on the grid lines. [MUSIC] Next is to clean your smartphone camera lens with a soft cloth before taking a photo. Finally, stop and intentionally take the photo. In the next lesson, we will talk about DSLR and mirrorless cameras. 6. DSLR And Mirrorless Cameras: [MUSIC] Next, let's talk about DSLR and mirrorless cameras. What are they and why do people like me go through the trouble of bringing them on their troubles? My personal answer is the ability to change lenses. For me, the great potential comes from the lenses. You can have a cheap camera combined with a high-quality lens and create phenomenal photos. Different types of lenses can allow you to capture enormous landscapes, freezing moment, capture long exposures, and many more. DSLR and mirrorless cameras both have the ability to interchange lenses. The only difference is DSLR cameras use a mirror that auto their needs to send the image to either a prism which shows the image in the viewfinder or the image sensor when the shutter release button is pressed. The mirrorless camera on the other hand, obviously it does not use a mirror but uses a digital sensor. Basically, both cameras have the ability to interchange lenses and both use light to create an image, which leads me to another photography tool you need to familiarize in order to create better photos, lighting. Fun fact, photography came from phos, which means light and graphy which means drawing. Together it means it's drawing with light. If DSLR and mirrorless cameras use light to create an image, and photography means is drawing with light, it is safe to say that lighting is very important when taking photos. Since we are doing travel photography, our main light source will be the sun. It is important to understand the angle of the sun and how it will affect your composition. For example, this is a photo of the beach at noon. Here's another photo of the same spot that I took at around five in the afternoon. Observe the difference with the colors and the shadows. At noon, the colors are vibrant and contrasting. In the afternoon, the shadows are longer, the tone is warm and the light is softer. Here's another example. This is me taking photos a couple of minutes after sunrise. This time the colors are cooler and the light is soft. My top tip for natural light is to make use of the hours closest to sunrise and sunset. These hours are famously known as golden hours, because this is the best time to take, not just travel, but all kinds of photos. Another benefit of taking photos during these hours is that the sun is low in the sky and you can easily position your subject to create different effects. For example, positioning your subject lateral to the light source can create dramatic side shadows. On the other hand, backlit photos are when the light source is behind the subject with the subject in-between the light and your camera. This is a great opportunity to play with silhouettes in your photography. I can go on all day giving you examples of how you can play with the light to create dynamic photos. But you get the point. Bless Skillshare has amazing classes focused on lighting, so make sure to check them out. Going back to DSLR and mirrorless cameras, you can achieve all the creative shots you have in mind if you know how to operate your camera. My top tip to maximize your DSLR or mirrorless camera is to shoot in manual mode. This way you can manually adjust the settings yourself depending on the lighting conditions and the image you want to create. For example, this is me trying to take photos of the boats. Because the boats are moving fast I had to balance my exposure and adjust my settings fast. I was not satisfied with the results, so I moved around and took another shot. This time framing one of the boats on this rock. Really take time to practice and familiarize yourself with your camera buttons and basic functions. It will get in the way of your travel photography. If you need help in shooting manual mode on your DSLR or mirrorless. Again, Skillshare has a lot of amazing classes about this topic, including my very own DSLR photography masterclass. To recap, the DSLR and mirrorless cameras are camera's capable of interchanging lenses. When using these type of camera or any type of camera, it is important to know basic lighting principles such as light position and light effects on different times of day. Finally, the best way to maximize your DSLR and mirrorless is to shoot in manual mode. Now, moving on to the exciting part. In the following lessons, I will bring along on a trip to Barreta Island where we'll unpack the three essential shots to tell a complete and compelling story. See you there. 7. Introduction To The 3 Essential Shots: Let's talk about our secret sauce to capture a complete and compelling story of our trips, the three essential shots. How did we come up with these three types of shots? We started using it after a couple of videography gigs. The way we capture an event and completely tell the story is by getting at least one establishing shot, which is the wide shot. Then the rest is a combination of medium and detail shots. This style of shooting really worked for us because it's efficient and it's an effective way to completely tell the story without having your audience feel detached or dissatisfied. If you will observe Hollywood movies, the scene will usually start with an establishing shot or the wide shot to tell you where the scene is happening or where the scene is taking place, then quickly followed by either a medium or a detail shot to engage you and really draw you into the scene. We applied the same principle in photography. Whenever we travel or cover an event, our shots will circle through these three essential shots, wide, medium, and close up or details. In the coming lessons, we will dig deep into each type of shot, and to give you more examples, I will show you photos from our previous trips and I will bring you along with me as I explore Boracay Island and take this three essential shots. 8. The Wide Shot: [MUSIC] For the first type of shot, let's talk about the wide shot. Other photography and film-making terms for the wide shot is establishing or a long shot. The shot typically shows the entire object or human figure in relation to its surrounding. The main goal for taking a wide shot is to simply tell your viewer where you are. The wide shot is best for landscape photos because you can see the big picture. Imagine just seeing details of a place or little details of a place like this shell and baby coconuts and not seeing the big picture. You'll have ideas that yes, it's captured on a beach but it feels incomplete. But once you see the wide shot of the beach, you'll be satisfied and it will confirm that yes, this scene is actually taken on a beach. For the actual demo, this is me walking along the shores of Boracay Island. We still have COVID-19 restrictions, so that explains the mask and unfortunately, I get migraines from sunlight, so that explains the sunglasses. But Boracay is very beautiful. It is picturesque. What is the best way for me to get the wide shot of this beach and effectively tell the story? You'll see on my right that there is this nice pile of coconut trees and fine white sand. On my left, there's this beautiful sunset happening on the beach. How do I capture the big picture? I didn't want to choose, so I took photos of both. Actually, I took a couple of wide shots of the beach. I had a wide shot of the coconut trees. Then there's a lot of barrel boats that I could not resist, [NOISE] so I took photos of them too. Then of course, a wide shot of the beach sunset. Now, how do you know what to focus on? How do you compose these shots? My top tip when photographing wide shot is to choose a main subject. For example, for my first wide shot the main subject here is the coconut trees. [NOISE] For the beach sunset, my subject is the tourist walking by. I didn't want to just photograph the sun and the beach. I wanted to tell the story of Boracay Island, that there's a lot of tourists that day, and that on that same day, it was low tide and you could see the sand emerging from the water creating this nice paddle. The best way to capture this is to position myself and my camera really low and wait for that perfect moment to get these shots. [MUSIC] [NOISE] I actually really enjoyed it and did a couple more. I have another one with this tourist running. He looks like he forgot something which I found interesting. Here's another one. When I look at this photo it makes me curious. What are they doing? What are they saying? For me this photo tell a better story of the Boracay beach sunset rather than just pointing my camera anywhere and not intentionally looking for a main subject. Another tip is that you can capture a wide shot on either landscape or portrait mode. As long as it establishes the big picture and shows us where you are, you're good to go. Here are other examples from our previous trips. This is the Alu volcano. This place is famous for restaurants with the overlooking view of this lake and the volcano. This is another wide shot of the beach near our house. I didn't want to just show the beach. I wanted to have me and my son in the frame too. The last example is our trip to a wellness village. All throughout the class you will see medium and detailed shots of these trips to completely tell the story. But to recap and summarize this lesson, the wide shot tells the story of where you are. [MUSIC] It establishes the place and the surroundings. To best capture a wide shot, decide on the main focal point or main subject to make it easier for your viewers eye and tell a story. In the next lesson, we will talk about the medium shot. 9. The Medium Shot: [MUSIC] The next type of shot that we're going to explore is the medium shot. From the term itself, it's a camera angle shot from a medium distance. The goal here is to move a little closer to the subject but not too close so you can still see the background or some of the surroundings. This is best when photographing people to show their emotions. For example, this is a wide shot of me and my family, our faces are so small you can't really see our emotions or facial expressions. I feel that the main goal of this photo is to show you where we are rather than show our facial expressions. This is an example of a medium shot. You still see our background, you know that we're on a beach, but you can also see our facial expressions. This is me taking a medium shot of my son playing with sand at the beach. To show the difference, here's the wide, and this is the medium shot. I am at a medium distance so I can capture his facial expression, and still include some of the background. This is also my favorite way of photographing people when they are doing something and not really looking at the camera. For me, it looks and feels more organic and candid. Which leads me to the three expressions you can circle through when taking medium shots. When taking photos of yourself or your friends and family, don't be limited to just smiling. You can ask them to relax and laugh. Medium shots are geared toward capturing emotion, so it's good to have these three expressions handy when taking photos. These are other examples of medium shots from our previous trips showing different emotions and expressions. [MUSIC] Of course, medium shots are not limited to photographing people. You can use this shot to photograph all other subjects. For example, this is me taking a medium shot of the coconut trees. So here's the wide shot of the coconut trees and here's the medium shot. Here's another example. This is the medium shot of the beach rocks covered in green algae, and this is the wide shot. In the next lesson, I will also show you the detail shot of the rocks covered in green algae. But to recap and summarize this lesson, the medium shot shows you a closer look while maintaining equality between the subject and the background. [MUSIC] This shot when used in photographing people shows more facial expression. The three expressions you can maximize are relaxing, smiling, and laughing. In the next lesson, we will talk about the last of the three essential shots in telling a complete story, the detail shot. 10. The Detail Shot: [MUSIC] Our last type of shot is the detail shot. From the term itself, it's a type of shot that displays the most detail. This is actually my favorite. This type of shot tightly frames the subject and gives the feeling of intensity. For me, this is the shot that stirs up more emotion. It draws you in and engages you. You will usually end up not capturing the background or the surroundings anymore. You are focused on the subject. The other term for detailed shot is close-up, because to capture this type of shot, you really need to move closer to your subject. Going back to the hidden beach and the rocks covered in algae. This is the wide shot, and to get this shot, I could just position myself anywhere on the beach and I would still be able to get a wide shot. But to get a detail shot, I have to really move closer to the rocks like this and take the photo. Here's another example of me trying to get a macro shot of this tiny crab. You'll see how dedicated I am in capturing those little details, and that's why it instantly became my favorite type of shot. Because it pushes you to look closer and that often results in an almost magical experience. You will see a lot of beautiful things that often go unnoticed and that's the thing because you are intentionally looking because you want to tell a complete story. If I showed you just wide shots of the places we've been. These are nice photos, but it does not tell a complete story. But as soon as we add a little bit of medium shots and add more details, suddenly it's a whole experience. With just a couple of photographs, you see how we experienced the place, the food that we ate, and our emotions. It's a complete story. That is why in the class project I ask you to take those three essential shots, the wide, medium, and details, and please don't be limited to just five photos. [MUSIC] You can take as many detail shots as you want. The goal is to tell us where you are, your experience and the up-close and personal details of your trip. In the following lessons, I will show you how I will edit the travel photos I took from our Boracay trip. 11. Introduction To Photo Editing: Now that you know how to maximize your camera to take better photos, as well as the three essential shots to completely tell a story, let's move on to photo editing to fine-tune and enhance the photos we took. For me, editing is as important as the other step in creating a photo. Editing is where you can correct the crops, straighten lines, add brightness, and add more color to your photos for that fabulous final look. Editing is not cheating. It is actually a crucial part of the creation process. There are different ways that we can edit our photos. We can edit right away using the pre-installed editing features on our smartphones, or we can use third-party apps like VSCO, Snapseed, and Lightroom. We can also edit using our computer for a bigger screen and more flexibility. In my case, I edit photos that I took using my phone using a free third-party app called Lightroom for mobile. For the ones I took using our mirrorless camera, I will import it on our Mac and edit using Adobe Lightroom Classic. To demonstrate and show you my process, you will see me edit on my smartphone and computer in the following lessons. 12. Photo Editing On Smartphone: [MUSIC] First let's edit using a smartphone. I will be using Lightroom for mobile. I chose this app because it gives me a lot of editing options, it's easy to use, and it's free. I also love that Lightroom for mobile gives you exploring options to match the purpose of your photos. For example, I was able to print some of the photos I took using the iPhone by exporting it at 100 percent quality. But of course, feel free to use any other editing software that you are most comfortable with. My workflow when editing photos is very simple; correct the crop, correct the exposure, adjust the colors, add effects, and export. To demo and actually show you, here's the before and after photo of this boat that I photographed in one of the beaches in Berewa. Let me reset to original so I can show you. First is the crop. I want to guide my viewer's eye to the boat, so I will put it in the rule of thirds. Just positioning the boat on the bottom third line, and then check. Next is the exposure. For me this photo is well exposed, but I want it to look brighter. I will just add a bit of brightness. So I will set the exposure to plus 20. My next step is to decrease the highlights all the way to negative 100. I do this to bring back details that I lost because of exposure. I also see a lot of dark area, so I will brighten it up by adjusting the shadows. Less 15 for the shadows to minimize it, then I will move on to adjusting the colors. I use a vibrance instead of saturation because I feel like it's the smarter version of adding colors. If I use saturation, as you can see, the colors are really strong, and I feel like it looks heavily edited this way. I'm sticking with vibrance, just plus 20 maybe. That's good. There is a feature in Lightroom wherein you can adjust the colors individually. For this photo, I want the colors blue and orange to stand out because they are complimentary colors, and the boat is color blue and the sand is light orange. What I'll do is desaturate the green, which is the colors of the trees. I'll set it to negative 60, then I will saturate blue as well as the orange. Add saturation to both colors. Next, I will add effects by adding a bit of texture and clarity to make it really pop. I don't want to add sharpening because this image for me is sharp enough. Additional functions that I like to use in Lightroom for mobile is remove chromatic aberration and enable lens correction. This helps to remove color fringing and distortion as you can see. Here's our final image. Again, before and after. Now, what if you want to print this photo? It's taken from a phone, it's definitely possible. What I do is export it at high-quality. To do so I just click on the Share icon, then set the dimension to largest available dimension, and image quality is 100. I don't watermark my photo, so I just leave it. Then click on the check to finish exporting. Now, what if I want to apply the same edits to other photos with the same lighting or the same setup? What I can do is just create a preset. I'll just go to Presets, then click on the three dots icon, then click on Create Preset, then just set a preset name. I'll just put here boat at the hidden beach, or boat in the hidden beach, or boat hidden beach. Then click "Check". Now when I go to another photo with the same vibe and lighting, I can just select the preset [MUSIC] boat hidden beach and all the settings will be applied. I don't have to do the whole thing all over again. I love that because it speeds up my workflow. That is it for smartphone editing. If you took photos using your mirrorless or DSLR and you want to edit on a computer or on a bigger screen, [LAUGHTER] I am going to do just that in the next lesson. 13. Photo Editing On Computer: [MUSIC] What is the difference with editing on a computer? Well, first, you get a bigger screen and a bigger view of your photo. For me, it's best when removing spots and doing a more professional edit. You also get more professional features depending on the software you are using, but basically, the bigger screen is my top reason. I use Adobe Lightroom Classic for work and personal edits on my Mac. My first step is to import the photos from my camera to this Mac using this card reader, and then I organize it on my hard drive. Next step is to import the photos to Adobe Lightroom, I can do that here in the Library tab. To edit, I just need to go to the Develop tab. You'll see that I have all the editing functions on the right. I have the same workflow, correct the crop, correct the exposure, add colors or adjust the colors, add effects, and export. Let's start with a crop. For example, I want to upload this on Instagram, so the perfect crop for Instagram is one by one or the square. I am just adjusting it to put my husband and son in the rule of thirds to properly compose and crop. That's another thing I love with editing, you can improve your composition by correcting the crop and doing all these adjustments. When I'm happy with a crop, I just click on "Done". Next is to correct the exposure. This photo looks a bit dark, so I will add brightness using the exposure slider. Then to retrieve details, I will decrease the highlights. Of course, if you want a brighter photo, you can also use the highlights to make your photo look light and airy. Next is to remove some shadows, so moving the sliders to the right to remove or lessen the shadows. I am not touching the other sliders for exposure, so I'm moving on to texture and clarity. The next thing I want to edit is the color. You saw in the smartphone that we can adjust the colors individually, we can also do that here using the HSL color sliders. For this photo, I just want to adjust the colors of their skin. I want to make it brighter, so brown is equivalent to orange. I'm adjusting the luminance for orange, because I want to make it brighter, but I don't want to saturate it, so I'm going to the luminance tab. What I want to do is add saturation to the parallel boards, which are colored blue. I love that it also adds color to the sky, and I'm quite happy with this photo so far. This is the before and after. It's brighter and vibrant. Next, what if I want to apply the same settings to the other photos with the same scene or lighting? What I can do is copy the Develop Settings. I can just right-click, then Develop Settings, then Copy Settings, then just check on the settings I want to be copied, then click "Copy", then go to the photos. I want to copy the settings to, then click on "Command V" or "Control V" for Windows to paste, and that is it. I don't have to do all the settings all over again, and I can even do this to multiple photos by selecting them all together, and then click on "Command V" or "Control V" for paste and voila. This will speed up your editing workflow, especially when you're editing a lot of photos. Next, if I want to export, lets say for Instagram upload, you can just click on "File", then "Export," then from here you can just select a folder you want to export. In my case, I organize my photos under Lightroom photos, then the name or folder of the trip, then I will just create a sub folder for it named, Edited for IG or Instagram. Next, the most important setting here is the file settings and image sizing. For Instagram, I set the quality to 100, standard image format is JPEG, color space is the standard sRGB. Now for the image size standard, for Instagram is long edge 1,080 pixels, then 72 for resolution. This is the standard for photos that will be viewed on screen or the web. Don't worry, all the settings that I'm sharing here will be part of the PDF guides attached to this class. Moving on to sharpening, since it will be for Instagram, I selected sharpen for screen, then you have options for standard, high, and low, so I will just set it to standard. For metadata, I want to remove the person and location information. Then I don't do watermark, so I'm finished. I can just click on "Export". Now if I want to print this photo, I can just export it again, so File, then Export, then just put it in a different folder. I'll put here for print, then move on to file settings and image sizing. Quality is still 100 percent, but this time I will not Resize to fit, because I don't want it to be pixelated once printed. I could also bump the resolution to 600 pixels. With prints, you can set it to 500 or higher, since I want it to be printed on a glossy paper, that will be my output sharpening and the amount is high. Then I can just export and have this photo printed. That is it for editing. Just a disclaimer that this is my very basic editing workflow. [MUSIC] If you want an in-depth class on mobile or Lightroom editing, Skillshare has a lot of amazing classes focused on this topic. I just wanted to show you that you can transform your photos even with a couple of adjustments and basic editing. In the next lesson, I will show you how I keep, cherish, and share my travel photos. 14. Saving, Keeping And Sharing: [MUSIC] Now that we are done capturing a complete story of our trip using the three essential shots and editing for that final look, how do we save and share our travel photos? There are tons of ways we can do this. You can store all your travel photos in your computer or in the Cloud, you can sign up to photography websites, you can even create a physical travel journal, you can share with the world using different social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, you can even share it through a blog. Whatever medium you choose, my top tip is to keep it simple and consistent. Choose a medium that will keep you motivated. For me, I recently started an old-fashioned way of storing our travel photos. These are non fading prints of our recent trips. This is a basic photo album I got online. The photo size is 3R and the album page is 11 inches by 13 inches. What I do is just organize photos of a particular trip on these two pages. I arrange the photos first before I permanently put it in the album. I will usually start with a wide shot then the medium, and the details. I also try my best to put photos with the same colors near each other so it will look cohesive. Here's the result. With one look, you can see our wide shot, medium, and details, and it tells a complete story of us hanging out on the beach, playing with the sand, and eating gelato. I also like to indicate the name of the place we traveled, so I'm using this colorful stickers to spell Boracay. Let me also show you the final look of the previous trips that I used as an example all throughout the class. Here's, the beach near our house, then our trip to the restaurant with the overlooking view of the lake and volcano, then our trip to a wellness village. No pictures of me because I'm the photographer, which is totally fine with me. This is one of the hidden beaches we went to in Boracay. Now, this is a very simple way of physically storing and organizing our travel photos. But I love that when my son is older, I can show him this album and he will see and be reminded of the beautiful places and adventures that we had together as a family. To me that is just priceless. You know, the best part? I did not have to take a hundreds of photos, I just took the three essential shots and I didn't have to worry if I missed anything. After I took the essential photos, I could spend more time being in the moment and enjoying the place. Not only that, since I only have 8-10 photos of a place, it is easier to organize. I actually went a little extra with one of the Boracay beach photos and had it printed on a sintra board, and here it is. I love it. But moving on, the way that I share travel photos with the world is through Facebook and Instagram. The same format: wide, medium, and details to show or to tell the story. For Instagram, you have to swipe left a couple of times, but still if your photos are consistent and tell a story, it's all good. We also keep most of our photos in Google Drive. I know they have plans and rates for a bigger storage and it's an additional cost for us, but since it's our business, we decided to make the extra investment. But then again, when choosing the best medium to save and share your photos, list down your priorities and your purpose. [MUSIC] Choose the one that will make it easier for you, not harder. Again, choose the one that will motivate you to travel more. I hope my personal example will help in making that decision. In the next video, we will officially wrap up this class. 15. Final Thoughts: [MUSIC] You did it. Congratulations on finishing this class. I hope that seeing my workflow to efficiently and effectively take travel photos made you excited for your upcoming trip. Again, to make traveling and photography fun, and to recap everything that we've covered in this class, first, practice and get to know your camera. Next, study and experiment with lighting techniques. Next, use the grid lines to help in composition. Then take photos using the three essential shots. Once you have enough of those three essential shots and it fits the narrative of your story, relax and enjoy your trip. Finally, before you share or print your photos, edit and do basic corrections for that fabulous final look. That is it for my travel photography class. If you have questions, feel free to start a discussion and I will answer them as soon as I can. You can also follow me here on Skillshare, so you will be updated when I publish new classes and share giveaways. If you want to go a little extra, you can also follow me on Instagram and tag me when you upload your travel photos. My Instagram handle is @rosellenene. If you haven't already, please don't forget to upload your photos in the class project gallery. If you haven't taken the 3-5 photos, go on a shot and simple trip to join the fun. This will help you practice and get ready for your actual travels. Again, a trip to the market or a friend's house is a great way to get started. I'm super excited to see your work and give it some love. I hope you had fun and found this class valuable, but either way, please leave a review I'd love to hear from you. Thank you so much for choosing me and this class to learn more about travel photography. Again, congratulations, keep exploring, all the best, and see you soon. Bye.