Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge writer with her travel photography tips

Travel and photography go hand-in-hand - so how can you make the most of taking pictures on your trip?

Bloggeratlarge's Megan Singleton unveiled how to get the perfect landscape photo, all while utilising what your phone can do.

Read more of her tips here.

LISTEN ABOVE

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News TALKSEDB Travel with Wendy wu Tours unique fully
inclusive tours around the world.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
And joining me now to talk travel and photography is
Meghan Singleton, bloger at large dot com.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Good morning, Good morning, franchisc. Well they go hand in hand,
don't they really do?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
And do you know what I often say to you, Hey,
what camera were you using when you took that photo?
And you'll look at me and go my phone, Francesca,
because your photos on the website. Anyone who looks at
your website, Well, no, you take great photos. So talk
us through how to take some fabulous landscape photos.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah, well you can use your phone so you don't
need a fancy camera. That's the great news. And it's
something that I learned years ago. It's all about just
getting your eye in, taking your time and setting up
your shot. So I've done different photography tours and courses
and things like that. But what I just put together
or updated this post was for ten easypsy tips for

(01:05):
how to make a great photo. So one of the
cool things I like to do is look for lines,
lines that draw the eye to the object. So that
might be a pedestrian crossing, it might be the ropes
that are tying a ship to the dock instead of you,
you know, you're a typical I'm standing in front of
a cruise ship photo. So that's all a bit of fun.

(01:26):
Another thing I've loved doing, and I've really only learned
this tip in this last year, is reflections. Taking photos
in reflections. Now, normally, at first glance, people would take
a photo at eye height of you know, a cathedral
or whatever it might be. But actually I've had a
few occasions just this year when it had been raining terribly,

(01:48):
once in New Orleans and once over Christmas when we
were in Prague, and I've learned about reflections and puddles.
So you have to actually really walk over to the
puddle because you won't just see it doesn't just automatically
look like an iconic reflection picture, you know, and peer
down into the puddle and you know, maybe turn around
little bit and suddenly you'll see the spire of the

(02:09):
cathedral or the full reflection of that mural that you're
standing in front of. And so I crouch down, I
turn my camera upside down, so that the lens is
as close to the ground as possible without getting it wet.
And then I just click, click, click away with my thumb.
And so I've got an old lady fashion ring on

(02:29):
the back of my phone. Apparently it's old fashioned if
you ask the nieces. But anyway, what I can do
is I can hook my phone over my finger so
that when it is upside down, I can take these
photos without dropping it. So I'm just loving that. So
I've just put a whole lot more pictures up on
a post with all these tips. You can just go
out and practice it today if you want, just taking

(02:51):
a few of these ideas and having a bit of
a go and.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Move as well. Right, get up close and crop them afterwards.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yes, cropping is key. Crop a lot to de clutter
now sometimes you and also don't zoom in thiss serially
take the photo first. It's wide and everything. When you
crop it, you're going to keep the definition. So it
doesn't matter. If let's say I was taking pictures of
outside of the All blacks Hawker, it doesn't matter that
I've got all the rest of the stadium in because
I can crop that real tight and close without losing definition.

(03:22):
So actually, that's not even a tip I put in
the I'm going to go on right.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Okay, there we go. I love it. Thank you so much, Megan.
So that blog is at blog at large dot com.
If you just want to brush up on taking your
holiday photos, it is twelve to twelve.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
For more from the Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to news Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio