Travel Instagram accounts have become one of the trending social media accounts nowadays. People love to upload photos and videos of their travels while exploring the world and its culture. However, being a travel blogger is not as easy as it may seem; maintaining consistent content quality while shooting for travel blogging is trickier than it looks. The composition of the video, its quality, its result, and many other factors all add up to make a unique and trending post that appeals to viewers. All of this is possible if you know how to improve the quality of your travel photography to grab the attention of your audience.
Uploading irrelevant content, blurred photos, or odd stuff on any social media account will lead to a poor experience. Being an amateur travel vlogger, you should focus on some tips to make your vlogging and your Instagram account appealing. To help you improve the quality of your videos and photos, we’ve created a short guide. By the end, you’ll learn how to build the quality of your photography to impress your followers.
13 Tips to Improve Your Travel Instagram Account
Here are some tips to improve your travel Instagram account to improve your ranking and following.
1. Make a Plan
A planned photoshoot will result in a more amazing collection than an unplanned shoot. Always sketch out your final photo collection ideas so that you may click accordingly. The rest of the photography depends upon the photographer. When taking photos, you may find some creative ways to make your photo stand out.
If you’re shooting content that is already available online, you might start by exploring the existing photos to find a way to create unique content by yourself. However, if you’ve chosen content that has no previous examples, it’s your plan that will make it appealing.
Perfection Tip: Make a rough collection of your ideas. Also, take all of the preexisting shots from the internet so that you may create something unique. Try not to copy someone else’s content.
2. Fresh clicks are perfect clicks
Keep in mind that any task will be accomplished effectively when you do it without any stress or tension. Your mind should be fresh and stress-free. To do this, try to get up early in the morning to have some ideal clicks with a fresh mind. This will also help you reach your destination before it is flooded with visitors.
When you’re closer to your target, you’ll get it effectively. When you reach it in time, you’ll get to a place nearer to your target and vice versa. All of this is possible only when you’re used to getting up early, and used to setting a schedule with a fresh mind. Moreover, sunrise clicks or sunset clicks are usually the best times to shoot in terms of lighting.
Perfection Tip: Plan your routine in such a way that you reach the target location at least one hour before the time you want to take your photo. Set up your gear and wait for the exact time to click.
3. Move on without hesitation
Most travel photography occurs in public places. Public places are hardly empty; you’ll always find them flooded with people. You’ll have noticed people acting boldly without any hesitation in these spaces.
Make sure that you can stand out in public places without any hesitation. This is the key to successful travel photography: throw your shyness and hesitation away to capture your best moments in public places.
Perfection Tip: If possible, find a group to shoot travel photographs with. This will help you stand out boldly in public places.
4. Outfit and outlook
Unfortunately, we’re living in the age of fashion, where people focus more on the physical look than inner beauty. So, never believe that you’ll succeed to achieve perfection without dressing up yourself properly. Use the perfect outfit to match your theme. This will help you to engage your maximum audience. We are not good examples for this tip because of our minimalist attitude, but we sure know it helps.
Perfection Tip: Use bright colors that will appeal to the people. Such colors will make you bolder.
5. Configure your white balance
All professional cameras, and most smartphone cameras, allow defining of the white balance of the camera. It is a configuration that controls the final look and feel of your photo, and is usually used to achieve a more realistic color balance. While in automatic mode (Usually called AWB), it is done for you, but not always correctly.
6. Use Lightroom to edit your files
As mentioned above, saving your photos in the RAW form will help you to make essential changes in editing. When you choose this mode to save your files, you can go with any application to edit your photos to make them appealing. We recommend editing the photos with Lightroom. This application is easy to use and assists in making a variety of changes to your files. A short introductory YouTube video should be enough to get you started.
7. Tripod stands will help you stand out
Shooting a video or image while holding the camera in your hand may affect the quality, as your hand may shake in time. Never go without a tripod stand, whether you’re a solo photographer or have a team. If you’re an individual, you can’t rely on people to take your photo each time. Moreover, no one has enough time to stay and assist you. So, carry a tripod stand to stand out boldly.
Perfection Tip: If you’re uncomfortable with carrying the tripod, many brands offer a foldable stand. Invest in any such stand.
8. Use Interval Mode while using a stand
When you use a tripod stand to capture your photo, don’t use Shutter mode or Single Timer mode. When you use these modes, how can you reach the exact position you need instantly after clicking the capture button, or go back to the camera if needed to take another shot? It’s wise to use an interval mode that will take a picture every X seconds. This will help you to reach the exact location you want and still have few options or poses to choose from. It is especially good for creating more natural pictures, as you can set the timer for a few minutes and just be yourself for a bit.
Perfection Tip: If you don’t have an interval mode, see if you have a time-lapse mode–it’s not much different. Later you might need to extract the frame that you want from the produced video.
9. Use “RAW” setting
Beginners tend to lose the file quality by saving photos in JPEG form. When you save your file in the form of JPEG, you run the risk of losing its quality and some of its information. However, when you use the RAW file setting, this helps to make the maximum amount of changes to your files in editing. This setting will let you edit your clicks easily.
Perfection Tip: Most digital cameras and cell phone cameras feature the direct RAW saving setting. Enable it!
10. “ND” filter to the rescue
Applying different filters on a per need basis is a great way to make your photos brighter and clearer. We recommend an ND filter that can work in different light intensities. If you’re shooting in an open area, use this filter to reduce the light intensity and to enhance the result of your photos.
11. Use your lens instead of zooming
You know that electronic zooming affects the quality of your photographs. To avoid this, you can move beyond or near the object. If you’re using a professional camera for shooting, you can use different lenses accordingly. The main takeaway should be that if you don’t have a lens for zooming, you are better off not zooming at all.
12. Improve your composition with “Rule of Thirds”
Thinking differently to create something unique is the best way to help you get creative results. The “Rule of Thirds” is a way of positioning your target more creatively in your photo frame, not in the middle. With this “rule” you should position the subject in any of the thirds of the frame (vertically or horizontally). To break conventions, you should think differently. But make sure that you don’t overlook the major theme and color combination of the picture.
Perfection Tip: Never hesitate to lean down or sit down while shooting to make your capturing angle unique.
Final Verdict
Becoming a travel blogger on Instagram is not a difficult task, but only when you know how to shoot properly in different places. If you have patience, a little knowledge about capturing angles, and creativity, you can be a great travel photographer. When you add all these features with the above-mentioned tips, your travel Instagram account will automatically improve. Use your creativity along with these tips to rock the internet!
