Choosing travel is one of the most charming ways to celebrate family holidays. Besides spending quality time with your family, you get to explore new places and share the experience with your loved ones. Of course, who wouldn’t want to cherish such everlasting memories? Since family holidays give us ample time to celebrate the togetherness, documenting your family stories with photos is not only fun, it’s a great thing to recall how adventurous your holidays have been with your loved ones.

However, capturing great snapshots is an art. And not all of us are experts in clicking the right moments. That’s because there’s so much more to it except just posing for every photo. So how about a candid shot with a perfect lighting?

Preserving the holiday magic goes beyond just packing, booking, and travelling. Below are some great photography tips to help you capture the memorable stories hidden in each of your holiday photos.

Select a Black and White Theme to Capture a Timeless Photo

Though shooting in colour mode is a photography norm, most of us are still fond of the black and white effect that makes up a timeless photo. Interestingly, black and white photography is still preferred!

But when should you actually convert your holiday photos into black and white images? You can choose this option when the texture, form, and light in the image are more compelling as compared to the hues in the scene. Also, if the colours in the image are creating a distraction, it’s best to prefer black and white over scattered colours.  

To create this artistic look, simply take a photo and turn it into black and white colours by adjusting the settings of your digital camera.

Bring a Camera Battery Charger with You

If you’re wandering in a garden filled with flowers, what could be more exciting than experimenting with some floral photography? But if your camera has a low battery, this can destroy all the fun. However, there isn’t any need for letting those precious moments vanish forever. By packing a camera battery charger, you’re good to go to any place without worrying about your camera charging needs.

Pack Your Camera’s Lens Cleaning Cloth

If you’re heading towards the beach, the sea salt, sun cream, and the sand won’t do any good to your camera except for killing a perfectly captured moment. Taking splashy shots of your kids may come out to be blurry because of the sand grains stuck in the lens of the camera. In such a situation, a lens cloth works well. Clean your camera lens with the cloth before taking lively photos of the kids while they’re playing at the sea side.

 

Be Mid-Step While You’re Walking

Whether you want to start off with hiking or just feel like having calm, relaxing walk with your spouse, it’s challenging to capture the exact story in a photo. That’s because even if you’re walking, the photo will show that you’re just standing. To create the walking effect even in photos, here’s a trick: be in your mid-step as the camera captures the moment. If both of your feet are in the same place, the photo will show that you’re standing still.

Let Your Photos Narrate a Story

While you’re on the go, it’s a natural emotion to preserve every moment: your car drive, the time spent during the flight, your family’s first step on the lands of their favourite travel destination, the culture of the country, the streets, and even the food! Though this surely is a great way to capture the joys of your journey, you can uplift the charm further by capturing the minute details of these moments. For instance, if you’re in a touristy site (such as Eiffel Tower), try to shoot from a new angle – right from the ground, or from a higher place.

Preserve the Little Adventures

Exploring new places is not only fun, it’s a sure-fire opportunity for kids to try out new things – things they had never done before, for instance, diving in a lake for the first time! While they do this, don’t just capture their first try. Take a moment to record the entire family’s reactions too. To do this, make sure you’re shooting the whole scenery.  

The Bottom Line

Photography is itself a journey. And when it’s about cherishing the moments spent during family holidays, nothing beats the joy of capturing your kids’ candid laughter in an extraordinarily artistic way.  If you’re equipped with a high-quality camera, a camera charger, and the passion to take captivating family photos during the trip, you’re ready to relive the holiday magic even after years. 

John Stowe is an amateur photographer based in Leeds UK. He got the digital photography bug back in the early 2000’s and has since had many different models of cameras. He loves to share his ideas and thoughts online for others to read.