How to improve your vacation photos?

Back from vacation, it's time to enhance and retouch the photos you've taken over the summer.

A pleasant way to dive back into your vacation memories and make them even more beautiful. Because let's be honest, the snapshots brought back are sometimes disappointing... Which is quite normal since you are not necessarily a pro in photography.

Fortunately, there are solutions to improve your vacation photos.

Sort your photos

Before improving your photos, start by sorting them out. Caught up in the whirlwind of your vacation, you didn't have time to delete failed shots. Those that are blurry, poorly framed, overexposed, or just uninteresting. Avoid duplicates: keep only one photo of the same place. Keep only the essentials and the best.

Straighten your tilted photos

When taking a photo, we often forget to align ourselves with the horizon line. As a result, we end up with "tilted" snapshots. Of course, some monuments like the Leaning Tower of Pisa have become famous because of their tilted look, but be realistic: it's unlikely that this will happen for your tilted photos.

What not to do!

To straighten them, you can use software, such as PhotoFiltre for example. Note that this functionality is also offered by most smartphones. After straightening your snapshot, also think about cropping it.

Crop your images

Your photos seem disappointing or monotonous? Don't panic, you can easily give them some pep. Just crop them according to the rule of thirds, which consists of placing the main subject of your photo at two thirds of the image. This allows the eye a better reading of the picture. This way you give a new dynamic to your snapshot.

Cropping also allows you to eliminate certain unwanted elements, located on the edges of your photo. Like the passerby who enters your field while you are taking your photo. We've all had this experience: we wait (sometimes a very long time) to take a picture of a monument and just when we press the camera, someone pops into the field. Grrr! Fortunately, thanks to cropping, your photo will be saved!

Improve the exposure

To obtain more dynamic, more striking photos, play with their brightness and contrast. The colors will be more pleasant to the eye, the contrasts more balanced. In general, these adjustments are handled by the automatic mode of your camera. But do not hesitate to work on them to improve the quality of your photos.

You will then realize that automatic mode does not do everything and that it is possible for you to retouch your snapshot to make it more faithful to reality or in line with the interpretation you want to give it. So it's up to you to choose the intensity of colors, brightness, and contrast that suit you.

And there you go, now you just have to play with your vacation memories!