Photography Technique and Composition Guides

Introduction

This section collects our guides on travel photography techniques and composition. Easy-to-read and understandable tutorials, written with the passion that defines us, to help you become a better observer and photographer. Let's jump in!

Photographic Composition

In this section there are our guides on photographic composition, in the sense of framing the scene. Our goal is to help you develop the skills needed to create balanced, harmonious photographs and to shoot with greater awareness.

Rule of Thirds and Golden Ratio The Rule of Thirds, the Golden Ratio, and how to balance the framing of your photos. Reading time: 12 min.

Why Do Some Photos Fail to Move Us? Let's learn how we see the world in order to shoot better and more impactful photos. Reading time: 14 min.

Telling a Story in Photography How to improve our photographs choosing a theme and narrating it with a story. Reading time: 8 min.

How to Shoot Better Portraits Improve your portraits with these essential tips on scene framing and composition. Reading time: 7 min.

Photographing at Public Events A guide to taking better photos during public events, gatherings, and festivals. Reading time: 6 min.

Photography Theory

In this chapter there are our articles on photographic theory. Timeless topics, with a particular focus on colors and their psychology, on how to represent them correctly through white balance, and on standard formats. We also explore how photography is evolving and changing with the increasing popularity of smartphones.

Color Psychology in Photography A deep dive into colors and how different tones are perceived in photographic composition. Reading time: 15 min.

Standard Aspect Ratios in Photography Standard aspect ratios in photography: from the classics to the more modern ones. Reading time: 12 min.

What White Balance Is Understanding white balance and how to set the correct tonality for a perfect photo. Reading time: 11 min.

Phone Photography for Beginners An article on modern photography, in which smartphones are the absolute protagonists. Reading time: 17 min.

Photographic Technique

In this section are collected the most technical guides, written for those who shoot with DSLR cameras. Whether you want to understand how different settings affect your shot or how lenses work, these guides are for you.

All About Lenses How to read the markings on camera lenses and understand what their printed parameters mean. Reading time: 12 min.

Aperture of the f-stop in photography How the aperture and f-number affect the depth of field and the shutter speed in the shot. Reading time: 7 min.

Understandig Shutter Speed What's shutter speed? A guide to understanding how exposure time affects your photos. Reading time: 8 min.

What are RAW files? RAW files: what are, what are used for, and what advantages do they offer in editing. Reading time: 8 min.

Remove People From Photos Let's see how to delete unwanted people from your photos in automatic or manual. Reading time: 5 min.

How to Scan Slides Digitize old slides without a scanner, simply by photographing the projected image. Reading time: 8 min.

Thoughts

Writing these articles on composition and technique in travel photography gives us the chance to fully express our passion for photography. This was also a way to rethink and write down all the skills we acquired over the years, while continuing to grow and always learning something new.

It's been almost fifteen years that we have followed, off and on, the hobby of photography. Since those who think they know everything cannot learn anything new, we keep the mindset of those who have a lot still to learn, with eyes open to innovations and trends in photography and photo editing.

Having a basic knowledge of photography is essential to achieve more beautiful travel photos. Whether they are just for your personal use or to share with others, a nice photo taken with awareness will always be preferable to a less appealing one.

All of our photography guides have been written over a long period of time. We read them periodically, revising and updating them with the latest news and pieces of knowledge we acquired, but there may still be occasional details that need to be updated or polished. In such cases, we apologize; it's likely that on your next visit you'll find the guide corrected and refreshed.

Our First Camera

A brief introduction may be necessary: we are quite experienced with technology, as it has been our profession for more than twenty years and our passion for much longer. Since anything digital has always been our passion, we bought a cheap digital camera when it was still far too early.

We had low expectations, as we were young teens. The specifications would be considered ridiculous today; it didn't even come close to one megapixel. For the curious, it was a Creative Video Blaster Webcam Go, which shot at 640x480.

A few years later we bought an Olympus bridge superzoom camera, which offered several advanced features. That was the spark. We wanted to understand all those confusing concepts: shutter speeds and why they increased with higher zoom levels. That's when our passion truly began.

At the same time, we also became interested in a program called GIMP, which was extremely powerful for creating and editing images. We needed it to take our first steps, both to create the graphics of the website we were working on and to edit our photographs.

Our first website

In 2010 we launched our website, Mora-foto, which collected guides and tutorials on photography and photo editing using free software. After many years of satisfaction, we decided to retire the site and close it. Since the idea of losing fifteen years of work was overwhelming, we chose to move Mora-Foto to the Blogger platform. If you are curious to see it, you can click here. This way it would always remain freely accessible, as we always do.

On one hand, we had many photography articles that we felt were well written, still relevant, and interesting. On the other hand, we had this website that talks about vacations in a town surrounded by stunning mountains and nature. So, we thought of combining the two to give our readers valuable tips to improve their travel photos.

Conclusion

We hope you liked our photogallery of Cortina d'Ampezzo. Before saying goodbye, we would suggest you read our home page, with all the articles we wrote about Cortina d'Ampezzo.

If you want to thank us, you can read the page Support Us. If you only want to suggest a change, propose something, or just say hello, in the section Contacts and Info, you'll find all the ways to reach us.