Capturing Memories: Photography Tips for a Boat Rental Adventure
Ensure your boating adventure memories last with high-quality, engaging photographs.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and when sharing memories from trips or cool experiences, a picture is essential. However, an out-of-focus, blurry, or boring picture can garble those words. Fortunately, taking a good picture is a learnable skill – even for challenging locations like while on a boat. Here are five tips for capturing engaging pictures while on your boat rental adventure.
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Stability: Getting your sea legs is important whether you’re on a river or an ocean or the Okanagan Lake, and it’s especially important when trying to take pictures, which is trickier than when on solid ground. Try to maintain multiple points of contact with the boat, forget about using a tripod, and keep your camera/phone close to your body.
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Composition: The Okanagan Lake scenery is fin-tastic, but you want to make sure that your picture stands out – or at least that all your pictures look different from each other! You can switch up repetitive photos by including a focal point, including both foreground and background items of interest, and using lines in your composition; the rule of thirds is particularly helpful with this.
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Shutter Speed: Capturing moving objects on film often results in motion blur, which can sometimes create an interesting result (like a moving Kelowna Sea-Doo). However, you can avoid this by increasing the shutter speed of your camera (or engaging sports mode). With a smartphone, you can achieve the same result by utilizing burst mode.
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Environment: Engage with wet-ever floats your boat while on your boat rental. Include a pop of bright colour against a blue sky or blue water landscape (like a bright orange life jacket). Produce silhouettes by placing your subjects in front of the sun. Capture reflections by taking photographs from a lower angle. Create richer images with higher contrast lighting in the morning and evening sunlight. Unleash your creativity!
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Equipment: Last but not least, utilizing a polarized lens will saturate colour while reducing glare from the water – this can make colour more vibrant and helps temper highlights. On smartphones, you can experiment with wide-angle or panoramic views to create dramatic results. Post-processing apps to edit photographs after they’ve been taken can add to your pictures – including making images moodier with black and white filters.
Finally, remember, you have to take pictures to get good pictures. So, click away!
Looking for spots to try out your newfound photography knowledge? Check out our article: The Most Scenic Lakeside Routes For Your Lake Boat Rental.
Kelowna’s Downtown Marina loves the lake life and wants its passion to be accessible to all. Located in the heart of downtown, getting on the lake has never been more convenient. Visit kelownadowntownmarina.com or stop by to rent your very own boat for an hour, a day, or a week.