Should Travel Photo Bloggers shares only the best photo

This is perhaps the most arguable question many have been asking me all this while. Should travel photo bloggers excessively post process their travel photos before sharing them online? We as travel photography bloggers always fall into this dilemma when we share our travel photos. Some prefer to showcase the best processed photo they ever captured by post editing images with multi layer filters, exaggerate colours, contrast and so on, just to make them to their best. Others might prefer to retain the ‘real look’ of a tourist spot by not exaggerating the photo property. So which should be the way?

In fact, there is no single answer here. Let us see why.

First, we need to understand we as travelers are not local people staying at one travel destination for a long enough time to understand the local weather. By staying around the city for probably a few days as visitors will not be sufficient to realise when would be the best time with the best weather and sun lighting to capture a scene at its best.

Travel photo bloggers are striving to capture the best picture of any travel destination within the limited time they have with the city. It would be lucky to have perfect sun light to do so. Even worse, what if we face bad weather throughout our trip?

I had bad experience in Xian when it rained throughout the 5 days we were there! I was hoping for sun light but not a chance. So what could I do to salvage my dull travel photos? Yup. Truly but sadly, I have to post process my photos!

Thanks god we are mostly taking photos digitally nowadays so I had at least recovered some nice images of Xian such as the Big Wild Goose Pagoda below.

Otherwise, there is another option. Without beautiful sun light and by not enhancing too much of the original photo properties until ruining the ‘real look’ of the scene, we can opt to take more photos at night when there are attractive artificial lighting available!

In short, a travel photo blog should be a web journal sharing both the real life scene and the best appearance of a tourist destination, in order to guide holiday makers on their vacations planning.

Travel Feeder is the seldom few travel photo bloggers to have done these all this while. So you will see both the real life crowd scene of a destination (as seen above), as well as the best possible scene captured with moderate post processing (as seen below).

And we need to share also the actual look around scenes travelers could expect from a tourist hot spot, as well as the best scenario photographers could possibly capture.

Take a look at the following example. Tell me which one you like being shared on a travel photo blog.

1) Tower Bridge as captured along the Thames river at the Southern bank at noon, like most others did.

2) Also the striking scene of Tower Bridge of London as captured on tripod at night, with moderate post processing.

Which one would you prefer?

So, my philosophy of travel photography remains:

To strike the balance, all my travel photos shared on my blog are moderately processed with Photoshop Elements or iPhotos with priority taken in retaining the real life elements of the object scenes. In this case, whenever you spot a beautiful scenery on this travel photo blog, you can surely see the same in person if you travel there!

Here are some of my top travel photos to show how beautiful scenes captured on my previous travels are shared. Enjoy!

Please comment below if you have different ideas and advises on how travel photo bloggers should share their images. – Travel Feeder

About The Author

Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.