Langkawi and my sense of photography

Hey diary

How are you?

I've been doing good, and I'm finishing the book to meet the publishing deadline. Many things to go, but I keep going.

I've been to Langkawi lately. It's a lovely and relaxing place, my friend and I rented a car to roam around the island. Car renting cost is the same as motorbike renting, and petro cost is dirty cheap. The trip was nice. But when you've been traveling around and you've seen more beautiful places, there are fewer things that make you wow. Langkawi is nice, but if having another chance I would choose Philippines or Bali instead. These places are awesome. It's hard to beat Philippines islands, No. 1 in Asia in my opinion. And Bali, oh nothing's like Bali. 

What is interesting in the Langkawi trip and I want to make a note here is my photography sense suddenly gets better. Now I can know better which is a good photo and which is not. 

Look at this photo

Not bad right. But what I did wrong is I put the skyline at the middle of the picture, it's like to cut the picture in two halves. One of the basic rules in photography, especially in travel photo, is the rule of 1/3 or 2/3, which means don't put the object of the photo right in the middle of the picture, but on 1/3 or 2/3 of it. The Polar Route blogger has a better explanation here. 

And this:

I thought it was a nice picture as I knelt down to choose a good angle (which was also mentioned in Polar Route post) and shot it right. But I forgot to keep the line straight. We always need to find a line to base on, in my above photo, the line is the road. 

And this

It's a nice scene, and a nice picture too, although my hair looks crazy. But my friend would have made it better if he'd moved the object (which is me) closer to the shore so my head wouldn't cut the skyline, and moving the camera a bit to the shore so I were at the 1/3 of the pic. If he sat down to make the sea 2/3 of the picture and the sky 1/3, that would be perfect. Sorry bro, you're not as pro as you thought.

I feel a bit sad that I haven't known about such thing until now. And I missed many great chances for great photos on my way, as I travel quite a lot. Other traveler buddies around me always show the beautiful pictures that make me so jealous. 

But never mind, more travel to go. And I'm in the game. Watch out babe.