
Eiffel Tower, Paris. Copyright Gretta Schifano
I take hundreds of photos on my travels, and I’m always trying improve my photography skills. Three years ago I bought myself a DSLR and went on a photography course at my local adult education centre, but the lessons were far too complicated for me. Last January I signed up for a year-long online photography course, but I only managed to keep up with it for a couple of months. I think that I’ve learnt the most about photography by going to sessions at blogger conferences, where helpful people such Instagrammer Kim Leuenberger and blogger Abigail King have shared their tips. I still can’t use my DSLR properly, and I’m always on the lookout for ways to improve my photography.
CEWE Photoworld have produced this infographic showing ten of the most Instagrammed landmarks in the world, and it includes some very helpful tips on how to take better photos. If you click on the image it will show you the ten landmarks and their accompanying tips.
How to take better photos of landmarks
Here are five simple photography tips which I’ve found very helpful, whatever kind of camera I’m using. Please do let me know if you have any other easy tips to add to the list.
- Use the Rule of Thirds. In case you haven’t heard of this rule, I’ll explain it. Imagine that your picture contains two horizontal and two vertical lines, equally spaced across it. These lines divide the image into nine sections. Pictures work better if items of interest are positioned along these lines, or where they intersect.
- Change your perspective – don’t just take the obvious shot. See if you can take your photo from a different angle – from low down, or up high, or from the side. Experiment with different points of view to find the best shot.
- Focus on the detail. If you want something different from a postcard shot, you can get great photos of famous landmarks if you focus in on interesting details.
- If you take photos at dawn or dusk, the soft light makes for much better images than you see in the middle of the day.
- Avoid the crowds if you can – get to places early in the morning to capture images without crowds of people.
Win a £50 photo book voucher
Once you’ve taken some images which you’re happy with, it’s great to put them into a photo book. If you’d like to create a photo book it’s worth looking at the CEWE website. CEWE Photoworld is Europe’s top photo company and the the CEWE photo book has been voted the UK’s best. CEWE are offering a £50 photo book voucher for one Mums do travel reader.

Pantheon, Athens. Copyright Gretta Schifano
How to enter
If you’d like to enter to win a £50 voucher for a CEWE Photoworld photo book voucher, this is what you need to do.
- In the comments section below, tell me which of the landmarks (from the CEWE infographic above) you’d most like to photograph.
- Enter via the Rafflecopter widget below.
- The closing date for entry is 6th February 2017.
- That’s it – good luck!
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by CEWE Photoworld and is created by me.
The Eiffel Tower – I’ve always wanted to visit Paris, fingers crossed I’ll get there one day x
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
The Effiel Tower
The Eiffel Tower
The Taj Mahal would be fabulous 🙂
The Great Wall of china
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I think the Eiffel Tower, Paris – just because of it’s romantic image and the fact that it is so different and would present certain photographic challenges.
Definitely Golden Gate Bridge
Would love to photograph the Eiffel Tower! Never had the chance to visit Paris!
The Eiffel Tower
The Taj Mahal in the moonlight – beautiful. Thanks for the chance xxx
The Eiffel Tower
id love to photograph the parthanon
The pantheon
The leaning tower of Pisa would be my number one
The taj mahal
I would love to photograph Machu Picchu. The whole landscape is just stunning x
The Taj Mahal
The Pantheon, so much history x
The TajMahal, would love to make it there some day.
I have always wanted to visit the Taj Mahal.
Taj Mahal
I’d say everywhere, but I’d really like to photograph the Taj Mahal!
For me it would have to be the Taj Mahal
Eiffel Tower
the Golden Gate bridge
Eiffel Tower, Paris
Golden Gate Bridge
I would love to photograph the pyramids in the evening
The statue of liberty
Would love to photograph the Eiffel Tower in Paris ?
Blackpool Tower
The Taj Mahal
Eiffel Tower.
The Taj Mahal
the Taj Mahal in sunset or sunrise
There are so many interesting places here but i would have to say Machu Picchu. Incredible place i would love to visit Peru
The Eiffel Tower day and nighttime shots
I would love to photograph the Golden Gate Bridge
The Eiffel Tower
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The leaning tower of Pisa
Machu Pichu would be amazing
I’d love to photograph Machu Picchu.
The Eiffel Tower 🙂
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The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower
Oh that’s a hard one but I think Machu Picchu 🙂
eiffel tower 🙂
The Golden Gate Bridge
I’d photograph the Golden Gate Bridge because the only time I was in San Francisco it was covered in fog!
I’d love to visit, and Instagram, the Golden Gate Bridge. Its always been a dream of mine to visit San Fran!
We GI to Whitby a lot and I like to take pitchers of the abby
the statue of liberty
the Eiffel tower
Eiffel Tower
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco has got to be at the top.
The Eiffel Tower for sure – I’ve never been to France!
I would love to photograph the Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower.
The Golden Gate Bridge
The Eiffel Tower
I’d go for the Acropolis.
Mainy
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I think that would have to be the beautiful Manchu Picchu
So many places! Notre Dame, Sagrada Familia, anything by Gaudi and the Nasar Al-Mulk Mosque in Iran
the eifel tower in paris, have visited there before but the weather was bad so the pics were awful
The Eiffel Tower
the Eiffel tower would be cool
Hands down the Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower whilst scoffing on bread and cheese
I would love to photograph Machu Picchu. I would definitely get up early for a decent selfie there!
My first choice would be MachuPicchu
I was once in the sea in Ibiza swimming and lots of fish and an octopus were swimming around and I watched in amazement with my snorkel. I wish I had a camera that could be used in the water because that moment was so perfect and beautiful. It would have been so lovely to capture it. On a plus I am very lucky that I got to experience that.
Thanks for the competition and tips x
The Taj Mahal
the Eiffel Tower 😀
the taj mahal would be incredible!
I would most love to photograph the Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal would be my choice
The Taj Mahal.
The Golden Gate Bridge looks amazing
Machu Pichu looks amazing!
The Taj Maha;
The Eiffel Tower
Pantheon, Athens
Eiffel Tower 🙂
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower, Paris
I’d love to photograph the Eiffel Tower.
For me it would be NotreDame re the interesting architecture.
Love to snap Taj Mahal
Machu Pichu, would love to visit
The Golden Gate Bridge would be fabulous to photograph. What a great giveaway. Fingers crossed x
the Eiffel tower.
I would like to photograph BurjKhalifa
Nigigera falls are one of the most stunnig scenes in the words
I would love to photograph The Taj Mahal
The Acropolis. I’ve never been there and am very interested in history.
I would love to photograph the Eiffel Tower.
The Taj Mahal
I would love to photograph Acropolis. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
The Northern Lights
The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower
Notre Dame
Definitely the eiffel tower
The Acropolis – I have some photographs of it when we were there but there was a lot of scaffolding!
The grand cannion
The Eiffel Tower would be great to photograph
The Northern lights -always been a dream to see these
Taj Mahal
Definitely the Eiffel Tower – I love Paris!
Eiffel tower
niagara falls
the pyramids at night in geazer
The Eiffel Tower
It would have to be the Golden Gate Bridge for me!
The Sydney Opera House is high on my list
The northern lights
The Eiffel Tower
the Eiffel tower
The Taj Mahal would be great
The Taj Mahal x
Machu Picchu would be amazing
Love to Take my son to Eiffel tower and than taking loads of pictures 🙂
The Eiffel Tower – definitely!
The Eiffel Tower from below looking up to the sky
Pantheon, Athens or all the old structures in Italy.
I’d love to be able to professionally photograph the Eiffel Tower, it’s such a beautiful landmark 🙂
The Eiffel Tower
Statue of Liberty xx
Pantheon, Athens
Niagra Falls would looks stunning xx
I would love to photography the Taj Mahal
The Flatiron Building in New York
the Eiffel Tower at night, I think it would be beautiful 🙂
Eiffel Tower, Paris would be lovely x
Eiffel tower
I’d love to photograph Machu Picchu one day.
Def has to be the statue of liberty!
The Taj Mahal would be my choice
The Eiffel tower
the statue of liberty
The Eiffel Tower
The Pantheon, Athens
Angkor Wat
It’s been my lifelong dream to visit Machu Picchu, so that’s the place I’d most like to photograph
Taj Mahal!
The Alhambra
Machu Picchu
the Eiffel tower
Sigiriya rock in Sri Lanka 🙂
I would love to photograph the Golden Gate Bridge. I love bridges, and that is one I would be delighted to add to my photograph collection!
Golden gate bridge 🙂
Definitely The Golden Gate bridge
The golden gate bridge 🙂
Niagara Falls
eiffel tower
#EiffleTower as it was the basis for my local #BlackpoolTower
I would love to see the Pantheon
The golden gate Bridge, which we will be visiting later this year. I’m surprised the statue of liberty isn’t on the list.
Eiffel Tower 🙂 xx
The Pantheon
Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
The Eiffel Tower for me: so may amazing angles you could picture it from
The statue of Liberty!
Eiffel Tower for sure!
The Eiffel Tower
pantheon, athens
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco would be amazing! 🙂
I would love to photograph Moroccan architecture.
The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
I’d love to photograph The Eiffel Tower
love to photograph the Eiffel tower
I’d love to visit Macchu Picchu.
Eiffel Tower, Paris. Have always wanted to go.
The Golden Gate Bridge.
It would have to be the Taj Mahal for me.
The most interesting Taj Mahal
Eiffel Tower, we are having our honeymoon there in may, and already have tickets for the Eiffel tower, cant wait x
Alhambra looks interesting but I’d like to get there by train! Nicola
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I think it would have to be Machu Picchu for me.
eiffel tower
I’d love to photograph the Acropolis
niagara falls
I would love to photograph Machu Picchu.
id love to photograph the eiffel tower at night time. With all the lights and night sky it would look incredible
I would love to photograph the Eiffel Tower
Useful tips – I would love to go to Angkor Wat. I can only imagine how many photos I might take there…
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the statue of liberty
I’d love to photograph the Eiffel tower.
My favourite the Eiffel tower, thanks.x
The Golden Gate Bridge 🙂
The Eiffel Tower
golden gate bridge
Eiffel Tower, Paris
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
ooooo thats a tough one. Id have to say the Taj Mahal
I’d love to photograph the iconic, striking Eiffel Tower at sunrise.
The Eiffel Tower
I’d love to photograph the Eiffel tower.
I’d love to photograph the beautiful Norte Dame cathedral