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Your honeymoon is a once-in-a-lifetime experience – a time to relax, unwind and make unforgettable memories with your new spouse. Whether you choose to celebrate in the romantic Italian countryside or on a beautiful Thai island, it is so important that you are able to capture these special moments to treasure for a lifetime.
Capturing great honeymoon photos takes more than just pulling out your phone and snapping a picture. To take the perfect photos, you will need to consider lighting and how you will present and edit your images. But, with a little bit of preparation, the photos you return home with could provide you with frame-worthy memories to cherish for years to come. Here are our top photography tips to help you capture the most stunning honeymoon photos, whether you’re going to a winter destination or a beach escape.
Start from the End
When it comes to taking photos that you’ll look back on for a lifetime, considering how you’ll present them can go a long way in knowing how to capture them. As honeymoon pictures will be a collection of one specific, meaningful event, one of the best ways to share and cherish honeymoon moments is by creating a photo book or collage.
With a photo collage template, you can select from many fantastic ways to present your honeymoon photos, and include a range of photos, from the laughs, love, sunset kisses and silly moments. When you know what your collage template will be, it can help you capture the right photos. For example, with collages that are 2×2, you might want to get four photos of a gorgeous day, or four snaps at different parts of a single day.
Choosing Your Gear
Whether you have a camera already, are actively looking or are just happy to shoot on your phone, we have highlighted our recommendations on what gear to take depending on your style of travel below.
- Smartphone (with a great camera!) – if you have the latest model with high-resolution cameras and all the tech, perfect! Smartphone cameras can be great for travellers who travel light or like the convenience of always having their camera with them.
- DSLR or mirrorless cameras – while travellers tend to choose a lightweight mirrorless camera over the sturdier DSLR, both are great options for those a little more experienced or who have a higher interest in settings like shutter speed. If you want something a little more advanced than your smartphone, it’s simple enough to learn the basic settings of a DSLR camera, and you’ll have more versatility in how you capture moments. Just remember to bring an extra SD card in case you have issues with the first.
- “Point and Shoot” cameras – these are a popular option among younger travellers looking for a simple, aesthetic picture on holiday. They require little to no editing and give off an older, warmer vibe that’s perfect for a romantic escape shoot. You can pick up a point-and-shoot film camera for cheap, and as the name suggests, they don’t need much fiddling around with settings, just point them at what you want to capture, and shoot.
For all of these camera options, you can also consider bringing a tripod for extra stable shots, and to take timer photos so you both can be in the frame.
Natural Lighting, Framing and All The Angles
Capturing images in natural lighting is the key to winning photos, especially when trying to capture the emotions and feelings of your honeymoon. Golden hour is the best time to shoot – as the sun prepares to set, it emits natural, soft light for a romantic, flattering feel. Golden hour is a great time to capture romantic getaway shots on the beach or when taking photos of you as a couple, as the light will hit your faces with just the right softness.
Before snapping your picture, consider turning on the grid feature on your camera or smartphone and positioning the target of the image in one of the grid intersections for a more balanced, well-framed shot. This is known as the rule of thirds guideline and helps you frame fantastic photos. But if you want to take romantic or intimate photos, capturing close-ups and candid laughs works great.
To mix up your photos, try placing your subject slightly off-centre or using a road or pathway to lead your eyes towards your partner. To capture the intimacy and romance of your trip, try close-ups of your footprints in the sand, your hands intertwined or your wine glasses set next to a candle on the table.
Capturing Those Special Moments
To capture genuine emotion and intimate moments, you will want to focus on spontaneous photos, capturing laughter, dance and movement. Tripods, self-timers and shooting on video are great tricks to achieve the perfect picture. Shooting in burst mode or the live feature on smartphones is another great way of picking the perfect image to put on your wall. Remember to shoot from different angles with different subjects and backgrounds – get creative and have some fun with it!
Editing & Collaging
Editing is the final touch needed to enhance your honeymoon photos. Before posting them on your socials or sharing them with family and friends, it’s a good idea to find a compatible editing software like Adobe Express for post-editing. This allows you to make any small adjustments to lighting and framing that you might have gotten wrong when shooting. Once you’re happy with the results, you can go ahead with printing, framing and presentation. There are many ways you can present photo collages, whether in a book, across frames or digitally to share with the world.
Unpacking Your Honeymoon Photos
Capturing this once-in-a-lifetime experience ensures you can live it again and again and reflect on a magical and important time for your relationship. From choosing the right gear to applying the rule of thirds, determining how you’ll present the images and learning some basic editing skills, taking a little extra time to prepare for your honeymoon photography will be so worth it when you have the most beautiful photos to show family and friends.
Now, release all your tensions, relax and enjoy the trip of a lifetime!
