When you are on vacation, you want to take amazing photos, but you are often limited by arm length, insufficient light, and bulky equipment. A suitable selfie stick will solve these difficulties. Whether you are traveling with friends or alone, a multifunctional magnetic selfie stick can help you improve your photography experience. This article provides you with practical selfie stick usage tips, from the shooting difficulties you often encounter on vacation to the solutions, helping you maximize the role of the selfie stick in vacation photography.
1. Difficulties often encountered when taking photos on vacation
Hand-held shooting causes hand shaking: When taking photos on vacation, we usually hold our mobile phones to take photos, but because of hand shaking or limited hand movement directions, the photos we can take are often limited and affect the image quality, especially after holding the phone for too long.
Difficult to adjust to the right angle: Our arm length is limited, and we are usually unable to meet the needs of taking photos of multiple people. We habitually ask passers-by for help, but most of them are unsatisfactory or unable to choose a good background angle freely. This will cause someone to be squeezed out of the lens or their face to be distorted when taking group photos.
Inconvenient to carry equipment: The length of the traditional selfie stick after storage is still not enough to fit the baby carried with you, and the bulky selfie stick tripod takes up space, bringing an extra burden to the traveler. The Lumpia magnetic selfie stick is only 15 cm long after storage, which can be directly stuffed into most carry-on bags.
Insufficient light at night: It is impossible to take photos of the sunset or night scene at the beach on vacation. In dim light, it is difficult for us to stabilize the lens, which will result in blurry photos.
2. Why is the selfie stick so important in vacation photography?
When you are on vacation, facing the trouble of shooting, a suitable selfie stick can help you free your hands and improve the quality of shooting, creating more shooting possibilities for you.
Stable shooting picture: Avoid relying on others when taking group photos or personal photos, and find your ideal background picture
Free adjustment of angles: The selfie stick supports 360-degree rotation, so you can easily find the best composition and different shooting angles
Portable and easy to store: The magnetic selfie stick's free retractable design is very portable. You can take it out of your travel bag at any time and record beautiful moments anytime, anywhere
3. How to choose selfie sticks of different lengths?
When choosing a selfie stick, we need to think about our own selfie photography needs first. You can consider portability, telescopic height range, stability, and functionality.
1. Short selfie stick (15-30cm)
Short selfie sticks are usually light and compact, easy to store, and can be put into a pocket or a small bag. Most of them are magnetic or foldable designs, suitable for single selfies, Vlog recording, and short video shooting
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2. Medium-long selfie stick (50-80cm)
The medium-long selfie stick can adjust the height freely, suitable for single selfies, group photos, and full-body shooting. It can zoom out and capture a more complete background
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3. Long selfie stick (100-150cm)
The long selfie stick has a longer shaft, which is suitable for aerial perspectives, mountaineering, and high-altitude aerial photography.
Recommended product: MagSafe Selfie Stick
4. Selfie stick with tripod function (50-200cm)
The selfie stick with tripod function can be converted into a tripod, suitable for shooting Vlog, long-range video, time-lapse photography, night scene shooting, long exposure photography, and starry sky photography
Recommended product: MagSafe 81" Selfie Stick Tripod
4. How to fill light at night?
Normally, we would prefer a ring light for fill light, but when we are on vacation, we will pay more attention to portability. The Lumipia selfie stick has a cold shoe interface, and you can use a mini panel light to achieve fill light at night.
Shooting tips:
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Install the mini panel light on the cold shoe interface of the magnetic selfie stick, adjust to the appropriate color temperature and brightness, and avoid overexposure and unclear portraits.
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Adjust to tripod mode to stabilize the picture and avoid shaking.
- Wide-angle mode: Use the length of the selfie stick to increase the range of adjustment of the current limited space picture so that the photo can have a more atmospheric feeling.
5. How to use a magnetic selfie stick to take vacation photos?
Choose the right shooting angle:
- 45-degree angle: the most natural selfie angle, which can show the best facial proportions.
- Low-angle shooting: This makes the photo more layered, suitable for shooting landmark buildings or sky backgrounds.
- High-angle overhead shooting: suitable for shooting food, beaches, or scenery when climbing.
Set the phone camera parameters:
- Adjust HDR mode: enhance the details of highlights and dark areas, especially for sunrise or sunset scenes.
- Use wide-angle mode: Increase the depth of the background to make the picture more travel-like.
- Night mode + fill light: when shooting night scenes, combine with a mini panel light to ensure clarity.
Conclusion
Say goodbye to the "dilemma" of taking selfies on vacation, and use professional magnetic selfie stick tools to improve your vacation photography experience. Whether it is to solve the problem of limited arm length, insufficient light, or too heavy equipment, the magnetic selfie stick series can always solve the pain points in travel photography and turn selfies into a kind of fun. A multifunctional selfie stick can help you leave beautiful vacation memories.
