I will be honest, rainy days used to scare me off from shooting photos, but now, the bleak weather makes me smile. In a way, rainy days are fortuitous situations that allow me brilliant photos. I am not a professional photographer, I am a photographer from passion.
Photos in the rain are different than any other photos, as they sport personality that favors the surroundings. Imagine tropical areas in the rain, have you seen them? How about rainbows at the end of a storm? Snap photos over and over, look at the photos and look at the weather. How can you bring it all together? One great smartphone and few of my tips will help you really capture those travel photos in the rain!
Rainy weather definitely poses challenges to travel photography, but my smartphone brings things into focus. Lavishly live travel out loud using these tips for taking travel photos in the rain.
Tips for Taking Travel Photos In The Rain
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1. Keep Your Smartphone In Your Hand
This Smartphone Makes a Splash on A Rainy Day! Don’t run for cover, if you have the Galaxy S9+ you have a waterproof phone. Snap, shoot, focus, and let the rain run down your face and phone! The phone can take it! The best in Technology offers you the ability to capture the best of weather. Rainy nights on the beach, rainy days on the road, puddles, puddle jumping and life through the raindrops!
2. Tips Toe Me Not
I don’t tiptoe, I splash, I puddle, I dance in that rain because puddles are beautiful images! Jump in puddles and shoot down, wait until you see your results. You have a bucket list photo for the destination you are in, capture it! Make sure to have you location tag on, it will remind you of where you were.
3. Capture Kids
The amazement of water on the ground is a kids journey. Photo children from around the world puddling and see it for the very first time, every time you look at those captured images. Your S9+ can take it!
4. Get To Ground Level and Shoot Those Images
This may be from the top down, but get from the ground and shoot up. Sit eye level with all the activity, put the umbrella up, to shield from too much rain, yet, sit and see the small things. The background of where you are changing so much with a simple rainstorm. Before and afters are great captures! Set up camp and sit! Rain backdrops are awesome photos.
5. Rain Clouds Make Great Back Drops
The creepy sky, yet so telltale of what surrounded us in Marco Island. The story we will never forget. Trust me, we were in danger, yet on the water. I photo’d and captured and now we talk about it. It’s one of my prize-winning captures. Use the rain clouds to really make a contrasting background. Often stunning captures.
6. RAIN embellishes colors
After the storm cleared and between another moving in, the color of this photo in Marco Island was just crazy good.
7. What’s Inbound And What Is In
The difference here, on one half of the boat it was storming, yes it was. The other half it was not. The crazy weather can be seen in the sky, and I kept on photo’ing the boys!
Laugh, Smile, Selfie & Let the Smartphone Capture it All 
Of course, always have fun with it. Here we are in trash bags protecting ourselves from the rain on the beaches in the Domincan Republic and my Samsung was exposed to the elements and selfied us perfectly. Lavishly live travel out loud, capture the moments, snap those pictures, your Samsung Galaxy 9+ is key to perfect photos in or out of the rain. Remember, at the end of every rainstorm, take that rainbow!
