A good photo will help us to understand more about the place. It’s not doubting now everybody uses Google Maps to find places. They can have visual details about the places before they visit, from the photos which uploaded to the Google maps already. Personally, I love to upload photos to Google maps. Please check out 10 Reasons Why I Love to Share Aerial Photos (Drone Photos) and Travel Photos on Google Maps
I realized the photos also a reason for someone to make decisions about the places because my friends always like to go to the places which have really good photos on Google maps. First, they watch photos and then they view the ratings, I’m the one who read reviews because I always write helpful reviews on Google maps and I can also have a better understanding about the place from the reviews. I also noticed that there are a lot of views for the photos than reviews on Google maps. Still, there are a lot of awesome places that don’t have good pictures on Google maps. I think as ‘Local Guides’ we can upload really good photos of the nice places to the maps. Therefore I thought to share my knowledge about photography with the ‘Local Guides’ from all around the world.
All of us aren’t professional photographers but we can be good photographers to help people.
Here is my very basic tip about capturing a good photo.
I noticed that some people just have an inability to hold the camera square and every single photo they take is just a little bit wonky. Sometimes they say it’s not a problem because they said that they can just rotate it and crop it later on because it’s a digital photo. But what they don’t know is that they’ll lose huge parts of every corner of the picture and also they’ll lose the quality of the picture too. Maybe they will lose some parts of the main object too.
Here are some examples of the correct composition and incorrect composition. Please comment on what you think about it in the comment box.
Look for something that’s supposed to be horizontal like a horizon and then try and just check that it’s parallel with the bottom of your viewfinder or the live viewing display of your mobile phone or the camera. Then match it up to check it’s parallel or a building that’s supposed to be vertical just check it matches up with the side of your viewfinder or display. You can also use “gridlines” on your mobile phone or digital camera. To activate “gridlines” on your iPhone please go to settings> camera> grid. Most android phones have gridlines option on the camera settings. You can also use a good camera app if there’s not a gridlines option on the default camera app.
Please spend a couple of seconds to make sure your photos square because it will help you to capture really good photos for Google maps.
I hope to publish more tips on capturing good photos for Google maps in my future posts. Please comment below what you think about this very simple tip about good composition.
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@bDilshan95 Beautiful photos and a nice tip. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us looking forward to more posts on this topic.
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SO WONDERFUL TIPS! Thank you very much @bDilshan95 for sharing this post with us.
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Wow…Very very beautiful photos & nice tip @bDilshan95
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Very informative and interesting guidelines. Thanks and regards.
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Hello @DennisNguyen
You are always welcome my dear friend.
I hope to publish more details and also some important tips which will help everyone to capture good photos for the google maps in my future posts. 
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Thank you very much Mr.Vijay @vijayparadkar I really appreciate your comment.
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Thank you very much,**Mr. Gautam @Gautamda **I really appreciate your comment.
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@bDilshan95 I ma eagerly waiting for your next tip on photo editing. Love to see more contributions from you. Thanks for the compliments.
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Thanks for the tag @bDilshan95 and great post!
I like how you focused on just one tip so that the post is short and sweet! There’s certainly a lot that one can cover in photography!! And it means you can create a series of posts where each post is about a specific tip/skill which leads me to my one suggestion for this post; your title could be a bit more descriptive or specific to your tip on straightening photos.
Why? In searching Connect for specific posts, a good title goes a long way in making someone decide whether to click on your post or not. Also, if you’re going to write a series of posts focused on photography tips, if you use the same style of vague titles, how do you differentiate one post from another?
Anyway, keep up the amazing work and looking forward to reading more of your post!! 
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Nice tip!
Sometimes the wonky photos are what some want as the finished product but yes, lining up the horizon with the lens as straight as possible is a good idea.
Kol
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Hello @bDilshan95
Thank you for telling me about the importance of horizontality. And the picture from the drone is great!
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well content in your post @bDilshan95
helpfull for begining photografer like me
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Hello my dear friend @AdrianLunsong
My apologies for the late response. I’m so thankful for you for reading my post. I really appreciate your valuable comment.
From this post, I mainly focus on the easiest, very basic and the simplest composition technique in photography that anyone can practice very easily. I agree with you there are many compositions techniques in photography but without this very basic step, it’s a little bit hard to step on the next step. It’s no doubt, anyone can be a good photographer and also they can upload good photos to the maps only practicing this simple step. Even in connect posts I noticed that still there are a lot of wonky photos. I think this step is the easiest and also the hardest. Everyone who contributes to maps and “Connect” are not photography experts. There are a lot of people in different education levels. That’s why I planned this post so simple that anyone can understand very easily. Gridlines are not available in some cameras and mobile phones so it’s a little bit advance thing to give them an idea about the rule of thirds. As I see practicing this step is a good foundation for photography. That’s why I published this step as one post. As I think if I wrote the title descriptive or specific this tip on straightening photos maybe someone will think this step is useless and they just ignore it. Therefore they will lose a chance to learn more about this key technique, that’s why I named my post as “Anyone Can Use This Very Simple Tip to Capture Beautiful Photos”. I’m planning to write another post about a few more simple compositions techniques in photography. I think this post will be a good foundation for my next post.
I must tell you that I’m a big fan of Go Loco Podcast. You’re doing it really great.
I invite you to read my 10 Reasons Why I Love to Share Aerial Photos (Drone Photos) and Travel Photos on Google Maps
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@bDilshan95 thanks for sharing this post!
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Hello, my dear friend @Kol-Colleen_2018
Thank you very much!
Yes, you’re right, It’s no need to depend on rules every time. Sometimes there’s a unique beauty in wonky photos too. Lining up the horizon saves time, quality and no worriedness every time.
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Thank you very much, my dear friend, @YasumiKikuchi .
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Hello, my dear friend @fafaguru .
Thank you very much for your valuable comment. I’m planning to publish a few more tips about photography but before that, please practice this key tip. This tip will be a good foundation for the next step.
Thany you very much my dear friend @marcorp
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