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Scout Locations in Advance: Use Street View to virtually explore the area and identify photogenic spots, angles, and lighting conditions before your visit.
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Golden Hour Magic: Plan your photography during the golden hour (early morning or late afternoon) for softer light and dramatic shadows.
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Turn on Satellite View: Satellite mode helps you understand the landscape layout and find unique perspectives like winding roads, rivers, or parks.
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Pin Your Photo Spots: Drop pins on your desired locations to create a route and ensure you don’t miss key shots.
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Maximize Street View: Use Street View for framing ideas, testing compositions, and checking for crowd levels.
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Use the Compass Feature: Align your shots with the compass to get perfect perspectives and balanced compositions.
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Search for User Photos: Look at photos uploaded by others in the area to gain inspiration and find hidden gems.
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Zoom for Details: Use the zoom function to find details like patterns, architecture, or landscapes to include in your compositions.
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Capture Layers: Create depth by incorporating foreground, middle ground, and background elements.
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Stay Updated on Conditions: Use live traffic and weather layers to plan your visit when the environment complements your vision.
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Experiment with Different Lenses: If possible, carry wide-angle or telephoto lenses to match the perspectives seen in Google Maps.
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Save Offline Maps: Download the area to your device so you can navigate and shoot even without internet access.
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Update Your Google Photos Contributions: Add your shots to Google Maps to share your perspectives and help others explore.
Thank You for Sharing Insightful Information
Its a great tropic to share us. thank you very for your tropics which great help for photography.
Welcome to the Local Guides Community @md_abdur_rahim
Nice post and well explained.
Hi @md_abdur_rahim
Welcome in Connect, and thank you for sharing your tips.
Unfortunately your profile in Google Maps is “private”. I would really love to learn from you “visually” how you applied your tips in your 77 photos in Google Maps.
However, as Local Guide, I only follow a few of your tips only in some rare case, if I want to take a photo of a natural feature, or an outdoor Location. But in most of the cases it is the life to decide “when” to visit a specific business, so I have to use different principles, based on how to get the best view and how to make the better framing of a photo.
Hi @ErmesT seems like you have tagged the wrong person 
It’s @md_abdur_rahim not me (@ShifaAymal)
—Thanks 
Sorry about that @ShifaAymal
Fixed now
Thanks for your interest,my profile is public now
Hi @md_abdur_rahim Welcome to the Local Guides Connect Community.
Thanks for sharing tips for photography. I opened your maps profile & see your added photos. Many of the photos are similar (duplicate) this is against for the Local Guides Community Policy.
Now remove the duplicate photos and start contributing in High quality with just single photo (I mean avoid adding same same photos) and also avoid night time because that photos are looking dark, this also mentioned in Community Policy
Hope @ErmesT also suggests the same to you.
Thank You, Keep Contributing 
Thanks for opening your profile, @md_abdur_rahim
Like mentioned by @Rakshith_LG , there are several issues in your contributions.
But let me start to the beginning:
- Helpfulness: Good quality is always important in Google Maps, but what is important is also that the photo should be helpful for the users. I see you like to take photos of train station. Well, the scope is to help others to know more about the place. Beautiful photos taken from the train can be beautiful to write a nice story, but totally useless in Google Maps.
- Redundancy: A lot of your photos are very similar. This is defined “redundancy”, and it is absolutely discouraged in Google Maps, because it is considered just a trick to gain more points without adding any additional information about the place. As an expert in photography you should know that one of the best tips is: “Take several shots and then select only the best one”. Kindly remove all the redundant photos.
- Duplicates: Duplicates are a big NO! Never post the same photo in Maps more then once.
- Privacy: Privacy is an important issue, and in several countries is protected by law. Maps strongly recommends that you avoid posting people’s faces without formal permission.
- Copyright: Never use stolen photos, or screenshots of photos taken from the web or some social media. This is not only disrespectful of other’s work, but also strictly forbidden in Google Maps
Well, what mentioned above are the basic elements that every Local Guide must follow, when we’re talking about photos. Of course your tips can be important, but I wonder how many of them you followed to take the photos you posted in Google Maps. That’s why I was curious about your contributions, because I have read a lot of posted written by “self defined experts” here in Connect, only to discover that most of the time their contributions are not following their own tips.
Sharing your experience, visible in your own contributions, it is always much better than suggesting to do something that you are not doing. This is a principle valid not only here, but especially in everyday life.
Nice tips @md_abdur_rahim
- I learned tip #2 from @MortenCopenhagen but I don’t always use it. Thanks for highlighting.
- I use tip #7 to see what others have posted previously, which sets me up for trying to take something different and possibly “better”.
@md_abdur_rahim thanks for sharing the information
Thank you for sharing this information 
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