20 Most Important Tips to Travel with Instagram

1) Don´t forget to transfer your photos from your camera roll to your pc, mac or hard disk. A smartphone is so easy to lose when you travel.

2)  Make sure your mobile is ready to take tons of pics and you will not reach quickly your storage capacity.

3) Dont forget to update all your apps, and particularly your editing apps and your Instagram app of course. It always more complicate from abroad.

4) If you are going to spend a lot of time far from a plug during your trip, buy one or two external battery packs. It´s not very expensive and very helpful!

5) Don´t forget home your favorite photo accesories or lenses, like your Olloclip for example.

6) If you are going to post many pics each day and you are thinking about making a kind of full report, think first about a funny tag that will be the reference of your trip. Like #usernamethailand2012 for example

7) Be always ready to shot and take as many pictures as you can! If not you could come back home with a great frustration of the few number of pics you finally took.

8) In some countries it´s not always easy to take pictures of people in the street and it may not very well seen. In other you should care about your smartphone,… so be discret when you take pics.

9) Take pics with different camera apps and lenses. You can for example take pictures with the native camera of your smartphone and then try with others apps in the same spot, try to use hipstamatic and different filters, Camera+, Snapseed,…

10) You may use a digital camera too! Don´t be shy! Even if you don´t want to mix mobile photography and traditional digital photography, you will enjoy your pics out of Instagram too!

11)Take some risks! It´s may be the best moment to change your style. If you are a Black and white lover, it could be a good moment to try new combinations of colors, try new apps.

12) Take the opportunity to try news editing apps. You have probably no time to test new apps during your working day life.

13) Don´t forget to write a short reminder of every single places you´re visiting every day on your smartphone notebook. You will need them for your titles later on.

14) Lend your smartphone to your friends! If not you will not appear in any picture!

15) Post your pics at night from your hotel room with a free Wifi.. Data Roaming Fees can be really cruel !

16) Organize your pics. Select which you think is the best way to keep your pics on different rolls of your smartphone and keep them in your smartphone for a while. You may be interested in the future months to use some of them in different contests or challenges.

17) Share your pics through other social networks too. During the trip and after the trip you should take the opportunity to share the pictures with all your friends, through Twitter, Facebook and Flickr…

18) Don´t be selfish! Send your best pics by mail to your friends who traveled with you. It´s a pity that all this pics will only be enjoyed by your Instagramers Friends.

19) Don´t forget you can print your pics and keep a great memory of your trip printing the photos on a Pastbook, Print Up App , Instagrafic or your own holidays Casetagram Case!