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The holiday season is fast approaching and travel plans are being finalised. Because most of you won't be travelling with every friend and family member you have, it means you'll be leaving some people behind. The good news is that you don't have to with hummba. Taking a Footprint photo album on hummba means that you track your travels and all your photographs are geo tagged to the place they were taken. So? So, your friends and family can experience your holiday without even having to leave the house.

The holiday season also brings out the photographer in all of us, and why not? So, to make sure that your photographs and Footprints are the best possible version of virtual travel for your friends and family, I've included some photography tips to keep you snap happy.

1. Get down on their level. First time photographer want the camera to do all the work but to get really great pics, start moving! Get closer, get down, get the right photo.
2. Use a plain background. The sky is always a good one.
3. Use your flash outdoors. Most camera phones come complete with a flash, try it out - you'll be surprised at the results.
4. Move in close. Don't rely on your zoom - pictures lose quality when you're shooting the folds of elephant flesh a kilometer away. Move in rather than zoom in.
5. Take some vertical photos. Don't be limited to horizontal pics - shake it up.
6. Lock the focus. Find the object that you want to focus on. Start with the obvious at first and see how interesting you can make it.
7. Know your flashes range. Be sure to play with all the functions of your camera phone to know what is possible and what is not.
8. Watch the light. Bad lighting can ruin a photo or even a number of photos taken at the same time, in the same place. Camera phones aren't usually as sophisticated as quality digital cameras so be sure that the light is at the right angle to prevent pics that are so dark you can't make anything out.
9. Move it from the middle. Center your photos at first to get nice, clean, balanced pics.
10. Be a picture Director. Own it. Its your shot, take it the way you want it.

And then, upload them onto hummba.com. A mobile application and social network that lets you upload your geo tagged Footprint photo albums directly from your mobile phone.