Tips On Taking Photos To Accompany An Article
Taking photos to accompany an article you’ve written may seem easy at first. If your article is about, say, the five best ethnic markets in Amsterdam, you go out and take pictures of the five markets. But here is where it gets tricky. Should you take wide-angle...
Traveling With A Camera Gives You A New Way To Explore
Crossing the street in Hanoi, Vietnam is a skill every person in the city must learn. To cross the street, you simply step out in traffic, and a whirlwind of cyclos (Hanoi’s version of the rickshaw), mopeds, motorcycles, and cars strategically move around you. It’s...
Adding Motion Blur Can Help You Sell More Images
As a young boy, I remember having to stay still and smile to the camera. It was important not to move in order to get sharp pictures. Photographers are known to freeze time and capture snippets of still life. But adding even the slightest, purposeful motion blur into...
8 Tips To Get Started Making Money With Stock Photography
In late 2012, I was still trying to recover from a nasty divorce—one that had left me floundering under a mountain of bills, desperate to figure out a way to support myself… fast. One night, while surfing the internet, I stumbled across the Breakfast Stock Club. It...
Shoot Stock Images In Your Hometown—And See Them In Glossy Travel Magazines
One of my favorite childhood photographs is of my sister and me in Cape Cod. Aged 6 and 7, we are grinning up at the camera, and I have my own little camera slung around my neck. My smile would be even wider if I’d known that someday my Cape Cod photos would grace the...