Travel photography tip : Take photos of the details

Waiting to board the elevator to the top of the Burj Khalifa — the tallest building in the world — we watched in awe as numbers flashed over the doors. 72… 73… 74… Taking an elevator here is an experience. As it breezes past each floor,...

Cool camera trick: make fences disappear

In the summer, you can ride a camel through the hot oven of the Arabian Desert for an entire month before it needs to stop for water. And in the winter, a camel can go three months without stopping for a drink. No wonder they call them the “ships of the desert.”...

The importance of shooting different photo angles

It’s Day Three of our Photography Expedition here in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and we just got a tip from professional photographer Daniel Nahabedian for turning a day like today into more income… His advice? Shoot everything 10 times. He told us today that a photo worth...

Camera shutter trick

It’s Day 3 here in Paris and I just showed Hannah (the 10-year-old traveling with me on this trip) a little trick… When you want your subject in focus, but you want it on the rule of thirds and outside of the center of your image, you can sometimes put your subject in...

Clip vs. chop: how to crop pictures

It’s Day 2 here in Paris, and Hannah, the 10-year-old traveling with me on this trip, is already doing much better with her photos with only an occasional tip from me. She’s using The Rule of Thirds.  She’s getting in close.  She’s kneeling down and pointing her lens...

Three tips: how to take vacation photos that sell

If you want to: Sell simple pictures for extra money… Not have to worry about lugging around a bunch of expensive photo equipment… Have fun… … and do it all without years of practice (or having to go to the trouble of reading your camera manual), this week’s free...

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