Video Tip: Photographing Buildings and Monuments
Rich and Bonnie are in Thailand this week with nine of our readers exploring and photographing both Bangkok and Chiang Mai. I’ll send pictures and reports from their trip next week. In the meantime, below is a video tip Rich made for us on our last photo expedition in Rome. If you need to point…
December Photo Challenge Theme
December’s Photo Challenge theme is: Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice. When I think about December, I’m sometimes overwhelmed by the whirlwind of activity that takes place. Endless shopping…cooking… wrapping gifts – you name it. It seems like there’s always something left to do. But this month, I encourage you to take a step back…
Gift Ideas for Photographers, Writers and Travelers – 2010 Staff Picks
After reading our gift guide for writers, travelers and photographers, take a look at the items on our staff wish list where you’ll find even more ideas for what you can get someone on your list that loves taking pictures, loves to write or simply loves to travel…
Interview with 2010 Photo Challenge Winner
After I announced the Photo Challenge winners two weeks ago, several people wrote in wondering where the winning photo was taken…and exactly how the photographer did it. So, I thought I’d catch up with grand prize winner Miles Morgan and ask him the details on how he captured the winning shot. He wasn’t easy to…
Holiday Gift Guide for Writers and Travelers
Not sure what to buy your friend, spouse or loved one? We asked our writer and traveler friends for their top gift picks this year and here’s what they said…
Stock Photographer Gift Ideas
“What do you want for Christmas?” It’s hard to answer this question when as a stock photographer, what you want for Christmas includes a bigger camera, a faster lens, and a nice photographic vacation somewhere exotic. Since Black Friday is coming up in less than a week, here are a few ideas for your…
Why and How to Register Your Copyright
At our recent stock photography workshop in Delray Beach, Florida, we received a lot of questions about photo copyright. While photo copyright isn’t fun or glamorous, it’s an important thing to consider as you start earning more and more money from your photos. Professional photographer, and former lawyer, Efraín Padró gives you all the details…
10 Quick Tips for Great Panoramics
We’ve been talking this week about fun and unique ways to photograph cities. Yesterday, we talked about how to take great reflection photos. You’ll find that issue here. Panoramic photos (though we don’t spend a lot of time talking about them in this newsletter) are a great way to capture iconic skylines of cities, wide…
Photographing Reflections
It’s time to get creative. Photographing reflections of buildings, nature, or people can give a whole new perspective and feel to your photos — and earn you extra income, too. Reflections surround you each and every day. From puddles in the street to the windows on your office building. Once you start looking, you’ll be…
How to Win a Photo Contest
Yesterday we announced our 2010 Grand Prize Photo Challenge Winner. Congratulations again to Miles Morgan! He won this year’s $2,000 Grand Prize. Did you enter? You should know that photo contests, if you’re not careful, can be tricky. Some (not ours) make you give up all the rights to your photograph just to enter. It’s…
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