Peru Day 4: Two Travel Photography Tips
Here are two travel photography tips for taking magazine-quality photos — with samples from our recent Peru Photo Workshop…
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Bonnie is the Creative Director for Great Escape Publishing, a regular contributor to The Right Way to Travel, and creator of the Breakfast Stock Club, which helps folks to get up-and-running selling their photos in online stock photo agencies. She got her first travel articles and photos published after attending the Ultimate Travel Writer's Workshop six summers ago in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Before joining Great Escape Publishing, she taught English in the South of France and vagabonded through South America and South East Asia, dutifully testing all of the local foods and massage techniques.
Favorite travel tip:
Don't book a hotel room when you can rent an apartment! It tends to be cheaper, offers more room, and lets you live like a local, with a kitchen and living area. Recently, some friends and I found a cute apartment right in the middle of Paris with a balcony for half the price we would have paid for a hotel room in the city. I like to use Airbnb.com or Vrbo.com to book.
Peru Day 3: Patience is a virtue
For the travel photographer, patience is a virtue. Sometimes the best shots happen when you find a good background and wait for your subject to appear.
Peru Day 2: Work the shot
You can always take a good travel photo… but to create travel photos that sell, you want to do better than good. To do this, you need to work the shot…
How to start selling your photos locally
When I first started taking pictures, of course I wanted to sell them. But I didn’t try until I met the folks at Great Escape Publishing and they told me how to go about it. A few months later, I got $150 for these four photos of Portland’s Saturday market… Bonnie Caton here and you […]
The easiest concept to shoot
Here’s a little tip to take your patterns and textures photos to the next level. It instantly turns a simple photo into a the easiest concept to shoot.
Three types of vacation photos
On my trip to Abu Dhabi, I tasted every sweet I could find…but didn’t gain a pound thanks to all the vacation photos I shot (and the miles of walking).
Five tips to grow your stock photography portfolio
Follow these five tips to stay motivated to take more photos and increase your stock photography sales.
Six tips for taking your first drone video
Video is here and now, and the market is HUGE! It can be fun to play around with a drone. Here are some tips for taking your first drone video…
Sell more photos by shooting during Golden Hour
Photographing during Golden Hour can make a huge difference in the look, feel, and saleability of your shots.
A quick tip for selling stock photos
A great way of selling stock photos is to revisit your best-sellers and take them in better or slightly different ways. Less work…and more money.