Fun Photo Project: How to Add a Photo to a Coffee Mug
Instead of printing photos to paper, why not try something different and make a unique gift. Here’s how to add a photo to a coffee mug.
Get 3 Fun Ways to Get Paid to Travel
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.
Don’t Trash Your Garbage Photos
As a wildlife photographer, reader Rosanne Tackaberry didn’t expect to develop a side-niche in pictures of garbage.But, lo and behold, her “trash formula,” which she’ll tell you about below, is stirring a lot of interest with photo buyers… and resulting in some hefty sales.By the way, Rosanne makes up to a few hundred dollars per […]
Istanbul Stock Photo Shoot List
As I type this issue, the air above the Atlantic Ocean is deep, cobalt blue. That’s pretty much all I can see from my plane window. Our Istanbul Expedition begins on Sunday and I’m SO excited to explore such an ancient, culture-rich city, camera-in-hand, with a group of fellow photo nuts. BUT before the adventure […]
Photoshop Tip: How to Make Eyes Sparkle in Photos
This Photoshop trick will help make eyes sparkle in your photos. It’s a subtle change, but makes a difference when it comes to making sales.
Photoshop Tips: Using the Mona Lisa to Improve Your Photos
You can improve your photos a lot with just a few minutes in Photoshop. Today, we borrow color from famous paintings to strengthen otherwise drab images…
A Quick Fix: How to Apply Make-Up in Photoshop
Use this two-minute fix in Photoshop to apply make-up to your model for a more attractive, saleable photo.
Stock Photo Rejection: Three Tips for Dealing with it
Rejection is a part of the photographer’s life. But don’t let it beat you. Here are some tips to deal with stock photo rejection…
Breakfast Stock Club Reader of the Month, Paula
What would you do if all your life, nothing felt right? If you dabbled in one job or another for decades until –BAM!– finally, you found the one thing that felt right? You’d keep doing it, that’s what! That’s how Paula Ohreen felt when she found stock photography. She’s been going at it for about […]
Your Unique Access: Take Photos of What You Know
“Come on… get up, get up,” nagged the little voice in my head. Our sleeping bags surrounded us in warmth, but it was past sunrise, and time was ticking. I knew the sunlight on the lake was going to get intense — fast. So we ripped ourselves from our cocoons, pulled on our frigid clothes, […]
Breakfast Stock Club: Reader Stock Sales and Portfolios
“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?” I’ve always loved that Robert Schuller quote. But you and I both know that failure — in one form or another — is inevitable. So how about this, instead: Imagine what you could achieve if each failure inspired you to keep going! […]