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.
This week, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about photo processing for stock. Yes, every photo you submit to stock should have at least some very basic processing. But it doesn’t have to be complicated. The program we recommend, Adobe Lightroom, makes it easy to give your photos the professional polish they need to do […]
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Click here to watch a video on how to view your photos at 100% using Adobe Lightroom.
Learn a simple trick that will help you judge whether your photos are in focus or not
Read why would such an unexpected photo be on high demand. What makes this photo sell?
Trying to take a shot where there is a lot going on?. Learn some tips from Bonnie Caton on how to be ready to catch a good photo!
See the difference when photographers use HDR (and find out what HDR stands for!)
Here’s a video tip from Rich, with a simple camera trick for making people disappear when you shoot (don’t worry, it doesn’t involve yodeling or bagpipes)
Tips from Rich on how to sell photographs as fine art and how easy it can be to take spectacular photos while he ventures in The Sacred Monkey Forest in Ubud, Bali.