[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Merry Christmas! Holiday Tip #6 is a fun photography trick I stole from our Turn Your Pictures into Cash Program. There’s an entire chapter in our program on cool, unique ways to create lens filters using everyday household items like pantyhose, cellophane, and shower curtains. And one of these is to create […]
Last issue, I said I’d show you how to upload to multiple agencies using free software called ProStockMaster. But before we go and upload a bunch of photos, I thought it would be a good idea to pause for two reasons: If you’re not yet accepted as a contributor to stock agencies, take this week […]
Over the years, we’ve collected a number of travel tips that I’ve shared with you in this e-letter. Tips like how to save wet electronics with rice… how to remove lint with airline luggage tags… and how to get free upgrades on rental cars. So it’s become a tradition that we count down to the […]
This is one of my favorite shots from last week’s Thailand Photo Expedition: It’s not fit for stock because I don’t have model releases for the people in it. It might also be too dark for stock. But that’s ok — I wouldn’t want to spend an entire trip to Thailand concentrating on nothing but […]
Thai cooking instructor Yui held up her hand and crisply snapped her fingers. “You want to crack an egg with one hand? It’s just like snapping your fingers.” Snap. As the slippery noodles soaked up their sauce in my wok, my Pad Thai was almost complete. All it needed was the egg which I was […]
Rich Wagner here, writing to you from Bangkok, Thailand on the first day of our photo expedition. I’m happy to report that the easiest and fastest way to make a Thai person smile is to simply point a camera at him! Yesterday I took over 800 pictures. It’s a confession, not a boast. As a […]
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’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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
