How To Fight The Clutter Bug In Your Photographs
LESS CLUTTER = BETTER PHOTOGRAPHS = MORE SALES By Carol Shields, in Atlanta, GA Dear Reader, For today's practical photo tip of the week, I'd like to offer you some advice you can use no matter what kind of picture you're taking - from family photos at a birthday party... to cityscapes... to pictures of [...]
How To Fake Morning Light
HOW TO FAKE MORNING LIGHT By Michael Ray in Pittsburg, PA. In my opinion, one of the toughest things to do in food photography and professional photography is to translate the client's words into the photographic medium. For example, "I want this to look like it's 7:00AM on a Sunday morning in the month of [...]
Old, Expensive, Impractical... and Entirely Worthwhile
Today: *** Greece: Old, Expensive, and Impractical -- Yet Worth Every Penny *** Photographs Sell Articles; Here's How... *** Practical Writing Prompt of the Week: How to Turn Those Coffee Photos Into Saleable Articles *** More Opportunities and Resources for Writers Dear Reader, People keep asking me: How was Greece? My reply: It was a [...]
How to Add Action to Your Photographs
HOW TO ADD ACTION TO YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS By Carol Shields, in Atlanta, GA Dear Reader, It's my mission each week to offer you practical tips you can use to immediately improve your photos. To find ideas, I've been looking through the photo-contest entries (this month's theme is Cuppa Joe -- all things coffee-related), and I [...]
From Health Care Professional to Travel Writer
FROM HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL TO TRAVEL WRITER: HOW I LANDED MY FIRST FEW ASSIGNMENTS AND HOW I CONTINUE FIND WORK TODAY By Wendy VanHatten in Sergeant Bluff, IA. When I was a guest at AWAI’s travel writing workshop in Denver this past July, I had several people ask me who I write for and where [...]
Photo Lessons Relearned in Greece
Today: *** Cloudy weather doesn't have to mean poor photos *** Everything you need to know about the business of writing *** Practical Writing Prompt of the Week: What to do when it's raining *** More Opportunities and Resources for Writers Dear Reader, We started this, our third day of the Ultimate Travel Photographer's Expedition [...]
An Easy Way to Add Interest to Your Photographs
COMPOSITION TIPS YOU CAN USE FOR BETTER PHOTOGRAPHS By Carol Shields, in Atlanta, GA Dear Reader, A typical problem with photos is that nothing in them grabs a viewer's eye. Take a look at this image submitted in October's photo contest here. See how the colors in this shot are all basically a monochromatic blue? [...]
OCTOBER 14th, 2006: Sell Everything But This..(A Lesson on Buying Rights)
MONEY FOR NOTHING: DON'T GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO BE REPETITIVE By Steenie Harvey in Ireland $100. Is it worth getting out of bed for? Well, it might sound utterly paltry. But you shouldn't reject low-paying markets out of hand. You see, it's possible to sell the same story an infinite number of times. Effectively [...]
A Straw, a Pillow Case, and a Garbage Bag Twist Tie
Today: *** Where Have All the Honest Travel Writers Gone? *** A Straw, a Pillow Case, and a Garbage Bag Twist Tie: Three Must-Have Travel Tools Every Traveler Should Carry *** Practical Writing Prompt of the Week: The Art of Travel *** Congratulations Ray Batson - Published, Here's How... *** More Opportunities and Resources for [...]
