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Images: Travel photograpy: Images of exploration & travel from
around the world by Jamie Marshall. Photo tips for improving your
travel photography
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Travel Photography Tips
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G. Miscellaneous
A specialist grey card is a useful bit of kit and provides
the level of reflectivity that camera and film are designed
to expect. Using one to meter from whilst directing it in
the approximate direction of the light source will give
a good exposure reading. However, understanding HOW and
WHY a grey card helps is more valuable than actually carrying
one. Once understood, employing the principle and improvising
with something of a similar shade, such as green foliage,
grass, (mid) blue sky or even a piece of clothing becomes
a useful technique.
A reflector is a good bit of kit but may intimidate your
subject when you really want them to relax.
Cover
over the branded logo of your camera with black masking
tape to make it appear less valuable to thieves. Some photographers
swear by purpose built camera bags – great for situations
where security is not an issue but otherwise appealing to
thieves. Consider a less fancy alternative if traveling
in countries with a reputation for robbery.
H. Selling your Work
Once you have become proficient in the field of travel photography,
it is possible to turn some of those images into hard cash.
However, to make a career out of travel photography requires
a high degree of skill, discipline and effort. Not only
do your photographs need to be good enough to be of use
to prospective clients, but a great deal of time is required
to prepare and caption and market them. Competition is immensely
fierce, and most travel photographers rely on other, more
commercial, work as their mainstay.
Shooting novel imagery is paramount.
This may involve taking a new slant on an established tourist
site by capturing new angles, or incorporating some human
element into the composition. There are endless shots of
the Taj Mahal, Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty. Think about
how you are going to make yours stand out from the rest.
Stock libraries are a good way of taking the hassle out
of marketing and selling your photographs, and most libraries
take a 50% commission on sales. This may sound like a lot,
but stock libraries have large overheads which need covering.
They are however the best people to negotiate a lucrative
deal with corporate business. Investigate which library
would suit you best, and carefully consider your contractual
obligations. Most libraries require exclusivity which means
that you can’t market the same (or similar) images
elsewhere, or with other libraries, and many require a photographer
to deposit their material for a minimum period (of up to
5 years.) Images must be technically perfect and ideally
fill areas in the library that are in demand yet in short
supply.
Some established photographers go
it alone and market material directly. With the advent of
the internet, this is a possible, yet it requires a good
website and a sizeable or specialist image bank. A number
of publishers do not like dealing directly with photographers
as libraries cut out a lot of the time consuming logistics
of dealing with dozens of separate source.
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Colombia, photos of Ecuador, photos of Chile, photos of Cambodia,
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Indonesia, photos of India, photos of Pakistan, Photos of Sri Lanka,
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Guatemala, photos of Mexico, photos of Honduras, photos of Belize,
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photos of Vietnam, photos of Japan, photos of Indonesia, photos of
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