4 Tips to Take Your Photos From Snapshots to Saleable
When I attended the Ultimate Money-Making Photography Workshop in Miami in 2013, I was no stranger to photography. I had followed my dad around the yard, starting with my Kodak Brownie, from the age of four. What I wasn’t aware of were the numerous ways I could make money with my pictures, once I learned to…
Expand Your Skills with Photography This Christmas
For years, I dreamed of living on a tropical island. I even asked Santa each year. My favorite screen saver was a wide white-sand beach complete with solitary palm tree bent over at 90 degrees, fronds almost touching the turquoise waters lapping gently against the shore. You know the pictures I’m talking about, we’ve all…
Holiday Travel Tip: Vaseline on Your Camera
Merry Christmas! Holiday Tip – 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 a center spot…
Use Lightroom to Enhance Portraits and Event Photos
Have you ever looked at a really well done professional portrait and thought to yourself, “Wow, that photographer must be really good to take photos like that!” Well, you’re right. A certain level of skill is required to take a great picture. However, what you may not realize is a photo rarely comes straight out…
3 Ways Lightroom Can Enhance Your Black and White Photos
We live in a colorful world, and the warmth of a sunset or the intense blue of summer skies can automatically evoke strong feelings. But sometimes color can be dull or distracting. Black and white photos allow the photographer to simplify a scene, and can make the viewer look beyond the obvious, focusing on shapes,…
How Lightroom Can Save Your Photos
Last Sunday evening, I shot some blue hour photos at the Connecticut shore. I had to get back to help my husband pack up before facing the drive back to New York, so I was rushing. And then I uploaded the images straight into Lightroom without adding my usual presets. Later I was able to…
Before and After: Using Lightroom to Enhance Wildlife Photos
I’ve been a professional photographer for… well… let’s forget about the number of years and just say I’ve shot on film. Back then, when you had just 36 exposures available before you needed to reload, you had to make sure you had the perfect lighting and composition before taking a shot. Editing in the lab…
3 Tips to Finalize Your Articles for Publication
There is nothing like the heart-lifting feeling of your pitch being accepted. Opening that magic email and reading an editor says they like your pitch. Even better they want an article with X amount of words by X date. It’s hard to stop smiling. Your pitch was accepted. You’re on your way to being published.…
Making My Own Luck as a Food Writer
Traveling is not a new experience for my husband, Alan, and me. If there were such a word as “travelholics,” it would apply to us. We have lived in four states in Australia and seven different countries and worked in many other countries for lesser periods, always at short notice. When we are not traveling…
6 Tips to Maintain Motivation While Writing
By Sue King I’ve been a travel writer for coming up on four years now and there’s no doubt it was the best decision I ever made. Nothing beats making money doing something that you are passionate about. Although I have now sold close to 500 articles, I still get a buzz when an editor…