Synopses & Reviews
Packed with hints, tips and ideas for producing and selling travel photographs. From organizing a trip abroad and choosing what equipment to take, to researching the markets for publication and selling your work, this book is an excellent start-up guide for serious amateurs and travelers alike.
The book is written from the authors' first hand experience of shooting travel pictures for publication and gives excellent instruction on:
· planning a trip and the best equipment to use
· looking after your images: recording, storage and captioning
· how to put together a good portfolio
· how to target different markets such as picture libraries, brochure and book
publishers
· writing articles to accompany your travel pictures
Illustrated in colour throughout with captions to describe each picture and how it was taken, this book is both an inspirational guide and excellent source of advice for the aspiring travel photographer.
Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz are freelance travel photographers and writers who have worked extensively abroad. Their pictures and articles are published regularly by a variety of wide ranging magazine and book publishers.
Packed full of practical advice on market researching, producing and selling travel pictures
Benefit from the authors' own first hand experience
Full of inpirational images to show you what you can achieve
Review
'The authors...provide a stack of nuggets of extremely useful information that would help any traveller. They discuss what makes a travel picture sell'
Review in Amateur Photographer, 31/10/1998
'Travel Photography is a realistic, no-nonsense guide...with plenty of advice for both producing and selling photos.'
British Journal of Photography, 07/10/1998
Synopsis
-- Practical advice on market researching, producing and selling travel pictures -- Illustrated in color throughout
-- Based on the authors' own first hand experience
-- A realistic, no-nonsense guide for the aspiring travel photographer. Travel Photography is packed with hints, tips and ideas for producing and selling travel photographs. From organizing a trip abroad and choosing what equipment to take, to researching the markets for publication and selling your work, this book is an excellent start up guide for serious amateurs and travelers alike.
Table of Contents
The Dream and the Reality, Equipment and Materials, Keeping Track: Facts and figures; Words and pictures; Financial realities; Women and travel; Planning a trip; When you arrive; Stock Photography; General Travel articles; Specialist travel articles; Corporate, industrial and advertising photography; Reportage; Photo tours; Books; Fine Art; Travel at Home; Working for Nothing; Selling yourself and your travel portfolio;