http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/tags/photography Travel Writers Exchange Forum Home » Tag: photography - Recent Posts en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:24:40 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/search.php http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/excellent-opportunity-for-writersphotographers-to-get-their-work-published#post-2709 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:36:04 +0000 gap-year guidebook 2709@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>The gap-year guide book is published annually, with the latest of which set for release in November. I am keen to increase the amount of editorial in the guide, as there really is nothing more helpful than personal experience, especially when it comes to volunteering or completing a placement of somesort. Any good pieces, would be added to our website, and considered for the 2013 edition. If you are a writer, who has enjoyed (or not as the case may be!) a lengthly time away, and would like to put their pieces forward, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Likewise, if you have some stunning photographs from your time away, enter them into our rolling competition - again, these will be added to the site and then considered for the guidebook itself. The last winner, made his way on to the cover no less. We pride ourselves on offering useful, informative and unbiased advice, no matter the age of the traveller, or the aim of their time away.</p> <p>Please, be in touch with any questions - <a href="mailto:editor@gap-year.com">editor@gap-year.com</a> </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/i-just-signed-up#post-2649 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:31:39 +0000 Trisha Miller 2649@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Hi gogypsy - welcome to our Forum! I hope you'll find some useful information in the past Posts we have on the site, or conversation threads in this Forum. </p> <p>Feel free to ask any questions, but please keep in mind that the Forum is for questions/answers related to writing, not travel, travel sales, or destinations. I'm sure you can understand that our goal is to *not* promote any particular travel seller or destination. Occasionally we do feature reviews of travel products, but typically only when they would be useful to a travel writer.</p> <p>Good luck with your new venture! </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/i-just-signed-up#post-2647 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:40:03 +0000 gogypsy 2647@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Hello everyone, I just learned about this site and decided to join. I have a Home-based travel agency, where I plan itineraries for my clients, I have traveled extensively. and photography is my hobby. I decided last year to start writing travel articles, which I have done for different online sites. </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/what-3-tips-do-you-have-for-amateur-photographers#post-2174 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:09:07 +0000 JohnnyVagabond 2174@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>My tips:</p> <p>Make sure you're familiar with the rule of thirds -- simple trick, but it really helps with composition. </p> <p>I tend to shoot a little wider than I would like, cropping later in the editing process. This gives me a little room to shift around if there are unsightly elements in the shot that I didn't notice at the time. </p> <p>Remember that you're shooting digital and take multiples of everything. Sometimes, I'll find that the second or third shot has an interesting detail in the background that makes the shot. Also, the 2nd shot is more likely to be in sharper focus. Delete the extras from your hard drive during the editing process.</p> <p>Cheat: I highly recommend Lightroom for editing and organizing your shots. Always shoot RAW and you can easily adjust exposure and white balance after the fact. It's made me a bit of a sloppy photographer, I admit -- I rarely worry about straight horizons, etc. When in doubt, underexpose -- it's fairly simple to adjust later and over-exposed shots are very hard to recover.</p> <p>That's all I can think of at the moment. Good shooting &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <p>-wes </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/what-3-tips-do-you-have-for-amateur-photographers#post-2154 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:53:03 +0000 Amandah Blackwell 2154@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Here are my three tips...</p> <p>1) Study photography in all areas from magazines to galleries.<br /> 2) Take lots of photos.<br /> 3) Create a website, portfolio, and blog. </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/what-3-tips-do-you-have-for-amateur-photographers#post-2153 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:49:41 +0000 OnThaRoadAgin 2153@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>I'd like to improve my photography skills and was wondering if TWE's readers who are avid photographers have tips they can share for us amateurs. Many thanks! </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/how-to-create-a-photo-gallery#post-1550 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:00:22 +0000 SarahQT 1550@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Thanks for the advice -- I appreciate it. I know what I'll be doing this weekend &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/how-to-create-a-photo-gallery#post-1548 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:16:12 +0000 Gary Arndt 1548@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>As someone with 10,000 photos online, I HIGHLY recommend against using WordPress to organize your photos. </p> <p>1) It isn't really designed to handle photos, even though it can do it. </p> <p>2) You are putting all your eggs into one basket. If something happens to your web host or your site, you could lose everything. Also, the added storage space makes backing up more difficult as well as adding to your storage and bandwidth bill. </p> <p>3) Flickr or Picasa are better options. You don't have to pay for bandwidth and their hosting is much more reliable. I'm not a fan of Flickr, but it is better than putting your photos on WordPress. </p> <p>4) I highly recommend <a href="http://www.smugmug.com/?referrer=AFybJQg4jw9qg">Smugmug</a> for photo hosting. It does cost more than Flickr. The pro version of Smugmug is $150/year ($12.50/month), but it is by far the best photo hosting service I've found. </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/how-to-create-a-photo-gallery#post-1547 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:20:12 +0000 Trisha Miller 1547@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Wordpress has a built-in way of creating a photo gallery from photos that you upload and then insert in a batch instead of one by one.......then if you're using the lightbox plugin or slimbox plugin, they will display in a nice fashion....</p> <p>Rather than my attempting to write out a lengthy instruction, you're better off to read this page first from the WP documentation on galleries and how to create/use them:</p> <p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode"><br /> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode</a></a></p> <p>If you're not using the aforementioned plugins, check them out here - they're pretty similar but in my opinion slimbox seems to be more reliable....</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-2/">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-2/</a></p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slimbox-plugin/">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slimbox-plugin/</a></p> <p>HOWEVER, if you have a TON of photos to display, you may be better off to use a hosted photo server, like Flickr or Picasa, and THEN use a plugin to display photos from that server - that can work very well also. </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/how-to-create-a-photo-gallery#post-1546 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:49:25 +0000 SarahQT 1546@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Does anyone know how to create a photo gallery on your blog? I'd like to incorporate my pictures from my travels in a presentable manner. Sometimes the picture tells more a a story than words. Thanks. </p>