Review Digital Camera World 04-06-2013

Digital Camera World

13 ways famous landscape photographers make money from photography Apr 5th 2013, 23:01 The life of famous landscape photographers can appear to be a glamorous mix of travelling to distant exotic photo locations, taking a few photos in glorious golden light, selling them onto international clients for a fortune before deciding where to travel to next! The reality is very different. But that doesn't mean you can't start living the dream now and selling a few of your best pics to magazines, publishers, calendar companies and more. They might even help you pay for your next lens! All images and words by Lee Beel In order to make a success of your landscape photography and to increase the chances of your work being published you should always ask yourself one question when you're out in the field: how can I photograph the scene before me in order to maximise its earning potential? Of course, you should strive to capture the scene looking at its best but different clients want different things. Over the next few pages we'll give you advice and tips for how to really make the most of every photographic opportunity. How famous landscape photographers make money from photography: 1-3 1 Shoot in the middle of the day Photographers know that the best light for landscape work occurs in the 'golden' hours around dawn and dusk when the low angle of the sun reveals contours and texture in the scene and bathes it in glorious light. But if you only work for a couple of hours a day how do you expect to make a living? Colours look rich and saturated in harsh light under a blue sky. It's worth getting in touch with local interest magazines to see if they can use for any shots of if they'd like to keep them on file for future use.   2 Shoot vertical and horizontal Most of the images published in magazines are in the vertical format. It seems obvious that upright images will be in demand when you know that an A4 page is this shape too. However, if you look at the vast choice of calendars that are available you'll notice that most of the use images that are shot horizontally. This is not to say that each of these markets don't use images that are shot in the other format. Of course magazines also use horizontal photographs and some calendar companies like to use vertical shots. So, in order to increase the chances of your work being used you should try to capture a scene in both formats if it's possible. I don't suggest you record both just for the sake of it – only if the scene you're photographing works in both ways.   3 Compose with text in mind If you browse the shelves at your local newsagent you'll notice that most, if not all, magazines (and books for that matter) have the title in a prominent position along the top of the front page and various other text positioned around the cover image. For this reason it can be a good idea to leave a bit of extra space at the top of your composition and around the edges of the frame so that text can be added if you work is to be considered for the front page of a magazine. PAGE 1: How famous landscape photographers make money from photography – tips 1-3 PAGE 2: How famous landscape photographers make money from photography – tips 4-6 PAGE 3: How famous landscape photographers make money from photography – tips 7-9 PAGE 4: How famous landscape photographers make money from photography – tips 10-13 READ MORE 10 common camera mistakes every photographer makes The 10 Commandments of Landscape Photography (and how to break them) 10 quick landscape photography tips Color Photography: achieving accurate tones at night Apr 5th 2013, 10:46 Our latest post in our series on color photography explores some of the common photography problems encountered with different light sources when shooting low light photography. Find out how you can use mixed lighting in your night photography and get the most accurate color balance possible. Night poses special problems for color photography. It's not the level of illumination that's the problem, but the color of the lighting. If you shoot in a busy city centre, you may have a mixture of tungsten lights, fluorescent lamps, yellow/orange street lamps and even multicolored neon. How are you supposed to reconcile all these with a single white balance setting? Our advice would be not to try. This is one situation where your camera's auto white balance should just be left to get on with it. Only if the colors look completely wrong should you worry about taking over manually. Using different light sources at night It's not possible to compensate for every single light source, and sometimes the color of the light doesn't fall neatly on the warm-cool color temperature scale. White balance adjustments work by shifting the whole spectrum of the light source up or down the scale. They rely on the light having a full spectrum of colors, but simply shifted one way or the other. Some light sources don't have a full spectrum of colors. The prime example is orange street lamps. They look orange because that's all there is – no blue, no green. It's impossible to correct orange street lighting to produce a full range of colors. Fluorescent lighting is the other oddity because it contains excess green. Digital cameras deal with this with one or more dedicated 'fluorescent' settings. These increase the levels of magenta (green's complementary color) to restore a natural-looking color balance. PAGE 1: Using different light sources at night PAGE 2: How to achieve a good mix READ MORE Night photography tips: 9 essential steps for beginners 12 common errors of night photography (and how to fix them) Deep depth of field vs shallow: 10 common questions and answers

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