Editors love writers who can handle a
camera. Big-budget magazines hire photographers but industry publications, aka
B2B magazines, can rarely afford that luxury. If you want an edge on the
freelance pack, learn to handle a camera just as well as your
pen. It will make a critical and moneymaking difference.
I steadied my Nikon, elbows on a workbench. Auto exposure gave the shot a good sense of motion at 1/8 sec. I cropped tightly.
Study a photography book. Take a course. Put
published photos alongside your current efforts. Can you do better? Study composition. Corner a pro. Think
“publication-quality.” Buy a real camera. Shoot, think and shoot again. If
you can take credible photos to submit with your stories, you are worth more to
your editor than a same-quality writer who cannot. This is a fact.
Copyright © Carroll McCormick 2014
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