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Photography For Writers with Steve Davey
What will I learn on this course?
This exclusive workshop will cover everything that a writer or blogger would need to know to illustrate their stories. It will cover basic camera usage, how to shoot better pictures, simple portraits and how to shoot a basic photostory. We will look at how to shoot pictures to illustrate a features, and also how to tailor your writing to fit your pictures. This course will also cover the vital aspects of copyright, model releases, selling pictures and how to caption and keyword your pictures and edit the metadata. Lastly we will look at some of the options for digital delivery and how to get pictures to a publication.
• Basic camera use
• 6 point plan for photos
• Shooting a photo story
• Simple portraits
• Illustrating a feature
• Writing to your pictures
• Copyright issues
• Model releases
• Metadata
• Captioning/Keywording
• Selling pictures
• Digital delivery
Many writers, whether they be working freelancers, ambitious staffers, aspiring professionals or personal bloggers, just don't get photography. At best they regard it as something to be done grudgingly – at worst they don't bother! But if you are a writer or a blogger having the ability to take adequate pictures will increase your income, get you more work and potentially drive more hits to your blog.
This course won't make you a prize-winning photographer, but it will teach you the basics of illustrating a feature and the range of shots that you will need. This will include an establishing shot, shooting details and above all how to shoot a god portrait. This should be the least that you come away with – the ability to shoot a passable portrait of anyone that you interview.
This course will be based in Central London and will take in some of the most striking sights, including Buckingham Palace, Leicester Square and Covent Garden. We will start off with a short illustrated lecture, followed by an intense practical session in various parts of the capital. We will end up looking at simple post-processing and how to caption and keyword pictures before looking at method of digital delivery.
The start and end points will be notified with your invoice.
Cost of this course: £85
£80 if booked in conjunction with another course
Dates for this Course
This course is on special request: if you would like to attend this course please contact us to arrange dates.
I learnt a lot more about composition and looking for new angles. One month... I earned more from published travel photographs than from my writing."
- Max Wooldridge, Freelance Travel Writer.
Steve Davey is a professional photographer and writer based in London. For the past twenty years he has photographed people, places, cultures and festivals in some 84 countries for a range of books, publications and websites worldwide.
Steve has recently published Footprint Travel Photography, the leading guide to the subject and has launched the Better Travel Photography range of international photography tours. Steve also writes regular travel photography features for various publications and websites around the world. To see more about Steve click here...
Better Travel Photography was created by Steve Davey to celebrate the art of travel photography and to help people improve their travel photography skills and get more out of their travels. Some of the highlights of the site are image galleries, travel photography features and 501 Travel Photography Tips. This site also features Steve's exclusive range of travel photography tours.
