Choosing the pictures
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
Choosing the pictures
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
Choosing the picturesThis is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
- Select shots that illustrate your text.
- Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
- Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
- Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
- A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
- A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
- You control the look and feel of your blog
- I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Choosing the pictures
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
Choosing the pictures
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
Choosing the pictures
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
Choosing the pictures
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
Choosing the pictures
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
Choosing the pictures
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
Choosing the pictures
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
Choosing the pictures
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
Choosing the pictures
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
Choosing the pictures
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
This is Lesson 2 in this series of posts on how to write a travel blog.
With everyone using digital cameras, taking a picture no longer requires you to think about how many shots you have left on the roll of film, etc and so we take ten times as many (if not more) pictures than we once used to.
Whilst this is not a bad thing, it does mean that we're far less selective about what we do take. When you come to chose some pictures for your blog, it's easy to go overboard. Whilst I'm not saying don't take lots of pictures, bear in mind that most of your family and friends know what the Eiffel Tower or Colosseum or the Grand Canal in Venice looks like.
The rise of the 'selfie' pole
All over Europe, street traders sell the 'selfie pole'. This is a telescopic arm with a bracket for your Smartphone at one end and a remote triggering device at the other end - the end you hold. You see people using them everywhere - holding one end with the camera end up in the air taking their photograph. This means that rather than looking at the scene in front of you, you stand with your back to it with your 'selfie pole' in the air so the camera gets a shot of you with the scene behind you.
Watching people with these devices it seemed that getting a 'selfie' was far more important than actually standing looking at the scene with their eyes.
My travel blog does have a few shots of my wife and I in different locations but I also wanted to use my images to illustrate some of things we had seen that day and written about in the text.
Guidelines for blog photos
* Select shots that illustrate your text.
* Don't use the cliche shots that you see every day, find a different or unusual angle. If you like, use one of the inbuilt filters in the iPad to add an effect. I used one filter quite consistently if I was posting a photo of an old building or other historic feature.
* Be selective - no more than four or five images per blog post.
* Your family and friends will want to see you enjoying yourselves, so every day or so, post a location picture.
If you have limited or an intermittent data connection, less photos will make it quick to upload each day's post.
Finally ...
Much better to write 300/500 words and select four or five great photos that will give your readers a sample of your holiday, than write heaps and upload all that day's photos. When you get home you can have the 'slide night'
Blog or Facebook?
While I also posted to Facebook, I like a blog better for the following reasons:
* A blog always shows just the posts you have written, whereas Facebook has your posts in the timeline which means they're mixed up with all your other friends posts. This makes it hard for people to see all your posts together
* A blog can be seen and commented on by anyone, not just people on Facebook. (This is becoming less of a problem of course as almost everyone is on Facebook.)
* You control the look and feel of your blog
* I used Facebook just to post a link to each day's blog post
Happy posting.
- See more at: http://www.martinjohnsoncommunications.com.au/pro-videoblogger/how-to-write-a-travel-blog-lesson-2#sthash.IMq9q4lr.dpuf
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