If you take photos when you travel, but your friends are tired of only seeing pictures of your food on Instagram, you might want to consider stepping up your travel photography game. Fred and Jeremy cover topics like camera recommendations, app, software, and more. Listen in for tips on taking pictures so great, National Geographic and Lonely Planet will be putting you on their payroll! Well, maybe they won't be that great... but at least your mom will be impressed!

In This Episode

• 03:21 Tortuga updates
• 04:51 Travel photography
• 05:46 Most important lesson of film school
• 07:47 Making pictures a bit more interesting
• 09:47 Importance of editing and framing
• 11:48 Rule of thirds
• 13:59 Phone vs DSLR
• 17:25 When is it better to not use a phone?
• 19:50 DSLR travel kit
• 22:31 Apps/software
• 30:40 Photo management
• 34:38 Word to the Wise

People On This Episode

• Jeremy Michael Cohen
• Fred Perrotta

Links from This Episode

• Podcast Survey – Please fill this out and help us make better podcasts. You could win a gift card!
• Yinz – A Rust Belt Movie – Film that Jeremy wrote and is directing; check out the Kickstarter campaign for more information
• Power Trip 008 & Power Trip 010 - Episodes 1 and 2 of crowdfunding, respectively
• Power Trip 011a & Power Trip 011b - Episodes on hacking product photos and product videos, respectively
• The Best Mirrorless Camera for Beginners - Article on The Wirecutter with mirrorless camera prices and recommendations
• Instagram, VSCO Cam, Camera+ - Apps for editing and posting photos. You can also connect with us on Instagram here
• The Visual Story - Book by Bruce Block; great for photographers and designers
• Lightroom - Photo editing software; professional grade but easy to use

Word to the Wise

• Jeremy: MailChimp - Making mass emails easy
• Fred: Writing emails without seeing your inbox - Just copy this link to TextExpander and you'll never have to open your inbox to compose an email again!

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