Trials and tribulations of a typical travel photographer . . .
That Love/Hate Relationship

By Jeremy Hoare, Travel Photographer, London

Advance Notes : When faced with the nitty-gritty, how do you discipline yourself to “just do it,” as well as pace yourself?

Now that I am back home in the UK, I'm starting to go through the 8,000 pictures I shot over nearly three months -- eight weeks in Australia, and four weeks in Japan. As ever, it's a daunting task just to edit them, so I tend to do what most freelancers do at these moments: have another cup of tea, read a magazine, etc., anything but get on with it. But in the end I have to, and this self-discipline is the most important asset for anyone who's a freelance, no matter what they do.

First I put the images onto a lightbox, passing over each sheet of 36 exposures very quickly. This gives me the overall impression and lets me see the big picture.

Then I go back over each sheet again, but slowly and looking for the frames with selling impact. What is that? I wish I knew for sure, but after a decade doing this I think I am beginning to understand what makes a picture sell. But then again, sell where? There are so many markets out there today. A look at the magazine racks in shops will tell you this, and they are the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Today, with selling pictures online, I have made sales into areas there is no way I would otherwise have been able to access or even know about: Hungary, Spain, France, Korea, China and even the USA are some, just since the start of 2004.

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Sadly, however, I won’t be doing anything with those, because the Nixvue Vista 30GB portable hard drive I bought failed so spectacularly, losing the 250 pictures I'd already downloaded and erased from the CF cards. Besides the time spent taking the pictures (wangling my way into Japan Airlines Business Class lounge at Osaka, shooting Brisbane at night), this is a real potential loss of future income, of course.

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