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Two Professional Photographers Discuss Working on Assignment feat. Bob Holmes and Andrea Johnson Ep 24

About Bob Holmes

Robert Holmes career as one of the world’s most successful and prolific travel photographers has extended over 35 years. He was the first photographer to be honored twice by the Society of American Travel Writers with their Travel Photographer of the Year Award and he is the only photographer to be given the award 5 times, most recently for 2017.

About Andrea Johnson

Andrea Johnson is a photographer and director specializing in the wine, agriculture, and adventure travel industries. With a base in Portland, Oregon surrounded by abundant natural beauty, she has traveled the globe creating custom photography image libraries, magazine stories, documentary films, video campaigns, and leading photography tours.

Show Notes

Travel photography is a difficult market, as the rise of digital photography made it so that such images were much easier for everyone to get.
Running workshops is a great way to do travel photography in the current environment.
You have to find what you’re interested in and find a way to turn it into a project.
When you self generate a project, you often get more creative control over the project.
The longer you work, the harder it becomes to satisfy yourself with your own work. Your skills will improve and your expectations for yourself will raise.
A great part of a workshop is that you can see multiple ways of shooting the same scene.
Take time to look through your archives.