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Traffic Crashes

Traffic Crashes

As a stringer the most common incident you will probably be shooting will be motor vehicle accidents also called MVAs for short .  However not just any ol’ MVA will make news, the ones that sell well are usually the ones that people die. That is just the way it is, crashes happy just about [...]

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Law Enforcement Related Crashes

Law Enforcement Related Crashes

I will make this post short and sweet because most of  what I already discussed on in the Traffic Crashes section applies to law enforcement related crashes too. The main thing you are going to have to worry about is the cops. And there will be TONS of them there responding to the scene of [...]

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Animal Attacks

Animal Attacks

Animal attacks always makes news because it is usually does not happen all the time, so when it does happen it is newsworthy especially if there is a fatality. Whether it is an exotic animal  on the loose such as a tiger or monkey, a shark attack or even a fatal attack by the family [...]

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Fires

Fires

Fires and car crashes are a Stringer’s bread and butter, most of what we shoot will be one of the two. In this lesson I will talk about photographing structural fire scenes and how to stay safe. A fire makes for great photos but unfortunately fires usually happen at night making it extremely difficult to [...]

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SWAT Callouts

SWAT Callouts

With the exception of presidential motorcades a SWAT standoff is my absolute favorite thing to photograph. However it can also be the most difficult thing to shoot, even more difficult than photographing the president’s armored limo as it passes through town! We will get into that a bit later but first lets talk about when [...]

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Presidential Visits

Presidential Visits

No matter what your party affiliation is, when the president comes to town it’s a pretty big deal. Recently I photographed President Obama and Vice President Biden as they visited Tampa together and i’d like to share some tips and tricks with you.
Normally it is  unusual for the President and Vice President to make appearances [...]

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Ask Yourself This…

Being a newspaper stringer can be a fun and lucrative career, but as with all careers there are some occupational hazards challenges also.
Here are some eye openers about news stringing you may not have thought about:
Do you own a reliable vehicle?
Do you have a 1990 Honda Civic rust bucket that has a noisy exhaust and [...]

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First Things First

Ok, so you want to start selling your news photos for money right? Well there are a few basic things that are needed to get you on your way to becoming a stringer. The first one is obviously a camera followed by a computer preferably a laptop, and last but not least is a police [...]

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Money To Be Made

Photography is America’s number one hobby with camera manufacturer Canon announcing they have shipped their 100 millionth (since 1996) compact digital cameras in August of 2008, following Sony which hit that mark a few months earlier.  With tough economic times hitting the newspaper business, publishers are turning to those hundreds of millions of photographers to [...]

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Gathering Contacts

It is no secret in today’s economic climate newspapers are tight on money, but at the same time they still need the best news images to stay competitive with the other publications in their market. That is where a Stringer is valuable and most will buy breaking news images every day especially if it is [...]

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Making Your First Sale

Making you first sale is just as or even more exciting than getting your first assignment.. after all you do want to make money! But getting paid can sometimes be not so easy. Most newspapers are good about sending payments on time but others are terrible, it is even worse with magazines and television stations. [...]

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Accepting Your First Assignment

Accepting your first assignment from a publication is exciting but before you walk out the door and head to the assignment location there are things you must confirm first. The number one thing is payment and price! When I first started out taking assignments (at the age of 18) I would jump on any assignment, [...]

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Contacting Editors and Newsrooms

First contact you should make is your local largest newspaper; some cities have two large newspapers from competing companies which is a best case scenario for you. It is good for two newspapers to be competing for the same images as this can help you negotiate higher rates when you capture major news events. There [...]

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