If you plan on making money as a news stringer a Digital SLR camera is a must have. DSLR’s speed, quality and technology is a required tool to have in your bag. Can you pick up a point and shoot camera and make a sale from the image? Yes, but that would be [...]

As a photographer you probably already have a “bag problem” most photographers I know have many different bags and I am no exception. There are fanny packs, sling bags, shoulder bags, laptop bags, backpacks, rollers and carry on bags but the one we are gonna talk about in this lesson is what I call the [...]

If you are like me you probably don’t put much thought into a purchasing your first  quality tripod. I mean cmon it’s just three sticks that hold up the camera for gods sake! Yeah, that’s what I used to think a long time ago.
When I first started I bought probably five cheapo Wal-Mart and Quantaray [...]

Ok it’s “the future” and everyone now has a cellphone, but if you want to be on the top of your game you have to get the best you can afford. A smart phone is something that is absolutely essential in the news business whether it is a Palm, Blackberry, or iPhone you need to [...]

If you plan to do news photography a laptop is hands down absolutely essential. It’s gonna be pretty hard to actually recommend a particular laptop over another because most likely next week a new one will be released. So I won’t go much into actual specs on the individual laptops but I will use my [...]