Hone Your Skills

Even though professional conservation photographer Roy Toft travels the world throughout the year, he still is laser-focused on this backyard photo project. Learn what he's up to with camera traps and why it matters so much.
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Finding out your photo story idea has been done can definitely be disheartening. However, this doesn’t mean that you can’t still do your story; it just means that you will need to find fresh angles with which to approach it. Here are 5 strategies that'll help you find a new approach, and a new excitement for your photo story idea!
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Have you ever wished you could see inside the mind of a photo editor? To understand why they make the decisions they make about stories and know what it's like to actually work alongside them? Or have you dreamed of assisting on a photo story just so you could witness the ins and outs of how it all works? This honest, wide-ranging conversation with Sabine Meyer of  Audubon Magazine and conservation photographer Morgan Heim gives you surprising insights into the work of visual storytelling while encouraging you to follow your creative instincts.
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Use this 1-hour photo shoot exercise to build up your creative muscles! I take you behind the scenes of a short photo shoot and discuss what I was thinking about throughout the shoot and how I composed images on the fly, plus the editing strategy for choosing the final images for a photo essay.
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Great photographs stem from great opportunities. And when you're photographing people, great opportunities stem from great conversations. Interviewing your story characters is your chance to build a relationship and uncover important storytelling details that'll inform your images. Here are essential interview skills that'll smooth the way to outstanding photos for your stories - straight from a professional ghost writer who has spent thousands of hours interviewing characters!
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What category of images are you primarily creating, and is that in alignment with the photographer you aspire to be?
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Good news and bad news. The bad news is, there's no magic bullet solution for time management. There's no one strategy you can flip on and swoosh, your calendar is cleared for creativity. The good news is, there are LOTS of solutions available that you can build a time-strategy tool kit out of. This means you can pull the just-right-for-right-now solution from the kit when you need it. We dive into four of these options in this episode PLUS mindset strategies that make the time strategies actually work.
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There's an inevitable question that comes up when you're working on a photo story or project that you know you want to get published: what images can you share on social media? What's smart to share and what's oversharing that could shoot you in the foot later on? We tackle this conundrum by asking one simple but essential question. 
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Achieving success in conservation photography is simple as long as you have these three ingredients: curiosity, persistence, and a willingness to pivot. As Jules Jacobs proves, these traits help you make bold moves, open doors to opportunities you'd only ever dreamed about, and find surprising friendships along the way.
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It could have gone all wrong. But this savvy Conservation Photography 101 student turned it into an exceptional opportunity (and one we can ALL learn from).
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Turning your passionate hobby into something that not only pays for itself but brings in a sustainable income is not nearly as complex or confusing as you might think. Start with these simple, straightforward steps, and grow from there.
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The camera is just one tool we use to capture images of wildlife. There's another toolkit that is, frankly, even more important than what lens you bring with you into the wild.
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