Write for AYWMC (paid)
Have you lost work because of the coronavirus? Can you write? I have a budget for 10 blog posts paid at £100 each. Read this and then apply using the form below.
What I want
The A Year With My Camera blog posts are first and foremost useful. They each answer a single problem the AYWMC audience might have without sponsored links or padding.
Read some of the other AYWMC posts to see our style:
I’m open to any idea you have that fits well with our audience but in particular I could use blog posts on the following topics:
Affinity: is it a good alternative to LR (my existing post is out of date)? What are the pros and cons? How to get started (you can link out to good tutorials if you have watched them all the way through and recommend them). How to do common edits using Affinity.
Flash: I don’t have any posts on flash photography. I’m open to paying for a short series if you can write and illustrate how to get started as a complete beginner. It needs to be generic - you can illustrate with eg. Canon gear but you need to know enough to be able to explain (or link to places that explain) different techniques for different gear. It needs to take someone from having an unopened flash in a box to being able to do simple controlled lighting table top or portrait photography.
How-to projects: detailed, step-by-step posts (illustrated at every step) showing exactly how to set up and take indoor shots such as oil/water photography or water droplets (with or without flash). Anything eyecatching and fun that can be done indoors during social distancing without having to buy any new gear.
Portraits: I’ll need a model release from the model or their parent/guardian explicitly stating the images can be used on this blog and on associated promotions including but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, the AYWMC app and Twitter. There are currently no portrait posts on the site so I’m open to suggestions, including a short series. Topics of interest would be: how to photograph grandchildren (both technical and making it fun), how to shoot your own headshot for social media, basic portrait lighting (using window light & a reflector, or with a single flash/light), group posing, lighting and settings for family get-togethers. Assume the reader understands aperture, shutter speed and ISO but needs reminding which takes priority and why, which setting to start with (eg. aperture priority, f8) and what to watch out for in terms of light levels and minimum shutter speeds for movement.
Travel/Landscape photography in the time of coronavirus: what can we do when we can’t go out?
Phone photography: pitch your idea but it must cover both iPhone and Android. Any apps recommended must be available on both.
What is A Year With My Camera?
It’s the biggest photography community you’ve never heard of. There are currently 40,000 students taking the weekly email course. Over 10,000 copies of the workbook have been sold. The app has built up just over 5,000 paying subscribers in less than a year since launch.
I wrote the course after 15 years in the photography industry and after taking a Masters degree in education. Unusually for any photography course 80% of students are female and the vast majority are aged 50+. This demographic is overlooked and usually patronised. Not here.
What I don’t want
Posts that use 3 words where one would do. Anything inaccurate or badly researched. Something copied from another website. A lot of talk about kit or gear – assume the reader is happy with what they’ve got be it bridge camera or entry level DSLR. Other people’s photographs. Something written just to promote your own offering. Exclamation marks! They indicate you’re not sure of what you’re saying and that’s not the impression I want to give to people visiting AYWMC.
What I’m offering
£100 per post for new writers. If you already write for publications let me know what your rate is. Up to three links at the end of the post to your own site/social media.
How it will work
Apply using the form below.
Successful applicants will be notified by email. I will try to reply to everyone but if you haven’t heard within 2 weeks you have not been successful.
We will agree the outline of the post before you start work.
You will supply text, model releases and images (you must have taken the images). You keep the copyright in the images but give me an indefinite worldwide licence to use them on this blog and in accompanying promotions (eg. on Facebook).
I may edit what you provide.
I will pay via PayPal or bank transfer, your choice.
I will do reverse image searches and check for plagiarised text. If you supply an image or images that you didn’t take, or send copied text, our agreement is void and no payment will be made.
Apply here
Header image Andrew Neel, with permission