How to Sell Your Landscape Photos to Magazines
Discover what magazines are looking for when commissioning landscape photography.
If you know what a magazine is looking for, you’ll increase your chances of creating saleable photography. Let’s consider the type of landscape images that magazine editors like:
PEOPLE IN THE LANDSCAPE
You might ask why spoil a perfectly good landscape shot by placing people in the picture. The answer is that human interest helps sell an image! Magazines such as Country Walking (UK) prefer attractive landscapes that feature walkers wearing proper outdoor gear or images that depict elements of walking interest such as a stile, a path, nature or wildlife.
COVER SHOTS
Editors are looking for strong images of very attractive landscape settings, probably with people and a seasonal element. If you are vying for a cover shot, make sure you take plenty of portrait-format shots with enough clear space for the page designer to add the magazine title and cover headlines. Plenty of blue sky works well!
FOCUS POINT
Look for an original focus point. What will make your landscape image different to the rest? An editor looks for a picture that has added interest or value that communicates to the reader. Aim to be creative with your perspective.
ADD ACTION AND COLOUR
Publications such as Mountaineer (UK) obviously need the human element so it’s important to capture climbers in action. If you are setting up the image, make sure your climber has clothing that offers a good contrast against the background. A climber wearing red looks vibrant against a vivid blue sky.
CAPTURE THE COUNTRY LIFE
Local scenes sell well to regional magazines and if you can provide the complete package of words and pictures, you sound an even better chance of a sale. If there is an opportunity to photograph animals or farm equipment, then Farmers Weekly (UK) may be a market to approach. Likewise, images of rural transport might appeal to specialist publications and countryside events and festivals are good places to go for some saleable pictures.
The landscape has a lot more to offer than the wild and wonderful beauty that greets the eye. Our lives are interwoven with the natural world and it’s that human presence that continues to appeal to the publications that buy your images. So, when you’re out looking for that best-selling picture, think laterally and consider what your target markets are looking for. It will increase your chances of success.
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