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How To Get Paid To Travel: 5 Tips For Selling Your Work


This is a short how to video explaining How to Get Paid to Travel: 5 Tips For Selling Your Work. In this video I provide 5 of my best 5 Tips For Selling Your Work, How to Get Paid to Travel. I cover 5 different topics in this video and also provide some extra tips that are just generally related to traveling cheap or for free. In my first topic I talk about compromise and the importance of working with companies to meet in the middle for a mutual benefit and why that’s good for business. Next I dive into stock submissions and the benefits it can provide to photographers, videographers sound engineers etc. Additionally, in my third tip of How to Get Paid to Travel: 5 Tips For Selling Your Work I discuss photo competitions and the different benefits they can provide to a photographer when it comes to getting paid to travel and making money for one’s photos and or videos. After I discuss photo competitions I dive into the benefits of contacting and collaborating with bloggers and magazines from the payouts to the exposure. Lastly, I cover trip sponsorship, what it entails, what it looks like, how it works, where to get it etc. Not only this but in How to Get Paid to Travel: 5 Tips For Selling Your Work I also provide some extra tips I use to travel cheap or for free that has nothing to do with my professional as a photographer and videographer.

Stock Submission Sites:

http://submit.shutterstock.com

http://www.dreamstime.com

http://www.bigstockphoto.com

http://www.canstockphoto.com

http://www.pond5.com

Photo Competition Sites:

http://www.photocompete.com

http://www.photocompetitions.com

http://www.imagekind.com/

http://www.guru.com

Travel Extras: 

couchsurfing.com

airbnb.com

tripadvisor.com

Workaway.com

Helpx.com

Woofing.com

Here’s a list of all the gear I used to make this video for you to check out. I used my Sony A7S II, 24-240mm lens, ND filter, Rode VideoMic Pro, and batteries to get my main wide shot. I then used my Canon 5D Mark III to get my secondary tight angle. The links below are to the direct products I got, I hope it helps! 

Sony A7S Mark II: https://goo.gl/siDU8G

Sony 24-240mm Lens: https://goo.gl/p482q2

Rode Shotgun Mic: https://goo.gl/4KEQoB

Sandisk 128GB: https://goo.gl/qrrprQ

Canon 5D Mark III: https://goo.gl/zaA2N6

Sigma 35mm 1.4 Prime: https://goo.gl/1BM8PB

AFAITH Tripod: https://goo.gl/dnJYdb

If your interested in my services for camera operation, editing, coloring, direction, everything, just shoot me an email at info@kalvisuals.com. 

 
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Peru and Bolivia in 3 weeks


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This video is a collection of the highlights of my adventure through Peru and Bolivia in 3 weeks. The trip included hiking the Inca trail to much Picchu in 4 days and 3 nights to start. We also explored the city of Cusco, Pisco and lima Peru as well. Additionally, we traveled by water on the Lake Titicaca, ventured to Isla Del Sol to watch the sunset. This was just some of the many amazing adventures we experienced while in Peru and Bolivia for 3 weeks. We also went to Bolivia to bike the worlds most dangerous road, Yungas road. Not only that, we also explored the Salt flats in Uyuni for 2 days and 1 night where we stayed in a hostel made of salt!!! This trip through Peru and Bolivia in 3 weeks was one of the best of my entire life. I can’t wait to go back and revisit these amazing countries. The best part of all is I got my entire trip paid for by find a videography gig while traveling. I found a company to pay me to make a video of their Machu Picchu guiding experience and through that gig I got my food, accommodations, and travel paid for on top of getting paid to hike Machu Picchu, 1 on the 7 wonders of the world! If you want to learn how it did it watch the video on the YouTube channel.

 
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Happy Socks Shoot with Ashley Brooke


 
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How to Get Paid to Travel: 5 Tips to Getting Jobs


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This video is a short tutorial and quick tip video on How to Get Paid to Travel: 5 Tips to Getting Jobs. In this video I briefly talk over my background as a business owner, videographer, photographer, editor etc. and then quickly dive into my best 5 Tips to Getting Jobs, How to Get Paid to Travel. In this video I cover my five topics of finding your niche, building a portfolio and or samples of work, finding out what you want to do and what goods or services correlate, finding out how you can leverage your goods or services to improve their, getting the meeting, making the pitch and selling your ideas. I’ve found one of the most rewarding things about my position is that I have the ability to give back and help others that were in the position I use to be. I like being able to reach one and teach one, I love sharing the wealth, sharing what I’ve learned as a videographer and photographer in the professional industry. This video is a great way to start off learning How to Get Paid to Travel. 

 
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Machu Picchu Peru (Directors Cut)


This video highlights the 4 day and 3 night Inca Trail adventure I did with Alpaca Expeditions to Machu Picchu Peru. However, this is my personal Directors Cut version. To find the version used by Alpaca Expeditions you’ll have to click the link listed below or go directly to their website. This was the journey of a lifetime starting at the famous mile maker Kilometer 82. From there we hiked up and down through the mountains and valleys and along the ridge lines to Machu Picchu Peru. The Inca trail was very steep and strenuous most of the time including a lot of jumping, leaping, lunging etc. Everyday we all came to camp with new battle scars from bug bites or mosquito bites to scraps and scratches. The mountains and their jungle-like terrain was very unique in that it was beautifully filled with life but also very challenging conditions. Traveling through the lower parts of the mountains (valley) involved a lot of bugs and humidity while traveling high up int he mountains involved high altitudes, steep ledges, and unstable terrain. However, everyone in the group was more than capable of completing the 4 day and 3 night Inca trail trek to Machu Picchu Peru. The trip was amazing from start to finish. The challenging nature of it was fun and captivating. The guides were informative, gave a ton of info on the history and spoke very good english… their sense of humor was a nice perk as well. Not only that, we had porters during the adventure to help carry some of the weight. Also we all got a tent, sleeping pad, sleeping bag, a bowl of water for washing up and all of our meals included in the hike. Furthermore, I tried my best to find better food during my 3 week trip in Peru and Bolivia but I could not find anywhere that head better food than our master chef along the Inca trail, the Peruvian dishes were astonishing! Best of all, I got my entire Machu Picchu Peru trip paid for as well as the rest of my travels by offering my video services. To learn about how I did it watch my How to Get Paid to Travel: 5 Tips to Getting Jobs video coming out this Wednesday at 8PM. 

 
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Dillon & Mary Leisure Married


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We absolutely love capturing and spreading the love with you through wedding videography. If your in need of a videographer or know someone who is, contact us at Kal Visuals for top of the line quality and care!

Dillon & Mary Leisures Wedding 2017:

This video is a recap of the union between Dillon Leisure and Mary Asher into Dillon and Mary Leisure. The film captures the entire wedding day process. The story starts in the early afternoon when Mary and the girls are laying out their dresses, doing their hair and make-up etc. It then follows the husband, Dillon Leisure and his groomsmen as they put on their suits and string their ties in preparation for the wedding day. After that it follows both groups as they arrive for the wedding ceremony and begin taking pictures. The story follows Dillon & Mary Leisures Wedding 2017 as they go from the wedding ceremony to the reception. From there Dillon & Mary Leisures Wedding 2017 was celebrated by Dillon, Mary, and all there guest by dancing the night away. This entire film was shot on a Sony Alpha 7 Mark II with a 24-240mm native lens, rode shotgun microphone as well as a HD-4000 glidecam. Want to shoot like a pro? You can find all the gear I used to shoot this wedding on amazon by using the links below.

Sony A7S Mark II  

Sony 24-240mm Lens

Glidecam HD-4000

Rode Shotgun Mic

Sandisk 128GB

If your interested in my for camera operation, editing, coloring, direction, everything, just shoot me an email at info@kalvisuals.com. 

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Adventures in Peru & Bolivia


 
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Downtown Cincinnati with Ben Woycke (7/12/17)


 
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Over The Rhine with Shannon Lynn (7/12/17)


 
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Topo Designs Commercial Shoot (6/29/17)


 
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