Category: Questions Answered

2016-03-23

How many hours do Cruise Ship Photographers work?

They say a picture paints a thousand words. I therefore present here a picture of an actual timesheet of mine from way back in 2012. Why a photo from 2012? Because I don’t have a more recent one. I don’t actually photograph everything. I was cleaning up the photos on my hard drive and found this snapshot of my timesheet....

Categories About life as a seafarer/Working as a Cruise Ship Photographer

2016-02-20

Getting your COP at the MARINA

Info as of February 2016 As of this writing, “The MARINA enforces strict rules for personal appearance. All seafarers… must appear physically at the MARINA… for image capturing.” So the Agency tells me to visit the Training Center where I did my BT Refresher to get a Training Completion and Records of Assessment (TCROA) which I will later need in...

Categories About life as a seafarer/Hopefully Helpful Info/Working as a Cruise Ship Photographer

2016-01-12

How To Become A Cruise Ship Photographer – The 3rd Step

The Third Step: Becoming A Seafarer Basic Training (BT) a.k.a. Safety Of Life At Sea (SOLAS) In the Philippines, to leave the country and go work as a seafarer, it is required to undergo basic training.  All over the world, seafarers are familiar with SOLAS or Safety Of Life At Sea.  Later on, SOLAS became known as BSC (Basic Safety...

Categories Working as a Cruise Ship Photographer

2014-12-04

If You Want To Keep It, Keep It With You

For those who wrote to me and asked about how to pack, this is in addition to my replies to you. I just thought about it now… Have you heard the saying “If you want to keep it, keep it with you.” ?? No? Okay, maybe I just made that up. What I want to say is that when out...

Categories About life as a seafarer/Working as a Cruise Ship Photographer

2014-11-05

Crew Shoes and Uniform

Janz Cindy had more questions… Thank you soo much for replying 🙂 You don’t know how happy I am when I saw your email. .. , … … … , … … … , … … … , … … … I’ll definitely follow your advise with travel light 🙂 and contemplating in proper clothes to bring. Just a question,...

Categories About life as a seafarer/Working as a Cruise Ship Photographer

2014-11-02

I got the job! Now, what to bring?

Janz Cindy (Philippines) sent me an email… Hi, Ms. Evelyn! Just want to say that you have an awesome blog. A number of times have I been here, and always reading your blog all over again. It did help a lot during my application process. And now, I am just waiting for my contract signing with Princess 🙂 1) What...

Categories About life as a seafarer/Working as a Cruise Ship Photographer Comments: 2

2014-09-22

A Sweet Tweet

Shawie (Philippines) just tweeted to say… @EvelynYap Hello! Been reading your blog and everything was very helpful. Thanks so much for sharing. I got it. 🙂 You’re welcome, Shawie 🙂 Although I would like to point out that I’m not a blogger. I just have this personal website where I’ve some stuff that some people find helpful. That’s all. 🙂

Categories About Evelyn Yap and this website

2014-09-16

Which camera brand do you prefer/recommend?

*sigh* 🙂 Which camera brand do you prefer? What brand do you recommend? Which one is better? Which do you think is the best? I get asked these questions (and variations of them) a lot. I actually anticipate these questions to come at the end of my lectures on Digital Cameras & Digital Photography.  So I’ve started giving the answer...

Categories Which came first: the chicken or the egg?

2014-07-30

Makulit over Twitter Tweets

Rio (Philippines) tweeted a lot of questions. Seriously, some people don’t know when to stop. I drew the line when he again asked for my email address. These are tweets, many of which were via SMS, so I was cramming my answers into a 140-character space and some of these don’t seem to be in the right order because I...

Categories Working as a Cruise Ship Photographer

2014-07-08

Work as a Cruise Ship Photographer – News Update 2019

November 2019 Unsolicited Advice from The Cruising Shutterbug: If you’re aspiring to nab a job as a Cruise Ship Photographer, I recommend you go for the cruise lines first, rather than going for a photo concessionaire. It’s not looking so good for what was the largest cruise ship photo company. Cruise lines are smartening up and deciding to go in-house...

Categories Working as a Cruise Ship Photographer