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PhotoNetCast – Photography podcast
Hosted by Antonio Marques · EN
PhotoNetCast brings you the photography topics that matter, whether you are a newcomer, photography enthusiast, semi-pro or even a photography professional. We highlight the latest news, discuss photography equipment (dSLR cameras, photography lighting, accessories, etc.), workflow, tips and tutorials, as well as discuss in-depth topics to help you improve your photography from both a business and creative prespectives. Hosted by Antonio Marques, Jim Goldstein, Brian Auer and Martin Gommel, PhotoNetCast has a very conversational format in which both digital photography and film photography are discussed in an open and entertaining way. Our guests, people who matter in the digital photography world, bring additional value to the show and share their perspectives in today\'s photography. Whatever your level is in photography, whether you express your creativity through digital or film photography, we are confident you will enjoy our discussions on PhotoNetCast and we hope you join us for every show.
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PhotoNetCast #95 – Long Term Projects
Aug 25, 201500:00:01Tap to summarizeAnd here we are once again. After the long time that took us to gather the crew, and an even longer time to edit the episode, we are back to talk about Long term projects in photography. Besides the really interesting conversation (after I’ve heard it, I really felt like grabbing the camera and going out for a few images), there was time for the news topics, and of course, our Selected from the Web. News Olympus Air A01 – micro 4/3 camera for your smartphone (compare to Kodak SL10, Sony DXC-QX range) DXO One – smartphone camera attachment with DSLR quality Nikon P900 and it’s amazing 83x optical zoom lens The photography uprising against musicians: Taylor Swift, Foo Fighters, Live Nation changes photographer job after backlash. Projects Tips for a long term project: http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-design-and-shoot-a-long-term-photography-project/ Jacob’s book – Commute Culture – thanks for bringing that up , Dave Sean’s Ecuador from the Back Seat of a Taxi: http://seangalbraith.com/ecuador-from-the-back-seat-of-a-taxi/ Bob Mills Work – http://www.lussierphoto.com/lawrence-and-the-mills/the-mill-collection/ Dave’s Rodeo Portraits – http://www.davewilsonphotography.com/galleries/rodeo-portraits/ Enjoy the show…     Selected from the Web Sean: Medium’s Catchlight photoessay series: https://medium.com/@Catchlight Dave: The 57 Most Powerful Photos in United States History Bob: http://digital-photography-school.com/96-year-old-example-forced-perspective-photography/ Jacob: http://art.rlketcham.com/?p=58
Transcribe →PhotoNetCast #94 – Moving to Mirrorless, with Brian Matiash
Apr 5, 201500:00:01Tap to summarizeThinking of a move to a mirrorless system?   As we hinted a few episodes back, we have the privilege of being joined by Brian Matiash to discuss his move to the Sony mirrorless system after over a decade shooting Canon dSLRs. If you want some more background to Brian’s move, he has written a free ebook about it. We talked about his reasons, advantages and disadvantages of the mirrorless cameras in general and the Sony system in particular, the biggest challenges faced, shooting hybrid with Canon lenses, EVF technology, and much more. We hope you enjoy the discussion. In the news, we look at a promising new technology that could revolutionize lenses, the World Press Photo revokes a prize, and Defrozo goes Kickstarter. As always, any feedback is very much welcome. Enjoy the show…     Selected from the Web   Brian: Rob Whitworth’s Dubai Flow Motion Scott: Jesse Summers beautiful long exposure and star photography Bob: “Salt of the Earth,” a documentary about Sebastião Salgado and his work Dave: Fair Witness – Street Photography by David Lykes Keenan Sean: Real Meaning of Common Photographic Terms Antonio: Ceramic prints that survived the ages
Transcribe →PhotoNetCast #93 – Creating and Maintaining your Photography Portfolio
Mar 9, 201500:00:01Tap to summarizePhotography Portfolios In this episode, Antonio, Dave and Jacob Lucas discuss the news, answer some questions from listeners and discuss how they go about building and maintaining a photography portfolio. How do we define a portfolio and what do we intend it for? How often should you update the work in the portfolio and how should you go about deciding exactly what goes in and what stays out? Portfolio building advice from Zack Arias. In the news this week, rumors of the upcoming release of Adobe Lightroom 6, Lytro’s finances and plans to move into virtual reality and movies, Getty Images’ cash-flow woes, Serif Affinity, a new, low cost image editor with Photoshop in its sights, and that blue and black (or was it white and gold?) dress.     Information related to listener questions Mark asked about whether welders’ glass would be suitable for use in shooting the upcoming solar eclipse. No-one on the panel had looked into this but it was felt that it would likely introduce unpleasant distortions in the photos and may not be dark enough to use safely. Regardless, our advice was NEVER to use the viewfinder to focus when shooting into the sun. Poke the lens through a hole in the center of a large card or sheet of thick paper and use as much neutral density filtration as you can in front of the lens. ALWAYS use live view to focus. This picture was taken by Dave a couple of years ago using a 10-stop ND filter stacked with a polarizer (12 stops of density in total) and a 400mm lens on a crop sensor body. An image of the sun showing the planet Venus in transit. (c) 2012 Dave Wilson Some more advice on shooting solar eclipses: Nikon – How to Photograph a Solar Eclipse Photography Life – How to Photograph a Solar Eclipse. Space.com – How to Safely Photograph the “Ring of Fire.” Selected from the Web Antonio and Dave: “Behind Photographs” by Tim Mantoani. Portraits of photographers with their most famous images. Jacob: The Photo Frontier #WE35 Project. A year-long project involving a group of photobloggers exploring the versatility of the humble 35mm lens.
Transcribe →PhotoNetCast #92 – Doing Your Own Thing
Feb 19, 201501:07:52Tap to summarizeDefining your photographic style   In this episode Antonio Marques, Sean Galbraith, Bob Lussier and Scott Kivowitz engage in a discussion about defining style in photography, how to develop one and finding inspiration from other photographic works and bodies of work to help photographers learn while introducing individuality into their work. What do you think? Does photographic style still exist? In the news, the megapixel wars rages on with the new Canon 5DS and 5DSR, Nikon releases a super niche D810a, Scott introduces a perfect Nikon mirrorless full frame and the darkroom comes to the iPhone. No time for listener questions, so we’ll have a few more on the next episode. For now, enjoy the show…   Selected from the Web   Bob: Gotham: a moody BW Timelapse of San Francisco Scott: New KelbyOne Lightroom show Sean: World Press Photo Awards; Gallery Antonio: Martin Gommel’s new work on refugees
Transcribe →PhotoNetCast #91 – Continuing from the last show
Feb 2, 201500:32:15Tap to summarizeWe continue from the last episode, this time answering listener questions on off-camera flash triggers, photo sharing sites, night sky photography and back button focusing. And, of course, time as well for our selected from the web.   Enjoy the show…     Selected from the Web   Sam: 13% SALT Dave: The Life of a Siberian Reindeer Herder Antonio: Elena Chernyshova
Transcribe →PhotoNetCast #90 – Looking back, looking forward
Dec 31, 201400:56:29Tap to summarizeWe hope you had a great Christmas together with your loved ones (and that Santa has been generous with the photographic treats). For the last episode of the year, we decided to have a quick look into the past year, from our photography ventures and also from PhotoNetCast’s perspective. At the same time, we briefly discuss what we have planned for 2015, and what we expect to change during the year. We also address some of the news topics: the appearance of a new file format that wants to take JPEG head on; Flickr backtracks on the whole Creative Commons for Wall Art thing; Fuji firmware updates add features for X-T1, X-E2, X-E1, and X-Pro1, Metz, a leading provider of lights just a few years back, files for insolvency; a new service that promises centralising all your social media photo uploads; Time UK being naughty with rights grabs; and lastly a Toronto Gallery Buys the Entire Collection of Vivian Maier Negatives Owned by Jeffrey Goldstein. After all this, the show was just getting too long so we’ve split it in two, with Listener Questions and Selected from the Web coming up on a separate episode, just after the New Year.     Hope you enjoy the show and, as always, feedback and suggestions are very much appreciated. From all of us at PhotoNetCast, we wish you a great entry into 2015.
Transcribe →PhotoNetCast #89 – Photography Accessories
Dec 9, 201400:00:01Tap to summarizePhotography Accessories   This episode sees the return of Sam Scholes to the co-hosting team. A round through the news takes us to the heated discussion about Flickr using CC-licensed images for their wall art business – but are they really doing anything legally wrong? Also, GoPro makers seem to be developing a new line of consumer drones to be the perfect match for their cameras. However, with the FAA planning to tighten the regulations on commercial use of drones, is this the best move fore them? And for the stock photographers out there, how would you like to have your images captioned (maybe even keyworded) by your computer? Google getting closer.     And a reminder that we are giving away two copies of David Taylor’s Mastering Landscape Photography. Just let us know you want one via the comments below, email, twitter, facebook, etc. More details on the giveaway just around the corner.       In terms of accessories (thanks to Dieter for suggesting the topic), here are some of those we mentioned on the episode: Scott Bob Antonio Sam ColorChecker Passport   ND Filters Giottos AA1900 Rocket Air Blaster Large – BlackBlackDust blower RapidStrap Circular Polarizers   Microfiber cloth LensPen Circular Polarizers Cable/Remote release Ruggard Card Case Pixel Pocket Rocket M-Plate LensPen Wacom Tablet LED flashlight X-Rite ColorMunki Cable/Remote release   Selected from the Web   Sam: Flickr Scott: NitzStrap Bob: Pop Spots Antonio: DUFFY: The Man Who Shot the Sixties
Transcribe →PhotoNetCast #88 – The Ultimate Filter Show
Nov 16, 201401:09:53Tap to summarizeEverything in the interwebs these days seems to be “Mega this…”, “Hyper that…”. This episode is about filters, so… The Ultimate Filter Show I had the pleasure of having both Scott Wyden and Richard Wong as guests on this episode to help me in the filter discussion. Before filters, we had a look at some recent news: Eyes Wide Open: 100 years of Leica (Oct 24 – Jan 11; Deichtor Hallen) natural History museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014 Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Decisive Moment to be reprinted 2013 Conviction at Zion National Park Serves as Reminder And then to Filters… Here’s a short list of the filters we discussed. What is a filter? Materials Glass Resin Attachment types Threaded Holders Filter types UV/Skylight Polarizer Linear Circular Color balance Neutral Density Graduated neutral Density Hard Edge Soft Edge Reverse GND Color Graduated Density Filters B&W filters Hot Mirror filters Infrared filters Diffusion / Softening filters Effects Stars Bokeh Can’t really get much more comprehensive than this. Enjoy the show… We still had time for our listener questions and, as usual, our Selected from the Web Antonio: 100 years of Leica Scott: “Moving to Mirrorless” eBook coming soon now available from Brian Matiash Richard: The Artist as Activist – Michael E. Gordon.
Transcribe →PhotoNetCast #87 – Highlights from Photokina 2014
Sep 30, 201400:00:01Tap to summarizeHighlights from one of the largest photography industry shows – Photokina 2014   Every two years, Cologne, Germany, is stage for one of the biggest (if not the biggest) photography industry shows. Thousands or visitors and delegates fill the halls with so much gear that being there is like an gambling addict being dropped in the middle of Vegas… Anyway, the rumours and announcements abound in the days leading to the event. In this episode we take a look not at rumours, but at some of the announcements from this year’s show. Enjoy the show…     In no particular order: DSLR Cameras Nikon D750 $2300 (24MP, FX, 6.5fps, 12800ISO, 1080p, tilting LCD, WiFi Canon 7D Mk II $1800 (20MP, APS-C, 10fps, 65 point AF, 16000ISO, GPS, dual cards) Mirrorless and Compact Canon G7X $700 (20MP, 24-105m f/1.8, 12800ISO, 1080p HD video, 6.5fps, NFC & WiFi) Fuji X100T $1300 (16MP, 51200ISO, APS-C, 23mm f/2) Fuji X-T1 $1300 body only, $1700 with 18-55mm, 16mp, 51200ISO  http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilm-x-t1 Panasonic Lumix DMC LX100 $900 (micro 4/3, 12.8MP, manual focus ring, Leica f/1.7 24-75mm lens, 4K video, WiFi) Ricoh WG-M1 action cam http://ricoh-imaging.ca/en/products/cameras/WG-M1/ Lenses Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 (for micro 4/3) $1500, weathersealed Fuji XF 50-140mm f/2.8 $1600 Fuji XF 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 (for X-T1) Fuji XF 56mm f/1.2 $1000 Canon 400mm f/4 $6900 Canon 24-105mm f/3.5-5.6 $600 Canon 24mm f/2.8 Pancake $150 Nikon 20mm f/1.8 $950 Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 $2000 Accessories etc. Nikon SB500 flash with LED video light $250 Olympus OM-D E-M1 Firmware update (Adds tethering and keystoning)   Selected from the Web   Bob: The Photo Frontier Sean: Bruce Gilden Critiques Art Photography (NSFW) Dave: Malkovich, Malkovitch, Malkovitch: Homage to Photographic Masters by Sandro Miller  
Transcribe →PhotoNetCast #86 – The Value of Photography
Sep 9, 201401:38:32Tap to summarizeThe Value of Photography   If you listened to show number 85, you probably remember that we discussed South African photographer Greg Lumley’s offer to sell his one-off aerial panorama of Cape Town for $35000. After the show was released, Greg contacted us (you can read his response in the comments on the show page) so we invited him to join us for a discussion about his image and, more generally, the value of imagery and photography today.   News   In the news, we talked about the verdict in the Morel vs AFP case being upheld – that’s US$1.2M.  Still with copyrights, the appeals Court says streamlined copyright registration for collections is legal, and the Wikimedia Foundation is being naughty. On Kickstarter there was a campaign for SnaPICam, a Raspberry Pi powered Touchscreen Digital Camera complete with interchangeable lenses – as of this writing, the funding was unsuccessful The Research labs at Microsoft have been busy, and they have published some results of adjusted Hyperlapse, and the results are very very interesting. To finish off the news, we talked about Canon launching Irista, a free dropbox-like cloud storage service for photos.   Enjoy the show…     Selected from the Web   Greg: Well, google “russia wedding photography” Dave: A really big lens for £99,000 Sean: The New York Times Lens Blog Antonio: Zack Arias on sensor sizes   Photo Copyright Greg Lumley – used with permission
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