134 — Finding Your Unique Photography style — Interview with Bret Culp

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #134 fea­tures an inter­view with Toronto, Ontario fine art pho­tog­ra­pher Bret Culp. Dur­ing the inter­view we talk about find­ing and devel­op­ing your own pho­tog­ra­phy or shoot­ing style. Bret offers up some prac­ti­cal tips on how to make this process easier.

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Monolith, The face of Half Dome by Ansel Adams

Mono­lith, The face of Half Dome (1927) by Ansel Adams

 

Clearing Winter Storm (1938) by Ansel Adams

Clear­ing Win­ter Storm (1938) by Ansel Adams

 

The Dark Hedges, Antrim, Northern Ireland, 2011 by Bret Culp

The Dark Hedges, Antrim, North­ern Ire­land, 2011 by Bret Culp

 

Dunluce Castle, Antrim, Northern Ireland, 2012 by Bret Culp

Dun­luce Cas­tle, Antrim, North­ern Ire­land, 2012 by Bret Culp

 

Bret shares his own Artist State­ment on his Irish port­fo­lio just to give listeners/readers an exam­ple on how devel­op­ing an Artist State­ment can focus :) you.

Irish Port­fo­lio Artist Statement

The mythic Irish land­scape and its peo­ple have had a pro­found impact on one another. The Celts saw the land as a liv­ing source of wis­dom, beauty and trans­for­ma­tive spir­i­tual power. Among the first to believe in the eter­nal nature of the human spirit they con­structed mon­u­ments to death, rebirth and the cycles of the sea­sons and stars. Cas­tles, fortresses and ruins are evi­dence of untold inva­sions and con­flicts through­out a tumul­tuous his­tory. These ves­tiges of the past con­tinue to res­onate through the coun­try­side today. Beau­ti­fully poignant in the process of decay they tell their own story and pos­sess their own mor­tal­ity. Noth­ing that belongs to the earth is ever free from it. The sacred con­nec­tion between the land­scape of Ire­land and its peo­ple has not dis­ap­peared over the cen­turies.” —Bret Culp

Over­all Body Of Work State­ment

“The tran­si­tory nature of exis­tence binds every­thing in the mate­r­ial world. Care­ful obser­va­tion reveals the beauty within each fleet­ing moment.” —Bret Culp

Links /resources men­tioned in this pod­cast:
Bret Culp’s Irish Port­fo­lio
Ignore Every­body: and 39 Other Keys to Cre­ativ­ity by Hugh MacLeod

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133 — Essential Camera Features — Interview with Royce Howland

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #133 fea­tures an inter­view with Cana­dian fine art pho­tog­ra­pher Royce How­land. Dur­ing the inter­view we dis­cuss what cam­era fea­tures we think are essen­tial. There are loads of extra bells and whis­tles on cam­eras these days and even though both Royce and I have kick-butt cam­era gear, we ignore the major­ity of the new fea­tures and focus on the essen­tials. We also dis­cuss essen­tial cam­era modes and touch on essen­tial lenses.

Of course feel free to let us know if you feel we missed some­thing essential.

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I Should Be So Industrious by Royce Howland

I Should Be So Indus­tri­ous by Royce Howland

 

Royce wanted to men­tion some­thing about this image because it relates to a cool fea­ture of some new screens on cameras.

Some­thing we’re see­ing more com­monly, and the Pen­tax 645Z also has it, is a cam­era LCD that pops out with tilt or tilt-swivel move­ments so you can see it from dif­fer­ent angles. I think this idea is great.….

…This sea holly bloom and bees were about 18 inches off the ground. I wanted a shoot­ing angle of more or less straight across, rather than steeply down­wards or what­ever. That would have been very awk­ward (or even painful!) to shoot through the cam­era viewfinder, hav­ing to con­tort my neck, back, knees, etc. to work through the viewfinder for any length of time. Even using a nor­mal, non-moving LCD would have been a bit of a chal­lenge to see from above. Instead, I was able to put the cam­era on a sta­ble tri­pod, sit on a short 3-legged stool, and pop out the LCD to a com­fort­able angle that I could see just by look­ing down. No neck or back strain even though I pho­tographed from the low shoot­ing angle for about an hour.”

 

Nick Cave Osheaga 2014 by Marko Kulik - This high ISO image was made using aperture priority and I moved the focus points over the hand invading Nick's shirt. Moving those focus points is my favourite essential camera feature.

Nick Cave Osheaga 2014 by Marko Kulik — This high ISO image was made using aper­ture pri­or­ity and I moved the focus points over the hand invad­ing Nick’s shirt. Mov­ing those focus points is my favourite essen­tial cam­era feature.

 

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Royce Howland’s Pho­tog­ra­phy / work­shops
Tours-courses by Marko Kulik

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132 — Rust Photography — Interview with Bryan Davies

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #132 fea­tures an inter­view with Cana­dian pho­tog­ra­pher Bryan Davies. Dur­ing the inter­view we dis­cuss Bryan’s rust pho­tog­ra­phy. We cover what inspired the series, how it was shot, how it was post-processed and Bryan’s plans for the future.

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Fargo Mania by Bryan Davies

Fargo Mania by Bryan Davies

 

Artful Rust image by Bryan Davies

Art­ful Rust image by Bryan Davies

 

Artful Rust image by Bryan Davies

Art­ful Rust image by Bryan Davies

 

Artful Rust image by Bryan Davies

Art­ful Rust image by Bryan Davies

 

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Bryan Davies Rust pho­tog­ra­phy
Bryan Davies’s work on fineartamerica.com
Face­book Rust art group
Con­traste Art Agency
Photography.ca forum reg­u­lar assign­ment — Frozen action images
Photography.ca forum level 2 assign­ment — Sounds

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125 — How Much Post Processing is Too Much — Interview w/ Darwin Wiggett and Sam Chrysanthou

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #125 fea­tures an inter­view with pho­tog­ra­phers Dar­win Wiggett and Sam Chrysan­thou (apolo­gies to Sam for muck­ing up her name) of oopoomoo.com where we talk about post pro­cess­ing in pho­tog­ra­phy and how much post-processing is too much.

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In this pod­cast we get into talk­ing about the dif­fer­ences between pho­tog­ra­phers and dig­i­tal artists in this chang­ing age where any­thing seems to go photography-wise. This dis­cus­sion pod­cast is inspired by a blog post by Dar­win where he asked How Far is too Far?  The post refers to Darwin’s pho­to­graph of an owl and a swal­low shot at the same time, but shot as two sep­a­rate files that were blended together in Pho­to­shop after capture.

What do you think, did Dar­win go too far?

Great Grey Owl and Tree Swallow on Fence - Composite image by Darwin Wiggett

Great Grey Owl and Tree Swal­low on Fence — Com­pos­ite image by Dar­win Wiggett

 

Butterfly and Flower - Composite image by Darwin Wiggett

But­ter­fly and Flower — Com­pos­ite image by Dar­win Wiggett

 

In-camera capture by Sam Chrysanthou using a long exposure and a flashlight. The results look surreal but the effect is in-camera not post production

In-camera cap­ture by Sam Chrysan­thou using a long expo­sure and a flash­light. The results look sur­real but the effect is in-camera, not post production

 

It goes with­out say­ing that both Dar­win and Sam DO post-process their images but they spend min­i­mal time doing so. They just released an e-book out­lin­ing the short­cuts they use to process their images and they rely mostly on Adobe Bridge and Pho­to­shop to do their edit­ing. The book is called 7 Quick & Dirty Pro­cess­ing Short­cuts for Lazy Pho­tog­ra­phers.

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

How Far is too Far?
Should We Change the Word Pho­tog­ra­phy?
7 Quick & Dirty Pro­cess­ing Short­cuts for Lazy Photographers

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124 — Luminosity Masks — Interview with Tony Kuyper

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #124 fea­tures an inter­view with Ari­zona fine art pho­tog­ra­pher Tony Kuyper. After years of exper­i­men­ta­tion Tony has devel­oped an inter­me­di­ate post pro­cess­ing tech­nique NOT based on the pix­els that make up the image but rather the bright­ness lev­els or tones that make up the image. One of the game chang­ing rea­sons to work in this way is the tonal con­trol and level of pre­ci­sion you can achieve with your selec­tions and the fact that these selec­tions are nat­u­rally per­fectly feath­ered.  This is accom­plished by cre­at­ing a lumi­nos­ity mask (in Gimp, Pho­to­shop Ele­ments or Pho­to­shop) and Tony describes how and why to do this in the podcast.

Although this is an inter­me­di­ate level pod­cast, newer pho­tog­ra­phers might want to lis­ten to get ideas for future study and post-processing play. Tony explains the con­cepts clearly!

Thanks to The Cam­era Store (The largest cam­era store in Cal­gary, Alberta, Canada)  for spon­sor­ing the Photography.ca podcast.

Here are some of Tony’s images processed with and with­out lumi­nos­ity masks. You can see that the images processed with the masks ‘sing’ louder.

Brine Stones by Tony Kuyper - processed without luminosity masks

Brine Stones by Tony Kuyper — processed with­out lumi­nos­ity masks

 

Brine Stones by Tony Kuyper - processed with luminosity masks

Brine Stones by Tony Kuyper — processed with lumi­nos­ity masks

 

Elephant's Feet by Tony Kuyper processed without luminosity masks

Elephant’s Feet by Tony Kuyper processed with­out lumi­nos­ity masks

 

Elephant's Feet by Tony Kuyper processed with luminosity masks

Elephant’s Feet by Tony Kuyper processed with lumi­nos­ity masks

 

Navajo Bridge by Tony Kuyper processed without luminosity masks

Navajo Bridge by Tony Kuyper processed with­out lumi­nos­ity masks

 

Navajo Bridge by Tony Kuyper processed with luminosity masks

Navajo Bridge by Tony Kuyper processed with lumi­nos­ity masks

 

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Lumi­nos­ity masks — Tuto­r­ial on Tony’s site
Tony’s tuto­ri­als page
GIMP lumi­nos­ity mask tuto­r­ial
Pho­tog­ra­phy assign­ment on our forum — Space
Level 2 pho­tog­ra­phy assign­ment on our forum — Dip­tychs
Illu­minight — Pho­tog­ra­phy exhi­bi­tion by Marko Kulik

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119 — Manipulating Photojournalism — Interview with Moe Doiron

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #119 is the sec­ond of two episodes ded­i­cated to manip­u­la­tion in pho­to­jour­nal­ism. In this episode we fea­ture a 70 minute casual con­ver­sa­tion with Moe Doiron, a pho­to­jour­nal­ist with The Globe and Mail, Canada’s largest National Newspaper.

In the inter­view we revisit the 2012 win­ning world press photo by Paul Hansen, dis­cuss the Chicago Sun-Times fir­ing of their Pho­to­jour­nal­ism staff and chat about Moe’s multi-decade career as a pho­to­jour­nal­ist. and photo editor.

Past World Press Photo winners - Click to enlarge

Past World Press Photo win­ners from the archives  - Click to enlarge the full set from 1955–2009

 

Links /resources men­tioned in this pod­cast:
World Press Photo of the year (Large)
A pet’s per­spec­tive — Low angled images — Photography.ca forum’s reg­u­lar assign­ment — June 2013
f/16 or smaller — Photography.ca forum’s level 2 assign­ment — June 2013
Pho­tog­ra­phy Pod­cast 118 — Manip­u­lat­ing Pho­to­jour­nal­ism — Inter­view with Carl Neustaedter

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118 — Manipulating Photojournalism — Interview with Carl Neustaedter

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #118 is the first of two episodes ded­i­cated to manip­u­la­tion in pho­to­jour­nal­ism. This first episode fea­tures an inter­view with Carl Neustaedter who is the deputy edi­tor of the Ottawa Cit­i­zen, the largest daily news­pa­per in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Carl is one of the peo­ple who decides on a daily basis what images make it into the newspaper.

In this inter­view we dis­cuss how much manip­u­la­tion is too much manip­u­la­tion when it comes to news photography.

In par­tic­u­lar, we talk about this year’s win­ning world press photo by Paul Hansen. We also talk about using Insta­gram and Hip­st­matic style fil­ters in news pho­tog­ra­phy. We dis­cuss some famously ‘over’ manip­u­lated news images like the O.J. Simp­son Cover on Time Mag­a­zine back in 1994.  We also dis­cuss more sub­tle mod­ern ways in which dig­i­tal news images are manip­u­lated. Finally, we dis­cuss the fir­ing of the pho­to­jour­nal­ism staff at the Chicago Sun-Times.

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In 1994 Time and Newsweek used the same image of O.J. Simpson as the cover image. It's clear that Time magazine intentionally manipulated the image.

In 1994 Time and Newsweek used the same image of O.J. Simp­son on their cover. Our eyes can see that Time over-processed the image. Image from Wikipedia.

A Grunt's Life by Damon Winter - An award winning photo essay documenting a soldier's life taken using the Hipstamatic App on an iphone. The essay was originally published in The New York Times.

A Grunt’s Life by Damon Win­ter — An award win­ning photo essay doc­u­ment­ing a soldier’s life taken using the Hip­sta­matic App on an iphone. The essay was orig­i­nally pub­lished in The New York Times.

Alex Rodriguez - Instagram photo by Nick published in The New York Times.

Alex Rodriguez — Insta­gram photo by Nick Laham pub­lished in The New York Times.

World Press Photo of the year 2013 - City Burial by Paul Hansen - Feb. 2013

World Press Photo of the year 2012 — City Bur­ial by Paul Hansen

 

Links /resources men­tioned in this pod­cast:
World Press Photo of the year (Large)
A Grunt’s Life — Damon Win­ter — The New York Times
From iPhone to printed page: The rise of Insta­gram in major pub­li­ca­tions
We Need Pho­to­jour­nal­ists — Arti­cle by SND.org
Carl Neustaedter on LinkedIN
A pet’s per­spec­tive — Low angled images — Photography.ca forum’s reg­u­lar assign­ment — June 2013
f/16 or smaller — Photography.ca forum’s level 2 assign­ment — June 2013

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117 — Noise Halos and Chromatic Aberration — Interview with Royce Howland

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #117 fea­tures an inter­view with fine art pho­tog­ra­pher Royce How­land where we dis­cuss the ‘junk’ that can get into our pho­tographs. In par­tic­u­lar we dis­cuss and dis­sect noise, halos and chro­matic aber­ra­tion in pho­tog­ra­phy. We talk about how to avoid get­ting these prob­lems, how to fix these prob­lems and how for some pho­tog­ra­phers — these aren’t prob­lems at all but rather, delib­er­ate cre­ative choices.

Royce does an AWESOME job of explain­ing these prob­lems so that they are under­stand­able to anyone. 

This is the longest pod­cast I’ve pub­lished to date and it clocks in at around 70 min­utes. We spend roughly 20 min­utes on each of the 3 top­ics. We cover halos first, then noise, then chro­matic aber­ra­tion. Each of the 3  issues have very dif­fer­ent causes and solutions.

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On the Rocks, Moraine Lake by Royce Howland

On the Rocks, Moraine Lake by Royce How­land — An HDR exam­ple where Royce con­trolled the set­tings to make sure no halos appeared in the sky or water.

Fall at Abraham Lake by Royce Howland

Fall at Abra­ham Lake by Royce How­land — Another HDR exam­ple where Royce left the halo­ing in the sky, and in fact accen­tu­ated it a bit more via a Pho­to­shop Curves adjust­ment, to give a sense of glow over the moun­tains. So some­times halos are not a flaw, they’re a cre­ative choice.

Looming, Abraham Lake by Royce Howland

Loom­ing, Abra­ham Lake by Royce How­land — An HDR exam­ple involv­ing a high con­trast back­lit scene. The trees were deeply shad­owed. Even on a Pen­tax 645D medium for­mat cam­era, there’s noise in those trees in a nor­mal sin­gle expo­sure. Bot­tom left — A 100% crop of a sin­gle expo­sure that went into the image above show­ing the level of noise in the trees. Bot­tom right — A 100% crop of the final image. Using a com­bi­na­tion of HDR tech­nique and a touch of addi­tional noise reduc­tion, I was able to sub­tly boost the con­trast in the deep shad­ows, pre­serve all of the gen­uine detail, and also vir­tu­ally elim­i­nate the dig­i­tal noise. With­out HDR tech­nique, just using a noise reduc­tion fil­ter can take the dig­i­tal noise down but gen­er­ally also will sac­ri­fice legit­i­mate detail as well.

Ghost Of Server Present, Jerome by Royce Howland

Ghost Of Server Present, Jerome by Royce How­land — An indoor shot taken with avail­able light in some­what dim con­di­tions at a sup­pos­edly haunted hotel. I’m using a bunch of cre­ative tech­niques here includ­ing shal­low depth of field, a reflec­tion in a mir­ror, sub­ject motion blur and extra dig­i­tal blur­ring. Despite the soft­en­ing effects of all the tech­niques used in this image, I also wanted a bit of tex­ture and bit of “vin­tage film grain” feel. So far from remov­ing all dig­i­tal noise, I actu­ally con­trolled it and then added a uni­form mono­chro­matic grain layer on top of every­thing in Pho­to­shop. In print up to 16x20 size it’s dif­fi­cult to see this grain, but on a nice matte paper it gives a slight feel­ing of tex­ture; whereas run­ning noise reduc­tion as I would nor­mally do in fact makes the results look­ing flat and plas­tic. You can see the noise detail added in the bot­tom detailed part of the image.

Chromatic aberration example at f/3.5 by Royce Howland

Chro­matic aber­ra­tion exam­ple at f/3.5 by Royce How­land — It was a bit after noon so the sun was high, and I shot straight into the light. The tree branches against a darker back­ground show extremely high con­trast edges. I was using a Sony RX100 pocket cam­era, which is a very high qual­ity point & shoot with a Carl Zeiss lens. So a qual­ity piece of kit for a com­pact. The first com­po­si­tion was at medium lens zoom and the aper­ture wide open — f/3.5. Bot­tom left — A 100% crop of the shot shows a lot of green and pur­ple fringes are vis­i­ble along the branch edges. Even towards the cen­ter of the lens, the chro­matic aber­ra­tion is pretty bad. This is a file con­verted from RAW using the lat­est Adobe Cam­era Raw in Pho­to­shop CS6, no chro­matic aber­ra­tion removal. Bot­tom right — Now here’s the iden­ti­cal file, but using the green and pur­ple fringe removal set­tings dur­ing RAW con­ver­sion. Quite strong set­tings were needed for the green fringes, not so strong for pur­ple. Mostly the fringes were removed.

Chromatic aberration example at f/5.6 by Royce Howland

Chro­matic aber­ra­tion exam­ple at f/5.6 by Royce How­land — Now here is the same com­po­si­tion pho­tographed again moments later in the same strong light, but stop­ping the lens down to f/5.6. Bot­tom left — Stop­ping the lens down just over 1 stop has actu­ally got­ten rid of many of the pur­ple & green fringes with­out doing any­thing else. That’s because a slightly smaller aper­ture lets through less of the mis­aligned light rays that con­tribute to the chro­matic aber­ra­tion in the first place. This is a RAW file con­verted again with no chro­matic aber­ra­tion set­tings. Bot­tom right — And here’s the same file con­verted with a small amount of pur­ple and green defringe set­tings, much less than needed in the first exam­ple and the results look better.

 

Links /resources men­tioned in this pod­cast:
Royce How­land Pho­tog­ra­phy
Photo real­is­tic HDR pod­cast with Royce How­land
Wikipedia Chro­matic Aber­ra­tion
DXO Optics
Topaz Denoise
Nik DFINE 2
Noise Ninja
PTLens
Emily Carr Images - She delib­er­ately painted in what we today call Halos. Shore­line, 1936 is an exam­ple.

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116 — Sharpness on Steroids — Focus stacking interview with Michael Breitung

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #116 fea­tures an inter­view with Ger­man land­scape pho­tog­ra­pher Michael Bre­itung where we talk about why and how to do focus stack­ing in pho­tog­ra­phy. Basi­cally focus stack­ing involves tak­ing mul­ti­ple frames of the same scene but each frame is focused at a dif­fer­ent part of the image. Then these frames are blended together using a graph­ics pro­gram like Gimp (free) or Pho­to­shop (expen­sive). The result is sharp­ness and depth of field on steroids that can’t be matched by any cam­era lens com­bi­na­tion on a 35mm DSLR cam­era at the time of this writ­ing.  Only tilt shift lenses can com­pete in this extreme sharp­ness arena, but those lenses require many saved dol­lars or a rich uncle. This tech­nique is free if you have the skills and a graph­ics program.

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Bloody Causeway - a focus stacked image by Michael Breitung

Bloody Cause­way by Michael Bre­itung — This focus stacked image blends 4 frames into one. Each frame was focused at a dif­fer­ent point and then blended in Pho­to­shop. Check out the sharp­ness from the clos­est cor­ners all the way to the end of the cause­way. This is sharp­ness swim­ming in awe­some sauce. The aper­ture used here was f/9.5

 

Kraichgau at Dawn - Focus stacked photograph by Michael Breitung

Kraich­gau at Dawn — Focus stacked pho­to­graph by Michael Breitung

 

Kraichgau at Dawn - Close up comparison by Michael Breitung

Kraich­gau at Dawn Details — Close up com­par­i­son by Michael Bre­itung — Only 2 frames were needed to cre­ate the final full-sized image above this one. One frame (left) focused at the fore­ground cor­ners, gets the cor­ners sharp in the final image. The other frame (right) focused at the midground, gets both the midground and the back­ground sharp. Then the frames are blended in Pho­to­shop to pro­duce the final image. The aper­ture used here was f/11.

 

Links /resources men­tioned in this pod­cast:
Michael Bre­itung Pho­tog­ra­phy
Michael Breitung’s (advanced) start to fin­ish tuto­r­ial on his (Lightroom/Photoshop) post-processing work­flow and how he cre­ated the Bloody Cause­way image.
Heli­con Focus image stack­ing soft­ware
Zerene Stacker
Tilt shift lenses in land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy
March 2013 reg­u­lar Assign­ment — Wet or Rain
March 2013 level 2 Assign­ment — Dra­matic angles

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115 — Color spaces — monitor settings — recommended hardware — Interview with Joe Brady

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #115 fea­tures an inter­view with Colour expert Joe Brady who works for Mac­group US.
Joe knows pretty much every­thing there is to know about get­ting accu­rate colour from your mon­i­tor and your printer. Joe has recorded 2 pod­casts with us already about mon­i­tor cal­i­bra­tion and those links are listed below in the shownotes. In this pod­cast, we tackle some colour con­cepts that are a source of con­fu­sion for many peo­ple. We talk about mon­i­tor set­tings like colour tem­per­a­ture, gamma, and lumi­nance. Then we tackle the sRGB, Adobe RGB and Prophoto RGB colour spaces and explain what they are, the advan­tages of each and when and where they are most use­ful. Finally, Joe rec­om­mends some cal­i­bra­tion tools, mon­i­tors and printers.

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Color spaces in photography

This image shows off the 3 main color spaces. You’ll note that the ProPhoto RGB color space con­tains the most col­ors. This makes it the best color space for print­ing your own images on a qual­ity printer. When post­ing to the web, the colour space should be sRGB as that is the type of mon­i­tor that most peo­ple have.

Links /resources men­tioned in this pod­cast:
Pod­cast 62 – Mon­i­tor – printer cal­i­bra­tion – Inter­view with Joe Brady
Pod­cast 63 – Review of the Col­or­munki and the i1XTreme
Joe Brady Pho­tog­ra­phy
X-Rite Col­or­Munki Photo Color Man­age­ment Solu­tion at B&H
X-Rite Col­or­Munki Dis­play at B&H
Eizo FlexS­can SX2262W at B&H
Eizo Col­orEdge CG223W 22 at B&H

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114 — 360 degree light painting — Interview with Patrick Rochon

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #114 fea­tures an inter­view with light painter Patrick Rochon who dis­cusses his new exper­i­men­tal 360 degree light paint­ing tech­nique. In a nut­shell, Patrick light paints a model who stands in the mid­dle of a ring as 24 DSLR cam­eras around the ring expose the scene at the same time. The frames are then strung together with soft­ware to give the illu­sion of cir­cu­lar move­ment. Patrick and I talk about his new work, his older work, and we talk about Patrick’s light paint­ing process as well.

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360 Degree light paint­ing by Patrick Rochon

This is a Gif ani­ma­tion that Patrick cre­ated from one of the 360 degree light paint­ing sessions

light painting by Patrick Rochon - animated Gif

Light paint­ing by Patrick Rochon — Ani­mated Gif

 

This is the ‘ring’ where Patrick lit the mod­els:
light painting by Patrick Rochon

While I was at Patrick’s place record­ing this inter­view, I noticed a gallery of new light painted (non 360) pho­tographs on his wall that were gor­geous. This image below was one that I really liked — Thx for send­ing it Patrick!

light painting by Patrick Rochon
Light paint­ing by Patrick Rochon ©Patrick Rochon

Links /resources men­tioned in this pod­cast:

patrickrochon.com
24x360.comTime­code LabEric Paré
Pod­cast #82 — Light paint­ing por­traits
LPWA – Light Paint­ing World Alliance
Light paint­ing pho­tog­ra­phy
Ani­mated gif pho­tog­ra­phy (AKA Cin­ema­graphs)
Aurora Crow­ley Light Painter 
Begin­nings — New —  is our reg­u­lar forum assign­ment for Jan­u­ary
– Light paint­ing — light draw­ing is our level 2 forum assign­ment for Jan­u­ary 
Photo tours of Montreal

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109 — Flash photography tips — Interview with Joe McNally

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #109 fea­tures an Inter­view about flash pho­tog­ra­phy with well known pho­tog­ra­pher Joe McNally. Joe has been shoot­ing for decades for well known mag­a­zines life Life, Sports Illus­trated and National Geo­graphic. He was in town giv­ing a sem­i­nar on the vari­ety of light­ing tech­niques you can achieve by using just one or two flashes. After the sem­i­nar I sat down with Joe for this quick inter­view  to talk about flash tips. In this pod­cast we talk about dif­fus­ing your flash, trig­ger­ing your flash and Joe talks about per­sonal projects.

© Joe McNally

 

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Joe McNally’s blog  — Joe McNally’s Dance Port­fo­lio
– Cold Bev­er­ages is our reg­u­lar forum assign­ment for July
– Oppo­sites is our level 2 forum assign­ment for July

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