Today TIME, LIFE and National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan joins us to talk about his life in Photography, and about his latest book projects, America at Home and UK at Home. Use this audio player to listen: Show Notes Here are the Web sites for the latest...
China – The Great Wall & The Forbidden City (Podcast 164)
Last week, on November the 20th, I went to Beijing, China, for a very short business trip with my day job. I had planned to be there for an extra day though on Saturday, and people that I was visiting had kindly agreed to take me and my boss site seeing. We were...
Assignment #18 – Agriculture (Podcast 163)
Today [Nov 17, 2008] we look at the winners of Assignment #17 on Agriculture, and kick off the next Assignment on Portraits. This is another ad-lib episode, so please do listen to the audio if you want to hear me talk a little bit more about the images. Joint Second...
First Autumn Colour of 2008 (Podcast 162)
This week we take a look at some shots of the first colour of autumn, 2008. I also talk about some panning shots of a waterfall. LR2Mogrify is a new plugin for Adobe that enables you to add resize, sharpen and add frames to images during export. This is just what I've...
Canon PowerShot G10 Review – Part#2 (Podcast 161)
On October 17th, 2008, the Canon PowerShot G10 high end compact digital camera went on sale here in Japan, and I went straight to the shop at which I’d placed a pre-order to pick mine up. I’ve started having fun just having a small camera to drop in my bag for those...
Canon PowerShot G10 Review – Part#1 (Podcast 160)
Last Friday, on October 17th, 2008, the Canon PowerShot G10 high end compact digital camera went on sale here in Japan, and I went straight to the shop at which I’d placed a pre-order to pick mine up. I’ve had a lot of fun over the last few days just having a small...
The Cosmos “Flowerscapes” (Podcast 159)
Following on from last week’s episode, when we looked at some Equinox flower shots from a place called Kinchakuda, I want to look at some Cosmos flower images that I shot at the end of the day in a field near to the Equinox flowers. I was thinking to also look at some...
Equinox Flowers Revisited (Podcast 158)
September 23rd is a national holiday in Japan, to celebrate the autumnal equinox. Those that have listened to archives, or have been following this Podcast for a while might remember that I spoke about an Equinox Flower shoot two years ago, in which I showed you seven...
Hokkaido Photography Tour & Workshop 2009 (Podcast 157)
In recent weeks I’ve been gradually completing the preparation for the 2009 Hokkaido Photography Tour & Workshop. Today I’m going to take you through some of the details about the workshop, as it’s going to be a little different from this year’s. I have updated...
Assignment #17 – Shadows (Podcast 156)
Today I announce the winners of the Shadows Assignment and kick-off the next Assignment on Agriculture. Just like last week this episode is also ad-lib. 3rd place hqsbud - Forrest Tanaka 2nd place Aldrin - Hakan Aldrin 1st place Super Digital Girl - Leslie Granda Hill...
Maki-e Craftsman & Tools Shoot (Podcast 155)
In this episode we look at some images from another recent client shoot, where I photographed a Maki-e artist at work. This episode was originally recorded ad-lib, so there is no manuscript I'm afraid. Show Notes The music in this episode is from...
What’s New in Lightroom 2? (Podcast 154)
Having used Lightroom 2 for over a month now, I figured I'd talk today about some of the new features. I’m not going to give you a comprehensive view of everything new. You can see a list of new features on Adobe’s Web site, and there are plenty of other tutorials out...