This week we explore an idea that has been building in me over the years, which is that as we grow as photographers we go through various stages, and eventually spend less energy lusting over gear and gain more satisfaction and contentment from creating...
Today I'm really happy to be able to bring you a conversation with Nancy Lehrer. Those of you that used to participate in our forum before we had to close it down due to the constant spamming, may well remember Nancy. She always had something useful and insightful to...
Following on from my selection process episode last week, this week I'm going to tell you a little about each of my personal top ten favorite images from 2017. We'll work through my top ten in chronological order, starting from January and working through the year. My...
As 2017 drew to an end, I completed my yearly exercise of selecting my personal favorite top ten images from the year, and as has become a tradition, I'm going to share my process with you today. As usual, I started this exercise by creating a Group in the...
Today I'm thrilled to bring you a great conversation with photographers Nicole S. Young and Brian Matiash, and I didn't tell them until we'd finished that this conversation was even more special because it's my 600th episode! I was just starting to think about...
Over the years, I developed a number of photography related mantras that seemed like a good idea at the time, but have since changed my thinking as my understanding gets better, the technology improves, and as the times change. Today I'm going to update a few of these...
Following a recent question, today we're going to explore how we see and how we perceive a scene, in relation to the focal length numbers we are familiar with from our camera lenses. Before we start, I'd like to apologize for skipping last week's episode. I'm still...
Today I'm going to share my thoughts on what makes a photograph or a print "fine art". This is something that I've seen various takes on, and frankly, nothing I've read over the years really resonates with me personally, for reasons that I'll explain. The impetus for...
Today I bring you an inspiring conversation with my friend David duChemin, in which we talk in depth about many of the concepts explored in his latest book, The Soul of the Camera: The Photographer's Place in Picture-Making. We didn't script the conversation, so there...
Some people arrive at a location with preconceptions and their sole intent is to make their copy of other peoples' photographs that they've already seen. Today I'm going to discuss how and why I believe we should avoid being a collector, and shoot from our own...
Today I welcome Curtis Hustace to the show to talk about his thirty year career as a commercial photographer and to walk us through some of the techniques he uses when creating his beautiful still life photography. As this was an ad-lib conversation, we don't have a...
Having shared my thought process and selection workflow last week, today I share my personal top ten photographs from 2016. Since I started doing this in 2007 it has become a yearly tradition and although it's an invaluable learning experience in itself, over the...