In September, I had a conversation by mail with a friend that some of you may know from the MBP Community, Jared Fein. Jared had taken a look at the images on 500px following Episode 295 : An Introduction to 500px, and asked how people achieve the punchy look that you...
A few weeks ago I did two episodes, number 216 and 217 relaying some fundamental things for someone just getting starting in photography to bear in mind. During the preparation for those episodes, I had a lot of ideas that were arguably a little more advanced than the...
last week we started this two part series to update a 5 year old forum post on the fundamentals of photography, which was revived by Chua Kim You, from Montreal, Canada. Thanks again Chua for reviving that thread, and I hope you are enjoying these Podcasts. If you are...
Last week, a new user on the forums, Chua Kim You, user name redpandafire from Montreal, Canada, revived an old thread from June 2004. I'd posted and article called "Fundamental Advice for Photographer's Getting Started". I had to admit, that looking back at this post...
With all the great fine art inkjet papers available today, it can be difficult to find "your" paper. The one paper, or maybe even two or three types of paper, that you turn to for your high quality, fine art prints. Testing papers can be costly, in terms of both time...
With the plethora of great fine art inkjet papers available today, it can be difficult to find "your" paper. The one paper, or maybe even two or three types of paper, that you turn to for your high quality, fine art prints. Testing papers can be costly, in terms of...
I'm adding an excursion to photography Snow Monkeys as an option to my 2010 Winter Wonderland Workshop. It will be a two day trip to Nagano, at the end of the week before we will leave for Hokkaido, with a Saturday night and Sunday to enjoy Tokyo between. I’ve been...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Last week I discussed the assignment that I did in the small town of Joboji, in the Iwate Prefecture some 600kms north of Tokyo. I was to shoot on the Wednesday and Thursday, but with it taking a good seven hours to drive up there, I needed a day for travel. I also...