The Martin Bailey Photography Podcast (Enhanced)

These flowers are truly beautiful, but in a strange kind of way. Here how I captured that strange beauty and follow along as I share a few artistic and technical tips too. Here's a link to the current assignment on "Reflections": http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=912 Please do take 5 minutes to complete the Listener's survey. You'll find a link and some reasons why I'm doing this here: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=549

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Manuscript on blog: http://mbp.ac/55 I put my portfolio together with a piece of software from Photodex called ProShow Producer. You can find it here: http://www.photodex.com/ You can order a copy of John Kaplan's book "Photo Portfolio Success" from my Recommended Reading page here: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/reading.php Here is a link to StockMusic.Net that I bought the music for my portfolio presentation from: http://www.stockmusic.net/ Here's a link to the Light Impressions Web site, where I bought my portfolio box and case etc: http://www.lightimpressionsdirect.com/ Please do take 5 minutes to complete the Listener's survey. You'll find a link and some reasons why I'm doing this here: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=549

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See the announcement of the Reflections Assignment and key dates here: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=912 NOTE: I actually said in the Podcast that it will be OK to upload images to the assignment album until the 23rd, but this was a miscalculation. I need to close the album for entries on my 23rd, but this will be the end of the 22nd of October for most of you. Sorry for the confusion. Check the Assignment Rules/Guidelines here: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=625 The music in this episode was Reflections by Dreamweaver, provided from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network at http://www.music.podshow.com/ Please do take 5 minutes to complete the Listener's survey. You'll find a link and some reasons why I'm doing this here: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=549

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This should also help new listeners to figure out which episode you want to pick out of the archives to listen to. Of course, if you have time, I advice you to listen to all old episodes as there is far more useful information in these archives than I can fit into a few 30 minute summaries. In addition to the main topic, I make a brief comment on the top three placed winners of the Depicting Culture Photography Assignment. Here you can find the final scores. This page will also soon contain an accumulated scores graph for the last three assignments and future episodes until the grand prize is awarded to the participant with the most points in the first year. Note that members with images that unfortunately didn't receive any votes will not appear in the list: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/scores.php Please do take 5 minutes to complete the Listener's survey. You'll find a link and some reasons why I'm doing this here: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=549

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This should also help new listeners to figure out which episode you want to pick out of the archives to listen to. Of course, if you have time, I advice you to listen to all old episodes as there is far more useful information in these archives than I can fit into a few 30 minute summaries. To list all images from my four day trip to Hokkaido in February click the following link. The shots will actually probably be listed in descending order, with newest first. If you want to view the shots in the order they were made, click on the last number on the bottom right of the browser window, below the thumbnails, and then click the very last image. Then you can click the arrow pointing to the left above each image to view them in chronological order. http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/thumbnails.php?album=search&search=hokkaido_feb2006 Take a look at the Colour Wheel I've added to the site at the below link. http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/colourwheel.php Please do take 5 minutes to complete the Listener's survey. You'll find a link and some reasons why I'm doing this here: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=549

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This should also help new listeners to figure out which episode you want to pick out of the archives to listen to. Of course, if you have time, I advice you to listen to all old episodes as there is far more useful information in these archives than I can fit into a few 30 minute summaries. You can find the Lensbaby Web site that I mention here: http://www.lensbabies.com/ Great fun for less than $100. The ever improving and incredibly useful WhiBal can be found here: http://www.rawworkflow.com/products/whibal/ Here's the thread I mentioned that followed my discussion on the moral dilemma of whether or not to save an animal reaching the natural end of its life: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=338 Please do take 5 minutes to complete the Listener's survey. You'll find a link and some reasons why I'm doing this here: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=549

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That's 50 weeks of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast! I want to thank all of you that keep on listening. One of the things that I constantly hear from listeners is that you appreciate the tips and techniques that you gain from my experiences in photography via this Podcast, that are applicable to your own photography. From today for a few weeks I'm going to take a brief look at each episode to date, and give a brief mention of what was discussed and mention one or two of the main points of that Podcast. I won't be able to cover all the tips and techniques of course. To do that, you need to listen to the original Podcasts. But kind of to celebrate the achievement of reaching the 50th episode, I'm hoping this will be a way to not only condense the main gist of what I've covered so far, but also give new comers a brief outline of what is in the archives. There are going to be many more pearls hiding in the old episodes, but with so much listening time needed to catch up, it's hard to think of where to start. Hopefully this will give you some pointers. As I go through them, I'll also talk about how things have changed since I first spoke about any particular tip or technique as necessary, so it'll be kind of like a condensed update too. I'll be as brief as possible, but I'm still going to need two or three more weeks to cover everything to date, along with updates, so please bear with me. Hopefully it will be worthwhile. Also, CONGRATULATIONS to Graham Morgan! Graham has just had an amazing double win in the Australian Wildlife Photography Competition with two amazing images. Check out the images and see the announcement on the MBP forum here: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=865 Please do take 5 minutes to complete the Listener's survey. You'll find a link and some reasons why I'm doing this here: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=549

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As usual, I'll be intertwining useful tips and techniques used during the trip and showing real-world examples of the results. This link will enable you to list all images from the Hokkaido leg of the trip: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/thumbnails.php?album=search&search=Hokkaido_July2006 This link will list all images from both the Hokkaido and Oirase legs that made up the entire trip: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/thumbnails.php?album=search&search=OiraseHokkaidoJuly2006 I also found a good English Map of the Central to Eastern part of Hokkaido known as Doutou. You can get right to it here: http://northern-road.jp/navi/eng/map5.htm See this link for a map of the entire island though: http://northern-road.jp/navi/eng/index.htm Please do take 5 minutes to complete the Listener's survey. You'll find a link and some reasons why I'm doing this here: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=549