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Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #137 finally returns to offer up 5 realistic photography resolutions that we can make for the upcoming year. Happy New year Everyone!!! Click the player at the end of this post to listen to or download this (almost)10 minute podcast. If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Thanks for all the support emails and welcome to all the new members of the photography.ca forum! If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting!!

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #136 talks about creating dreamy images by placing Vaseline or petroleum jelly on an old UV filter attached to your lens. By doing this you are often able to create dreamy, impressionistic images. The procedure is simple; take an OLD UV filter (because removing the vaseline from the filter after use might damage its coating) and screw it onto a lens. Then place a wee bit of petroleum jelly (just a bit goes a long way) on your finger and apply it to the front of the UV filter. Take a few images and see what you get. Play with the level and position of the blur by removing some Vaseline or moving it around with your finger. It goes without saying that you need to do this carefully so as not to allow the Vaseline to touch your camera or lens. The Vaseline should only be on the front of the filter. When you're done shooting, remove the filter immediately and place it in a plastic bag. Then clean it (I just used regular dish soap) when you get home. If you have a few wet wipes along with a dry cloth (to thoroughly wipe your finger between moving the vaseline around and touching the shutter release button) and an extra plastic bag or two, you should have no problem doing this. Feel free to add to the conversation by leaving a comment or sharing/liking this post in some way. Click the player at the end of this post to listen to (or download) this 9.5 minute podcast. Here are some of the photographs I was able to make with this technique;                 Links /resources mentioned in this podcast: Exhibition and Film on Impressionism and Photography (Lorin's comment from podcast 135) Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgement of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred - Thanks Lorin Duckman, Dave Johnson and Jane Chesebrough! Thanks for all the support emails and welcome to all the new members of the photography.ca forum! If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting!  

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #135 discusses how going to museums to study painters and paintings can improve your photography. After all, both painting and photography are 2D media trying to represent a 3D world. When photographers study the compositional and lighting techniques used by painting masters, their own photographs often improve. Feel free to add to the conversation by leaving a comment or sharing/liking this post in some way. Click the player at the end of this post to listen to (or download) this 15 minute podcast.   When it comes to lighting portraits in photography, painters have been thinking about the lighting for their own subjects many hundreds of years before photography was invented. Photographers can learn so much about lighting by studying the great portrait painters.         When it comes to photographing mountains and other landscapes, photographers often zoom right into them as their first instinct and of course that's a good thing to do for a shot or two, but then what? By studying the compositional techniques of landscape painters, we see that they often include lots of elements that compliment the main focal point in their images.     Links /resources mentioned in this podcast: Outline of painting history Caravaggio Rembrandt A. Y. Jackson Group of Seven (artists) If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. Thanks for all the support emails and welcome to all the new members of the photography.ca forum! If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting!

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. Feel free to add to the conversation by leaving a comment or sharing/liking this post in some way. Thanks to The Camera Store (The largest camera store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada)  for sponsoring the Photography.ca podcast. Click the player at the end of this post to listen to (or download) the 30ish minute podcast.         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 If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. Many thanks to Tim Mackle and Ruth M for their comments from the last podcast. Thanks as well for the emails and welcome to all the new members of the photography.ca forum! If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting!

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. Thanks to The Camera Store (The largest camera store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada)  for sponsoring the Photography.ca podcast. Click the player at the end of this post to listen to (or download) the 44ish minute podcast.   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."     Links /resources mentioned in this podcast: Royce Howland's Photography / workshops Tours-courses by Marko Kulik If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page If you are interested in writing for our blog please contact me photography.ca ( A T ) G m ail Dot co m (using standard email formatting) Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. Many thanks to Sandra Foster for her comment from the last podcast. Thanks as well for the emails and welcome to all the new members of the bulletin board. If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting!

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. Thanks to The Camera Store (The largest camera store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada)  for sponsoring the Photography.ca podcast. Click the player at the end of this post to listen to (or download) the 13ish minute podcast.         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 If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page If you are interested in writing for our blog please contact me photography.ca ( A T ) G m ail Dot co m (using standard email formatting) Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. Many thanks to Teddy Naimus for his comment from the last podcast. Thanks as well for the emails and welcome to all the new members of the bulletin board. If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting!

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #131 reviews a Lensbaby lens. Lensbaby lenses are special in that they have a sweet spot of sharp focus in the center of the lens and blur out toward the edges. In addition to this (and where the magic truly lives), you can actually bend the lens to move that sweet spot of focus around the frame. The particular lens I tested was a 50mm Lensbaby Composer with double glass optic. It's great fun and fairly easy to use though you need to know in advance that it's a manual lens. It will still help you figure out exposure based on your ISO and aperture ring you select, but you'll be going old school and manually focusing this bad-boy. It's worth it though as you can make some really creative in-camera images with this lens. It's a fabulous lens to juice up your creativity. Thanks to The Camera Store (The largest camera store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada)  for sponsoring the Photography.ca podcast and for allowing me to test this lens. Click the player at the end of this post to listen to (or download) the 11ish minute podcast.           Links /resources mentioned in this podcast: Lensbaby Composer user guide The Lensbaby Composer  and other Lensbabies at The Camera Store Tilt shift lenses for landscape photography Lensbaby 3G review If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page If you are interested in writing for our blog please contact me photography.ca ( A T ) G m ail Dot co m (using standard email formatting) Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. Many thanks to Barefoot, Troy Borque and Terry Babij for their comments from the last podcast. Thanks as well for the emails and welcome to all the new members of the bulletin board. If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting!

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #130 reviews the Big Stopper by Lee filters. The big stopper is a 10 stop glass filter that slows down shutter speeds in order to accentuate movement. Both clouds and water are classic subjects for use with this filter and the resulting photographs tend to be ethereal and dreamy. Aside from reviewing the filter, I offer up 6 tips on how to use it effectively. Thanks to The Camera Store (The largest camera store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada)  for sponsoring the Photography.ca podcast. Click the player at the end of this post to listen to (or download) the 18ish minute podcast.         Links /resources mentioned in this podcast: Podcast 77 - On Neutral density filters and graduated neutral density filters Podcast 84 - Back Button autofocus The big stopper at The Camera Store Regular forum assignment - Repetition Level 2 photography assignment - Forced perspective If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page If you are interested in writing for our blog please contact me photography.ca ( A T ) G m ail Dot co m (using standard email formatting) Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting!

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #129 talks about how to photograph strangers in public so that your images are stronger and more interesting. I offer up 4 easy tips on how to make this process easier so that your shots have more punch at the end. These photographs were mostly taken over a period of 1 week. In the podcast I discuss the differences between when the subject is aware and unaware of the photographer's presence. Thanks to The Camera Store (The largest camera store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada)  for sponsoring the Photography.ca podcast. Click the player at the end of this post to listen to (or download) the 11ish minute podcast.           Links /resources mentioned in this podcast: Photography forum assignments If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page If you are interested in writing for our blog please contact me photography.ca ( A T ) G m ail Dot co m (using standard email formatting) Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. Many thanks to Nuno C., Barefoot and Christopher Steven B. for their comments from the last podcast. Thanks as well for the emails and welcome to all the new members of the bulletin board. If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting!  

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #128 talks about five reasons why I think the 50mm lens is the first lens you should get for your SLR or DSLR. Two of these reasons are all the aperture advantages this lens has to offer has and the fact that it's one of the most affordable brand new lenses you are likely to find (that aren't garbage). If you have a full frame camera the 50mm will act as the conventional 50mm lens from the film camera days. On a crop sensor camera the lens will act more like a 75mm or 80mm lens and many people are using this lens to make wonderful portraits. Thanks to The Camera Store (The largest camera store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada)  for sponsoring the Photography.ca podcast. Click the player at the end of this post to listen to (or download) the 8ish minute podcast.     Links /resources mentioned in this podcast: Good comments from our last podcast - Point and Shoot Cameras Suck for Learning Photography The Canon 50mm at The Camera Store The Nikon 50mm at The Camera Store Reversing rings at The Camera Store The Canon 50mm at B&H The Nikon 50mm at B&H Reversing rings at B&H If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page If you are interested in writing for our blog please contact me photography.ca ( A T ) G m ail Dot co m (using standard email formatting) Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. Many thanks to Alain Casault, Lisa Osta, and Tom Trottier for their comments from the last podcast. Thanks as well for the emails and welcome to all the new members of the bulletin board. If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting!  

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #127 goes into why point and shoot cameras suck for learning photography. I actually rag on point and shoot cameras quite a bit in this podcast but it's because photography should be fun and learning photography on a point and shoot camera is rarely fun and almost never user-friendly. At the beginning stages of learning photography you need your camera to be user-friendly and it's nice when your camera can handle any shooting situation. Point and shoots are inferior to any new DSLRs when it comes to photographing things that move. Given that precious memories (that involve movement) like your child walking/running are missed with a point and shoot, it's an inferior tool. That lovely intro aside, I do recommend a few user friendly Point and shoots for photographers that are comfortable with a Point and shoot's limitations. They definitely are portable and can be handy in capable hands. Click the player at the end of this post to listen to (or download) the 13ish minute podcast. Thanks to The Camera Store (The largest camera store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada)  for sponsoring the Photography.ca podcast.   Links /resources mentioned in this podcast: Podcast # 76 - Point and shoot cameras — Review of Canon G11 Exposure exposed — Easily master camera exposure and make stunning photos by Marko Kulik Photo tours - private photo instruction in Montreal Canon G16 at The Camera Store Nikon P7800 at The Camera Store The Eos Rebel T5 at The Camera Store The Nikon D3200 at The Camera Store If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page If you are interested in writing for our blog please contact me photography.ca ( A T ) G m ail Dot co m (using standard email formatting) Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. Thanks as well to all the new members of the bulletin board. If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting!

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #126 discusses the importance of the four edges of your photographs. They are seriously important and paying attention to them will improve your photography. The podcast offers up 6 (actually a few more than 6) practical tips on how to improve the edges of your photographs. Thanks to The Camera Store (The largest camera store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada)  for sponsoring the Photography.ca podcast. A sneak peek to one of the 6 tips which is useful to photographers of all levels is to check out the work of master painters. They knew about the edges, about the overall composition, and the rules of composition. Those rules directly apply to photography. This famous painting below done by Rembrandt shows dark edges all around which is of course no accident. He did it all the time. Notice where your eye ends up in the painting; on the wave at left and this too is no accident. When we can apply some of these principles to photography, our images almost always improve.     Talk about how edges can add interest! This image by Selena Rhodes Scofield from our forum is framed in an extremely creative way and the unusual perspective just adds to the visual interest. In addition, both the seagull's neck and its wing are creating interesting positive and negative shapes as they intersect with the edges and the rest of the image. Being on the lookout for these shapes is another way to spicify your photography.     Of course when you want to break guidelines, you break them whenever you want to. Just be aware that you are doing so. In this image below, Canadian Master photographer and teacher Freeman Patterson does just that. From his book Photography and the Art of Seeing he wrote: "I saw this elderly lady as passing away from me and my world, so I photographed her through a window clouded by reflections and curtains. The shallow depth of field, which throws the reflections and curtains out of focus, creates a sense of the surreal and the unknown. The hand of the woman's friend appears in the lower right corner. By all traditional standards of composition, the hand should not be there because it looks amputated. Yet it seems strangely appropriate, representing support that may be needed in the present, while at the same time adding to the impression of the world dissolving"     Links /resources mentioned in this podcast: Photography and the Art of Seeing by Freeman Patterson. If you can only afford one photography book this year, buy this one. Composition Basics by oopoomoo If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page If you are interested in writing for our blog please contact me photography.ca ( A T ) G m ail Dot co m (using standard email formatting) Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Thanks as well to Don Crasco and Daniel Cybulskie who posted comments directly on the blog.  Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. Thanks as well to all the new members of the bulletin board. If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player.

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. Thanks to The Camera Store (The largest camera store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada)  for sponsoring the Photography.ca podcast. 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?       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 If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page If you are interested in writing for our blog please contact me photography.ca ( A T ) G m ail Dot co m (using standard email formatting) Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Thanks as well to Terry Babij who posted comments directly on the blog.  Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. Thanks as well to all the new members of the bulletin board. If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting! Happy New Year everyone!

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.             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 If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page If you are interested in writing for our blog please contact me photography.ca ( A T ) G m ail Dot co m (using standard email formatting) Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Thanks as well to Mike Bons, Lucy 72, Jimmy Brown, and Darnell B who posted comments directly on the blog.  Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. Thanks as well to all the new members of the bulletin board. If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting!

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #123 compares 2 entry level triggering devices for your camera. A 'trigger' is simply a device that allows your camera to fire nearly any portable flash, monolight or studio flash while it is OFF-camera. The ability to fire a flash or other light source while OFF-camera allows you to modify the direction and the quality of the light(s) to produce much more creative and professional looking photography versus direct on-camera flash. The 2 units tested are the PocketWizard Plus X and the Cactus V5 Duo.   Thanks to The Camera Store (The largest camera store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada)  for sponsoring the Photography.ca podcast and for loaning me the test equipment for this week's podcast!   The build quality of the PocketWizard is slightly more robust than the Cactus V5 and its legendary reliability (PocketWizards have been around for decades) and the fact that they work with every other PocketWizard ever made are its main advantages.   Both these units will do the identical job, but the Cactus's design (at right) is more elegant, easier to attach and the Cactus V5 Duo is half the price of the PocketWizard Plus X. Unfortunately the Cactus V5 will NOT work with PocketWizards or even different Cactus models. Links /resources mentioned in this podcast: The PocketWizard Plus X at The Camera Store The Cactus V5 Duo at The Camera Store Illuminight - Photography exhibition by Marko Kulik If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page If you are interested in writing for our blog please contact me photography.ca ( A T ) G m ail Dot co m (using standard email formatting) Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Thanks as well to Enrique Waizel, Bernard Dallaire, Jason, Darnell B and Royce Howland who posted comments directly on the blog.  Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. Thanks as well to all the new members of the bulletin board. If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes|Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player below. Thanks for listening and keep on shooting!