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This week, Adam alerted us to the fella lighting vegetables from the inside, Carl pointed us to this Kodak commercial extolling the virtues of digital, which then prompted Glynn to go looking for this one as well, Glynn is also salivating over the new Tamron 15-30mm f2.8 IS lens, the beauty of W. Eugene Smith's work was allegedly 90% darkroom, would YOU spend a year to put together a 90 second video? trippy star trails with zoom effects, tin type silver portraits, Sports Illustrated lays off its staff photographers, Canon's next big thing, plus heaps more. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

We're back for another year! This week, Glynn is unsatisfied with the intro, but he has done his 'New Years Revolution', he had a couple of bits of bad news early in the new year, plus an interesting warm weather workshop, check out these images shot at an NFL game with the Lytro lightfield camera, Picattoo will turn your Instagram pics into temporary tattoos, the 40 things you can do to increase your 'attractiveness', the iPhone app that will allow you to do Focus Stacking, Canon returning production to Japan, the UnForeground, 6 portrait lighting patterns every photographer should know, courtesty of DPS, and the captivating story of the couple who have bought themselves a really old French chateau, and are restoring it. We feel it should be preserved for photo shoots in its current state! Check it out! Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, the final episode for 2014! Last week, Glynn told us about the camera with a 1/2,000,000th of a second shutter speed. Pfft. That's lame! How does a ONE TRILLIONTH of a second grab ya? I came across this gorgeous 365 day personal selfie project, Peter Lik now holds 4 of the top 20 spots for Most Expensive Photograph Ever Sold, some are suggesting that this was a publicity stunt, and if it was, it sure worked! Seems everyone is talking about it on social media. Adam brought our attention to the Relio light cubes. Not flashes, but battery-powered cubes of light for still or video work. The odd part? Available in colour temps of 3000K, 3500K and 4500K. No daylight white balance (5600K)? Say wha? Why it's ok to hate your old photos, Steve Peters pointed me toward this video of one photographer's story about why he left Nikon for Sony, Rob Coates weighed in on the validity and authenticity of both 'minify' and 'functionality', Carl showed us a video about how to move your Lightroom catalogues between drives without breaking relative links, Glynn told us about the Descendants Project, in which Drew Gardner has found living descendants of famous people, and recreated their forefathers' portraits; costumes, lighting and all! Bambi Cantrell talking about light, Leica M9 corrosion; be thankful if this doesn't affect you, as it's a 3 month wait for repair, and the replacement is likely to suffer the same fate! Yikes! Chinatown New York in the 1980’s, Awkward Family Christmas photos (1) (2) (3), that ludicrous story about the lawyer who tried to extort a photographer for supposedly doing a crap job of the wedding photos, but ended up getting slapped hard for his efforts, Steve McCurry talking about his approach to his photojournalistic assignments, and of course, Dave Frog Clark's picture to commemorate Glynn's half-century! Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, Glynn's pet/santa shoot, Judging the Ivanhoe Camera Club photo competition, David Marland told us about some historical black and white images which have been masterfully (don't tell Glynn I said that!) coloured, the latest on the Pass The Camera project, Carl pointed us to this video interview with the founder of Mylio, Glynn found an Advent Calendar with a difference, the top 5 Christmas Gifts you don’t want, the Vela high speed flash project on Kickstarter, some silly test photos taken with the Canon 7D mkII, Iconic film shots needed their own little bit of "photoshopping", and Adam pointed us toward the top 10 most Instagrammed locations around the world. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, Aurum Light work contracted by Coca Cola, the Japanese guy who built a photo studio to always provide awesome light, Mylio, the cloud-based alternative to Lightroom, the Lume cube from IC12, Carl told us about this beautiful wedding video, 10 famous landmarks you're not allowed to shoot for commercial use, awesome product photography with an iphone, Steve Peters pointed us toward this post which asks what if it's YOU that sucks, Adam told us about the 5 axis stabilisation of the sensor in Sony's forthcoming a7ii, rumours are surfacing of 2 DSLR's on the way from Canon, sporting no less than 50MP sensors, pricing your work on the intangibles, rather than the tangibles, Darren Oster told us about the new Samsung NX1, and Glynn chimed in on the NFL photographer getting slammed for missing the shot, when in fact, he actually didn't! Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, the drama of Glynn's iOS woes, This year, Carlos Naval proved that you don't NEED the latest and greatest DSLR to take stunning images, there are rumours of a new sensor design coming from Sony, Vemödalen: The Fear That Everything Has Already Been Done, Melbourne hyperlapse, Mark Loader wrote to tell us about an awesome book called "Road To Seeing". Some great images shot low to the ground, Prynt Cases allow you to print photos instantly from your mobile device, where your gear gets stolen most often, the Help Portrait project, the image that gave Glynn goose bumps, the ultimate selfie rig, Kingston has just released 256GB memory cards, with Glynn's typically exhaustive research, I can only assume that the Canon/Nikon compatible flash he was referring to is this new offering from Nissin, but I could be wrong. And we're looking for one more guinea pig to join the pass-the-camera project. If YOU haven't joined up yet, then get your butt over here and get on board! Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, Bruce is the one who shows up late! Glynn has been working himself to the bone, we've got some projects that he can do with the kids during the upcoming school holidays though, Yongnuo's new YN600EX Canon knock-off, a collection of images that make a splash, some more HDR done.... well, let's just say they were done, the guy who left one sinking ship for another sinking (or is that "sunk") ship, the beautiful Namibian ruins at Kolmanskop, touchable memories, Ferannia film coming back to life, Fake vs Pro, Lee Polariser with built-in warmup, the creepy little sitting baby, how to photograph a wedding in low light, Canon 2mm 1.4 (yep, 2mm!), the ‘how quickly will you wedge this between two trees’ go pro mount, the Pinnacle Peak-GoPro catastrophe, and a reminder.... if you haven't already signed up for the innaugural Shutters Inc collaborative "Pass the camera" project, then head over to the Facebook group and ask to be admitted! Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, Glynn is late to the party, Quora is where you'll find the best selfie pics ever, we've got the most epic of roadtrips, some awesome shadow images, Rob Coates (via the shuttersincpodcast comments) shared ShotHotSpot for finding great spots to shoot, Carl Hemmings has found a great Ebay bargain for the Nikon shooters, Adam Davidson found another corker of a lens we all need in our kit, plus everything you need to know if you're planning on switching from DSLR to mirrorless, and the cinemagraphs of Julien Douvier, Glynn found this review of the Samyang 50mm f1.4 lens, over at 5 Day Deal, they've got $2000 worth of photography resources available for just $89, but the offer runs out in about 24 hours, so check it out right now, if you're interested! And finally, Bruce gets all philosophical and shares this article by Mark Manson on finding meaning in your life. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, the portfolio of Wolfgang Hildebrand. Images comprised of night time and day time stills composited together. Carl Hemmings sent us an infographic (attached at the end of this post), Glynn wants to shoot an entire wedding on nothing but an iPhone, Why would a nature photographer want to attend a Natural Light Portraiture workshop? Yongnuo enters the lens market, Falling into the day, by Christopher Munn, the guy making concrete reproductions of famous cameras, melting your GoPro over an erupting volcano, finding the perfect shoot location, location scouting, and some song lyrics about photography.   Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, Glynn has been shooting with the Elinchrom ELC lighting system, and here are the images we spoke about: image 1 image 2 image 3 image 4 image 5 image 6. There's the wildlife photographs of the year, the naughty logo from the 1976 Montreal Olympics, the California attorney who photoshopped herself with celebrities, a freaky optical illusion, Adobe buys Aviary, a comparison of mobile triggers, the U.S. Forestry Service wants to charge a media fee for shooting in National Parks, John Malkovich stars in a series of historical portrait recreations, and Adam told us about the Google Glass light meter, National Geographic stooping to the level of image-theft, a Lightroom plugin that shows you which focus points your Canon DLSR used at the time of exposure, the student who photoshopped her entire "Asian holiday" from her bedroom, and the NoPhone. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, Glynn is quitting Shutters Inc. You can blame (or thank) Brian Mundy for that. Sydney's The Digital Playground. Looks like no one in the industry has a printer bigger than A3. The week in Glynn's iPhone shoots, plus the LED Walk and Pixel Stick shoots, his new Tamron 16-300mm lens, the things you see at the footy, iOS8 photo update, Photokina highlights, including: Samsung NX1, Canon 7D II, Canon SX60 (with its incredible 21-1365 zoom!), Nikon D750, Panasonic CM1, Sony QX1, Sony dog harness... no, we're NOT kidding, and RElonch...REdiculous? Glynn is happy to see Canon had (at the time of recording) 59% of all views on dpreview's top 10 with only 2 cameras. Getting up close and personal with a comet (as long as 177 miles is "up close and personal" enough for ya, we've got some creepy gif animations based on images from the Library of Congress, Adam sent us a link to some images taken with the aid of the Lightblaster, and although Glynn didn't want to know about it, you might (if you're in Sydney) be interested in Dragon Image's garage sale. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, the sad state of photographic trade shows, Glynn wants us to "shop local", and while you're at it, check out his mates at SMLXL for specialist advice on printing your images. How to be confident and corageous in your street photography, Fuji X100S vs iphone 6 plus, in Australia, there are more active mobile phone contracts than people, Ariana Grande – a photographers nightmare? The Western Digital travel hard disk drive for photographers, the Selfie Brush, the MovPak motorised backpack-skateboard, MIOPS Nero trigger, the first animal photos published in National Geographic in 1906, and the furore that caused, the apodization of lenses, and 16 organisations that want to fund your photography. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, Bruce actually gets to say a few words (for once!) about... what else, the Kidney Kar Rally. Adam told us about this portfolio of smoke images, Brian Houghton told us about the current Chinese trend of underwater wedding photos, Glynn told us about location-based light painting, Digital Globe’s WorldView3, Pixelstick, a 1950’s Hong Kong Street portfolio, and for those of you in Sydney, Glynn and Bruce will be at the Digital Playground next Sunday at Luna Park. Pop down and say hi! Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, Glynn's nude lighting workshop, shooting with miss 7, depressed? try something new, Bruce (and Adam) are packing their bags for the Kidney Kar Rally, shooting cats in near darkness with the Sony a7s, the most expensive photos ever sold, the people who are painted to look like paintings of themselves, shooting star trails where there's lots of light pollution, congrats again to Mike Hollman for being named New Zealand Travel Photographer of the year AND New Zealand Commercial Photographer of the year, how to clean your sensor, we now have a photo of the surface of a comet, the Romanian underground salt mine turned into a theme park, when supermodels violate your copyright, if a monkey shoots a selfie with your camera, who owns the copyright? wikimedia commons, just a couple of ‘blighted’ properties in Detroit, Lastolite's new backgrounds, and for Reg, keeping your passion for photography alive, or at least telling you were to sell your gear! Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, Bruce's holiday to Magnetic Island (lots of images on my blog here), plus this crappy one, Glynn and David continue their D-day vets portfolio, Glynn is not enthused by the Pixoto model, Bruce has started watching David duChemin's "The Created Image", Neil Gaiman’s advice for creative people, Glynn's 80's portrait, a new poster from David Clark, Adam told us about why it sucks to be a mid-level wedding photographer, the portfolio of images where the sky has been replaced with coffee swirls, and the studio head that offers 1/8000 sec shutter sync, Bruce was blown away with this timelapse video of Barcelona, which prompted Carl Hemmings to send us this link, Richard Clark posted this story about a distraught father who requested some photo retouching of his dying newborn daughter, Glynn is also not impressed with DPReview's sample images from the new Nikon D810, Cactus has a new multi-TTL trigger for just $55, Glynn reckons this video shows us how to create "HDR images even Bruce Williams wouldn’t hate" (guess we'll see about THAT!), Free Photography Classes from MIT, Canon Bullet Time with 50x 1Dx’s, it was 45 years ago today (well a week or so ago) that man walked on the moon, the Digital Playground will be back in Sydney Sept 15-17, the Educational Photo Expo will be in Brisbane (Aug 23) and Melbourne (Sept 6), and finally, Pro Counter Australia has just launched. It's a new source of info for people working in the professional photographic arena in Australia. Sign up here. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!