Shutters Inc

This week, Glynn has been acting all manly again, the dating agency-Facebook-image debacle, Harry Mellos impressed us with an HDR image, National Geographic's "Proof" blog, Adobe developing amongst other things, a sense of humour, the Nikon 1 AW1, Australian mother sues over "horrible" family portrait and wins, Samsung's ISOCELL sensor, the iPhone 5S and it's "panorama dynamic auto-exposure system", some not-so-great advice from the CEO of Choice magazine, how technology has changed the way we shoot, the training camp in the Mojave Desert built to prepare U.S. soldiers for deployment, and 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!

This week, Glynn's recap of last week's Digital Show in Melbourne, including his entirely predictable case of foot-in-mouth disease!, products including the Boom Bandit, Camranger, DxO software, Lowepro Flipside Sport, Cokin Harmony filters, and Velbon tripods. Our challenge for the week (no shooting required), Canon's low noise video chip, HDR again, Facebook's newly revised and even more outrageous image rules, and Glynn's new mantra. 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 plan to shoot more, the Olympus OMD-EM1 with a useful intervalometer!, Sony's QX10/QX100 lenses again, Yoko Ono's Smilesfilm project, that infamous Tennis Australia job, Erin Manning's Telly awards, the Mygola app, the Red bull photo contest, dpreview's 10 one-of-a-kind cameras of the 21st Century, and we chat with Eric Curry from American Pride and Passion. 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 severe case of G.A.S., an interesting series of images from the New York Daily News, the guy with the largest collection of camera bodies in the world, if you really need to waste some time, try out Camera Space Invaders, Adobe's newly announced photographer-centric Creative Cloud bundle, the amateur photo comp winner who impressed everyone by using a camera built in the 70's and a lens from the 60's, the Brenizer method of shooting panoramas, we chat with Nathan Oxley, CEO of LED light Cube, and a reminder about the Digital Show in Melbourne next/this week. 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 workshop that almost wasn't, weird areoplanes, Do you have "Photography compulsion syndrome" like Bruce and Glynn?, Richard Clark wanted to know what areas of photography have suffered from technology?, Richard Annable experienced some "retailer epic fail", EISA gives the gong to Sony, Tin type photos from Ed Drew, Glynn thought I might like "HDR hater", plus he shares a couple of street photography mantras, and a great list of things to consider when composing, courtesy of David Duchemin. 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 having bandwidth issues (due to a certain son's Xbox addiction), the 'Thirty seconds to infinity' facebook page is getting more likes than the Shutters Inc facebook page (we need to correct THAT!), the wedding driver who wouldn't drive, Nikon and Canon are rethinking the mirrorless market, the Canon Powershot N, with a dedicated facebook button, but only available direct from Canon USA, Sony's soon-to-be-released QX100, a lens-and-sensor-in-one for attaching to a smartphone (and it seems that the manual for it has now leaked as well), Also, it appears that Sony is exploring the rotating-sensor idea we discussed last week, I received another hdr tip from Adam Davidson, although Glynn was not impressed by it, Adam also alerted us to the LED light cube which looks VERY interesting, David Duchemin is giving away free copies of his e-book, "Ten" (subtitled "Ten Ways To Improve Your Craft. None of Them Involves Buying Gear.") Grab it while you can! Samsung slightly red-faced after giving the winning prize in their photo comp to a stolen image, and the less-than-stellar first pics of Prince George. 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, in my never-ending quest to discover how to do HDR PROPERLY, I've been watching this video training tutorial on lynda.com, Of course, if you want to use HDR-Efex Pro rather than Photoshop for your HDR work, then you could also check out Getting Started, or Up and Running, Glynn likes Sturgeon's Law and believes it could also be applied to HDR, we're wondering... Where are the self portraits? which led to a discussion of 52 week self portrait assignments, Glynn's U.S. workshops are back on (check CPW for more details), Carl Hemmings wrote about L brackets for shooting panoramas, which led to a discussion of shooting panos in portrait vs landscape orientation, Glynn has an idea for DSLR bodies with rotating sensors, Glynn has started a new Facebook page called 30 seconds to infinity, David Jones talked about sd-to-cf adaptors, and how that would enable me (and Glynn) to shoot with our CF-native cameras, but still get the benefits of the Eye-Fi cards, after last week's effort of trolling the film vs digital debate, this week Glynn got into the brand wars, I decided that a good way to get over gear lust would be to spend a week with the DSLR body you were using BEFORE your current one, Glynn liked this blog post on lensrentals.com regarding which lenses fail the most, through the week, I saw this post on Chase Jarvis' blog regarding the Red Bull athletes, I also stumbled across this personal project/series of Fallen Princesses, Glynn discussed models and their attitudes, as well as opening fire on the author of this book, and finally, I've been getting my geek on watching this video on youtube which describes the math behind f-stop numbers. 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 first attempt at light painting (not entirely successful), prompted Glynn to remind us of the work of Eric Curry, Glynn has been prolific and blogged twice this week! Bruce was impressed by the setting of Sean Parker's Tolkien-inspired wedding, (link #1, link #2), Greg Anderson wrote to us to discuss HDR and a clever way to slowly build up keywords for all your old images in Lightroom, Glynn has been trolling on the interwebz, starting a flame war with long time listener Dean Jones over film vs digital, Bruce found this story about another photographer who decided to travel with a Nexus tablet/dongle combination rather than a laptop, Glynn and Mike Hollman WERE going to run some workshops together in the U.S. later this year, but that's had to be put on hold, and while we're speaking of Mike "Smaug" Hollman, congratulations on all those awards at the NZIPP Awards, After much planning, Glynn is finally heading off to India in November, where he will get to witness the Diwali Festival, we discuss L brackets, commonly used in panoramic photography, including Really Right Stuff, Glynn will be speaking at PMA in Melbourne on the 14th and 15th of September, and after a suggestion on the Facebook page, we're having our first listener photography project. By Tuesday (if possible), we'd like to see your best self portrait posted on the Shutters Inc facebook page! 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, Carl Hemmings was impressed with this hybrid Black Rapid/Arca-Swiss safety solution for your gear, Glynn liked a new meaning for HDR, plus the dedicated HDR software called Float, from Unified Color, In Australia this week, we saw Pixie Photo go belly-up, we discuss Adam Davidson's boat pics, Never Wet, an amazing spray-on product that repels water, Luxi, (youtube video here) a Kickstarter project currently seeking funding for a light meter attachment for your iPhone (they've obviously not heard of Android), Glynn got a firmware upgrade to his Fuji XPro1 and found that the focus (discussed last week) is now much-improved, the Ballarat Courier Newspaper is actually hiring MORE journalists and photographers, we discuss shooting funerals and the recently deceased, should you even take a camera with you on holidays?, and Bruce's new business idea.   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 had a very sick wife, but also "became a man" (his words, not mine!), including buying himself a set of adjustable spanners, he's also excited by the possibility of removing motion blur after the event, Harry Mellos asked about the Fuji XPro 1 pros and cons, Glynn is trying out new camera straps from Joby, We talk about teaching photography to kids, including littlesideclick, RawVision, a new version of the Petzval lens is coming soon, the first Elinchrom studio light weighed a staggering 300kg, and we talk about Glynn's silhouette shot of the basketballer and his ball. 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, what else. .. but Borneo? I had a great time, took a bunch of pics (well, duh!) and learned a few things along the way. Topics include: If you're going to travel, get amongst it! Shooting at higher iso settings, Dodgy batteries, Orang utans, and street portraiture with strangers For those who are interested, I'm writing a day-by-day blog and posting the pics at brucewilliamsphotography.com 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 will be the last episode of Shutters Inc for 3 weeks, as Bruce is off to Borneo. In preparation for the trip, I contacted Julie at Materialised, in relation to buying some waterproof fabric to use as a DIY-rain-jacket for my camera. She was absolutely fantastic, and sent me a free sample! Onya, Julie! :) We got some questions through the facebook page, including one from Belinda Coulson regarding how would we set up a Lightroom workflow if we were starting from scratch, There's David Clark's latest poster/masterpiece, plus an explanation for the international members of our audience, those Elinchrom lighting masterclasses in Melbourne and Sydney filled up in no time flat, Glynn found photocircle and is quite impressed/inspired by the idea, Erin King gave us an update on her sister's wedding photo dramas (good to hear that there is light at the end of THAT tunnel!), She also asked about photobook recommendations. I am really happy with the product I have received from Photobookshop, while Glynn is a big fan of Nulab. Glynn was also amused by the Bonzart Ampel, a unique (as far as we know!) twin lens camera, where one lens is 'normal' while the other does tilt-shift. Richard Annable has some thoughts on David Clark's Lightroom import query from a couple of episodes ago, Carl Hemmings gave us some thoughts on the Sigma 120-300mm f2.8 lens, plus I found a couple of things through the week that tickled my fancy: One was the Konstructor, a camera you build yourself!, and the other was a series of portraits of people with rubber bands around their heads, severely distorting their features... weird, whacky, but strangely compelling! Talk to you in 3 weeks, when we will return to "love you long time"! 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 loving his Tamron 18-270mm zoom, Michael Morley asked about Canon DSLR's performing better at 160iso than at 100iso, free Elinchrom lighting masterclasses coming up soon in Sydney and Melbourne, Stephen Frost asked if we had any first impressions about Lightroom 5, Bruce would like an option to upgrade ALL catalogues in one go, Glynn is blissfully unaware of the new Mac Pro, James McArdle's "Retake Melbourne" project, this week marks the 100th anniversary of Robert Capa's birth, and here's the link to the collection of old photos of New York Bruce mentioned toward the end of the podcast. 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, we discuss Vivid Sydney and Glynn's ideas on how it could be improved, David Clark's latest poster - the Shutters Inc Movie, After Harry Mellos expressed an interest in the subject, Bruce discusses his approach to shooting and editing panoramas, Glynn is intrigued by the Wise memory cards with their dual partition, RAID-like architecture, we discuss censorship in relation to photographic exhibitions, in light of this story, the Chicago Sun Times lays off its full compliment of 28 staff photographers, scanning negatives using a standard flatbed scanner, if you head all the buzz about the Magic Lantern firmware hack for your Canon DSLR but aren't sure how to implement it, here's a video to help out, Bruce explains just one reason for why you'd root your Android phone, Glynn is getting the Fuji X-Pro 1 to play with for a while, and why being creative-on-demand doesn't always work. 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 computer woes, Flickr is now offering one terabyte of data storage per account! But with ads. Marissa Meyer's comment re: professional photographers, Jim Colton had some things to say about it, too, on his blog, What is your back...