Podcast 255 : July 2010 – Symmetry – Assignment Winners
Today we’re going to take a look at the five winning images from the July 2010 MBP and WebSpy Photography Assignment. We also have a back-story from each winning photographer, and a surprise placing for my entry, which was kind of cool. It was a great assignment again last month, and the album looks pretty [...]
WebSpy and MBP Photography Assignment Prizes!
WebSpy, sponsors of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast, have for a third time kindly set aside funds for us to offer some amazing prizes for the participant with the most accumulated votes after the next six month’s worth of monthly assignments, from June to November 2010. I am also going to throw in a fourth [...]
Martin Joined the X-Rite Coloratti!
I’m proud to announce that I recently joined the Coloratti, who, in X-Rite’s words… Include the world’s top professional photographers, a group whose vision, passion, leadership, and partnership are recognized and valued by X-Rite. Coloratti photographers are highly respected by their peers and are admired by up-and-coming professionals, enthusiasts, and students alike. The Coloratti understand [...]
Podcast 243: April 2010 MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment Winners
Today we’re going to take a look at the winning images from the April MBP and WebSpy Photography Assignment, with members’ back-stories and I’ll be adding my own comments and thoughts on the images as usual. The April Photography assignment is the penultimate assignment of this current six month batch of assignments that we are [...]
Win a 70-200mm Canon Lens Thermos Travel Mug!
I recently bought a 70-200mm Canon Lens Thermos Travel Mug from Canonmugs.com, and was very happy with it. Thanks to the number of you that they saw heading over to their store from this blog, they offered us a free mug, which I’m going to pass on to a lucky winner, selected randomly on May [...]
Podcast 242: MBP Podcast Companion Now in iTunes App Store!
Last week we launched the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast Companion App, and it’s now available to buy in the iTunes App Store, and today I’m going to explain a little about what you will find in the app and how we intend to develop it depending on initial sales. I would like to say a [...]
How To Article in Popular Photography Magazine
A few months ago I was interviewed by Laurence Chen, a column writer for Popular Photography Magazine, and this week, the June edition was released, including one of my favorite images of a White Eye bird in Blossom, and text from the interview. This is my tear sheet. You can buy Popular Photography at US [...]
Podcast 241: Hokkaido Photography Tour and Workshop 2010 #2
Following on from Episode 237, this week we look at some images from the Landscape leg of the 2010 Hokkaido Workshop. We also hear participants comments from the entire Hokkaido Tour (only in the audio available in iTunes or at the bottom of this post). Before we look at these images, do note that we [...]
Podcast 240 : February and March MBP/WebSpy Assignment Winners
As I didn’t talk about the February Assignment winners last month, here goes with a two month installment, including some of the winners’ back-stories and my own brief comments about the winning images. (Note that if you would prefer to listen, there’s an audio player at the bottom of this post.) Let’s start with the [...]
Podcast 237 : Hokkaido Photography Tour and Workshop 2010 #1
This week I take you on a brief tour the first half of our Hokkaido Photography Tour and Workshop from 2010. I’m also very happy to announce that I just posted full details of the 2011 Workshops at www.mbpworkshops.com. And yes, that’s workshops, in the plural, because next year I’m offering two Hokkaido workshops, one [...]
Canon EOS 5D Mark II Firmware Update 2.0.4
After a false start with problems in firmware 2.0.3 that caused the camera to fail to record any audio at all, today, Canon followed up with firmware 2.0.4 that adds manual audio controls to the 5D Mark II. Here’s my 5D2 with the controls displayed. I still don’t see a link to this firmware on [...]
Podcast 232 : Antarctica 2010 : A Photo Odyssey – Q&A
I’ve teamed up with professional Australian nature photographer David Burren to host a photography expedition to South Georgia and Antarctica from November 8th to 26th this year. Today it gives me great pleasure to welcome David to the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast to answer questions on the expedition. Note that David and I aiming to [...]
Podcast 231 : Jan 2010 Assignment – Square Crop – Results
Today we take a look at the results of the January MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment, on the theme of Square Crop. Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. The Square Crop assignment was much more difficult than I had imagined it would be to come up with something compelling, but [...]
Podcast 226 : Dec 2009 Assignment – Quiet Light – Results
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. This week we’re going to look at the three winning images from the December 2009 MBP and WebSpy Photography Assignment which was on the theme “Quiet Light”. As usual the standards were very high and the three winning images simply amazing. We’re [...]
Podcast 221 : Assignment Winners and Next Assignment Prizes!
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. Today it gives me great pleasure to announce the winners of the first MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment accumulated vote winners for the last six month’s assignments. As you know, when our sponsors WebSpy came on board in July 2009, they kindly set by [...]
2nd MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment Prizes!
WebSpy, sponsors of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast, have once again kindly set aside funds for us to offer prizes for the next six month’s accumulated votes from each of our monthly assignments. The first assignment, for December 2009 is already in progress, so if you haven’t already started shooting for this, the theme is [...]
Podcast 220 : Martin Bailey Photography Fine Art Folios
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. Some time ago I saw a Luminous Landscape Video Journal interview with Lenswork’s Brooks Jensen, in which he showed some work in a card folio, and I immediately fell in love with the look of these folios. I thought it was such [...]
Podcast 214 : Sept ’09 Assignment – Mirror Image – Results
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. Before we take a look at the winning images, I wanted to note that since we upped the pace when we shifted to a monthly assignment, more and more I’m announcing the theme of the new assignments in the forum, and once [...]
Podcast 209 : Aug ’09 Assignment – Juxtaposition Results
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. Because I announced the winners via the Photography Forum last week, we actually are able to include a little behind the scenes type information on the images, as Landon and Marcus, two of the winners, shared their back-stories in the follow up [...]
Podcast #200: Oirase Mountain Stream (200th Episode!!)
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. This is Episode 200!! Yeeeey, wooh! It’s been almost 4 years now since I started the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast and today marks the 200th episode. I almost can’t believe it. Bear with me as I revel in this for a few [...]
Podcast #199: June ’09 Assignment – Everything in Focus – Results
Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. Just a quick post to accompany the 199th Podcast in which we take a look at the three images that received the most votes from their peers in the June 2009 photography assignment, on the theme of Everything in Focus. This was [...]
Changes to the MBP Podcast Feed
The file that iTunes or other RSS feeds reads to see if there are new podcasts out got a little bit bloated with all the information for the 200 episode archive. Because of this, I decided to put it on a diet, and made a few major changes.
