Podcast 318 : Martin’s Top Ten Images from 2011
Having skipped selecting my 2010 Top Ten images at the start of 2011, because I was simply too busy, I really missed going through the exercise, so this year, I was sure to make time to reflect on 2011, and select my favorite images. The act of looking through a year of photos is always [...]
Podcast 317 : An Interview with Dan & David Newcomb
Many of you let me know how much you enjoyed our Interview with MBP Community member Graham Morgan in episode 305, and some people asked me to do more, so today, I am really pleased to bring to a chat with Dan Newcomb. Dan has been an active member of the community for many years [...]
Podcast 314 : The “Artisan” Photographer
With the digital age, photography has in many ways become incredibly “easy”. I’m not just talking about the direct act of photography, although that has become so much easier, with the ability to view our images on the LCD and correct our mistakes right there in the field. Today I wanted to muse a little [...]
Podcast 310 : Location Portrait Shoot – Behind the Scenes
After a bit of a roller-coaster summer where I found that I had a brain tumor, had some pretty scary surgery and then spent the last four months or so getting my strength back, last Sunday marked my full return to being a working photographer with a location portrait shoot for a family that I [...]
Hiroshi Yokoyama – A Wonderful Photographer and Friend
When I signed up for my first winter Photography Tour with Yoshiaki Kobayashi (小林 義明) to join him in Eastern Hokkaido in February 2004, there were two things that I was not aware of. The first is that it would change my life. I instantly fell in love with Eastern Hokkaido, especially in the winter, [...]
Podcast 306 : Sept 2011 “Before/After” MBP Assignment Winners
Today we’re going to take a look at the September 2011 MBP Assignment Winners, on the theme of Before/After. There were very few entrants for this assignment, hopefully because it was so hard, but I do want to urge any of you that sit on the fence as to whether or not to get involved [...]
Podcast 305 : Interview with Graham Morgan
Today I had the pleasure of chatting to a good friend of mine, Graham Morgan, an amazing photographer from Sussex Inlet, Australia, and we recorded the chat to share with you. I kind of take being able to communicate with Graham for granted, because we’ve been friends for a number of years, and Graham has [...]
Podcast 301 : How to Create Really Punchy Images!
In September, I had a conversation by mail with a friend that some of you may know from the MBP Community, Jared Fein. Jared had taken a look at the images on 500px following Episode 295 : An Introduction to 500px, and asked how people achieve the punchy look that you often see there. I [...]
Podcast 299 : Alternatives to DSLR Cameras (Google+ Hangout)
Having figured out how to record a Google+ Hangout last week, today I held another Hangout, which I was able to successfully record, and although we took a while to really get started, I figured we discussed enough relatively interesting stuff to put this out there. Thanks to those who joined and made it work! [...]
Podcast 297 : Silver Efex Pro 2 Walkthrough & New Features
Nik Software improved on perfection when they updated Silver Efex Pro to Silver Efex Pro 2, and today here’s a video Podcast to take a look at how to use this amazing black and white conversion plugin and touch on some of the new features. You can also view the embedded video right here on [...]
Podcast 296 : Aug 2011 “Alive!!” Assignment Winners
After a bit of a false start with episode 89 when I covered the winners of the two month assignment that we ran for Mach and April 2011, I’ve been in remiss again for a while, and haven’t really covered the winning images for our Photography Assignment for some time now. Over the months, a [...]
Podcast 295 : An Introduction to 500px
Last week, I started to use the photo sharing web site that everyone’s talking about, 500px. Initially it was the incredible quality of work that drew me to the site, but I was unsure as to whether or not to get involved, because I don’t make enough time for social sharing of images already, and [...]
Episode 290 : The Poorly Photographers Society, with David duChemin
David duChemin is a world & humanitarian photographer, best-selling author. David recently took a fall during one of his workshops in Italy, and is still recovering from his ordeal. With me finding out last week that I have a brain tumour we find ourselves with a heightened appreciation for life itself, and the beauty [...]
Episode 289 : A Chat with Ibarionex Perello
Today, I’m proud and honored to be joined by fellow Podcaster and friend, not to mention just amazing photographer, Ibarionex Perello. Ibarionex is a photographer, writer, educator and filmmaker with over 20 years of experience in the photographic industry. He’s been published in magazines such as Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo Pro, Shutterbug, Popular Photography and [...]
Podcast 276 : A Chat with Syl Arena
I’m really pleased today to be able to bring you a recording of a chat that I had with photographer Syl Arena this afternoon. Syl is like the Canon version of Joe McNally, and like Joe, his teachings aren’t specific to any one system, so not only will any photographer benefit from reading his new [...]
Podcast 273 : The Nature of Japan Exhibition in Retrospect
As you’ve heard in recent months, as I kept you up to date on my preparation, I had my first solo exhibition called “The Nature of Japan” at the H.A.C. Gallery in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo, from December 23rd to the 30th. The show went incredibly well in many respects, and not so well in others. To [...]
Podcast 271 : Printing and Framing for an Exhibition (Video)
Now that my ten gallery wraps for my December show “The Nature of Japan” are finished, I have started to work on the 28 standard fine art prints that make up the total of 38 pieces. Over the last few days though, I realized that I’ve figured out a number of ways to make printing [...]
Podcast 270 : The Therapeutic Power of the Creative Process
In July of 2009, I wrote a blog post called “Being in the Zone“, in which I relayed my thoughts in relation to something that Richard Annable, an amazing wedding photographer from Australia had said in an episode of the Shutters Inc. podcast. In the podcast the question was posed “Why do you photograph things? [...]
Podcast 269 : More on Planning a Photography Exhibition
As you probably will have already heard, I’m holding an Exhibition of 38 of my Nature of Japan images from December the 23rd to the 30th this year. With it being exactly a month from today, and bearing in mind that I just completed ten 20×30″ gallery wraps that I’ll be displaying, I thought I’d [...]
Podcast 266 : Signing Fine Art Prints and Canvases
Many times I’ve been asked how I sign my fine art prints, and having received an email recently from listener Tanya Mattson from Pennsylvania, USA, I decided to go into a little bit of detail on this in today’s episode. Apparently Tanya and her husband had watched the video I released recently showing the lamination [...]
Podcast 265 : Sept 2010 – Changes – Assignment Winners
Today we’re going to take a look at the winning images from the September 2010 MBP and WebSpy Photography Assignment, which was on the theme of Change. We had some interesting voting results for the September Assignment on the theme of Change. Although I didn’t notice until it was pointed out to me, there was [...]
Podcast 262 : Preparing for a Gallery Exhibition
In working on preparation for my first solo exhibition in December, I found myself doing a few things that I thought you might find useful, so I’m going to share these ideas today, and I’ll tell you a little more about the exhibition venue etc. at the end of this episode, in case you are [...]
Podcast 261 : Going Pro Update #1 and Misc Updates
Just to recap if you are just joining us, or are catching up for the first time in a few weeks, at the end of August I tendered my resignation for the day-job that I’ve been working in for the last ten years, and I will be dedicating all of my time to photography related [...]
Podcast 252 : June 2010 MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment Winners
Well, due to my moving apartment, that I mentioned last week, I wasn’t able to get an episode out. Although I had my new office/studio almost set up, and was ready to record last Thursday, I found that the mic stand that I’ve been using for year’s would not attach to my new desk, so [...]
