Podcast 320 : Dec 2011 “Organic” Assignment Winners
Today we’re going to take a look at the five winning images from the December 2011 assignment, on the theme of “Organic”. It was great to see a still more people get involved in our assignment for the January assignment that is about to close! Thanks to those of you that uploaded your resulting images, [...]
Podcast 319 : Lightroom 4 Public Beta New Feature Overview (Video)
Last week, Adobe released the Public Beta version of Lightroom 4, the lastest version of the software that many of us use and love. I’ve not gone crazy with LR4 yet, but I’ve had a bit of a play with it, so figured I’d do a video this week to show you some of the [...]
Just Released! My New C&V eBook: Making The Print!
I’m incredibly proud today to tell you that we just released my new ebook with Craft & Vision! Making the Print: Printing Techniques for the Digital Photographer The second eBook in C&V’s Masterclass series and my new book is the perfect primer regarding all things related to fine-art printing. No stone is left unturned as [...]
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 [...]
Ideal Exposure in the Winter Wonderland
Here are the two images that I talk about in Chris Marquardt’s Tips From the Top Floor Podcast this week. I talked about techniques I use and teach on my Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido Photography Tour and Workshop, to control exposure and ensure you capture beautiful whites, and blacks full of texture, regardless of the [...]
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 316 : Nov 2011 “Machinery” Assignment Winners
Today we’re going to take a look at the five winning images from the November assignment on the theme of “Machinery”. It was great to see a still more people get involved in our assignment for November! Thanks to those of you that uploaded your resulting images, and please do continue to try and get [...]
Podcast 315 : What’s in the Bag? – Nature and Wildlife
Following on from Episode 309 when we looked at what I take on a portrait shoot, today we’re going to look at what I take on a nature and wildlife shoot. I’m planning on going away for a few days this week, so I figured as I planned my shoot, I’d walk you through what [...]
Podcast 311 : Oct 2011 “Hands” MBP Assignment Winning Images
Today we’re going to take a look at the five winning images from the October assignment on the theme of “Hands”. It was great to see a better turn out for our assignment this month! Let’s continue to try and get involved if you don’t already. The more people actually get involved, the better our [...]
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 [...]
Podcast 309 : What’s in the (ThinkTank Airport Security V2 Rolling Camera) Bag?
I’ve just started to use an Airport Security™ V 2.0 Rolling Camera Bag from ThinkTank Photo, and decided to do a “What’s in my Camera Bag?” style review, at the same time as talking about the bag itself. This will be a “What’s in the Bag?” for Martin Bailey the portrait photographer, not the Nature [...]
Podcast 308 : Nik Software’s Color Efex Pro 4 Walkthrough
Today I walk you through the updated Color Efex Pro 4 from Nik Software. As you’ll see, this gives you amazing control over the look of your images, and I only touch the surface with regards to the available filters. I owned Color Efex Pro 3, as part of the Complete Collection that I bought [...]
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 303 : Making a Gallery Wrap (Time Lapse Video)
Here’s a time lapse video made with frames shot every three seconds, as I put together a 13×26″ Gallery Wrap using Breathing Color’s Easy Wrappe Pro 1.75 system. I also spent the time this week to learn how to make a Motion Graphics intro with Adobe After Effects. Including the time looking at Lynda.com training material, [...]
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 300 : Aug 2011 MBP Assignment Winners
It’s kind of hard to believe that this is our 300th episode! It’s been one hell of a journey this last six years though, and I wanted to thank each and every one of you for listening, and continuing to stay engaged with the community. You all help to make this what it is, and [...]
Podcast 298 : Recording a Google Hangout with Camtasia (video)
I spent today trying to figure out how to record a Google+ Hangout. The biggest problem was recording both my audio from my mic, and the audio coming in through my system from the Hangout. I thought I’d cracked it early on, but the key turned out to be in the audio settings for the [...]
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 [...]
Podcast 294 : Registering Copyright of your Photographs
It’s pretty much common knowledge that the copyright of a photograph comes into being the moment you release the shutter and the image is saved to your memory card. It’s fine to put a copyright notice on your images when you post them to the Web, and you have the right to try to litigate [...]
Podcast 293 : Backing Up and Accessing Photos From Laptops
I’ve briefly touched on backing up in various episodes over the last six years, but following a conversation this week with Matt Marshall, a great photographer from the UK, I decided to wrap a few ideas, including Matt’s, into this week’s episode. Thanks for all the thought provoking conversation this week Matt, and good luck [...]
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 [...]
