Podcast 256 : Ideas from the New Office/Studio
My new office, come modest studio, is now just about complete, so today I’m going to give you a bit of a guided tour. Of course, it’s not perfect, and if I had even more space, I’d certainly do things differently, but I’m happy with my current space. So I thought I’d share it with [...]
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 [...]
Podcast 254 : Color Managed Digital Workflow Seminar Report
Last Saturday, on August 7, 2010, I gave a full day seminar at X-Rite Japan, focusing on the Color Managed Digital Workflow. Today I’m going to run through the key areas we touched on, to hopefully spark some ideas for your own workflow.We had a great time on Saturday. My main objective was to relay [...]
Podcast 253 : Q&A #12 – What Tripod? What Walk Around Lens?
In this post/podcast episode, I’m going to answer three questions from listener Paul Posey, from Louisville, Kentucky, (which coincidentally is the home of our friends over at Outdoor Photo Gear). Thanks very much for your questions Paul, and it looks like you sent the questions via the MBP Podcast Companion iPhone app, so thanks very [...]
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 [...]
Podcast 251 : Planning the New Office/Studio
With the preparation for my move next week taking up so much of my time, I haven’t been able to get any photography in at all in the last month. I generally like to talk about things photography related that I’m involved with right now, and as I’m currently planning for my move, including creating [...]
Podcast 250 : 250th Episode! Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes…
In the past, I did anniversary episodes that looked back at the last year, and I summarized some of the highlights from that year, but the number 250 seems to warrant a different approach. I’m not sure what it is about the number 250 though. Maybe it’s because it’s a quarter of a thousand. Maybe [...]
Podcast 249 : Display and Monitor Calibration with the X-Rite ColorMunki Photo
Today I take you through a full monitor and printer calibration with the X-Rite ColorMunki Photo, and we also take a look at how to optimize a printer profile. Although it was a little late, I finally published an iPod optimized version of the video via the iTunes/RRS stream, so recheck iTunes if that’s where [...]
Podcast 248 : May 2010 MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment Winners
Before we start, note that the May assignment marked the end of the six month batch of assignments which our sponsors WebSpy kindly provided prizes for. All of the prizes are now sent out, and the new prizes for the next six months batch of assignments have been announced. Topping the list is a new [...]
Podcast 247 : The Anatomy of a Flowerscape
In Episode #244 of this Podcast, I talked about a couple of recent trips to a local park here in Tokyo, where I’d one week found myself a little bit dry on the creative front, and then the following week, forced myself to go back to face my demons and reacquaint myself with my creative [...]
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 [...]
Podcast 245: Kata Bag 3N1-33 Sling Backpack Review
Kata-Bags sent me a 3N1-33 Sling Backpack to try a few weeks ago, and after using it a number of times now, I’m very pleased with it, and have been looking forward to sharing some details with you today. (By the way, if you’d prefer to listen, there’s an audio player at the bottom of [...]
Podcast 244: Creation Breeds Creativity
As a photographer, have you ever found yourself not being able to turn on the creative juices when you need to? Do you sometimes feel stifled and not able to come up with new ideas? Call it a slump or a rut; call it creator’s block; call it the photographer’s yips even, but the fact [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 239 : Manfrotto Video Fluid Heads with Really Right Stuff Plates
I recently figured out how to mount my cameras and lenses fitted with Really Right Stuff plates, to my Manfrotto 519 Pro Video Fluid Head, and today share my secrets with you. The video below is really all you need to watch, but I also recorded an audio section for those that cannot get to [...]
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 [...]
Podcast 233 : Snow Monkey Tour and Workshop 2010
This week you’re going join me on my Snow Monkey Photography Tour and Workshop, from Jan 28th to Jan 30, 2010, as I discuss the trip along with looking at some of my images. Prefer to listen? There’s an audio player at the bottom of the post. This year was the first time I added [...]
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 227 : X-Rite ColorChecker Passport Review (Video)
Today I’m going to take you through some of the basic operations of the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport. With the preparation for my Snow Monkeys and Hokkaido Workshops, I really didn’t have time to prepare for a Podcast this week, but I had planned on talking about my new X-Rite ColorChecker Passport, which I have fallen [...]
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 225 : Roundtable #4 with Landon Michaelson and Dan Newcomb
The MBP Roundtable is back, after a two year break! Today I chat with Landon Michaelson and Dan Newcomb on some great photography related topics! Landon Michaelson is a passionate photographer who enjoys photography, in some way, every day. In Landon’s day job as Lead Designer he gets to do a lot of photo making [...]
