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 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 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 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 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 304 : Seven Must Have Photography Related iPad Apps
At the start of June 2010, about 10 days after I got my iPad, I released Episode 246 about the iPad for the Photographer. At the time, I spoke about a bunch of apps that I had sought out and started to use, from a photographer’s perspective. Last week I got an email from Julian [...]
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 302 : Drobo Review, and Giveaway!
This week I’ve had the absolute pleasure of being able to test and review a Drobo, which as most of you already know is an external storage device that takes multiple hard drives, even of different size and creates one or more large volumes or drives with redundancy so even if one of the drives [...]
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 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 [...]
Podcast 292 : Canon PIXMA MG6120 All-in-One Wireless Printer Review
Today we’re going to take a look at the Canon PIXMA MG6120 Wireless Photo All-in-One Printer. This is basically an A4 or Letter paper size printer, with a scanner built into the top, but despite that, it’s a sleek looking machine, with various feature that make it well worth the price tag of under $100 [...]
Podcast 288 : Camera Straps and Safety Measures
For a while now, I’ve been using the Black Rapid R-Strap and Double Strap when using two cameras, but during my recent Antarctica expedition, the camera body dropped off the lens a few times. Had this happened while I was walking down the gangplank to the Zodiac, it would have cast rather a gloom over [...]
Podcast 282 : Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Tour 2011 # 3
From February 13 to 24, 2011, I held my fourth Winter Wonderland Workshop, and after shooting the Snow Monkeys in Nagano for three days, which we looked at in Episode 279, we jumped onto a plane and made our way up to Hokkaido for a further nine days. Last week in Episode 281 we looked [...]
Podcast 281 : Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Tour 2011 # 2
From February 13 to 24, 2011, I held my fourth Winter Wonderland Workshop, and after shooting the Snow Monkeys in Nagano for three days, which we looked at in Episode 279, we jumped onto a plane and made our way up to the northern island of Japan, Hokkaido. We were joined by our fourteenth participant [...]
Podcast 279 : Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Tour 2011 # 1
From February 13 to 24, 2011, I held my fourth Winter Wonderland Workshop, and took thirteen avid photographers to shoot the Snow Monkeys in Nagano for three days, then joined by one more participant in Hokkaido, we had fourteen participants with us for a further nine days, photographing the amazing wildlife around Eastern Hokkaido. As [...]
Podcast 278 : “In the Big Forest” – a Chat with Brad Striebig
Today I chat with Dr. Brad Striebig, Associate Professor of Engineering at James Madison University, Virginia and co-author of the book “In the Big Forest”, about the role of photography in such a project. Because this was a recorded chat, there is no transcript for this Podcast. Below though are the links that we mention, [...]
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 275 : Xmas Party Portrait Shoot – Part 2
On December 17th 2010, I did a portrait shoot at a Xmas party, where I set up my studio in a large room in a restaurant here in Tokyo, and ended up shooting nine groups of people. Last week we looked at the Studio setup and I talked about some of the other considerations and [...]
