Lighting in Photography — Interview with Laszlo of Montreal — photography podcast #19

May 16, 2007 By 5 Comments

This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast fea­tures an inter­view with well known pho­tog­ra­pher Las­zlo of Montreal.

Portrait of Paul Anka
Paul Anka by Las­zlo of Mon­treal — Click to enlarge the image

In this Inter­view we talk about light­ing in pho­tog­ra­phy and we dis­sect the light­ing that Las­zlo used for a por­trait of well known enter­tainer Paul Anka.

Links referred to in this pod­cast:
+ Por­traits by Las­zlo on Photography.ca
+ Per­sonal images (nudes in motion) by Las­zlo on Photography.ca

You can down­load this pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast directly by click­ing the link or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the embed­ded player.

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Photography filters — Photography Podcast #18

May 8, 2007 By 1 Comment

The color wheel in photography

3 fil­ters — UV (clear), Polar­izer (grey­ish) and Flu­o­res­cent (magenta)
Image cour­tesy of Rich Niewiroski

This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast fea­tures a quick primer on using fil­ters in pho­tog­ra­phy. We dis­cuss fil­ters in tra­di­tional black and white pho­tog­ra­phy, colour pho­tog­ra­phy and fil­ters in dig­i­tal photography.

For more in depth infor­ma­tion on fil­ters in pho­tog­ra­phy Wikipedia has some good information.

You can download‚this pho­tog­ra­phy podcast‚directly‚by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link‚or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the embed­ded player.

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Underwater Photography — Photography Podcast #17

April 24, 2007 By 3 Comments

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This Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast fea­tures an inter­view with pho­tog­ra­pher Jolene Mon­heim‚that I dis­cov­ered on Flickr. Jolene and I dis­cuss her under­wa­ter pho­tog­ra­phy and how she cre­ates her stun­ning images. Dur­ing the inter­view we talk about using fil­tra­tion in Pho­to­shop. If you’d like infor­ma­tion on using con­ven­tional fil­ters on cam­era, wetpixel.com has some detailed information.

Links that we dis­cussed include;
+ Jolene’s fea­ture on Photography.ca
+ Ikelite’s‚under­wa­ter hous­ing for cam­eras
+ John Arnold’s‚Photoshop tuto­ri­als
+ The art­work of Max­field Parrish

You can download‚this pho­tog­ra­phy podcast‚directly‚by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link‚or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the embed­ded player.

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Intentional blur — Photography Podcast #16

April 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Click the images to enlarge them

This Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast talks about inten­tion­ally blur­ring your pho­tographs to achieve a moody por­trait. It’s an extremely easy tech­nique that can be very effec­tive. Thanks to Dominic Fuiz­zotto (3rd thumb­nail) and Arkady Renko (1st thunbnail) for the use of their images. You can download‚this pho­tog­ra­phy podcast‚directly‚by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link‚or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the embed­ded player.

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Lensbaby 3G review — Photography Podcast #15

March 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment

This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast‚features‚a review of the Lens­baby 3G which is a tool (a lens actually)for the traditional‚and dig­i­tal SLR‚that allows you to add unusu­ally artis­tic depth and blur effects to your pho­tographs. You can download‚this pho­tog­ra­phy podcast‚directly‚by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link‚or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the embed­ded player.

Here are some Lens­baby 3G exam­ple images (click to enlarge)
Note the blur­ring effects in each photograph

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Stock photography — Interview with Andre Nantel — photography podcast # 14

March 20, 2007 By 2 Comments

This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast‚fea­tures an inter­view with Mon­treal pho­tog­ra­pher Andre Nan­tel. In this inter­view we talk about macro pho­tog­ra­phy and we also talk about Andre’s per­sonal expe­ri­ences with the tra­di­tional (Alamy‚& Acclaim Images)and micro (Shut­ter­stock & Istock­photo) stock photography‚houses. Other links in the show include Lise Gagne’s work at Istock­photo. You can download‚this pho­tog­ra­phy podcast‚directly‚by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link‚or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the player below.

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Handcoloring photographs — Photography podcast #13

March 8, 2007 By Leave a Comment

This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast dis­cusses hand­col­or­ing or hand­paint­ing your pho­tographs. This tech­nique involves actu­ally paint­ing a pho­to­graph. We talk about hand­paint­ing both tra­di­tional and dig­i­tal pho­tos. You can download‚this pho­tog­ra­phy podcast‚directly‚by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link‚or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the player below.


In the first image I hand­painted the major­ity of the image using Mar­shall oils. It took a good 5 hours to paint. In the sec­ond image, which was toned before handpainting,‚mostly the back­ground is hand­painted.
Extra‚hand­col­or­ing pho­tos tip links

2 of the books I rec­om­mend on the topic are:
Cre­ative Photo Print­mak­ing
Hand­col­or­ing Pho­tographs: How to Cre­ate Color Images from Black and White Photographs

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Photography Podcast #12 — Snow photography

February 20, 2007 By Leave a Comment

This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast dis­cusses snow pho­tog­ra­phy and the plea­sures of shoot­ing in the snow. We talk about expo­sure, pan­ning, shut­ter speed, snow por­traits and cam­era pro­tec­tion. You can download‚this pho­tog­ra­phy podcast‚directly‚by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link‚or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the player below.

snow photography with fast shutter speed
Shot at 1/200 and I could have gone faster. Snow is almost ‘frozen’

snow photography - slow shutter speed
Shot at 1/25 — Snow appears blurred due to its movement

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Interview with Dominic Fuizzotto — Photography podcast #11

February 5, 2007 By 3 Comments

This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast fea­tures an inter­view with Mon­treal wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Dominic Fuiz­zotto. Dominic has a very art­ful style and talks can­didly about his train­ing, his style and his gear. In this pod­cast I also thank peo­ple for their past com­ments, and invite you to leave com­ments at any­time. You can down­load this pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast directly by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the player below.

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Framing in photography — photography podcast #10

January 29, 2007 By 3 Comments

By using objects like win­dows, branches, and arch­ways we can frame our sub­jects in inter­est­ing ways that add unique­ness to our pho­tographs. In this pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast we talk about this tech­nique called framing.

framing in photography
Using Purse han­dles as a frame

framing in photography
Using a bag as a frame

Pho­tog­ra­phy Pod­cast tran­script 10

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Interview with Ann Dahlgren — A Fairy’s Child — photography podcast # 9

January 22, 2007 By 4 Comments


Pho­to­graph by Ann Dahlgren and Dou­glas Foulke

This show fea­tures an inter­view with fine art pho­tog­ra­pher Ann Dahlgren. Together with her hus­band Dou­glas Foulke, they cre­ated an amaz­ing book of fine art pho­tog­ra­phy called A Fairy’s Child which is the focus of this interview.

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast tran­script #9

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Interview with Ann Dahlgren — A Fairy’s Child — photography podcast # 9

January 22, 2007 By 4 Comments


Pho­to­graph by Ann Dahlgren and Dou­glas Foulke

This show fea­tures an inter­view with fine art pho­tog­ra­pher Ann Dahlgren. Together with her hus­band Dou­glas Foulke, they cre­ated an amaz­ing book of fine art pho­tog­ra­phy called  A Fairy’s Child which is the focus of this interview.

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast tran­script #9

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