Episode 211 »» HDR Photography and Trey Ratcliff

Episode 211 »» HDR Photography and Trey Ratcliff

by | Sep 10, 2018 | Podcast

It seems that neither Mac nor Antonio are overly excited with the new Canon full frame mirrorless camera.  Canon R seems to be basically a smaller lighter Canon 5d series camera with out the mirror. https://fstoppers.com/originals/canon-screwed-again-new-r-camera-just-mirrorless-5d-mark-iv-285018 There are also rumours of Panasonic coming into the full frame mirrorless market.  With all these mirrorless cameras, does Fujifilm need to fill the gap in their current line up and introduce a full frame camera. https://www.cnet.com/news/rumored-panasonic-full-frame-mirrorless-reveal-on-sept-25-is-odd-but-plausible/

Featured Photographer: Trey Ratcliff

https://stuckincustoms.smugmug.com https://www.thearcanum.com Trey is a prolific photographer and educator.  One can say that he is a pioneer in HDR photography.  His early travel images, which started the HDR craze.  His latest big project is the Arcanum.  A photographic online school, with a twist.  It is setup almost like a game, where you level up in your photography, by being paired with a Master.  Completing challenges allows you to learn and level up.  This unique school launched in 2013 and it is still going strong.  

HDR or High Dynamic Range photography, has been around for a very long time.  Because of the early sensor technology did not allow for good dynamic range, this technique was widely used, especially in real estate photography.  Even with advent of new digital sensors and their increased dynamic range, and some cameras offering in camera HDR, this technique hasn’t disappeared from photography.

You can get a decent HDR image just from one RAW file, but you’ll have to use some layering and masking in Photoshop. And it will depend on the initial image and its exposure. 
HDR hides nothing. It leaves no part of the image hidden. All the mysteries are gone. If you looked at page after page of HDR images then suddenly came to a shot with lots of dark black shadows, your eyes will be so happy because now they have something to rest on: the shadows. 

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Links from the show

Canon HDR: https://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/education/infobank/digital_camera_features/in_camera_hdr.do Photomatix: https://www.hdrsoft.com/

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Episode 210 »» Documentary photography and its propaganda

Episode 210 »» Documentary photography and its propaganda

by | Sep 3, 2018 | Podcast

Apologizing to Bart for derailing his podcast plan, and staying up till wee hours of the night to get show notes ready, for his reply to Antonio’s question from ep. 209 about projects.  It’s fascinating episode of Bart’s journey through his photography projects. 

NEWS

PhaseOne 150Mpx medium format monster.  59k – pocket change!
53.4x40mm sensor size, which is almost the size of a smallest medium format film which is 60mmx45mm.

FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: Dorothea Lange

“Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange is perhaps the most famous FSA photograph, and one of the most famous photographs of all time. It portrays a mother and her two children looking exhausted and disheveled, and it encourages sympathy in the viewer (see figure 6). After taking this picture, Lange said, in an interview with Popular Photography that “[the mother] seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me.” Lange explicitly points out that the presence of the camera changed the behavior of the woman. She even admitted in an interview that her photographs incorporate her own emotions and contain bias; “[A documentary photograph] is not a factual photograph per se. [It] carries with it another thing, a quality in the subject that the artist responds to.” Photographer’s bias is unavoidable; therefore no photograph can be completely factual.

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Links from the show

Donna Ferrato – https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/collections/donna-ferrato-living-with-the-enemy
Photographer Reveals Market, Not Truth, Behind Conflict Images: http://honestreporting.com/exposed-photographer-reveals-market-not-truth-behind-conflict-images/

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Episode 209 »» Projects / series with Antonio M. Rosario

Episode 209 »» Projects / series with Antonio M. Rosario

by | Aug 26, 2018 | Podcast

Discarded Brooklyn by Antonio M. Rosario

News

New Nikon Z series, full frame mirrorless cameras are on the verge of being released to the world.  Mac and Antonio talk about this new, but very late addition to the mirrorless line up of cameras.  Over all we will not be selling our kidneys to go out and purchase these cameras.

Main Topic and Featured Photographer

In this episode our featured photographer is Duane Michals.  His work is very unique, and he works in series of images rather than one.  This has sparked the discussion on projects and series and how important are they to us as photographers.  Sometimes we find it difficult to express the whole story in one image, so creating a series of images that tell the story we want to express, can help us.

Michal’s Quote – “My pictures are more about questions, not about answers.”

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Links from the show

Nikon Z series –  https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/8/23/17768890/nikon-z7-z6-cameras-announced-pricing-features-release-date

Duane Michals – http://www.dcmooregallery.com/artists/duane-michals/series  https://www.lensculture.com/articles/duane-michals-storyteller-the-photographs-of-duane-michals-2

Ahae Through my Window series – http://ahae.com/about/

 

 

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Episode 207 »» Are We Being Wasteful With Our Photography?

Episode 207 »» Are We Being Wasteful With Our Photography?

by | Aug 13, 2018 | Podcast

Wasted. 

Being wasteful in photography – is this such a thing? Do we waste our time, our resources and our chances / opportunities? As per classic Shutter Time style, we have differing opinions on this topic. Please join us as we hit the mics to debate this and more.

Beautiful.

While we have discussed this book in the past when Mac initially picked up the book, I have finally snagged a copy myself. Of course, we are talking about wonderful and soulful fine art landscape photographer, Olivier Du Tré and his book, Seeking Stillness. If you have yet to grab a copy or have not heard about the book, you can check out the links below for more information!

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Episode 206 »» What’s more important photograph or experience

Episode 206 »» What’s more important photograph or experience

by | Aug 6, 2018 | Podcast

Missing Sid!
Sometimes we forget experience, because we focus too much on photography.  Where is the magic line that would let us experience and photograph at the same time.  Antonio M. Rosario from Street Shots, joins me today to discuss this topic, as Sid unfortunately is dealing with issues.  We missed her today.
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Episode 205 »» Finding the Meaning in Your Photography

Episode 205 »» Finding the Meaning in Your Photography

by | Jul 30, 2018 | Podcast

What Does It Mean?

Does our photography have to mean something to us when we make the click? Please join us as we discuss the meaning of our photography and more!

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