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December 2018

Happy New Year

Above: Image by Gina Milicia You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. —C.S. Lewis

Ep 228: Best photography lessons from 2018

We close out the year with the best photography lessons from 2018. Happy holidays to all our listeners and have a brilliant start to 2019! Gina and Valerie love bringing this podcast to you. Hope you enjoy the podcast. Sign up to the newsletter for great tips and free Lightroom presets. Join the dynamic Gold Membership in our Community which delivers monthly tutorials, live mastermind and lots of behind the scenes videos into the creative process. Click play to listen to the podcast or find it on iTunes here. If you don’t use iTunes you can get the feed here, or listen to us on Stitcher radio. Show Notes Cat furniture that looks like human furniture MagMod’s MagBox is a radically awesome softbox system for speedlights or strobes. It’s the easiest softbox to set up, mount, modify, and gel. Period. Best lessons from 2018 Delayed gratification Bamboo story Done is better...

Get Inspired! Portraits of a landscape by photographer Christian Chaize

Above: Images by Christian Chaize via https://www.jacksonfineart.com Christian Chaize is a French artist born in 1960. Chaize has enjoyed a successful career as a commercial photographer for three decades. In 2004, Christian Chaize began focusing his artistic attention on a small stretch of coastline in Portugal. Since then, using medium and large format film cameras, his commitment to documenting one specific beach from a consistent vantage point – that is, taking its ‘portrait’ at various times of the day over a variety of seasons over several years – has culminated in his most renowned series, Praia Piquinia.

Ep 227: How to photograph small, medium and large events for beginners and pros

Photographing an event can be something small and informal like a child’s birthday or family gathering to more formal like an engagement wedding, charity fundraiser, PR product launch or corporate event. Photographing events looks and sound easy but this is probably one of the most challenging niches for a photographer. It’s often the first professional shoot a photographer will be asked to do. In this episode, Gina and Valerie will give you an event photography survival guide with all the information you need to nail your next event shoot. Gina and Valerie love bringing this podcast to you. Hope you enjoy the podcast. Sign up to the newsletter for great tips and free Lightroom presets. Join the dynamic Gold Membership in our Community which delivers monthly tutorials, live mastermind and lots of behind the scenes videos into the creative process. Click play to listen to the podcast or find it...

Valuable photography lessons from a basic point-and-shoot camera and Leonardo da Vinci

Above: Bali fisherman Fuji x100f image by Gina Milicia I can’t believe 2018 is almost over! It’s been a huge year, and I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the two most valuable lessons I have learned. Those of you who regularly read my newsletter, follow me on Instagram or listen to my podcast will be aware of the frustration, dummy spits and challenges I have encountered making the switch from DSLR to mirrorless. To be clear, I still shoot with DSLR for my commercial shoots because I believe mirrorless isn’t quite there yet as a pro commercial camera. It’s close, but I’m not ready to make the switch – yet. I did, however, make the switch to mirrorless for all my personal projects and after a few frustrating months, I’m over the moon with the results. I love my Fujix100F more than Nutella! There I said it....

Ep 226: 100 strangers project with guest Vijay Britto

  Gina and Valerie love bringing this podcast to you. Hope you enjoy the podcast. Sign up to the newsletter for great tips and free Lightroom presets. Join the dynamic Gold Membership in our Community which delivers monthly tutorials, live mastermind and lots of behind the scenes videos into the creative process. Click play to listen to the podcast or find it on iTunes here. If you don’t use iTunes you can get the feed here, or listen to us on Stitcher radio. Show Notes My name is Vijay Britto and I live in Clarksburg, Maryland with my wife and 11-year-old son. Besides being a photographer, I also work as an IT Project manager in the arena of health informatics. My journey in photography began in early 2011 when I picked my first DSLR after reading an article about the exposure triangle. Prior to that, I occasionally used a Kodak...

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Imagine a world without art

“When you buy something from an artist you are buying more than an object. You’re buying hundreds of hours of errors and experimentation. You’re buying years of frustration and moments of pure joy. You’re not buying just one thing, you are buying a piece of a heart, a piece of a soul… a piece of someone else’s life.” –Rebekah Joy Plett Above: Image by Gina Milicia

Ep 225: The future of photography with guests Chris Marquardt and Adrian Stock

Are you ready for the future of photography? There have been some amazing advances in technology, especially in the last 5 to 10 years with the development of mirrorless cameras, faster auto focus, post production techniques, drones etc. In this episode, we chat to Chris Marquardt and Adrian Stock on what the future of photography will be. If the name Chris Marquardt sounds familiar to you, then you’ve probably listened to one of his podcasts. He is photography podcast royalty having recorded over 800 eps of the top rating Tips from the Top floor podcast. In this episode we talk about the latest inventions, and predictions for cameras, lighting, editing and more. Gina and Valerie love bringing this podcast to you. Hope you enjoy the podcast. Sign up to the newsletter for great tips and free Lightroom presets. Join the dynamic Gold Membership in our Community which delivers monthly tutorials,...

An amazing story behind the collaboration of Salvador Dali and Philippe Halsman and the creation of the iconic image Dali-Atomicus

In the digital/Photoshop age this image is no big deal but imagine the skill and patience required to capture this image in a single frame? In the following video, Halsman’s daughter explains how the shot was created and includes the outtakes. Above: Philippe Halsman Dali-Atomicus
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