To that end, today’s podcast ventures a mere 10 miles away, where I caught up with fellow NAPP member, Michelle Hedstrom!  We actually met for a face to face and of course, the audio was recording…for podcast #62 – Grinding it Out!  We talked about everything from getting started in photography, to sports and concert photography, and what it takes to really succeed in this business.  In a nutshell – just grinding it out!  For all the details, check out the show!

Here’s some samples of her work she shared with me, and the show notes:

And, of course, her online footprint  - Ogre Photography, Examiner Articles, Twitter, Facebook

Thanks to Michelle for taking the time to sit down and talk with us at Canon Blogger.  We’ll see you back here again next time.  Until then, happy shooting!

Posing Your Subect

• The S Curve
• Naked Shoulder
• Full Back
• Knee In/out
• Step Up
• Balance
• Pelvic Roll
• V’s in Composition and Framing

It’s a great and informative discussion, so be sure to catch it from either your iTunes Feed, or direct download here!  You can also visit Kerry at his various online outlets here:

• Camera Dojo
• Kerry Garrison Photography
• Kerry on Twitter
• Kerry on Facebook

For those of you that may not have heard of him, Kevin Mullins hails from across the pond to get together on a podcast and talk shop on photography. A well-established wedding photographer in the UK, Kevin is probably one of the most talented wedding photographers I know. He joins me in the latest episode of the Learning Digital Photography Podcast to talk about the documentary style of photography and the impact that has on how you both shoot and manage your business. You can download it from iTunes or directly from the website via the following links. Below the links are the show notes…enjoy!

• iTunes Download

Talking Points

• Approaching group shots versus cookie-cutter portrait poses
• Work flow of the wedding day – how things start, where to budget time, & how things end.
• Gear preferences
• Pre-planning the event in Documentary Photography
• Still and video convergence

Links Mentioned:

• Photo mechanics
• Kevin Mullins Photography
• Kevin on Twitter
• Kevin on Facebook

So, to better address the question I decided to bring in a pro who deals with this stuff all the time.  That’s right ladies and gentlemen, we have another podcast! This is episode #56 of the LDP show, and I shared about an hour or so with Kirsten Wright talking about social strategies and best approaches and practices.  It’s an entire industry, and there are some who claim to know and then those who really do know their stuff.  Kirsten comes with some impressive credentials and a fresh outlook/perspective that many of us need.  It’s a good kick in the…well, a good way to get motivated to get going in the right direction!

Make sure you check out her site over at Wright Creativity and make sure to add her on your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn feeds, and everything in between.  She’s got gems and nuggets of brilliance galore to share.  I’m booking her soon here to help me get things streamlined (in case you haven’t noticed, my schedule has not been as consistent lately as I’d like it to be – Kirsten is my kick in the #$%^!)

If you need some focus, direction, and a good reality check, Kirsten is the one to give t to you.  Get it for free here in the latest episode of Learning Digital Photography:  Is Blogging Dead? with our guest of the hour – Kirsten Wright!

1. Hard Drive Noise
2. Shooting Tethered – forum post with HP resolution
3. 60D and Camera Raw
4. Shutter Count for Cameras
   1. Canon:  http://www.astrojargon.net
   2. Nikon: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/exif-reader.htm
5. Tutorials on Framing and Matting
6. Including hyperlinks in slideshows
   1. YouTube
   2. Camtasia
7. Right-Click on a Mac
8. Disable the ROT Crop lines in PS:  Online Help File from Adobe
9. How to react to lowball clients

Contests:

Nations Photo Lab announces 1st Annual National Family Photo Day

Learning Digital Photography:  November Contest/Giveaway

For those of you that are picking these up via the iTunes feed, not sure if the recent changes in feed format will report this short an audio piece, but it should be there eventually.  If not, it’s less than five minutes time, and is easily listened to while in your browser.  Also, you can pick it up from the non-iTunes feed here as well, so give it a listen…for those wishing to comment/respond to the inquiry, here’s the post that I am talking about:

Natural, Ambient, & Available Light

Here’s the show notes:

News

• 3rd Annual Worldwide Photowalk
• Getting sued for your own Images
• Lexar 16Gb and 32 GB cards now shipping
  

Interview – Rob Sylvan

• NAPP Helpdesk Work
• Lightroomers
• Books
  • Lightroom 2 For Dummies
  • Taking Stock (forthcoming)
• Perfect Picture School
• Adobe Lightroom Support Center
  • George Jardine Podcast #18
• Rob on Twitter

Q&A

1. Porting Libraries/Catalogs from Lightroom 2 to Lightroom 3 (Beta)
2. Adding monitors for more real estate
3. Work flow for scanning your photos

Contest News

Thanks to Scott from Peachpit Press, there is a special contest associated with this podcast and blog post!  If you listened to the podcast, you know what’s at stake, so feel free to chime in on the comments – something fun to win for 3 random people!  This post will take comments through July 7th and then three people at random will be selected for the prize!

That’s it for today – lost of fun stuff coming up tomorrow too, so make sure you stop in for the latest news – will be talking software AND hardware tomorrow…as well as announcing something else near and dear to me here on the blog, so be sure to stop back in then for more.  Happy shooting and we’ll see you then!

In other news, Erik Bernskiold and I got together again to do another episode of the Learning Digital Photography podcast.  Episode #40 was the one that came down the tube, and this one has an extra special feature – we recorded it live on Ustream!  Erik took the controls there and monitored the chat and questions while I recorded the copy for iTunes.  If you missed the live show, that recorded copy will be available for another couple days.  The more portable one for the iTunes folks can be gotten from the feed here (thanks to the folks at PLM).  Since we covered a lot in the shot, I’ll leave the rest of todays’ blog post for the show notes.  Enjoy!

Learning Digital Photography, Episode #40

News Items:

• PMA:
• WPPI:  March 4-11
• PSW: March 24-26
• Gulf Photo Plus: March 1-4

How to pack when traveling:

1.  What to take, what to leave behind?

• To conferences
• To workshops
• To vacation spots

2.  Security concerns?

• What are you allowed to take?
• What should you leave behind?
• Safety/security levels

3.  Scouting from a distance?

• Google Earth
• Online mapping
• GPS devices

Listener Questions:

1.  What is parallax?  (Chris) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax
2.  What’s the best way to deal with noise in your pictures? Matt

In Camera Methods

• Noise Ninja
• Neat Image
• OnOne

That’s right packing things up and rolling on outta here!  Naw, not the blog, or the podcast – always here, but with my return to a full time position we realized two things:  1.  We were kind of living beyond our means a little, and 2. The current house is pretty far from where work is for both of us.

Since Tracy is used to the RTD system now (and gets it free with her job) it just made sense that we consider looking in areas that are closer to where I am working so…the house is going on the market!  All this means that much is being packed up into boxes, furniture being moved out to give a minimalist staged look to the house.  (I guess all my photo gear “just looks like clutter” according to our realtor!)

So, the podcasting PC is being packed up, as is much of my photo gear.  I am keeping the barest of essentials, one desktop and my laptop though – so blogging will continue – once all the rest of this gets organized, boxed, labeled, and cleared into a storage facility…(man I need a studio!).  What that has meant is a light blogging week.  The podcast that I recorded with Rich Charpentier last week has finally been spliced together and is being uploaded to the folks at PLM right now.  It might not be available before midnight, but here’s the show notes anyway:

1.  Industry News

• Apple announces the iPad – I know so last week, but we’ve got some unique perspectives to share on how it could be used…
• Canon announces it’s now made 50 million EF lenses (we are assuming they are also including the EF-S line) – congrats to Canon!
• National Archives is prohibiting cameras – find out why!

2.  Printing Pictures – dynamic range, papers, color spaces, printer gamuts, and lots more…

3.  Listener Questions and Answers

Check out the show over at Personal Life Media (in about an hour – so slightly after midnight)…also don’t forget the February Giveaway is under way – Rich has generously donated a canvas print for the lucky winner!  Stop over at his blog to thank him, then check out his website with some of the most amazing HDR work I think I’ve seen!  Happy shooting all, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you back here on a more minimalized and organized Monday!

The folks at Personal Life Media are having some technical difficulties with podcast content and it is still unavailable for listening.  S, until they sort things out,  an old school MP3 download is available here.  I’ve also edited the previous post to include the download there too.  My apologies for the hiccup from PLM.  Thanks for your patience all!

So, what is Audioboo?  AudioBoo is a unique way for people with iPhones and iPod Touches to share their short audio recordings – courtesy of the folks at Audioboo.fm  It’s kind of a cool concept, because the recordings (called “boos”) are typically short – 2-5 minutes in length, and if you visit the site, you can see there is quite a bit of content there.  If you’d like to pick up my audio feed from that directly, you can grab the RSS for that by following this link:  http://audioboo.fm/profile/CBJason.

The whole premise behind this is that I can deliver audio tips and tricks, thoughts and ideas relating to photography to you whenever a good idea strikes!  It should be a fun experiment and I can promise that there will be some personal stuff to give a little more variety too (like my favorite brew at a local microbrewery!)  Fair warning – as football season rapidly approaches, you may here more Broncos talk too!  I’ll try to stay on point with photography ideas though, so either pick up the feed there, or (preferrably) visit the blog regularly for content updates.  This is definitely in a beta stage and may grow or fade away depending on interest, time, and other factors.

In other news, I’ve had a number of people as about photos taken from the star tracking station I built and recorded onto YouTube.  Unfortunately, the astrophotography gods have not been kind thus far as the night sky has had a lot of cloudiness.  Hopefully this weekend will be more favorable – but I am planning on packing it into the bottom of my checked back on my upcoming trip.

Speaking of which, thanks to everyone who gave their thoughts on what the last book should be for the trip.  I’ll likely be making my book purchases through Amazon this weekend (unless the library comes through for me again! ), and I’ll have an announcement on Monday of who wins the B&H gift card, so be sure to stay tuned for that!

Given the title of this post – you should at least have an idea of what’s coming tomorrow – but it’s a two-fold announcement, and because it’s just so cool, I am going to be announcing something big for the September Giveaway too!  And how’s that for a great segue to let you know that there is little time left in the August Giveaway – where you can Win a Wacom!  (Click the link for the Flickr thread and details.)

Well, that’s enough for today – happy shooting and we’ll see you back here tomorrow for the big one!

Grab the Feed

After a rather exciting weekend photographically I thought today might be a fun way to share my experiences with the readership in the form of an audio podcast!  That’s right, I am going to try and get established again with a weekly podcast you can listen to.  Today, I talk about my experiences with the Colorado Strobist group over on Flickr.  Also, I hit on the subject of learning on your own versus in a community.  It’s kind of an interesting mix of two related schools of thought, and hopefully will get me back on the band wagon for audio podcasts on a regular basis.  You’ll recognize the theme music, and that should stay consistent, but it will likely stay in audio format for the forseeable future.

For a few of my shots from the outing, stop over at the Flickr pool and look at the contributions from CB_Jason.  It’s always fun to get feedback, and I do listen to what everyone has to say.  I thought the lighting was good, but my post processing left a little to be desired (in retrospect).  Comes from having not the best monitor to work with in my 5 year old Dell 19″!

Anyway, give a listen, it’s much more portable now, and I only ramble on for about 5 minutes or so.  Let me know what you think and if there are any subjects you would like to see discussed in future episodes!  Happy shooting, and I’ll have another new topic for your reading pleasure back here again tomorrow!

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