Archive for the 'Podcast' Category

SDI – Taking My Own Medicine – 016 – w/ Dennis Hays

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

After speaking about reinventing yourself last episode, I decided to take my own medicine. In the last week or two, I have committed to start the portraiture part of my life-long involvement in photography. Here, on this podcast, I explain what’s happened and what steps I’m taking, including what equipment I’m purchasing.
By the way, I’m [...]

 
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SDI – Reinventing Ourselves – #015

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Have you ever found yourself in a position where you wake up and find you’re doing the same thing today that you did yesterday? Is your creativity stale? Okay, listen up. On this podcast I have no references, other than myself. Here I am really talking myself into doing something I haven’t done very much [...]

 
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SDI – SmugMug Interview w/ Andy Williams – #014

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

As you’ll hear, I was led to SmugMug by someone I work with in my day job. Craig had done the legwork for me and tested some of the online image storing sites, such as Photoshelter, Digitalrailroad, and others. He found SmugMug to have some features he liked and opted for a 14-day free trial.
Based [...]

 
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SDI – Child Photography – #013

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

This episode is from late 2006 where I discuss the “art” of child photography. As almost everyone knows, taking candids and portraits of adults is considerably easier than working with children. Here, I go into some techniques both for the images and also to assist in getting the “subject” to work with you, instead of [...]

 
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SDI – Kodak Introduces New Portra ISO 400 Film – 012

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

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This past week, Kodak introduced two new versions of the Portra film family, Portra 400 NC and Portra 400 VC. Scott DiSabato and I discuss the introduction of the film, Kodak’s commitment to the film community, and the technical aspects of these new versions.
This conversation with Scott is the second in the past [...]

 
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SDI – Interview with Frederic Cao / DxO – 011

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

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After a wonderful interview with Luc Marin of DxO, regarding their new release of DxO Optics Pro version 5, I wanted to learn more. In light of this company’s bent to the scientific, I had a conversation with Frederic Cao, Deputy Chief Scientist, about what goes on underneath the covers.
In fact, Frederic [...]

 
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SDI – The State of the Industry 2007/2008- Dennis Hays – 010

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

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Just before the break of the new year, I give my opinion on the state of the photographic industry.
Length: 24 minutes, 18 seconds
File Size: 16.7 Megabytes

 
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SDI – Taking Pictures in Public Places – 009

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

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Photographers out and about taking pictures are mostly just “doing their thing”, walking about, finding interesting subjects and clicking the shutter. However, since 9/11, more and more photographers are being challenged by the police and security guards for getting images of buildings, trains, airports, subwways adn so forth.
A year ago [...]

 
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SDI – Interview with DxO – Luc Marin – 008

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

What I’m really interested in learning, on this new series of podcasts, are from the innovators in the photo industry. At times, these are photographers and other times, companies.
One of the companies that recently came to my attention is DxO. They produce some software I find amazing in how it works and also, in how [...]

 
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SDI Interview w/ Tom Tinervin / digitalrailroad.net #006

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

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As I say in the podcast, one of the most frequent questions I get is from photographers wanting to sell their images. Besides shooting weddings and events, most photographic enthusiasts see their hobby as just that, a hobby, and haven’t thought their images could make them any money.
digitalRailroad.net is foremost [...]

 
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