Even if you are not currently on your beach vacation, lets take a little trip to Hawaiis shores for todays episode of the B&H Photography Podcast . Joining us is photographer Zak Noyle , who was born and raised in Hawaii and began publishing his surf photography while still in high school. Noyle has photographed the sports top surfers and events, has been published in Sports Illustrated and National Geographic, and has traveled the world for brands such as Billabong, Stussy, and Chanel. He also ...
Aug 26, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast We have been looking forward to this conversation for weeks. On todays episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we sit down with retired Detective 1st Grade Michael Cunningham , of the New York City Police Department, to talk about crime-scene unit photography. Cunningham is an expert on crime scene photography and forensicsin addition to his twenty-seven years with the NYPD, he has worked as a trainer for the Department of Homeland Security, authored a book on crime-scene management, and curren...
Aug 19, 2021•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome back an old friend of the show, photographer Mark Mann . Mann is known for a catalogue of portrait work that includes celebrities, musicians, and politicians of the highest regard. In our previous episode with Mann, we discussed photographing Bill Murray, Jennifer Aniston, and President Obama, but like many of us, the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying quarantine not only put a halt to our normal photo routines, but forced us to r...
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast The photos of David Rothenberg are some of the most exciting that we have seen in a while. Condensed and entangled compositions of airplanes over urban housing and portraits of travelers, through plane windows or bathed in a holy light at a train station. His work is provocative, playful, and compassionate and asks us to look at compositions and subjects carefully, addressing issues of isolation and hope. On this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we will ask how a fine-art photographer wo...
Aug 05, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Photographer Sally Davies embodies a beautiful creative spirit, and I think that spirit also resides in the homes of the 72 New Yorkers she photographed, and who are included in her wonderful portrait book, appropriately titled, New Yorkers . If this spirit does not exist and Davies is not in tune with it, how could she have captured such wonderful stories of people and their places and done it so efficiently, in some cases in just minutes? We will answer that question and many others as we welc...
Jul 29, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we discuss food photography and ask our two guests to create their vision of the ideal spread for a summer food photography shoot. In the first half of the show, we welcome photographer Meika Ejiasi , who is a food, lifestyle, and portrait photographer from Oakland, California. With Ejiasi we discuss how she would photograph ice cream and popsicles, but also about tips and tricks for keeping pizza looking hot after many takes. We talk about utiliz...
Jul 22, 2021•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we are thrilled to help celebrate the first anniversary of Black Women Photographers . Founded in July 2020 by Polly Irungu, the mission of Black Women Photographers is to disrupt the notion that it is difficult to discover and commission Black creatives. And toward that goal, BWP is now a global organization of more than 600 members, and as an online directory, has become a home for Black women and non-binary photographers to receive proper recog...
Jul 15, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast In support of the 2021 OPTIC Outdoor, Photo/Video, Travel Imaging Conference , to be held online July 11-12, 2021, the B&H Photography Podcast team conducted our own photo walk, much like they do as part of the OPTIC Conference events. For this episode, we took our cameras and microphones to the beautiful Elizabeth Park Rose Garden in West Hartford, Connecticut and with Allan as the groups leader and Jason and I as participants, we completed several photo challenges and practiced our photography...
Jul 08, 2021•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Beginning with an iPhone and an a-ha moment in the beautiful San Francisco City Hall, photographer Arthur Drooker began a project that would last five years and take him across the United States to photograph the most impressive and interesting city halls in the nation. The project culminated with his wonderful book, City Hall: Masterpieces of American Civic Architecture , from Schiffer Publishing, and it brings him to the B&H Photography Podcast to discuss photographing architecture, civic prid...
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast This weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is produced in collaboration with Leica Camera , and we are pleased to welcome photographer and journalist Cheriss May to the program. One of the qualities needed to tell good stories is an ability to listen and, in conversation with May, it becomes clear that her skill for framing and capturing an image with her camera begins with her skill for listening and for engaging with people and their stories. As a freelance editorial and portrait photog...
Jun 24, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Is the light in Chicago different than the light in New York? Can street photography set the subjects and control the scene? And just how long should you follow people carrying balloons in order to get a photograph? These are some of the questions we answer in this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast . We welcome to the program photographers Nina Welch Kling and Clarissa Bonet . Kling lives in New York and Bonet in Chicago, although both are from other places entirely. We talk a bit abo...
Jun 17, 2021•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast we take a deep dive into the technical, legal, and even theoretical topics surrounding Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and their growing place in the art and photography worlds. To take on this subject, we welcome cryptocurrency expert and past guest of the show, Drew Hinkes . Hinkes is an attorney and professor, and in 2017 was nominated as one of Coindesks Most Influential People in Blockchain. He is also co-founder and General Counsel of Athena ...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Every now and again there are conversations that flow and sparkle; they seem laden with professional insights and creative gems. Our chat with photographer Mona Kuhn is one, and perhaps its Kuhns self-awareness, her quiet confidence, and an ability to articulate her motivations that make it so. There are few who will disagree that her visual stories, her portraits, nudes, landscapes, and photo essays are among the most assured in contemporary photography, and on this episode of the B&H Photograp...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Not quite three-years old and the L-mount Alliance has already proven successful for its signatory companies --Leica, Sigma, and Panasonic. Built upon the foundation of the Leica L lens mount, the three makers have put out a total of nine cameras and a range of lenses , all compatible with each other. On this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome Marc Farb, Technical Rep from Sigma , John Kreidler, Product Specialist from Leica , and Sean Robinson, Marketing Specialist from P...
May 27, 2021•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Making photographs regarding the important social issues of our day should not only be in the hands of photojournalists working for large news organizations. Greg Constantine and Monica Lozano, our guests on this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast as well as past guests of our program, distribute and exhibit their work outside the familiar news outlets. Both use their photographic work to address the stories of migrants, and both have spent the last two years documenting the human cons...
May 20, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast This weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast is an old-fashioned hands-on review, but in this case, made with six hands. Allan, Jason and I were fortunate to be loaned the Leica Q2 Digital Camera and the Leica Q2 Monochrom Digital Camera and we use our consideration of these 47MP cameras as a springboard to talk about camera grips, and point-and-shoot cameras , and value. We also talk about macro photography and cropping and about how to create black and white images from color files. We st...
May 13, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is one of the most enjoyable chats on photography weve had in a while, and our subject is the history of amateur and popular photography as understood through photography how-to books and manuals. Joining us on the B&H Photography Podcast is Dr. Kim Beil , professor at Stanford University and author of Good Pictures: The History of Popular Photography , and with Beil we not only speak about what is and has been considered a good photo, we specifically talk about her collection of photograph...
May 06, 2021•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Its macro week at the Explora blog and youll find many helpful articles and videos about the tools, techniques, and practitioners of macro photography. On the podcast , however, we go deeper than macro, like 1000x deeperour conversation is with geologist, gemologist, and microscopist Nathan Renfro , of the Gemological Institute of America . Renfro is a renowned photomicrographer, and his images of the interiors of gems, with their unique inclusions and imperfect perfections, are stunning color a...
Apr 29, 2021•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this weeks episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we focus on the work of photographer Todd Webb and, specifically, the series of images he created in Africa in 1958, while on assignment for the United Nations. We are joined by Betsy Evans Hunt, the Executive Director of the Todd Webb Archive , and by Aime Bessire and Erin Hyde Nolan, coauthors of the new book, Todd Webb in Africa Outside the Frame . With our guests, we discuss the photographic career of Todd Webb, including his work in New...
Apr 22, 2021•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast When you have had as momentous a year as our guest, photographer Misan Harriman , had in 2020, you should shout it from the rooftops. However, on this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , Harriman offers us nothing but humility and gratitude for the work he has done, including creating the September 2020 cover photographs for British Vogue and the powerful images he made at Black Lives Matter marches in London. Harriman left us inspired, and we are happy to share this conversation, supported...
Apr 15, 2021•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast On todays episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome back to the program B&H Senior Sales Trainer Kevin Rickert to discuss the latest cameras and lenses released over the past few months. For todays episode, we have the support of Audio-Technica and are using its BP40 Large Diaphragm Dynamic Broadcast Microphone . We start with Sonys new flagship camera, the Alpha A1 Mirrorless Digital Camera , and discuss its impressive features as well some of the new lenses Sony has introduced, inclu...
Apr 08, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was first published in January 2018. The Canon sweepstakes mentioned in the episode has long since ended and is no longer valid. For some photographers, the phrase run and gun has a negative connotation, but when youre Norman Reedus , that description takes on a much cooler meaning, one that is accurate to his style and a compliment to his ability to sense a moment. Reedus, most recognized for his acting work on the television series, The Walking Dead and Ride with Norman Reedus, is...
Apr 02, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast What is street photography? Is it an urban exercise? Is it black-and-white or color? Is it collaborative or solitary? Can it be an intimate portrait or a long-term project? These are some of the questions we ask of our guest on todays episode of the B&H Photography Podcast . And Gulnara Samoilova does not take the bait. Samoilova is interested in expanding street photography, not limiting it with a definition. To her, and as is represented beautifully by the new book she edited, street photograp...
Mar 25, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eye-catching and grotesque are words not often placed together, but those descriptors are part of the charm and beauty in the still life and food photography of Emma Ressel . Ressel joins us on this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast to discuss her practice, which takes inspiration from, among other things, Dutch Master paintings and her own upbringing in Maine. We talk with Ressel about the evolution of her style and its attempt to balance the two related genres. In her fine art photography...
Mar 18, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is the second episode of the B&H Photography Podcast produced with the collaboration of Leica Camera , and we are pleased to welcome photographer Stella Johnson to the show. It is the in-between moments of life that Johnson describes as the subject of her work; work that includes books and documentary series made in Cameroon, Greece, Nicaragua, and Mexico. In this easy-going conversation, we discuss the nature of her long-term projects, and the motivations that return her to the same places...
Mar 11, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast On todays episode of the B&H Photography Podcast , we welcome wedding and portrait photographer Kesha Lambert . We are excited to speak with Lambert about her approach to wedding photography on todays show, but she is also speaking at the upcoming 4th annual Depth of Field Portrait, Wedding, and Event Photography Conference , which is a free virtual event to be held on March 7 8, 2021. The conference is hosted by B&H Photo and sponsored by Sony, Nikon, Canon, Godox and HP/NVIDIA, and others. The...
Mar 04, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Live event and concert photography have obviously been drastically impacted by the global pandemic and related shutdowns. Lets give a shout-out to all the photographers, musicians, technicians, and crew who have struggled with the loss of that part of their income and craft, but also make time on the B&H Photography Podcast to talk about concert photography as we inch toward a hopeful return to live music and art performances. Todays guest is Christie Goodwin , a premiere concert and music photo...
Feb 25, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Has the Canon EOS R5 changed the conversation about using mirrorless cameras for bird and wildlife photography? This is the position of our guest, David Speiser who, this summer, traded his Canon 1D X Mark III for the R system camera and lenses. But his colleague, fellow bird photographer andfor nowDSLR stalwart Grace Scalzo , is not quite ready to make that switch. Todays episode of the B&H Photography Podcast focuses on the features of the Canon R5 and RF lenses that specifically benefit bird ...
Feb 18, 2021•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast When we started the B&H Photography Podcast more than six years ago, the concept was watercooler conversations with photographers, about gear. Well, honestly, it hasnt always turned out that way, but this episode with famed photojournalist David Burnett comes as close to that idea as any we have done; theres barely an edit in the whole episode. Burnett joins us, and we just talk. We start with his coverage of the recent presidential inauguration and his decision to use a 1930 Graflex 4 x 5 camer...
Feb 11, 2021•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Its hard to imagine a more ideal guest for a photography podcast than the wonderful Ralph Gibson . Gibson checks all the boxesa straight-up master of the medium, a man of insights and tales, with a comprehensive understanding of photography from the nuts and bolts to the conceptual rigors. After training in the Navy, he assisted the great Dorothea Lange in the darkroom, but found his calling as an artist, staying true to his voice, and founding a publishing house for his seminal photo book, The ...
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