F-Stop Collaborate and Listen - A Photography Podcast

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Arpan Das - Multiple Exposure Landscape Photography Sep 12, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 073 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Arpan Das!

Arpan is a full time Astrophysics/Cosmology research student by profession; however, landscape photography is one of his biggest passions in life. Arpan was born in India where he lived 23 years of his life. Then he moved to Italy for his study and currently living in Canada for the same purpose. Whenever he has free time, he tries to fly far away from the city and loves being outdoors in some mountains where he can connect himself to the beauty of the nature. Even if he is not taking any photographs he just loves to watch a sunrise or sunset over the mountains, big water waves along the sea, or millions of stars over the head in a dark sky.

We covered some great topics this week, including:

1. Difficulty today as a landscape photographer.

2. Single exposures vs. multiple exposures.

3. Using astro-trackers, specifically the Skywatcher Star Adventurer Pro.

4. How mood influences photography.

5. Abstract landscape photography.

6. Coming to North America from India.

7. The trend of stretching mountains in photos.

8. Composition - learning from painters like Albert Bierstadt.

Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon! There's a ton of bonus content over there for subscribers! Your support is critical - it helps with production costs and to improve the podcast over time. Thanks!

Over on Patreon this week, Arpan and I discussed focus stacking, exposure blending, and the importance of reality in landscape photography.

To learn more about Arpan, check out the liner notes on my blog at www.mattpaynephotography.com

Here are the photographers that Arpan recommended for the podcast:

1. Noel Casaje.

2. Bruno Pisani.

3. Catherine Simard.

4. Patrick Ong

5. Isabella Tabacchi

Scotty Perkins - Backcountry Safety as a Landscape Photographer Sep 05, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 072 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Scotty Perkins!

Scotty is a fantastic landscape photographer living in Boise, ID and he's on a mission to educate other landscape photographers about the importance of being safe in the wilderness that we love to photograph. Scotty is a wilderness EMT and an Amateur Ham Radio enthusiast.

We covered some great topics this week, including:

1. The Landscape Photography Community.

2. Being safe in the back-country as a landscape photographer.

3. NOLS Wilderness First Aid Certification.

3. www.mattpaynephotography.com to learn more about Scotty, see his photography, and find lots of links to radios and topics we discussed - its full of stuff!

Over on Patreon this week, Scotty answered listener questions from the Facebook group.

Erin Babnik & Alex Nail - The Post-Processing Debate Aug 29, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 071 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen: THE Post-Processing Landscape Photography Debate with Erin Babnik & Alex Nail! Get your popcorn ready - Erin and Alex deliver the goods and share their perspectives on the ever-prevalent debate on post-processing in landscape photography. I'd love to hear where you personally fall on the debate after listening.

Alex Nail is a full-time landscape photographer based in Bristol, UK with a passion for mountains and wilderness areas. He increasingly heads to remote or hard to reach locations in search of new images. His photography is largely illustrative, showing magical lighting conditions and spectacular scenery. Alex is a great believer in the trustworthiness of photography as an artistic medium. Alex edits his images; however, they are all real, with nothing added or taken away.

Erin Babnik is a full-time adventure landscape photographer, photography educator, writer, and speaker. She is known for her ambitious images, for her adventurous approach in the field, and for her thought-provoking writing and speaking. Her dedication to outdoor photography evolved out of her years working as an art historian, photographing at archaeological sites and in museums for the purposes of teaching and research. Erin draws upon her background in art history in bringing a deep knowledge of aesthetics, visual communication, and cultural relevancy to her own photographic work and to her ideas about the art of photography, which she expresses to audiences around the world.

Here are links to various things that came up on the podcast:

1. Atlantic Magazine article on digital manipulation

2. On Landscape article from Guy Tal

Over on Patreon this week, Alex, Erin, and I discussed the presentation of images taken on exotic workshops, comp stomping, and more.

To learn more about Erin and Alex, check out their websites:

Erin Babnik.
Alex Nail.

Sangeeta Dey - Landscape Photography as a Language Aug 22, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 070 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Sangeeta Dey!

Sangeeta is a California Bay area based landscape photographer and pediatric neuropsychologist. Sangeeta’s work was recognized as being amongst top 101 International Landscape Photographers in 2017. More recently, Nikon celebrated their 100th Anniversary milestone. For their centennial celebration, they included Sangeeta in their “#Nikon100” program, which identified 100 photographers as rising photography stars. As per Nikon, it is the list they have curated based on the work of photographers who have been creating inspiring work and telling amazing stories.

We covered some great topics this week, including:

1. Juggling being a pediatric neuropsychologist and a landscape photographer.

2. The Nikon 100 list.

3. Females in landscape photography and the Nikon marketing blunder.

4. Photography as a language.

5. Artistic philosophy.

6. What keeps her inspired.

7. Workshops - how to pick them and how to leverage them.

Over on Patreon this week, Sangeeta and I discussed authenticity and social media, sharing locations, and the power of influence.

To learn more about Sangeeta, check out her online presence:

Website.

Instagram.

Here are the photographers that Sangeeta recommended for the podcast:

1. Charlotte Hamilton Gibb.

2. Floris Van Bruegel.

3. Atif Saeed.

4. Matt Jackisch.

Some examples of Sangeeta's photography can be seen on the liner notes on my blog at www.mattpaynephotography.com

I love hearing from the podcast listeners! Reach out to me via email, Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter if you'd like to be on the podcast or if you have an idea of a topic we can talk about. You can also join the conversation on our Facebook Group! We've also started an Instagram page and a Facebook page for the podcast, where we'll be sharing updates as we go!

David Nilsen - Surf Photography Aug 15, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 069 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with David Nilsen!

David is a photographer from New Jersey now living in California. David won Insta_Repeat"

To learn more about David, check out his online presence:

Website.

Instagram.

Here is the artist that David recommended for the podcast:

1. Mike Vericker.

Some examples of David's photography can be seen in the liner notes on my website at www.mattpaynephotography.com

David Hunter & Bridget Fithian - Land Trusts & Landscape Photography Aug 08, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 068 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with David Hunter & Bridget Fithian!

David Hunter is a landscape photographer and photo-naturalist from Fresno, CA. David photographs wildlife, with an emphasis on endangered and threatened species, for the purpose of documentation, conservation, and education. He has partnered with the Sierra Foothill Conservancy to showcase the beauty of the lands that the Conservancy protects in their land trust. Bridget Fithian, the Executive Director of the Conservancy, joined the two of us on the podcast to talk about their partnership, its purpose, and benefits. We also talked about how the rest of us landscape photographers can leverage our talents to promote the work that other similar non-profits are doing.

We covered some great topics this week, including:

1. What are land trusts?

2. How can photographers give their photography a purpose?

3. How to partner with non-profits as landscape photographers.

4. David's work with the Sierra Foothill Conservancy - here is his Flickr album

Over on Patreon this week, David, Bridget, and I discussed Artist in Residency programs - what they are about, and how you can get into one as a landscape photographer.

Here is a link to the Land Trust Alliance where you can find a Land Trust near you to help out with.

To learn more about David, check out his online presence:

Flickr.

Instagram.

Here are some artists that David recommended for the podcast:

1. Morgan Heim.

2. Karine Aigner.

3. Dewitt Jones.

Some examples of David's photography can be seen in the show notes on my blog at www.mattpaynephotography.com

Ben Canales - Astro Landscape Photography & More Jul 31, 2018

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Welcome to Episode 067 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Ben Canales!

Ben Canales is a fantastic photographer and videographer living in Portland, Oregon and is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of modern digital night photography. Ben is a partner of a video company called Uncage the Soul Productions where he creates incredible time-lapse and video productions for companies all over the world. You can see the full library of amazing productions over on Vimeo.

I believe this is one of the best podcast episodes we've recorded to-date!

We covered some great topics this week, including:

1. Ben's journey into night photography.

2. How night photography has evolved.

3. Shooting night video.

4. Framing and composition differences between photography, time-lapse, and video.

5. Location tagging on social media.

6. Abusing locations for our benefit.

7. Creativity, conformity, and the interesting new Instagram page "@Insta_Repeat"

Over on Patreon this week, Ben and I had a fabulous conversation - he answered several listener questions from our Facebook group, explained how he keeps inspired to do night photography, and handled a delicate and complex question regarding responsibility.

To learn more about Ben, check out his online presence:

Website.

Instagram.

Vimeo.

Here are some artists that Ben recommended for the podcast:

1. Zeb Andrews.

2. Rachel Jones Ross.

3. Tracy Lee.

4. Kayla Sulek.

Some examples of Ben's photography can be seen on my blog post at https://www.mattpaynephotography.com/blog/2018/7/f-stop-collaborate-and-listen-episode-67---ben-canales

Michael Shainblum - Social Media Pressure & Landscape Photography Jul 25, 2018

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Episode 066 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Michael Shainblum! Warning - mild profanity mixed into the episode in places.

Michael Shainblum is a landscape, timelapse and aerial photographer based in San Francisco, California. He has been working professionally as a photographer and filmmaker for 11 years since the age of 16. Michael first made a name for himself through his unique creativity and the ability to capture scenes and moments in his distinct style of surreal, visual story telling. A dedication to challenging the boundaries of creativity, as well as a flair for coming up with unique ideas, has since resulted in this dynamic visual artist being commissioned by large clients including Nike, Samsung, Facebook, LG, Apple and Google. You will also be able to find Michael’s work published widely by media outlets such as National Geographic, Wired Magazine and The Weather Channel.

We covered some great topics this week, including:

1. The story about how Michael got into photography.

2. How he gained traction as an artist early on.

3. Dealing with the pressure to post on social media.

4. Fame & Responsibility in landscape photography.

5. The inspiration and why behind our shared interest in photographing the Milky Way.

6. Transitioning away from night photography to other forms of photography - why and how it has affected the way he shoots.

7. Time management as an artist with a huge social media following.

8. How he photographed his "CASCADE - Waterfalls in Slow Motion" video.

Over on Patreon this week, Michael and I had a fabulous conversation where he told me the story about how he captured his famous photograph of lightning over the Golden Gate Bridge (see below) and he answered several listener questions.

To learn more about Michael, check out his online presence:

Website.

Instagram.

YouTube.

Here are some artists that Michael recommended for the podcast:

1. Marco Grassi.

2. Russell Preston Brown.

Some examples of Michael's photography can be seen below.

Morag Paterson & Ted Leeming - Landscape Photography Projects Jul 18, 2018

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Episode 065 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Morag Paterson & Ted Leeming!

Ted and Morag have worked both collaboratively and as individuals for over 12 years now and exhibit their work around the world, with their fine art prints featuring in many private collections.

They lead dynamic and friendly photographic trips and workshops in association with Ocean Capture. Currently these are based in the UK as well as Iceland, Italy, the Faroe Islands, Croatia, South America and China. They also offer private tuition and tours, for groups and individuals as well as a dedicated mentoring programs and portfolio reviews. In recognition of the fact that travel photography can have a negative environmental impact, all of their trips include carbon offset. Leeming and Paterson live between Liguria in Italy and rural south-west Scotland on their zero footprint small holding. They built their own eco-house powered and heated by its own wind turbine. Their land is now fenced and reverting from agricultural pasture to native woodland with over 3000 trees planted, whilst a poly tunnel provides year round vegetables for the table. This venue and lifestyle form the inspiration for the "Zero Footprint" project.

We covered some great topics this week, including:

1. How Morag & Ted got into landscape photography.

2. Abstract Impressionism photography.

3. Their Zero Footprint project & climate change.

4. Collaborating with each other as artists.

Over on Patreon this week, we had a fabulous conversation about selecting photo projects to work on, how to approach them, how to sustain them, and how to curate them for presentation.

To learn more about Morag & Ted, check out their online presence:

Website.

Instagram.

Facebook group for Zero Footprints.

Here are some artists that Morag & Ted recommended for the podcast:

1. James Balog

2. Jan Tove

3. Valda Bailey

4. Doug Chinnery

Rajesh Jyothiswaran - Bias & Discrimination in Landscape Photography Jul 11, 2018

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Episode 064 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Rajesh Jyothiswaran!

Rajesh Jyothiswaran is a self taught photographer born out of a chance realization of his own latent photography skills when a smartphone photo of his native plant garden in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas went viral led to the purchase of his first DSLR. His interests range from macro to astro though landscape and astrophotography in places rarely photographed excite him the most. Photography has taken him on a path of self-discovery, learning, and meaningful friendships across the world. His images have been displayed at several exhibitions, He has also won several awards for his work including the 2017 International Landscape Photographer of the Year Top 101 award and a Top 10 finalist in the Smithsonian 15th Annual Photo Contest. Born and raised in India, Rajesh lives in North Texas with his wife and two daughters. He aspires to continue growing as an artist and be a source of inspiration to others.

We covered some great topics this week, including:

1. How Rajesh got into landscape photography.

2. Challenges as a landscape photographer in Texas.

3. Bias and discrimination in landscape photography.

4. Recognition and its importance for photographers.

Over on Patreon this week, Rajesh and I had a fabulous conversation about a recent controversy he was involved in when he posted a photo of Mobius Arch with people standing on it.

To learn more about Rajesh, check out his online presence:

Website.

Instagram.

Here are some artists that Rajesh recommended for the podcast:

1. Kathleen Croft.

2. Chris Moore.

3. Matt Meisenheimer.

Some examples of Rajesh's photography can be seen below.