On Taking Pictures

This week, how digital technology helped Emmanuel Lubezki shape the natural light on The Revenant. Also, we discuss the often cryptic presentation of online tutorials and ask: “How do you learn something new?” Plus, letting what you know affect what do and how far you’re willing to push outside your comfort zone. Check the show notes for teases of next week’s show. Ernesto Bazan is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #imaginary
  
• Secret Service Agent 'Choke Slams' Journalist at Donald Trump Rally | VICE News
  
• Inside Mark Seliger’s 2016 Oscar Party Portrait Studio | Vanity Fair
  
• 'The Revenant' Cinematographer Emmanuel "Chivo” Lubezki -­ Variety Artisans - YouTube
  
• How Technicolor Put Finishing Touches on 'The Revenant' | Thompson on Hollywood
  
• Bleach bypass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Behind The Scenes "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou" - Painting With Pixels - YouTube
  
• Take Better Photographs Quickly - Better Photography Tips by Karl Taylor Photography Courses.
  
• Have We Been Playing Gershwin Wrong for 70 Years? - The New York Times
  
• Google’s Artificial Brain Is Pumping Out Trippy—And Pricey—Art | WIRED
  
• Oral Tradition in the Age of Smart Phones | Alexander MacDonald | TEDxFulbrightDublin - YouTube
  
• Ernesto Bazan’s Cuban Trilogy - The New York Times
  
• Camaraderie in Cuba: Ernesto Bazan’s Self-Publishing Philosophy | TIME
  

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This week, we’re discussing the good and the bad of habits—making them, breaking them and learning how to recognize when you may need one over the other. Also, a follow up on last week’s audiophile/photography discussion, particularly around street photography. Plus, we geek out a little over an interview with Photoshop Master Bert Monroy in which he talks about his massive 750,000 layer Photoshop illustration of Times Square. Robyn Beeche is our Photographer of the Week.

Paris Photo LA is cancelled permanently and what that means to collectors and fans of photography. Where do you fall when it comes to awards and competitions? Are they worthwhile endeavors and potentially valuable experiences or simply distracting popularity contests? Also, we discuss an interesting connection between audiophiles and photographers and the suggestion that where you came to photography from has an influence on the type of work that you produce or are drawn to. Sebastiao Salgado is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #Timing
  
• How Lady Gaga Turned into David Bowie for Her 2016 Grammys Performance | Vanity Fair
  
• The end of Paris Photo Los Angeles - The Eye of Photography
  
• The Photography Show - Association of International Photography Art Dealers
  
• LensCulture Portrait Awards 2016
  
• My Guide To Photography Contests | A Photo Editor
  
• THE FENCE 2016 – Now Accepting Submissions
  
• Belstaff Films Presents: Worship the Ground - YouTube
  
• The Making of Worship the Ground, starring explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes and stuntman, Riley Harper - YouTube
  
• Leon's Journey: 60 - YouTube
  
• You Should: Manifesto: 60 - YouTube
  
• How OK Go Made That Amazing Zero-G Video
  
• Reduced gravity aircraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• OK Go - Here It Goes Again - YouTube
  
• Photographers and audiophiles, two of a kind? - CNET
  
• Sebastião Salgado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Sebastião Salgado: The silent drama of photography | TED Talk | TED.com
  
• Sebastião Salgado: my adventures at the ends of the Earth | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Sebastião Salgado. GENESIS. TASCHEN Books (Limited Edition)
  
• Sebastiano Salgado "Genesis" on Amazon
  

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This week, we’re starting off with Cindy Crawford—she’s worked with some of the top photographers in the world and in her new book, Becoming, she shares what she’s learned from them. Also, we discuss the seesaw that is balances humility and confidence and how we may need to find a new struggle. Plus, technical details from Taylor Wessing and Instagram gives you more ways to share. Gilbert Garcin is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #Souvenir
  
• 11 Lessons Photographers Can Learn From Cindy Crawford's Favorite Photographers - DIY Photography
  
• "Becoming" by Cindy Crawford
  
• WTF with Marc Maron Podcast - Episode 678 - Cindy Crawford
  
• The Humility-Confidence SeeSaw: The Untold Secret of Great Leaders - Open
  
• Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Congress Ends Funding of Official Government Portraits | Atlas Obscura
  
• Romney Oil Painting
  
• NPG Taylor Wessing Prize - Technical Details
  
• Instagram Now Supports Multiple Accounts from a Single Login
  
• Artur Fischer, Inventor With More Patents Than Edison, Dies at 96 - NYTimes.com
  
• Gilbert Garcin website
  
• Gilbert Garcin — Wikipédia
  
• Biography: Conceptual photographer Gilbert Garcin | MONOVISIONS
  
• Garcin- Painting the screen
  

This week, we talk a little about the recent Gregory Crewdson show at the Gagosian in NYC and how seeing a photograph in person can be vastly different than seeing it on a screen. Also, how you feel about meeting your heroes? Would you like a one-on-one, or do you prefer to keep them in your imagination? Plus, a trip to B&H sparks a discussion around gear—both the limitations of it and the notion that regardless of how well a piece of gear works, there’s something to how it feels in your hand that impacts how you use it. Miles Aldridge is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #repeat
  
• Gregory Crewdson - January 28 - March 5, 2016 - Gagosian Gallery
  
• Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines
  
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
  
• Jack Gilbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Steven Pressfield on Amazon
  
• Elton John releases a brand new video for new song Blue Wonderful | Daily Mail Online
  
• Phil Collins Donates Alamo Artifacts to Texas Museum | Rolling Stone
  
• An Object of Beauty: A Novel
  
• 16-Year-Old Brooklyn Beckham Is the Official Photographer Behind the New Burberry Campaign | Fstoppers
  
• Pixel Perfect - The New Yorker
  
• B&W Film Developing Times | The Massive Dev Chart
  
• Miles Aldridge
  
• @milesaldridge • Instagram photos and videos
  
• Ira Glass on the Creative Process (www.getoutthebox.org) - YouTube
  

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This week, an experiment we proposed on the show a year ago yields some terrific results for a listener. Also, is the bigger problem getting beyond a plateau, or realizing that you’ve reached one in the first place? Plus, Instagram has grown beyond food photos and into a robust platform for discovery, particularly for photojournalism. Alfa Castaldi is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #Signature
  
• One day, one year later — Kristopher
  
• The magical photos recovered from over 200 lost rolls of film - The Washington Post
  
• Ron Haviv - "That Lost Rolls"
  
• Why the World’s Leading Photojournalists Are Ditching Their DSLRs to Shoot on Instagram
  
• War Photographer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Instagram Is Fostering the Next Generation of Photojournalists
  
• How a College Student Used Creative Commons to Dominate Political Photography
  
• Is this the first Instagram masterpiece?
  
• The Chemical Brothers - Wide Open (feat. Beck) - YouTube
  
• Trypophobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• AGFA SCALA FILM PROCESSING & DR5. THE ONLY WOLDWIDE B&W SLIDE SERVICE. *MAINPHOTO - IS CLOSED*
  
• Alfa Castaldi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Alfa Castaldi • LateAndModern Gallery
  
• Respect The Shooter: Alfa Castaldi | Life+Times
  
• Ask Bill & Dan
  
• Process Driven
  

This week, is art just a shell game of semantics? Do the names and labels matter at all as long as you’re making mistakes, making work and moving forward? Why do we get so spun up over something so nebulous? Also, do you buy photobooks to enjoy, or simply to leave them shrink-wrapped on a shelf, hoping that they will appreciate in value? Are collectors screwing it up for the folks who want to enjoy the work? Plus, Tyler Shields is a genius...or is that just what he wants you to think? Richard Mosse is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #intersection
  
• Against Neutrality - NYTimes.com
  
• Getty Images
  
• Yosemite agrees to change the names of its significant locations to appease trademark troll / Boing Boing
  
• Is Celebrity Photographer Tyler Shields Inspired, Or Copying Other Artists? | VICE | United States
  
• On Taking Pictures PotW List by Matheson
  
• Steve McCurry "India" on Amazon
  
• Richard Mosse
  
• Richard Mosse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Richard Mosse: The Impossible Image on Vimeo
  
• Richard Mosse - Jack Shainman Gallery
  
• Did Film Director Rip Off Photographer Richard Mosse? - artnet News
  
• What is Kodak Aerochrome? A Beginner's Guide to The Confusion of Lomochrome Purple - The Phoblographer
  

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This week, a discussion partially prompted by the passing of David Bowie on living your art. Does the work/art you create exist apart from you or is one an intrinsic part of the other? Also, a conversation with Gregory Crewdson about his new body of work. Plus, is there such a thing as “the perfect size” for printing and displaying your photos? How do you determine what’s too big or too small? Belgian photographer Marc Lagrange is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #Character
  
• Process Driven: Gregory Crewdson
  
• David Bowie - Lazarus - YouTube
  
• David Bowie’s final photographs | Consequence of Sound
  
• David Bowie - Blackstar - YouTube
  
• El Jaleo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The Persistence of Memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Steve McCurry | Rubin Museum of Art
  
• McCurry Pictures of girl on boat
  
• Monkey selfie case: judge rules animal cannot own his photo copyright | World news | The Guardian
  
• Marc Lagrange
  
• Marc Lagrange on Vimeo
  
• Marc Lagrange | Woman hanging on Elephant Tusk
  
• SENZA PAROLE - Behind The Scenes on Vimeo
  
• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• STUDIO ERWIN OLAF
  

This week, we’re taking a look back on 2015 and discussing what worked, what didn’t and what we’d like our respective 2016s to look like. We’re also responding to a listener question around changes in the industry and what the career of a maker may look like moving forward. Plus, you asked for some of our favorite Lynda tutorials, so we’ve each picked our top three. Jing Huang is our first Photographer of the Week for 2016. Welcome to the new year everyone.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #renewal
  
• Phase One IQ3: World's First 100mp Sony CMOS Sensor
  
• Mastering Selections in Photoshop CC | Lynda.com
  
• The Practicing Photographer | Lynda.com
  
• The Creative Spark: Brian Taylor, Handmade Photography | Lynda.com
  
• Jerry Uelsmann & Maggie Taylor: This is not photography | Lynda.com
  
• F2 Design: Letterpress Printing and Poster Design | Lynda.com
  
• InDesign CC Essential Training (2015) | Lynda.com
  
• Home : HuangJing
  
• Jing Huang: An Urban Poet in Shenzhen - The Leica camera blog
  

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For the last show of the year, we’re doing a Q&A show and taking a stab at answering some of your questions. We can’t thank you enough for not only listening week in and week out, but also for helping to build a community of makers that we are both extremely proud of. We are very much looking forward to 2016 and can’t wait to see what all of you are up to. If you have ideas, comments or suggestions, or you just want to say hello, email us at [email protected]. Happy New Year everyone!

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #Resolution
  
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Welcome | Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow | dpBestflow
  
• Metadata Overview | dpBestflow
  
• JIMMY CHIN Photography
  
• Jimmy Chin (@jimmy_chin) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• JIMMY CHIN Photography