This week, we’re talking about finding that type of photography that clicks with you, regardless of how broad or how niche it may be. One of the wonderful things about photography is that it’s both an art and a science and there’s room to deep dive one without necessarily losing the other. Also, self-printing seems to be a common source of confusion and anxiety - between finding the “right” printer, to then finding out that the ink will cost your more than the device itself, to having to test multiple paper types to see what works best on a given photograph. But is giving up control worth making the decision to outsource it? Francesco Cito and Gianni Berengo-Gardin are our Photographers of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Steve Giralt Visual Engineer (@stevegiralt) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• Steve Giralt - Home
  
• Research: Watching an Expert Do Something Makes You Think You Can Do It Too
  
• Finding that Creative Spark: Notes from PDN Photo Annual Winners | PDN Online
  
• Stephen Shore - MoMA Book
  
• Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973-1981
  
• Royal wedding photographer got the couple's official portrait in just 3 minutes - CBS News
  
• Apollo 12 in Pictures: Photos from NASA's Pinpoint Moon Landing Mission
  
• Kodachrome. Processed in Color. Seriously. – Shoot Film Co.
  
• CineStill BWxx – CineStill Film
  
• What Really Happened to that Melted NASA Camera? | NASA
  
• Francesco Cito - WEBSITE - www.francescocito.it
  
• Leica Hall of Fame Award 2017 winner Gianni Berengo Gardin - The Leica Camera Blog
  
• Gianni Berengo Gardin - The great photography of tradition - YouTube
  

This week, what happens when you decide to get off of the hamster wheel of social media and rely on your own website? Are you leaving money on the table or controlling your brand? Also, getting out of your comfort zone via the great American road trip. Plus, finding meaning in what you do beyond just what you make and share. Vanessa Winship is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 - Wikipedia
  
• DARLINGSIDE
  
• teenage engineering – OP-1 
  
• Ampify | Launchpad for iOS - Make & Remixing music app for iPhone & iPad | Novation x Ampify
  
• Lindsey Ross and her wet plate collodion images. — 360° FILMMAKING
  
• Roland Juno-60 - Wikipedia
  
• Jason Lee (@jasonlee) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip - Aperture Foundation NY
  
• ResearchInfo: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Documents | ZMM Travel Guide
  
• Here/Still/Now - Photographs and text by Paul D’Amato | LensCulture
  
• The Prolific Group | Quality Design & Printing ServicesThe Prolific Group
  
• (2) Bill Ingalls - Well, one remote cam outside the pad perimeter was...
  
• WINNERS—LensCulture Portrait Awards 2018
  
• Amazon.com : Fotodiox DLX Stretch Lens Mount Adapter - Pentax K Mount (PK) SLR Lens to Micro Four Thirds (MFT, M4/3) Mount Mirrorless Camera Body with Macro Focusing Helicoid and Magnetic Drop-In Filters : Camera & Photo
  
• she dances on Jackson
  
• Vanessa Winship: the great, unsung chronicler of the world's outsiders | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• FILM TALKS #27: VANESSA WINSHIP (UK) | FotoFilmic
  
• Chris Killip Photographer
  

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This week, a pre-show discussion about Tom Petty and crafting the perfect pop song leads into our sense memories around specific film stocks. It sounds strange, but there’s a throughline there if you give it a chance. Also, is Instagram just one big performance art piece? Plus, a listener question prompts a discussion around objective vs subjective challenges and moving the needle. Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger are our Photographers of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Runnin' Down a Dream (film) - Wikipedia
  
• How Tom Petty and Prince led parallel careers.
  
• Process Driven - Jeffery Saddoris
  
• Tom Petty Legacy Netflix Documentary Music Influence
  
• Ian Wright
  
• 13 Color and Black and White Film Stocks Compared - YouTube
  
• Totally Rad! | Totally Rad Home
  
• Enhance enhance: Using machine learning to recover lost detail from upscaled photos / Boing Boing
  
• Google Photos will soon be able to colorize old photos - The Verge
  
• Free Photo Editor | Polarr: Smart Photo Editing
  
• Amalia Ulman's Instagram art and selfie culture - CNN Style
  
• Bill & Ted 3 officially happening with Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter | EW.com
  
• The Meaning Of Work : TED Radio Hour : NPR
  
• Amalia's Instagram (@amaliaulman) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• CORTIS & SONDEREGGER
  
• Jojakim Cortis und Adrian Sonderegger - Ikonen on Vimeo
  
• CORTIS & SONDEREGGER "ICONS" - exhibition at EAST WING / DUBAI - YouTube
  
• Artist talk with Adrian Sonderegger and Jojakim Cortis about ICONS - YouTube
  
• Cortis & Sonderegger - 21 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy
  

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This week, we talk about refining the scope of personal projects so that they can be more productive and less of just a time suck—sometimes, you just need to tweak the brief. Also, what happens when a portrait is not a portrait but is still manages to capture the essence of a person? Plus, does your love for photography wax and wane, or is it constant? Jim Krantz is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Ninalee Allen Craig, subject of iconic ‘American Girl in Italy’ photos, dies at 90 - The Washington Post
  
• Tacita Dean: PORTRAIT - Exhibition
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This week, we discuss the potential value of critiques in a social media landscape where the conversation around the work is often not a conversation at all. Also, a terrific NYT article begins a conversation around a veteran using photography as therapy and as a way to document the lives of other service men and women. Plus, we tackle a few #askOTP questions. Hideki Fujii is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• My Social Media Philosophy: Some thoughts for Fellow Creators - YouTube
  
• Rob Haggart (@aphotoeditor) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• The Wrong Stuff: Prize-Winning Wildlife Photographer Accused Of Using Taxidermy : The Two-Way : NPR
  
• Abba-Zaba - Wikipedia
  
• Man of the Forest on Vimeo
  
• Steve Giralt Studio (@stevegiralt) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• ‘No More Hope’: The Work of a Photojournalist Killed in Kabul - The New York Times
  
• Devin Allen (@bydvnlln) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• Restrepo (film) - Wikipedia
  
• Person of the Forest on Vimeo
  
• Circuitous Conversations #91 - Milo
  
• House of Lies Freeze Frame Effect - YouTube
  
• Microsoft Bob - Wikipedia
  
• Office Assistant - Wikipedia
  
• Create Your Podcast with Squarespace and Gimlet Creative
  
• Hideki Fujii dies at age 75 – PhotoGuide Japan – by Philbert Ono
  
• Hideki Fujii - Wikipedia
  
• HIDEKI FUJII - Photographer - YouPic
  
• (968) Pinterest
  
• Iterations Podcast - Jeffery Saddoris
  

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This week, we’re circling back to an earlier discussion around style and whether you choose your style (and maybe even overall aesthetic) or your style chooses you. Also, do you recognize the point at which emulating or being inspired by your artistic heroes became something more unique? Plus, planned obsolescence, photography in video games and do we really need a digital 8x10 camera? Ara Güler is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Popular YouTuber Says Apple Won't Fix His iMac Pro Damaged While Disassembled | MacRumors Forums
  
• God of War - Photo Mode
  
• LargeSense LS911 is the first full frame 8×10 digital single shot camera | Photo Rumors
  
• Flickr bought by SmugMug as Yahoo breakup begins | Technology | The Guardian
  
• Is Ryan Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning Photograph an American 'Guernica'?
  
• SmugMug: Protect, Share, Store, and Sell Your Photos
  
• Ara Güler
  
• The Eye of Istanbul | Trailer | Available now - YouTube
  
• They Might Be Giants Istanbul Not Constantinople - YouTube
  
• Lost Istanbul: 1950s and 60s - Photographs by Ara Güler | LensCulture
  

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This week marks the end of year six of OTP and we’re talking about style - specifically questions around whether or not our particular style of making (photographic, design, painting or otherwise) is “baked” into how we see. If we stray too far from what we “know” does it simply look like we’re trying to emulate someone else? Also, a listener asks what (if any) obligation does one creative have to another? Mary Ellen Mark is our Photographer of the Week. Thank you for being here, for listening each week and for being so generous with your time and attention. We appreciate it. See you in year seven!

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+
  
• Episode 01 – “Falling Bears” : On Taking Pictures
  
• Let's Explore Magazine | Curated Inspiration
  
• 1 9 2 4 U S
  
• (3) Guy Plays Table Tennis Every Day for a Year - YouTube
  
• Welcome to the Store - Jeffery Saddoris
  
• NINE INCH NAILS - CLOTHING – Nine Inch Nails
  
• Dreamscapes BTS Lecture - Bill Wadman - Soho Photo Fall 2016 - YouTube
  
• Art Streiber (@aspictures) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• Mary Ellen Mark Home Page
  
• Mary Ellen Mark's legendary photographs – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Mary Ellen Mark - Wikipedia
  
• Mary Ellen Mark: Celebrated Photographer Dies at 75 | Time
  

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This week, a look inside four Instagram photographers who reveal the “contact sheets” behind some of their images. Turns out it can take quite a few shots to get that perfect selfie or lifestyle pic. Also, the start of a broader discussion around social media and the number of “subs” or follows as the real barrier on entry into making a living as a photographer. Also, trouble on the high seas costs one of us a lens. O. Winston Link is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• 4 Instagrammers Show Us How Many Photos They Took Before Nailing 'The Shot' | HuffPost
  
• Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera | Blackmagic Design
  
• DaVinci Resolve 15 – Fusion | Blackmagic Design
  
• Disneyland music- Haunted Mansion ride audio part 1 - YouTube
  
• Ruggard Desiccant Silica Gel Pack (40 g): Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific
  
• O. Winston Link's Steam Locomotive Photographs - The New York Times
  
• O.Winston Link - Artists - Danziger Gallery
  
• (952) Pinterest
  
• O. Winston Link - Wikipedia
  
• Gallery
  
• PHOTOGRAPHY LESSON WITH JOHN FREE - YouTube
  
• The Station Agent - Wikipedia
  

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This week, do individuals make the collective better? Do we have a responsibility to use whatever talents or gifts we may have (artistic or otherwise), or is it okay to simply walk away and do something else? Also, a recurring question from a listener around overcoming self-doubt, who asks, “does it ever go away?” Spoiler: no, but it’s often an interesting discussion. William Ukoh is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Photography by the Letter (Paperback) - Jeffery Saddoris
  
• Burnside 35 | Creative Effects Art Lens | Petzval | Lensbaby
  
• Piano Recital 1992 - Chopin Ballade on Vimeo
  
• Redemption of a Lost Prodigy - The New York Times
  
• The Axe Files with David Axelrod | Institute of Politics | The University of Chicago
  
• Good Will Hunting | "The Best Part of My Day" - YouTube
  
• Sometimes I Feel Like Quitting - YouTube
  
• Episode 878 - Ta-Nehisi Coates — WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
  
• Footage of how Tom Cruise broke his ankle while filming his latest movie - The Graham Norton Show - YouTube
  
• Telling the Stories of Defectors From North Korea - The New York Times
  
• NYPhotoSalon Presenters Since January 1996
  
• William Ukoh (@willyverse) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• Nigerian Photographer William Ukoh's 'Whiteshadows' Series - OkayAfrica
  
• HOME — Dai Sugano
  
• How to Do an Emulsion Lift to Transfer an Image from Polaroid to Paper
  

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This week, we talk a little about the upcoming relaunch of Ektachrome and wonder whether Kodak will be able to make a boutique film commercially successful. Also, some insight into exhibiting your work from three successful curators, courtesy of the British Journal of Photography. Plus some terrific questions from YOU, the listeners, that we do our best to answer. Miranda Penn Turin is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Update from our film factory on Kodak Ektachrome Film – The Kodakery – Podcast – Podtail
  
• Mad Men - The Carousel (Higher Quality) - YouTube
  
• Wista 45 4x5 Wood Large Format Field Camera #14281E5 | eBay
  
• Rui Morais De Sousa- Gandolfi Variant + Gandolfi Precision… | Flickr
  
• Exhibiting your work: A curator’s perspective – British Journal of Photography
  
• Totals App - Creating Stylish Invoices and More...
  
• Miranda Penn Turin - Home
  
• Miranda Penn Turin (@mirandapennturin) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• Sorbet magazine - Behind the Lens with Miranda Penn Turin - YouTube