On Taking Pictures

This week, sometimes hardware fails or at least doesn’t perform the way you think or hope it should We start the show with a couple stories about dealing with what happens next. Also, at what point to upgrades no longer make sense. Plus, a fascinating body of work from a very unexpected source. Kenji Toma is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• AppleCare - Apple
  
• Review: Fujifilm 35mm f2 R WR (Fujifilm X Mount)
  
• Jeffery's Out of Focus Lens
  
• PPN - Photo Podcast Network - PhotoPodcasts.com
  
• Joe McNally - Da Grip - YouTube
  
• Nancy Borowick Photography
  
• Leica M10 vs M6 | Street Photography and Portraits in NYC with ioegreer - YouTube
  
• Nikon F2 - Interchangeable Finders
  
• Leica M4 Garry Winogrand
  
• How to Make 20 SHORT FILMS in 20 days (pt.1) - YouTube
  
• How to Make 20 Short Films in 20 Days (pt.2) - YouTube
  
• The Artwork Was Rejected. Then Banksy Put His Name to It. - The New York Times
  
• Banksy print stolen from Toronto exhibit - CNN Style
  
• Frank Zappa BBC Documentary 1993 - YouTube
  
• Disquieting Landscapes from Surveillance Cameras Around the World
  
• Amazon.com: William Coupon: Portraits (9788862086035): Anthony Bannon, William Coupon, Walter Isaacson: Books
  
• Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents: Pete Souza: 9780316421829: Amazon.com: Books
  
• Kenji Toma’s Most Beautiful Flowers – British Journal of Photography
  
• Billy and Hells
  
• Karl Blossfeldt | Michael Hoppen Gallery
  

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This week, we go a little off the reservation talking about connecting to a process but not to outcome of what was ultimately produced. We cite examples from photography, cinema and music. Also, a discussion around the first time we felt like we were part of a tribe and how we sometimes are still able to tap into how that felt. Vivian Cherry is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+
  
• Kubrick's Right-Hand Leading Man | Here's The Thing | WNYC Studios
  
• Amazon.com: Contact: Leslie La Penna, Thomas Hoepker, David Turn, Stuart Franklin, Peter Marlow, Abbas Attar, Steve McCurry, Bruce Gilden, Elliot Erwit, Guy Le Querrec, Gianluigi Attorre, Mario Paloschi
  
• Amazon.com: Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm: Dorothy Bohm, Richard Shaw: Amazon Digital Services LLC
  
• uta barth | the official website
  
• DaVinci Resolve 15 | Blackmagic Design
  
• Kodak Professional (@kodakprofessional) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• Society6 | Affordable Art Prints, iPhone Cases and T-shirts
  
• Cine Lenses | SIGMA GLOBAL VISION
  
• A 97-Year-Old Photographer and Her Love Affair with New York - Feature Shoot
  
• Vivian Cherry Photography
  
• Vivian Cherry's Portrayal of NYC - YouTube
  
• Vivian Cherry Photography
  

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This week, if everyone is chasing the same aesthetic, how do you know when what you make is good? Also, where do you take your work if you feel you’ve peaked? Plus, is the old stuff really better than what’s new? Or is it just that it’s more familiar? Jim Reed is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series
  
• Interview: Photographer Jim Reed on Hurricane Irene and Storm Chasing - Scientific American Blog Network
  
• Jim Reed Photography - Extreme Weather
  
• Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey by Jim Reed! - YouTube
  
• Jim Reed: Meet one of the prominent extreme weather photographers | Digital Trends
  

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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
  Michael Hamburger

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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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