By Bruce Williams
The world’s best-loved photography podcast
This week, we have a great chat about the Netflix show, Ripley. We revisit Carl's story from last episode, Philip shared a post about the ethics of photo editing. Glynn found stories about an AI beauty comp, synthetic memories, and heaps more!
This week, Glynn asks about my new lens and trigger, staff portraits I've shot for the ABC, and whether I should sell my Sony 70-200/f4 lens. We've also got door cams for da fishes, Ricoh GR highlight diffusion filters, Nikon goes shopping, and heaps more!
This week, Glynn and I talk about workshop customers, are there any unique photos, why we took an image, crowdfunding done right, photographer horror stories, how our processing changes over time, and heaps more.
This week, Glynn heaps praise on a natural-light portrait Bruce took this week. Processing film with saltwater (amongst other things), how will we fight deepfakes, get paid to save your photos, drone-based pet detective, and heaps more!
In this episode, I welcome Joe Edelman back to the podcast, and give him the floor to more accurately explain his theory on exposure that I TRIED (badly!) to explain last episode.
We're back for 2024, and we're now on youtube! Bruce bought himself a new monitor, and has been out shooting with Teigan again. Joe Edelman posted an interesting article about the exposure triangle. Plus heaps more!
In the final episode for 2023, Glynn is thinking of jumping ship. Why? And to what? We've got Schrodinger's photos... are they there or not? Some of Bruce's Alaska photos, how smartphones are changing how we take pictures, and much more.
We're back! In this episode, we simply catch up on everything that has gone down in the last 3 months. Which has been a lot! Alaska. The move. Glynn getting back into the workshop scene. But overall, it's been a year of goodbyes for...
This week, we love big bu.... er, lenses. We've got a cool tripod, more AI stories, Bruce shooting video, Canon opeing up its RF mount to 3rd party manufacurers... kind of, third party women, and heaps more!
This week, Bruce has been shooting video backdrops for Aunty, Glynn wraps up his Secret Squirrel mission, we've got travel tips, you're not as ugly as photos make you look, the earth spinning while the heavens stay still, and heaps more!
This week, Glynn shared an interesting video about how we're all more alike than we are different, Saturn's rings disappearing, iPhone app Spectre is now free, how gorillas are just as sucked in by social media as us, plus heaps more!
This week, Glynn shares an interesting experience talking to another photographer, Bruce and his impulse buy, portraiture to spark conversation, the Kurt Cobain of photography, lightning on Jupiter, and heaps more!
This week, ND filters for staring into the sun, darktable 4.4 released, lens watching SpaceX launch goes up in flames, new offerings from Pentax coming, denoising algorithms, and heaps more!
This week, we talk about DoF, and how we both have a different attitude to what we need to understand. Should divorce entitle you to a refund on your wedding photos? Er... no! Opticull aims to save you a heap of time...
This week, we're looking at some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning images from across the decades. Glynn discovered and shared a doco called Ashes and Snow, we shared some "actually useful" photography tips (you'll need to listen!), plus heaps more!
This week, Glynn is back, running his first one-on-one in over 2 years. David Marland shared a playlist of youtube vids about infrared photography, Glynn is impressed with youtuber Ren on many levels including cinematography, plus heaps more.
We're back at last! This week, Glynn questions me about my fine art nude photoshoot. Bruce and Cath are off to Alaska, we discuss the closing down of DPreview, photos of Venus, Canon's R3 remembers faces, and heaps more!
This week, we talk about the Steve McCurry exhibition, Icons, which is coming to Sydney, the camera musem which looks like a camera, fastone image editor, Anne Geddes, Sony lets YOU control a camera mounted on a satellite, and heaps more!
This week, Glynn is knee-deep in a new accessory sport. We hear about the AI-generated image which won a photo competition, when computational photography makes things worse, Christ The Redeemer's electric personality, and heaps more.
This week, we've got an old mobile darkroom, the best underwater pics from 2022, the amazing work of Anthony Schmidt, why all Ayers Rock images are the same, NY cabbie shoots his passengers for 30 years, and heaps more!
We're back for 2023! This week, Glynn has been cycling... AND shooting! Sadly, I was deprived of great photo opportunities in the Top End. We've got some great dog photos, why you don't use flash in an aquarium, Sony's 20-70/f4 lens, plus heaps more!
This week, we're wrapping up 2022. We've got snow leopards.... or do we? And we've got the other side of that coin. Neil Armstrong pic passed in at auction, the year in pictures, and heaps more! Catch you all in 2023!
This week, we talk about concert photography, AI-generated portraits, Artemis 1, Othersies, the end of Konika Minolta, Fuji suspending production due to parts shortages, plus heaps more!
This week, Glynn is getting the travel bug again, Bruce gets a new phone, and Carl has the warm and fuzzies. Paul sent us some stories, while Glynn found the strangest law suit he's heard of in photography. Plus heaps more!
This week, Paul sent us a few stories including one about ways to damage your gear, Victorian-era mugshots saved from the dumpster, and Joe explains why he believes photographers suck at social media.
This week, Glynn is back from the dead! We've got enhanced filters for Potatoshop, the Bright Photo Festival seminars available free, Kodak hiring film technicians, the wildlife photo of the year, and heaps more.
This week, we discuss the roadtrip, Glynn's upcoming SA tour, the Queen, space, software advances and old RAW files, building your own camera based on Raspberry Pi, uncool rock stars doing cool things for fans, and heaps more!
This week, we're talking a lot of astro-related stuff. The JWST continues to amaze us day by day, and it's only been active for a month or two! Glynn talked about Bohemian New York in the 1920's, video game photography, and heaps more!
This week, the Midjourney fascination continues, with Glynn joining in. Panasonic getting out of the low-end camera business? Camera bags made out of recycled fishing line? Why not! Bill Wyman is also a keen photographer. Plus heaps more!
This week, Glynn is banished from his home. Plus we've got the photographer who syas he's shot a million pics, and 50 of them were good, bird pics, JWST and the Huntsman Array telescope, the days of the DSLR coming to an end, plus heaps...
This week, it's one big chatfest. We talk about hunting fossils, Bruce and Tiegan's steampunk shoot, the schism in the darktable developer community, Bruce's roadtrip, and more!
This week, we chat about funerals, garden renovations, a photo-tour-operator's worst nightmare, Pultizer Prize winning photos, and more.
This week, Joe's back! We talk about his travel plans, the changing nature of photo shows, he reviews my recent steampunk shoot with Teigan, and we discuss his new website and community, TogKnowledge.
Finally, we're back in business! This week, we talk Fiji, AI developments and what they mean for photography, Robert Rosen and the Boston Tea Party, THE most incredible photo ever taken, and heaps more!
This week, we've got stuff you may (or may not) regret buying in 2022, wooden cameras, a ton of undeveloped film capturing a moment of rock history, action cameras with interchangeale lenses, Thingify pinhole camera, and heaps more!
This week, we've got more images from photographers we don't like. Glynn REALLY doesn't like them. Floods in New South Wales, Frank Sinatra shooting for Life, Adobe (and other companies) restricting business operations in Russia, and heaps more!
This week, we've got famous landmarks recreated withhousehold objects, Leica watches that can help empty your wallet, light-painted stills turned into video, new Sigma prime lenses, more kickstarter fun and games, and much more!
This week, we've got a couple of video links about the JWST, a sad tale from Paris, another interesting lo-fi camera, story, underwater photography, the Empire State building, an online editor, and another "oldest living creature" story.
We're back, but let's not make too much noise, ok? This week, what sensor SHOULD you shoot with? Shooting underwater with your cellphone, Gnarbox closes up shop, Imagen AI, more on the James Webb deep space telescope, and heaps more.
This week, we're saying goodbye to 2021! Bruce has been shooting (badly again), Hubble is back online, Afghan Girl gets asylum in Italy, a high-res colour camera the size of a grain of salt, $1100 for a battery, plus heaps more!
This week, a wedding photographer identifies 3 telltale signs the marriage won't last, a cracking set of images from the streets of New York, be quick to get a Black Friday special on Nik Software, the Dragonfly array, plus heaps more!
A quick episode this week to feature an e-mail from Paul, and to give my mate, Anthony from ipanoramic.com.au a
This week, new wheels and new debts. When you export an image from your computer, do you know what metadata is included? Do you know how various sites treat that metadata? These questions and more... answered.
Just a quick catch up to see how we are each doing. The podcast will now resume on a 2-weekly
This week, Bruce and Glynn chat about the passing of Bruce's dad, Glynn's health, and the age-old theme of the importance of taking family portraits whenever the opportunity presents itself.
This week, the "Potato photographer of the year" Awards are not as ridiculous as they may sound, and what does "photographing inclusivity" really mean or acheive? Imagine picking up a Leica M2 for just $5 in a thrift store! plus heaps more!
This week, we have a spirited discussion about just what exactly qualifies as a portrait, when buying local doesn't always mean you made the right choice, what it takes to photograph the Olympics, 2 new e-mount lenses from Tamron, plus heaps more!
This week, the "ussie" is the new "selfie". We've got various digital backs for film cameras, Glynn discusses the importance of craft over technology (regardless of whether the tech is old OR new), finding new comets, plus heaps more!
This week, is Sony'sA7IV getting closer? Know your rolling shutter from your global shutter, Shooting in Antelope Canyon, lets turn Hubble off and switch it back on again, Fujifilm pivots to pharmaceuticals, plus heaps more!
This week, Lexar develops a new memory card, photography for those with disabilites, how does film work, should kit lenses be banned from workshops, Bruce hits a speedhump, Norway's new photo manipulation laws, plus heaps more!
