This Week in Photo (TWiP)

In this interview, Adobe's Brenda Milis joins me once again to discuss her team's findings when researching creative trends in 2022!

About Brenda Milis

Brenda Milis is the Principal of Creative and Consumer Insights for Adobe Stock. As a photo industry veteran and experienced creative director, she leads the Creative Services group driving three key, interrelated activities: servicing the visual needs of top enterprise clients; identifying visual trends; curating content for global merchandising activities.

Connect with Brenda Milis

https://blog.adobe.com/en/authors/brenda-milishttps://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-milis-88a92514

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In this interview I sit down with headshot photography pioneer Peter Hurley. Peter and I discuss his approach to creating his style of headshots, including equipment, psychology, and business.

About Peter Hurley

Peter Hurley is a world-famous photographer, an official partner of Canon and B&H Photos, and is the creator of Headshot Crew, the world’s largest team of headshot and portrait photographers. Peter authored The Headshot - an in-depth book on the importance of a proper headshot and how to take the best shots possible.

Peter has been featured on Fstoppers, Popular Photography, and has also participated in TEDx Talks. Peter has recently launched the first-ever photography-inspired NFT collection, Shabangrs. The 2500-piece collection was created in honor of photographers and creatives around the world who haven't gotten much attention from the NFT space.

Connect with Peter

Peter’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterhurley/Peter's IG - https://www.instagram.com/peter_hurley/Website - https://shabangrs.com/Twitter - https://twitter.com/shabangrsInstagram - https://instagram.com/shabangrsDiscord - https://discord.gg/shabangrs

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I recently had the opportunity to sit down in person with the CTO and CEO of Skylum Software. We discussed the past, the present, and the future of Luminar. We also discussed the general digital imaging industry and where things might be going with regard to VR, NFT, and more!

About Skylum

We started as a team of two co-founders in 2009 and initially called ourselves Macphun Software. In the beginning, we created apps of different genres. A few years later we felt that we wanted to focus on what we are truly passionate about - innovative technologies and solutions for creative photography. Since then, we grew into an international team of people who shared our passion, changed the name to Skylum, won many industry awards, and, what's more important - the trust of thousands of customers.

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This week it's a chat with Lumenzia creator Greg Benz. Now that Photoshop and Lightroom have masking superpowers, how do you take that capability to the next level? Greg talks about the origins of the Lumenzia, and how the introduction of the M1 processor has changed things.

Get Lumenziahttp://www.gregbenzphotography.com

https://youtu.be/teitH9lOaa0

About Greg, in his own words...

I got hooked on photography back in 2000, when I was living in London for six months, and have been obsessed ever since.  These days I call Minneapolis home but continue to travel the world in search of incredible cityscapes and landscapes.

My goal is not just to create art, but to connect with other photographers to share the vision, tools, and technique behind my work.  I don’t believe I’ve ever found a camera that automatically captures the beauty of the world I see, so I use Lightroom, Photoshop, luminosity masking, or HDR for nearly all of my images.  These topics can seem intimidating, so my goal is to help make them a bit simpler through the tools and tutorials that I share.

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In this interview, I speak with Dallas-based photographer Zerb Mellish. Zerb's current creative focus is documenting and telling stories about black culture… on film, with a medium-format Mamiya RZ67! Find out why he's chosen this "path less traveled" for his work, and also how he's now fallen in love with a brand new Fujifilm digital camera!

http://obzerb.com/https://www.instagram.com/obzerb/

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This week Bob Caniglia, Blackmagic Design's Director of Sales Operations for the Americas joins the podcast to explain why the company is able to give celebrated non-linear editing software DaVinci Resolve away for free. Is it somehow "less-than" the paid version? Spoiler…no.

http://www.blackmagicdesign.com

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Lumix ambassador PhotoJoseph joins the podcast to share his thoughts on Panasonic's new BS1H Box Camera! Joseph Linaschke, aka PhotoJoseph is a photographer, filmmaker, YouTuber, content producer, educator, and a laundry list of other names.

The LUMIX BS1H is a full-frame box-style mirrorless live and cinema camera featuring a compact body with 6K 24p / 5.9K 30p 10-bit unlimited video recording capability

Connect with PhotoJoseph:

Web: http://www.photojoseph.comYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/photojoseph

Panasonic LUMIX BS1H

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Mark Cruz, Nikon's senior manager for digital cameras and interchangeable lenses joins the podcast this week to discuss Nikon's new flagship camera, the Z9. This new body is significant and different in many ways from its predecessors or even the competition.

Many of the things about these cameras that Nikon fans have come to know, love, and rely on are still there — but with a few "enhancements". One of those enhancements is a new approach to autofocusing tech that includes the incorporation of artificial intelligence and machine learning to bring a new level of accuracy to an already rock-solid autofocusing system.

About Mark Cruz

Mark Cruz, Nikon USA

Mark Cruz is the Senior Manager, Product Digital Cameras with Interchangeable Lenses (DCIL) at Nikon USA. In this role, Mark is responsible for bringing new digital imaging products to market, including the latest Nikon Z series mirrorless cameras and NIKKOR Z lenses. He also helps manage marketing and educational efforts for Nikon products across a variety of platforms and social media channels.

Previously he was a Senior Technical representative for Nikon Canada, responsible for spearheading business development through technical sales and services. In 2019, he moved to the U.S. to join the Marketing department at Nikon USA.

https://www.nikonusa.com

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Outdoor Photographer Curtis Jones joins the podcast to share the juicy details about his latest (and most perilous) photography adventure to the Arctic Circle!

About Curtis Jones

©Curtis Jones

Curtis Jones is a Canadian outdoor and adventure photographer who spends most of his time in climates rarely inhabited by people. Working for both the private and public sector, his portfolio spans environmental initiatives, literacy programs, Canadian National Parks, tourism, and food sustainability.

Collaborating with world-class athletes, production teams, and local communities, he has built his career delivering an intimate view of the raw, wild, and often untamed. A seasoned photography guide, Curtis is often found leading photography workshops in Greenland, Antarctica, Mongolia, and Newfoundland – sharing his appreciation for photo adventures, tents, and solid punchlines with others.

http://www.curtisjonesphoto.com

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In this episode I speak with Bill Cramer, the man behind Wonderful Machine. An agency that works to connect photographers worldwide with the firms looking to hire them. They facilitate hiring talent from all corners of the globe while ensuring that talent get's paid a great wage and that the hiring company receives world-class work.

About Bill Cramer and Wonderful Machine:

Bill Cramer

Bill is founder and CEO of Wonderful Machine, an art production agency with a network of 600 photographers around the world. In addition to connecting photographers and clients, his 38 staff members provide branding and marketing services for photographers and they produce photo shoots for agencies and brands. They're based in suburban Philadelphia.After graduating from Penn State in 1985, Bill spent the first few years of his career working as a photojournalist, covering news and sports for the Associated Press, The New York Times, and People Weekly. He then spent many years shooting portraits for magazines including Forbes and Business Week, corporations like Comcast and Accenture, and institutions like Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Drexel University, before founding Wonderful Machine in 2007.Bill attended the first Eddie Adams Workshop in 1988, and he assisted many photographers, including fashion photographer Steven Meisel. In 1989, he assisted Bob Huntzinger on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

He owes a lot of his success to what he learned from his engineer dad, from working the graveyard shift at IHOP, and from his junior high school shop teacher.

https://wonderfulmachine.com

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