This Week in Photo (TWiP)

Stephanie Pham and Matt Granger join the show to discuss the art of implied nude photography. How do you get started in this type of art? And what are the challenges and barriers to entry? How do you plan a shoot? And how do the photographer (and model) ensure they are working with professionals?

We discuss these topics and many more in this important discussion. We also tackle the importance of professionalism on both the part of the model and the photographer during booking, during the shot, and after the shoot.

Connect with Matt Grangerhttp://www.mattgranger.com

Stephanie Pham's Action Reel!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwdnBrsrx6Y

Stephanie Pham and the Art School Dropout projecthttps://www.youtube.com/user/artschooldropouts

Check out their Implied Nude Photography coursehttp://www.mattgranger.com/implied

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In this interview photographer and director Claire Lejeune discusses her career path to becoming a sought-after creative in one of the most competitive and challenging towns in the world — Los Angeles, California. We discuss some tips newer photographers can employ to follow in her footsteps. Along with a nice helping of photography talk, we also explore the world of directing!

About Claire:

Claire Lejeune

Claire has been a pro photographer + director for over 6 years now and is based out of Los Angeles California. She specializes in photography, product content development, and social media marketing + strategy. She aims to push the limits of branded content and give brands a modern and updated look while striving for genuine connection through photo and video production.

“There is power in holding a camera and how the world changes once you acquire that power.” — Claire Lejeune

Some of Claire’s passions include traveling (17 countries and counting) and music (too many festivals and concerts to count). Claire is a passionate and strong-minded woman, eager to change the world with her thought-provoking photography and love of art and humans.

Her friends call her “baguette” as she originates from Paris France and has created a brand around her funny Instagram username.

http://www.ladybaguette.com/portraitshttps://www.instagram.com/ladybaguette

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Apple has revealed the next flagship iPhone — the iPhone 13 Pro Max. Some of the most stand-out flagship features of this new superphone are its new lower-light capable cameras, a new Bionic processor, cinematic mode, increased storage capacity, and more.

But is this new camera, and the mobile industry at large, ready to challenge a territory traditionally held by professional-level DSLRs and mirrorless cameras? Are we on the verge of moving from a "mobile-first" modality, into a mobile-only world?

Intrepid technology reporter Jefferson Graham joins the show to discuss his perspective on this new camera release and the mobile industry as it applies to pro-level video and photography work.

About Jefferson Graham

Jefferson Graham is the host of the travel photography series "Photowalks with Jefferson Graham," which streams for free on Tubi.

He's a former USA TODAY tech columnist, host, and podcaster, where he fronted the "Talking Tech" series over 2,000 episodes until 2021. He's also a photographer, video maker, and long-time jazz guitarist.

Graham is a working portrait photographer in the Manhattan Beach, California area and the author of nine books, including the recent Video Nation, a DIY Guide to Planning, Shooting and Sharing Great Video, as well as tomes on the infomercial king Ron Popeil, the TV legend Aaron Spelling and history of Sin City, Vegas: Live and In Person.

He has written and/or photographed for a host of publications, including Rolling Stone, People, Us Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, Easy Reader, Esquire, and TV Guide.

Jeff's photography can be seen on his http://www.jeffersongraham.net website. His guitar channel, featuring classics from the Great American Songbook, is on YouTube. 

Photowalks: http://www.photowalkstv.com Website: http://www.jeffersongraham.net Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffersongraham Instagram: https://instagram.com/jeffersongraham YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/PhotowalksTV

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In this episode, I explore a different perspective of photography with a culinary photographer who's also pursuing a graduate degree in music! What happens when these two artistic disciplines collide?

About Calvin

Calvin Hu

Growing up on Golden Curry and California rolls, San Francisco native Calvin Hu first got into photography as a way to document the home-cooked meals his mom would make growing up. After moving to Los Angeles and then to New York to pursue a graduate degree in music, Calvin began exploring different urban areas, capturing delicious moments and sidewalk snapshots on the weekends away from the piano.

For Calvin, “similarly to music, when it comes to photography, consistency is key. And, if it’s something that you love it’ll always find its way back to you in some way, shape, or form.” For a feed that’s good enough to eat, follow @thecalvinhu on Instagram.

Adobe Rising Stars

Calvin is one of Adobe's 2021 Rising Stars of Photography. The annual Rising Stars program highlights up-and-coming photographers, each of whom will have the opportunity to take over Lightroom's Instagram page.

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In this episode, I chat with an old friend Trey Ratcliff. Trey is arguably responsible for popularizing the technique of using HDR to create hyper-realistic images. He's now turning his attention to a brand new acronym… NFT! In this interview, we talk about how he was able to generate nearly $750k in 10-days by selling NFT versions of his HDR photography.

Website: http://www.stuckincustoms.comNFT Collection: https://opensea.io/collection/beautiful-cities-trey-ratcliff

Trey Ratcliff

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In this interview I speak with the amazing Erin Ng about the delicious art of photographing food.

Erin Ng is a commercial + editorial photographer based in San Francisco specializing in food and lifestyle photography. Her passion for delicious things and the people and stories behind them has allowed her to work with clients that range from national CPG companies and food publications to food tech start-ups and independent restaurants and food businesses. She was featured as a 2020 Adobe Rising Star Photographer.

Erin Ng

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In this interview, photographer and cinematographer Steve Richard joins the podcast to discuss his approach to creating his fantastical images. He discusses how he plays by the rules of his own "personal dogma", and his meticulous attention to detail and the art form of photography.

https://www.steverichard.com

About Steve Richard:

Steve Richard

Steve Richard has been plying his trade in the mysterious photographic arts for well over a quarter of a century. Steve is both a stills photographer and a cinematographer, thus bringing an unerring sense of style and composition to all of his work. Steve’s visuals capture the imagination, challenge preconceptions, and merge a classical ethos with urban grit and 21st Century techno-savvy.

Born and raised in a small town in Eastern Canada, Steve took his first photograph at the age of 12, over 40 years ago. Much of the early years were spent developing his craft while working in the various commercial facets of the photography trade. During this time he developed a significant love-hate relationship with photography, and actually gave up shooting a number of times.

During these downtimes, he has worked as a full-time musician touring across Canada, a recording studio engineer, a fiber-optic network designer, a teacher at Dalhousie University, a cinematographer, and has developed the necessary skills to produce a fine bowl of Tom Ka Guy soup. His passion for photography developed into a full obsession about 20 years ago when he decided to only shoot the subjects that would interpret his view of the world. For the most part, this meant a combination of beauty mixed with a bit of darkness.

Although fully digital Steve still creates his work as if he was shooting film and does everything “in camera” with little or no post-production. His approach to creating art is more from the perspective of a sculptor than a photographer, spending hours making small changes in light and body line until the final image is perfect. Steve spends most of his time shooting dance, bodies in motion, and teaching the art of light, language and line.

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In this continuing series of episodes covering various aspects of the NFT space, I'm joined by artists Alexis Hunley and Annabelle Freedman. They've recently dropped an NFT release series titled "The Flaw of Attraction". The series seeks to shed light on the controversial topic of sexuality, and what it means (and does not mean) to be non-binary.

About Alexis Hunley

Alexis Hunley is a freelance artist based in Los Angeles. Since she began her photography journey in 2017 she has had the pleasure of producing commercial, editorial, lifestyle, and documentary work for a variety of clients including Adobe, Essence, Airbnb, Apple, and The National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

Propelled by her love for the interplay between science and art, Alexis is naturally drawn to work that allows her to explore vulnerability and authenticity. As a queer Black artist navigating the creative industry Alexis has found that her desire to dive deeper and reach for the truest, most authentic forms of expression drives her creativity.

https://instagram.com/byalexishunleyhttps://twitter.com/byalexishunleyhttps://www.alexishunley.com

About Annabel Freedman

Annabelle Freedman is a multi-faceted nonbinary artist. Creating space predominately through sounds, they have been favored on KCRW, NPR Music, and other stations. They have toured festival circuits gracing the stages of SXSW, Broke LA, and UMS as well as major LA venues and stages abroad.

Exploring space and time through their inspiration of nature, they interweave playful assessments of humanity through collaboration, with personal anecdotes rooted in more-than-human interconnectedness.

https://instagram.com/annabellefreedmanhttps://twitter.com/BelleFreedmanhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/0NoKAkvLzKucjNCZ0y62SW?si=vDd1iXhpSxuUftPYXvkcKQ&dl_branch=1https://soundcloud.com/annabellefreedmanhttps://www.facebook.com/AnnabelleFreedmanMusic

The NFT collection

Annabelle's NFTs: https://foundation.app/@AnnabelleFreedmanAlexis' NFTs: https://foundation.app/@byalexishunley

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Diana Sinclair, an expert and influencer in the NFT space is a seventeen-year-old visual artist and curator based in New Jersey. Currently, she is focusing on her video portraiture and experimenting with new mediums. Her work chiefly focuses on identity and the social issues she’s surrounded by. Sinclair (b. 2004) has been engaging seriously in the arts since she was nine.

Diana Sinclair

https://www.instagram.com/p/CO8vXhyhQ4y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

She has since studied several different mediums at institutions such as SVA, NYU, and the Academy of Art University. In November 2020 she was selected as a YoungArts 2021 National Finalist in Photography. After joining the NFT space early in the year, she established herself as one of the youngest curators in the space by curating the global NFT exhibition “The Digital Diaspora” in June. This exhibit showed the weekend of Juneteenth at Superchief Gallery NFT in NYC, and has been covered by notable media like Teen Vogue, The Guardian, and helped place her on the Fortune Nifty 50 list of top influential people in NFTs.

Instagram: @dianaesinclairTwitter: @dianaesinclairyat: https://y.at/sunflower.diamond.sun

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In this episode, I'm joined by Aaron Nace of PHLEARN! We discuss some strong contenders to Adobe Photoshop!

About Aaron and Phlearn!

©Aaron Nace

Initially, PHLEARN was an enjoyable side-project designed to bring in some income to fund Aaron’s passion projects. As the years went on, those passion projects helped his style and vision coalesce. His formal education was grounded in practicality; industrial design is the art of form and function, often characterized by precision and clarity. In contrast, his unique perspective drove him to inject elements of the strange and imaginative. The resulting images exist somewhere in between high fashion and surreal fantasy.

With access to an instructor with such a distinct sense of style and warm personality, PHLEARN’s YouTube channel began to grow exponentially. PHLEARN inevitably grew out of Aaron’s North Carolina apartment and the company now calls Chicago home, taking up residence in a spacious studio overlooking the city’s iconic skyline.​

Now, with over 500 tutorials, PHLEARN has evolved into a massive resource for anyone aspiring to express their creativity whether it be personally or professionally. Aaron has also evolved from that of a pure creative to someone now responsible for the day-to-day growth and development of a thriving business. With nearly 1.5 million YouTube subscribers, the demands of curating new and challenging content for his students require the majority of his focus, though he still manages to find the time for the conceptual work that he loves.

Whether he’s working out a way to pull off some new bizarre image or he’s helping sculpt the direction of a company to ensure the happiness of its customers and employees, Aaron finds a way to make sure that his personal philosophy continues to resonate throughout everything that he does.

http://www.phlearn.com

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