This week’s podcast interviews with two folks influencing the world of photography. First up is well-known portrait photographer Brian Smith who walks us through his workflow of posing subjects and working with mirror-less cameras. Then find out about long exposure, night sky and timelapse photography.

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Brian Smith

Screen Shot 2013-12-05 at 9.45.50 AMPulitzer Prize-winning photographer, Brian Smith, considers himself to be one of the luckiest guy on the planet. Hes told Bill Gates exactly what to do for an entire hour, appeared on The X Factor, exhibited at the Library of Congress, dined with the President, written an Amazon Best Seller, shared cupcakes with Anne Hathaway, gotten drunk with George Clooney and married the most beautiful woman he ever laid eyes on.

For the past 30 years, Brian Smiths iconic portraits of famous celebrities, athletes and executives have been used in advertising, by corporations and have graced the covers and pages of hundreds of magazines including Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, Time, Forbes, New York Times Magazine, Elle and British GQ.

His first magazine photograph appeared in LIFE Magazine when Smith was a 20-year-old student at the University of Missouri. Five years later, Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for his photographs of the Los Angeles Olympic Games. He was again a finalist for the Pulitzer for his photographs of Haiti in Turmoil. His photograph of Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board at the Seoul Olympics won first place in both World Press Photo and the Pictures of the Year competition.

Levi Sim and Brian Smith discuss:
  • How Brian got his start?
  • What Brian has and continues to shoot on
  • Brians relationship with Sony
  • Advantages of mirror-less cameras
  • Using lens adapters
  • Sony A7R talk
  • Why hes not a big tripod guy
  • Explaining 2K and 4K
  • Parting advice
  • His latest book on Sony A7R
Be sure to catch up with Brian at this year’s Photoshop World.

Ron Risman

Ron is an award winning cinematographer, editor of Cameratown.com, and timelapse specialist and instructor located on the seacoast of New Hampshire. Ron has been a photographer & videographer for over 25 years and continues to follow his passion when it comes to capturing and teaching night photography.

Ron has been commissioned to shoot time-lapses for corporations such as Liberty Mutual and Restoration Hardware; news organizations such as FOX CT News and WFTV-9 Orlando, and his timelapse work recently appeared in an HBO Film “The Crash Reel” which premiered last year at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Rich and Ron discuss:

  • What type of imagery does Ron create?
  • What does he like about night photography?
  • Why he calls photography Romance
  • Learning the recipe of night photography
  • Walking through the steps of night photography
  • Useful apps for night photographers
  • How does nighttime photography change when shooting close to a city?
  • Is there a renewed interest in long exposure photography?
  • Why he was a terrible film photographer?
  • Timelapse talk
  • Workshop details
  • Where to find more information

Our verdict

 /5

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