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Advertising & Fine Art Photographer – Randal Ford Ep51

Randal Ford talks about what the job of an advertising photographer really looks like in probably the best description I’ve heard. What it looked like 10 years ago when he did a job compared to what it looks like now. How he got into the fine art world by photographing some cows and happens when you bring your kid to work while shooting an elephant. Be sure to check out his new book The Animal Kingdom available for order on Amazon. Check out more of his work at www.randalford.com

 

Below are some of the images we talked about creating in our chat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo Professor – Marc Ullom Ep44

One of the things that I find most interesting is all the different ways you can make a career out of the same thing. As a professor of photography Marc Ullom and I in some ways do the same thing, take pictures, the reality though is what we do is nothing alike and that’s interesting. Marc was actually one of my teachers and early inspirers to explore photography more. I was excited that he was willing to come on the show and share what his journey has been like, what it’s like to teach photography and what he has going on now that excites him.

You can find Marc’s work at www.marcullom.com

I’m also very excited about the photography workshops and tour business that he and his wife Sharron are now doing that you can find more about at www.ullom.photo

Here is a few highlights of Marc’s work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Documentary Family Photographer – Kirsten Lewis Part2 Ep43

Back for a second hour with documentary family photographer Kirsten Lewis. I ask more about this whole Creative Live and education side of her business. She tells me more of what she has up her sleeve for the future…it may or may not include Jennifer Garner. We also talk a little about some of her equipment and why she uses it to try and best capture real moments both of subjects and her own family.

You can see her speak like in Boulder CO on October 25th 2017, I think there will be streaming too if you can’t make it out. But doesn’t everyone need a good excuse to come visit Colorado! Here is the link for free tickets. 

You can find Kirsten’s work at www.kirstenlewisphoto.com

Also if you’re interested in her education classes check out www.kirstenlewiseducation.com

Documentary Family Photographer – Kirsten Lewis Ep42

One of my favorite things is people with unique careers and Kirsten Lewis certainly has one of those. In fact she kind of helped create the genre of documentary family photographer. We talk about how she arrived at her niche, inspiration, teaching, balancing family life and so much more.

If you’re in the Denver/Boulder area you should check out an event Kirsten is giving on October 25th. It’s free but you need tickets which you can find at the following link.

https://kirstenlewis.yapsody.com/event/index/159811/failure-i-lifes-best-gift-and-other-le

You can find Kirsten’s work at www.kirstenlewisphoto.com

Also if you’re interested in her education classes check out www.kirstenlewiseducation.com

Underwater cinematographer/photographer – Perrin James Ep 41

Whenever I see a Perrin James image or video I am always jealous. Which I think is a good sign for how good he is at what he does. He captures some of the most amazing underwater imagery I have ever seen and I was always left wondering how did he do that? Well I got him on the podcast to explain how he did do that!

Follow him on Instagram @perrinjames1

Or check out his website to see more of his short films and buy prints www.perrinjames.com

Here is just a smattering of his imagery.

 

Aerial Photographer – Tobias Hägg Ep40

Aerial photography has for lack of a better pun really taken off in the last few years thanks to advances in drone technology. Around the same time Instagram grew in popularity and became one of the places to showcase aerial photo and video work. Instagram is how I found photographer Tobias Hägg of Sweeden. His aerial landscapes are some of the most interesting and beautiful photo work I have seen recently. I got the chance to talk with him about how he got started, how you make a career out of taking aerial photos and putting them on Instagram and what are the challenges of the field.

Here are a few of his amazing photos and I hope you will check him out more on Instagram @airpixels or his website www.airpixelsmedia.com

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Birth Photographer – Jessie Fultz Ep39

Life goes in some odd directions. I feel that way about my own career and looking at where my high school classmate of mine Jessie Fultz ended up I found myself both curious and mystified. How does someone end up as a birth photographer? Well Jessie found her passion in birth photography despite having never really studied photography or given birth! I wanted to find out how all this happened.

Find her awesome work at www.ashevillebirthphotography.com and on Facebook at Jessie Fultz Photography

Portrait & Celebrity Photographer – Art Streiber Ep 38

Art Streiber doesn’t want to be described as a celebrity photographer. He’d prefer portrait photographer or problem solver, maybe visual fixer. Really though Art is all those things. He is also a very open book about how he goes about solving those visual problems and making portraits of celebrities. And being open in the world of high end photography is not a normal thing. Many photographers act as though they are guarding magical secrets given to them by the gods that they are scared every up and comer is going to steal. Streiber on the other hand gives talks on how he does everything from shoot planning to running his business and then for good measure has an Instagram feed showing how he lit everything. His openness and willing to share was personally inspiring to me as are the long long list of portraits he’s done that you’ve seen on scores of magazine covers.

You can find his work at www.artstreiber.com 

Also check out his Instagram feed @aspictures

Instagrammer – Jess Dales pt2 Ep37

More with Jess Dales breaking down how she gets jobs from Instagram, who hires her and what they hire her to do. For anyone trying to make something more from social media or just wondering how others have done it these episodes with Jess are super insightful.

Jess was really great to talk and is a great follow on Instagram you haven’t already I hope you will check out her feed on Instagram which is

Instagram @jess.wandering

check out her blog www.jessdales.com

Instagrammer – Jess Dales part1 Ep36

Jess Dales doesn’t call herself an Instagrammer, that is a lame name I gave her. She would say travel blogger or visual storyteller and those both would be very true and she is very good at both of those things. But the primary way that Jess gets her visuals and stories out into the world is Instagram and it always has been. I wanted to understand how this all worked. How she built up a following of over 300,000 people. How she has found ways to get paid. What things about all this have been hard. What are the choices she has made. And how exactly do you get paid to go to Slovenia by posting pictures on a free app that most people scroll through on their phones. Turns out Jess is awesome and was willing to share about how all this happened and how it all works.

Check her instagram feed out @jess.wandering

And her blog at  http://www.jessdales.com/