Meet the GIMP!

The new Focus Ring is out!

On today’s panel:

* Benoit Marchal - Declencheur
* Boris Nienke - nSonic
* Chris Marquardt - Tips from the Top Floor

Topics: How to become a professional photographer in minutes, how to get an all-access pass to the 24 hours of Le Mans car race and how to learn about proportion

It’s not the newest news - but due to the server problem I wasn’t able to post this before. We recorded a new Focus Ring and it was my turn to moderate and edit this time. It was worth the effort, I think.

This month John Arnold (PhotoWalkthrough.com), Jeff Curto (Camera Position), Paul Giguere (Thoughts on Photography) and Rolf Steinort (Meet the Gimp) are talking about goal setting and planning photographic
projects, taking pictures without a camera and with cameras that aren’t what you’re used to. We also talk about licensing images under the Creative Commons License as opposed to putting them under strict Copyright and the upcoming legislation in the US concerning orphaned works gets an honourable mention.

The Focus Ring is a round-table discussion featuring podcasters from the Photocast Network. We try to do one every month and this was Number 13. Skype knew about the number and killed the connection for five times or so - but we managed in the end.

It was real fun to record this talk with John Arnold (PhotoWalkthrough.com), Benoît Marchal (Déclencheur), and Paul Giguere (Thoughts on Photography). We got into a real talk, not only four podcasters delivering their statements. I had a cold and was not “focused” enough - sorry for the glitches.

We discuss how to find something to shoot (when you live in the least interesting place in the world - as every photographer does), continuous (or hot) versus strobe (or flash) lighting, getting your images to the wall in an inexpensive way and composing and shooting in a square format with your digital SLR.

We have made a new Focus Ring - and the title is a bit strange, isn’t it?

Our largest panel ever with Chris Marquardt, Jeff Curto, Rolf Steinort, Benoit Marchal, Paul Giguere and John Arnold hosting. Topics this week include how to get a perfect black or white background in the studio, how Polaroid stopping making polaroid film will affect photographers and what to do when someone changes the base of your work, why black and white remains so popular (that’s my part), how shooting with a compact camera makes you more experimental, pinhole and zone plate photography with a DSLR and how the place where you view an image affects your perception.

Who is wearing the low cut blouse? And why? Just listen to it to find out.

The new Focus Ring is out. I listened to it while we recorded it - and it was quite interesting. If someone finds the “Fotogehn” photomarathon interesting - there will be another in spring here in Bremen. I’ll announce it here and in the show when the booking starts.

This week we have Chris Marquardt (Tips from the Top Floor), Martin Bailey (Martin Bailey Photography Podcast), Rolf Steinort (Meet the Gimp) & Ibarionex Perello (The Candid Frame). We discuss “switching roles”, autumn colors, leaving the camera at home & shooting with others.

You find the full shownotes and the link for the mp3 at the Photocast Network.