Tonight, there was a lunar eclipse. Where you were on the planet would have determined the view that you got.

This was the view from Down Under.

This week, the SI Flickr group continues to grow,
Shelton talks about how to shoot a window light portrait (that should come in handy for the listener assignment),
He’s also lined up a prize: Corel PaintShopPro v11
Shelton also mentions Melbourne-based photographer, David Williams
Plus, listener Curt Bronkhorst sent us some images of his work:

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Sorry guys. I truly am.

This week, I had a cousin call me.I haven’t seen her in 6 years. She and her boyfriend are on a working/touring/holiday/jaunt around Australia. They’ve been on the road for almost 2 years now, and have just rocked into Sydney. They are staying with Cath and I for a few days, and that’s kind of thrown regular schedules out the window a bit… and I don’t mind that in the least. Sometimes, you just gotta put family first, and it’s been really cool to catch up with her (and to meet her boyfriend, too).

I will do everything humanly possible to get a show out next week.

There seems to be a bit of confusion on where to send the listener assignment photos (natural light window portraits).
So, for the record, just send them to studio@audio2u.com
And that will be the rule for any future listener assignments, too.
Sorry guys and gal. Should have mentioned that on the podcast!
Cheers,

Bruce.

This week, Bruce’s home-made softbox (idea courtesy of diyphotography)

…some more panning shots, this time from Brad Wilkins in Milwaukee…

…and Shelton discusses macro photography, and putting live insects in your fridge!

Also, we announce the first weekly “Shutters Inc listener assignment”. Your task, should you choose to accept it Jim, is to shoot a natural light window portrait.

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This week, how to find models without agents.
Bruce is planning on doing a shoot soon with a model from Ozmodel.

Bruce has got his new lens. This is a shot ripped off quickly in the back yard before school, on the morning of recording Shutters Inc! Nothing brilliant, I know, but gimme some time with it.We’ll get there.

Shelton answers a listener e-mail about how to best photograph people who are a little on the heavy side,
plus he also talks about ‘framing’ our composition.

Also, not mentioned on the podcast, but definitely worth sharing, are these panning shots from Andrew Sanigorski:

Recently you guys were talking about blurs and panning the camera to renders moving subjects stationary and I thought I’d share some of the work I’ve done with you and your listeners/readers which is a bit different as they don’t have a central sharp focus and are more concerned with the shapes and natural rhythms I’ve observed in the landscape.
The images (personal work) were exposed for between 1/5th to 3 seconds generally with small apertures to get the type of blurring i was after (of course I could have added an ND filter so wider apertures could be used). The images were pretty much adjusted using camera raw (Bridge) with some very minor PShop tweaking.

…plus these of Jason Kaechler’s crazy cats!

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Well, seems our listeners can’t wait for us!

Richard Annable (he of the “Crap, crap, giggle, tip, end” fame) has set up a Flickr page dedicated to Shutters Inc.

You can find it here:

Shutters Inc on Flickr

Essentially, the idea is that if you guys want to share even more images than I post up with the podcast each week, you can do so at your own time and pace.

Way to go, Richard!

Would you like to spend a week with Shelton on a fabulous Australian photo
location?
Shelton is arranging to lead a photographic tour on South Australia’s
Kangaroo Island in March 2008.
Download the pdf for further information here.

I don’t have any images of Kangaroo Island, but you can view some images from Flickr.

In ep 85, more listener e-mail,
Andrew Cooper’s panoramas,

the controversial cover of Total Image,

A great site that Bruce stumbled across during the week…. diyphotography, which led Shelton to mention Strobist’s website

The crazy wacky “plumbing-supplies-extension-tube” macro setup is here

Plus, Shelton is looking for expressions of interest in a photo tour to Australia’s Kangaroo Island next year.

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