Shutters Inc

The world's best-loved photography podcast

Bruce Williams

I have been a professional audio engineer since the mid 80's and am happy to do for free in my spare time what I get paid to do during the week. I created Shutters Inc in May 2005, and it is today (as best as I can tell) THE longest-running photography podcast in the world.

10 thoughts on “Shutters Inc – episode 115”

  • John G.
    February 9, 2009 at 3:41
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    Woo Hoo! It’s about time the two of you got of your lazy bums and started producing more Podcasts. It’s not like we’re out here paying you nothing for no Podcasts!

    Seriously, Glad to hear you are both working hard to produce a wonderful podcast for the photo community. We really do appreciate the time and effort it takes to produce the quality and informative podcasts you put together on a regular basis.

    Now on with the show – Crap, Crap, Giggle, Giggle, Good Info, Crap, Giggle, Crap.

  • M. Chan
    February 9, 2009 at 15:45
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    Yes, Shutters Inc is back!

  • John R
    February 9, 2009 at 16:52
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    WHOOT… I am just uploading it to my iPod right now, this will make my trek into work tomorrow morning that much more enjoyable.

    Glad you to have you both back

    Cheers
    JR

  • cortinam
    February 9, 2009 at 17:21
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    Every Sunday I anticipated and enjoyed A2U on my drive into work. Needless to say I hung in there and enjoyed my commute once again.

  • Jason
    February 10, 2009 at 4:30
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    It’s like Christmas in February.

    P.S. – I didn’t get you anything.

    It is nice to see the best photography podcast on the net back again.

    Thanks guys.

  • Mark Haffner
    February 14, 2009 at 2:54
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    Shelton and Bruce –
    Great to have you back. I have kind of a random response to one thing you briefly touched on; I have always wanted to share this with a workshop presenter who might listen, and you seem like a good candidate. You mentioned that you have been busy the past few months conducting such workshops, and I am absolutley positive they were excellent. Like thousands of other photographers, I have been on several of these multi-day intensive workshops, and there is one thing that I really don’t like about them. It has to do with the way practice shooting sessions are conducted. The formula is that the instructor sets up the shot, explains what he or she is doing as he or she takes a few sample shots, and then turns things over to the crowd. What ensues is not so much a replica of the shoot that has just been demonstrated, but a replica of the press corps at a news conference. The students jostle for position, everyone takes a few shots from angles and distances of widely varying degrees, the most aggressive students get right in front, and little effective practice is achieved. This is even a problem in small workshops, and of course gets more intense as the class gets larger. I have found that the most useful shots for me are to step back and take some wide-angle pictures of the setup as opposed to trying to mimic the instructor.
    Unless you are conducting a nude workshop, why not just have the students pair up and shoot each other? This might not work if the shoot has three strobes and a background, but I am guessing in your workshops you preach what you preach here — find the light and put them in it; hold the strobe with your non-shooting hand as far away as you can get it for a little fill flash, and so on. You could even put them in groups of three.
    As a facilitator, your time with the students is distributed even more democratically — instead of trying to find enough time to spend with each individual, you visit each group. Maybe you could rotate each group so they get a few minutes with the model after you have visited with them; then they would be working as a team and it would be easier to replicate exactly what you wanted them to experience.
    Just a thought for whatever it’s worth. Glad you’re back on the air. (I guess that doesn’t work for podcasts, does it?)
    Mark

  • Mark Haffner
    February 14, 2009 at 2:56
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    Bruce — Clarification — I am not talking about shooting mountains in Patagonia, but more like a wedding or portrait photography workshop.

  • Robert Iversen
    February 14, 2009 at 8:07
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    It is really great to know that you are back. Thank you for all of the updates. Does Shelton have any shots of the trip? If it is on one of his websites, can you give us the link?

    I agree… it is Christmas in February and a great surprise.

    Thank you to you both!
    Robert
    Phoenix, AZ

  • Maat
    February 18, 2009 at 7:27
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    Hi
    I was wondering what was the recommended/required equipment list for the trip to Padagonia?

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