This week, I caught up with Lorna after the final Sydney ‘Focus on Business’ meeting for 2011.
We discussed break-ins,
insurance,
the FOB series of meetings moving into the Adelaide (South Australia) and Newcastle (New South Wales) markets in 2012 (!),
the New Zealand holiday,
lens lust,
the January Sydney group shoot,
BWP calendars,
and the Barrington Tops meetup in November.
Have a merry Christmas one and all!
Talk to you in the new year!

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This week, I caught up with Lorna Andrikopoulos from Instinctive Desires after the third Sydney “Focus on Business” meeting.
I’m off on holiday for a couple of weeks, so there definitely won’t be any podcasts for the next three weeks.
Plus, a quick chat about the status (current, and future) of Shutters Inc.

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This week, Lorna Andrikopoulos pops in for a quick chat about the ‘Focus on Business’ series,
what photographic projects Bruce has been involved with recently (and in the near future),
plus the importance of setting goals.

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This week, just why has it been so long between drinks?

A couple of pieces of good news for Bruce this week.
My photos from the New England North West Tourism photoshoot in December have been published in the NRMA’s Open Road magazine!
And my image “Caloundra Blue” picked up a Bronze Award in the 2011 Epson International Photographic Pano Awards!

Book your flights to Sydney if you haven’t already, ’cause PMA is just around the corner!

Also, some audio from last weekends festivities in Melbourne for your listening pleasure!

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Finally!

We’re back for 2011!

This week, a quick recap of the wedding Bruce shot in November,
the New England North West Tourism shoot with Paul Mercurio,
the Williams’ family holiday to Queensland,
Shelton’s Egypt tour has been put on hold indefinitely,
CPW has an exciting new e-magazine project in the works,
and Shelton commences a series of talks on composition, beginning with “fear” and how it can hamper our composition skills.

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This week, the final episode of SI for 2010!
Next week’s Outback NSW Tourism shoot with Paul Mercurio,
the workshop Bruce conducted for the Anglican Dioscese of Sydney,
cruising around New Zealand,
Rich Bancini wants us to cover composition,
Rakesh’s e-mail,
focus modes,
and the (count ‘em!) 2 end-of-year dinners!

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This week, Shelton talks about the workshops which CPW conducted in Brisbane this week (and a big shout out to the Breakfast Creek Hotel for helping out with a last-minute location),
including the ups and downs of working with models,
coping with inclement weather,
photographers guilty of over-lighting a subject,
f-stop (backpack style) camera bags,
Photo Continental in Brisbane, who also helped out CPW with a venue,
the launch of the Nikon D7000,
my potential next commercial shoot,
why Mad Max 4 didn’t get shot this year,
and the Egypt photo tour 2011.

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This week, Shelton asks for my opinion of the David Honl lighting workshop (which I travelled to Melbourne for, on Wednesday… it was awesome btw),
we talk about some of Dave’s awesome HonlPhoto gear, which you should definitely check out,
I talk about Dave’s approach to lighting a shot in a step-by-step manner (see photos at the end of the show notes),
Shelton talks about his recent U.S. trip with CPW,
Shelton has just locked in his Egypt and Middle East photo tour for April 2011 (details coming in the following weeks),
plus (after the show closer), some audio from the wrap-up session at the end of the Honl lighting workshop (apologies about the room acoustics).

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Joana, lit by single flash with Honl Traveller 8″ softbox, 3′ out and 30 degrees above.

Same as previous, but with flash on small tripod behind Joana, facing away, with an Egg Yolk Yellow Honl filter added.

Same as above, but with a third flash positioned back near the rear wall, with a Chocolate Honl filter applied.

And finally, with a fourth light positioned to throw just a hint of light onto Joana’s boots.

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Finally!
We’re back!
We wind back the clock to just after our last podcast and start wading through the events which have transpired:

Bruce’s car crash,
South Africa and the World Cup (Shelton’s posts: one, two and three),
Shelton’s trip to Nevada and California (where models don’t show up, either, apparently!),
Shelton’s back pain,
the Film Noir shoots that CPW has run in Melbourne recently,
Bruce and Max’s roadtrip (Facebook photos here),
how photography opens up life experiences that you might not otherwise have encountered,
Nathan’s interstate wedding,
a “roadtrip workshop”  in CPW’s future perhaps?,
Sydney meetup #7 scheduled for Sunday August 1st (details on Facebook),
and remember, we now have an e-mail address that will reach BOTH of us! Woohoo!

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This week, Bruce’s holiday, in which I played with some more off-camera flash,
DIY lighting,
Shelton discovers the benefits of blogging, with Kodak asking him to travel to South Africa to shoot/video/blog the World Cup,
Richard Annable alerts us to the potential dangers of beta software,
the Adobe CS5 launch,
content-aware fill in Photoshop CS5,
creating your own presets (rather than using those that ship with your software),
exposing to the left/right of the histogram,
the season finale of House shot entirely on a Canon 5D mk11,
and your last chance to have a crack at the photo retouching competition in order to win yourself a Wacom Intuos 4 graphics tablet!

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This week, want to win yourself the Wacom Intuos 4 graphics tablet? Details at the end of this post.
The kill date for Lightroom 3 Beta 2 is officially June 30, 2010.
Erin King loves her old graphics tablet,
Mark Loader chimed in with his thoughts on 3rd party lenses, to which Shelton agreed,
Ray Medina reminds us that the Gigapan pano robot goes on sale this month according to Engadget,
Bruce’s impromptu shoot for ARN Solutions,
dealing with spur-of-the-moment stuff,
Sydney meetup #3 (the tram shed shoot)… facebook pics here, blog post coming soon,
Shelton’s shoot with Sophie in a boxing ring,
models and their “look”,
Shelton’s wedding photography DVD on sale now through CPW,
and Flashwave triggers!

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OK, so you want to know how you could win the Wacom Intuos 4 graphics tablet, huh?

Grab yourself this image (9MB, RAW) (36MB, TIF) and retouch it to the best of your ability.
A couple of rules:
a) You must only use your mouse. If you currently own a tablet, you must not use it for this competition. We’re relying on your honesty in this respect.
b) No cropping. Retouch only.

Once you’ve retouched it, resize it to 500 pixels WIDE, and resample to 72 dpi.
Once you’ve done that, send it here.
Shelton and Bruce will judge the entries received.
Deadline to submit an entry is midday (AEST) Monday 19th April, 2010.
Winner will be announced in the next podcast produced after 19th April.
Good luck!

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This week, Bruce is excited about having potentially sold his first large format canvas print,
which led to a bit of a discussion about marketing ideas for limited edition fine art works,
tales of woe over how our listeners killed the server after the Joe McNally epiosde was released,
Joe’s video confession,
Bruce’s lens dilemma,
and getting together for a photowalk with your local fellow photographers.

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Happy new year!
In the first ep for 2010, we talk about our cruise to New Caledonia and Vanuatu,
the new Creative Photo Workshops website,
My new Sony alpha 850,
the Sydney photographers are getting together monthly,
the 5MP/SI party in Melbourne,
and finally, our special guest interview.

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We’re baaaack!
Finally (after the death of my soundcard last week and the subsequent purachase of a new card which is SUPPOSED to be the successor to the card I had, but which has LESS features… grrrrrr!), we managed to hook up this week to catch up on all that has happened in both our lives over the last 6 weeks.
Shelton talks about India, the 4 day workshop in Brisbane, and the Creative Photo Workshop world tour planned for 2010, including visiting Los Angeles for the PMA trade show in February.
Also, Bruce’s photography career is slowly ramping up.
Info on the Bruce Williams Photography 2010 calendars, and the 5MP/Shutters Inc New Year party.
And no, I still haven’t forgotten about the HonlPhoto giveaway. In fact, this is discussed in the podcast. It may have to wait until the new year…. but it WILL happen!

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This week, David Elfering reminds us of some of the bargains that can be had on Ebay with regards to slightly older digital SLR’s,
Jim Rockewll chimed in on the ‘business stationery design’ topic with a reminder to leave some white space in your design, as well as a request for the donation button to be returned to audio2u.com (working on that, Jim),
a bit of a chat about our family holiday down the south coast (oh, and I will state here that I mistakenly claimed that the shot of Max and Aztec in the early morning light was SOOC… I realised after we had recorded that I had in fact touched up the contrast in Lightroom),
some discussion about using off-camera flash in bright daylight and the potential drawbacks thereof,
plus why having all the best camera gear whn you’re just learning is not always a good thing (the School of Hard Knocks has its advantages).

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