The Martin Bailey Photography Podcast

I'm a proponent of ensuring that we charge for our work, but there are times when your confidence is not quite there, and you are not comfortable taking money from your client. Today I offer some advice on what to do in this situation. Joe McNally's blog post in which he mentions apprehension regarding the client's reaction to photographs shot on assignment: http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/2009/08/14/joes-version-of-children-of-the-corn/ Music from Music Alley: http://www.musicalley.com/

Today we talk about dynamic range, exposure values, how much dynamic range our cameras can capture and the possibility of having too much! Great Dynamic Range article: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/dynamic-range.htm Camera dynamic range and other measured data: http://www.dxomark.com/ Music from Music Alley: http://www.musicalley.com/

Today we take a look at the top three images from the July 2009 Assignment with the theme Backlit. We also review the overall scores for the WebSpy Competition of which July was the second month. Here's the text that I need you to tweet on Twitter: Thanks to @WebSpy for sponsoring the @MartinBailey photography podcast! #photog Scores and accumulated votes: https://martinbaileyphotography.com/scores2009_2.php Assignment prizes: https://martinbaileyphotography.com/2009/06/09/competition-prizes/ Music from Music Alley: http://www.musicalley.com/

Today I answer another listener question on how I digitally sign images for the Web and physically sign my fine art prints. Timothy Armes' LR2/Mogrify plug-in: http://timothyarmes.com/lr2mogrify.php Jeffrey Friedl's Export to Flickr plug-in: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/flickr Music from Music Alley: http://www.musicalley.com/ Music from Music Alley: http://www.musicalley.com/

Today I answer a question from a listener about shooting under a grey sky, and I also go into detail on why I use Manual Mode, especially in challenging exposure situations. Do you know why you need to use Manual mode from time to time?

Today I do a more in-depth review of the Lensbaby Composer, an amazingly sharp lens where it needs to be, and the perfect aid to photographic creativity. Martin's Lensbaby Composer shots: https://martinbaileyphotography.com/thumbnails.php?album=search&search=Lensbaby_Composer Music from Music Alley: http://www.musicalley.com/

Today we look at some shots from the Towada Lake, which is where I stayed during my recent trip to the Oirase Mountain Stream that we looked at last week. All images from my July 2009 trip to Oirase and Towada Lake: https://martinbaileyphotography.com/thumbnails.php?album=search&search=Tohoku_July2009 Music from Music Alley: http://www.musicalley.com/

Images with tips and techniques from a recent trip to the Oirase Mountain Steam. Plus, this is the 200th Episode of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast!! Display all images from my recent trip up North: https://martinbaileyphotography.com/thumbnails.php?album=search&search=Tohoku_July2009 Blog Post with images and transcript: https://martinbaileyphotography.com/2009/07/20/podcast-200-oirase-mountain-stream-200th-episode/ The music in this Podcast was created and produced by UniqueTracks.

Today we take a look at the winners of the June 2009 Assignment with the theme "Everything in Focus". You can see the votes for this assignment and accumulated votes to date here: https://martinbaileyphotography.com/scores2009_2.php Here are the details of the photography assignment prizes that WebSpy has kindly sponsored too: https://martinbaileyphotography.com/2009/06/09/competition-prizes/ The blog post for this episode: https://martinbaileyphotography.com/2009/07/15/podcast-199-june-09-assignment-results This episode is sponsored by WebSpy, the Internet Monitoring, Analysis & Reporting Specialists. The music in this episode is from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com/

Today I talk about six things that I would not like to be without in my photography adventures. Details: https://mbp.ac/198 Music from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network: http://music.podshow.com/

In Episode 151 of this Podcast we looked at my Speedlite studio lighting. Today we're going to take a look at a simple way to light products to shoot with ambient light. Details: https://mbp.ac/197 Music from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network: http://music.podshow.com/

As impatient as I can be with some things, I can be very patient with photography itself, and sometimes it pays off. Listen to this episode to see what I'm talking about. Text and images: https://mbp.ac/196 Music from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network: http://music.podshow.com/

Today we take a look at the winners of the May Assignment with the theme "Nothing in Focus", and congratulate the winner of the first Accumulated vote Grand Prize of 2009. Details: https://mbp.ac/195 The music in this Podcast was created and produced by UniqueTracks.

I recently had the pleasure of attending a party to mark the opening of Tokyo based photographer, Jon Sheer's exhibition, Eternal Japan. Today I'm pleased to bring you a great interview with Jon. Details: https://mbp.ac/194 Music from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network: http://music.podshow.com/

With the plethora of fine art inkjet papers available today, I figured I'd select a subset and run some tests. This is the second part two episodes in which we take a look at the results and my testing methods. Details: https://mbp.ac/193 Music from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network: http://music.podshow.com/

With the plethora of fine art inkjet papers available today, I figured I'd select a subset and run some tests. Today and next week we take a look at the results and my testing methods. Details: https://mbp.ac/192 Music from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network: http://music.podshow.com/

Today we take a look at the winning images from the April 2009 Assignment which was on the theme of Humorous. You can see the scores and winning images for 2009 here: https://martinbaileyphotography.com/scores2009.php The music in this episode is from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com/

It's been a while since we talked specifically about a technique, so today, let's discuss Long Exposures. I share 10 steps with lots of advice for getting great long exposure images. Noise Ninja from PictureCode can be found here: http://www.picturecode.com/ NeatImage can be found here: http://www.neatimage.com/ The music in this episode is from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com/

I've just released the details of next Winter's workshop and photography tours. I've added Snow Monkeys in Nagano, and an extra day shooting Red-Crowned Cranes in Hokkaido, as well as all the other wonderful wildlife and landscapes that you know. See details of next Winters workshop and photography tour plans here: http://www.mbpworkshops.com/ The music in this Podcast was created and produced by UniqueTracks.

I'm adding an optional excursion to my 2010 Winter Wonderland Workshop to photograph Snow Monkeys. This year I went on a reconnaissance trip, the results of which we're going to look at today. Here's a link to all 45 images that I uploaded to my Web site from the Snow Monkey shoot: https://martinbaileyphotography.com/thumbnails.php?album=search&search=Jigokudani_Feb2009 Here's a link to the Livecam at the monkey partk in Jigokudani, Nagano prefecture, Japan. Remember that Japan is GMT : 9 hours: http://www.jigokudani-yaenkoen.co.jp/livecam/monkey/index.htm Here is Scott Bourne's "Follow Friday - The Top 10 Photography-related People on Twitter" list: http://photofocus.com/2009/04/17/follow-friday-the-top-10-photography-related-people-on-twitter/ The music in this episode is from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network at http://music.podshow.com/