Phlogger (andrew Walmsley)

For episode 62 we have a talented commercial photographer Christina Zen - who shoots film! Christina moved across to film after years of shooting weddings on digital to the world of film!  She bought a Contax 6x4.5 and never looked back.  She talks us through her experiences and provides insights about learning to use film stock effectively. Christina shoots a variety of food, lifestyle and other commercial related work.  You can see lots of her lovely images on her website (the food images are especially mouth-watering). She also mentors with one on one sessions, so if you are looking for help, look no further. We discuss a number of topics including: choosing film Pushing Portra 800/Fuji 400 Shooting food + eating it! Shotkit.com Waist level shooting Food photography Mum + coping as wedding tog Need for marketing Less "posed" look Being creative Workshops + science lessons RANDOM QUESTIONS Christina goes through our random questions, so find out: what would Jesus's so

Welcome to episode 61 of Photography insights, with me the Phlogger.  Today I have another first - father and son for guests from the world of film. Ned & David Collyer are friendly and talented people who love nothing more than shooting film.  Separated physically and by age (don't worry David we won't say how many decades!).  It's a really unique interview that conveys a  relationship filled with passion and being proud.  David touches on being separated from his son Ned and how he's managed to watch his film shooting progress.  Ned on the other hand talks about his experiences picking up cameras through school and college and preparation for the world of university. In this episode we discuss:  Bresson’s leica m3 Fuji x-pro Photojournalism London college of communication (Ual) Magnum vs seven agencies Documenting the Iron mountain cannonballs Protest photography + glaswegie's reputation Barney Maguire + masculinity Cycling + skateboard accidents Wi

For episode 60 I'm delighted to bring you a quality photographer and friend of mine too - Leon Broomhead.  Leon is what you might call an experimental photographer, shooting styles that involve fashion and abstract but not directly. What can I say about Leon, well he is a thoughtful guy, who thinks a lot about his work and how to get the desired outcome.  His work is all about pushing boundaries both in a technical way and artistic.  I’ve met up with Leon many times and its always been a pleasure.  Sharing the same types of photography has helped both of us.  Having a passion for film photography has always been part of our lives and conversations, so i’m glad to share a little with you. In this show we discuss: Fuji 6x9 Model expectations Art nude/fashion photography Shooting for yourself Internet police + conforming Physical contact vs social interaction Talented models Long exposure modes Leaving expensive tech Sprocket rocket RANDOM QUESTIONS You might a

Welcome to episode 59 of Photography insights, your one-stop guide to interviews with people in the photography industry.  Before we move on I wanted to thank you all for listening and supporting the show.  There are a couple of ways you can help further, which are, 1 - leave an iTunes review and to share the show with your friends. One of your friends will be interested, you can guarantee, there is a massive range of people interviewed so there is something for everyone’s interest. Today we have a legendary film and video photographer from the UK called Paul Berriff. He’s been shooting over 50 years in the press world of photography and documentary film making. Paul purchased his first camera from a newspaper round, he followed emergency vehicles on his pushbike in his teens!  He learned to test his film exposure by meeting bands like the Beatles, Rolling stones in their dressing rooms in the 1960’s Paul has some great stories from just working in the press industry and then goes into the 4 ne

Welcome to episode 58 of Photography insights, your one-stop guide to interviews with people in the photography industry.  This time we feature the amazing Clay Patrick Mcbride from New York City. He is a senior lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York where he teaches advertising photography.   Throughout his career as a magazine photographer, he has worked on many assignments with famous musicians like Jay-Z, Kanye West, Eminem, Norah Jones.  You can see many examples of this on his website (see links for info).  He tries to leave time to use film too in his work and loves his 5x4 camera. *** quick disclaimer, there are a few swear words in this episode, very minimal though *** We talk about different areas as he's one cool guy, these include: Inspire through quality Norah Jones/kid rock Research your subject Being authentic Music/assignment photography Work from the ground floor Building relationships Why shoot film Using polaroids for print s

Welcome to episode 57 of photography insights, the show that interviews people in the photography industry.   Today we speak with Nick Brandreth from the George Eastman Museum in New York.  We learn about his role there as a specialist and he provides some background on the museum.   Nick’s a fun, energetic and motivated guy, that helps everyone learn, as you will tell from the show. You will find information including: Rochester institute Eddy adams workshop Musc with Clay + Justin Wet collodion Lippmann plates Make your own dry plates Eastman kodak + museum Ww2 + kodak daguerreotype camera Moon landing camera Nick’s lab + office Wrestling Importance of printing End of the USB Digital great teaching tool Shoot less Workshops + training camera  + Moon landing camera Nick’s lab + office Wrestling Importance of printing End of the USB Digital great teaching tool Shooting less Workshops + training RANDOM QUESTIONS N

For episode 56 our interview insights looks at Calvin Chinthaka, an amazing fashion photographer from London.  Calvin uses both digital and film to support his work, which also includes cinematography too! He puts a lot of time, research and planning in to shoots, which shows in his work.  It's great to see someone using different mediums, from his current Sony's to his Pentax 6x7 film camera. Calvin talks us to about how he beat 2500 applicants to attend the famous London College of Fashion, whats involved there and how it helped his career. Look out for the podcast, which also discusses: Why workshops are useful Useful influences Understanding lenses Practise makes perfect Planning shoots Film festivals + cinematography Sets + collaborating Sri Lanka heritage Fashion industry changes Research for shots Pentax 6x7 Developing film Outsourcing retouching Masters degree Podcasting Printing large (3ft) Timing 0 - intro to Calvin + applying for uni 9 - workshops 14 - makin

For episode 55 of Photography insights, we interview an alternative male model called Marius.  Okay that's not his real name, but his modelling alias, but that's what is important and who everybody hires. I've worked with Marius a couple of times at recent charity group shoots in Lincolnshire and he's a great guy.  He has the character, the laughs and professionalism.  Marius works in the goth style so is normally associated with a vampire.  Knowing this I asked him to portray this for my corpse bride wedding scene, he would be the evil vampire!  He played this role so well and it was then great to work with him again a few months later where we did some dark and low key shots. In this one we discuss: reputations + purpleport Trade for prints Influences of music Max payne +matrix Reputations When to say no Communications + reliability Alternative model of year TIMING 0   intro to marius + comic book ideas 4  working with photographers 10  start of model

Welcome to episode 54 (i think), which features the one and only Dawn, wife of the phlogger!  You've recently had the pleasure of her intro's rather than my dulcit tones, so thought it would be nice for her to join me. In this episode we discuss: Podcast changes Podcasts guests coming soon Blogging Instagram Facebook So you may have noticed a change in the name to "Photography insights - important industry reviews", this is to try and hone my SEO skills!  Yes i'm trying to appeal to more people and get the message out about what we are doing.  It would be great to spread the word, share knowledge and for people to listen to these amazing people.  It's truly an honour each time for someone to spend their precious time and impart what they do and have learned with us all.  The episodes will be named to show relevance to the interviewee too going forward, so if anyone is searching for them, hopefully one day the podcast will show in the Google! Yes I never stop planning guest

 John and Coleen Graybill help run the Curtis legacy foundation and their other business Mountain Spirit photo.  John is a direct descendant of Edward Curtis, a photographer from the late 1800’s/early 1900's who famously photographed the native Americans. John’s foundation is key to protecting and showcasing the work of this photographer.  If you don’t know who he was, then dont worry, keep listening, but in short he took thousands of dry plate photographs over a 30 year period.  Because of his subject matter, it was important work in terms of culture and history. Please do listen in to this interview, you find will out about how John & Coleen are attempting to photograph the descendants of the original subjects too, using the same techniques (Descendants project). So stayed tuned to learn about JP Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, General Custer and how history was re-written.  We also discuss: Quinn Jacobson & Jason lane Portrait tents Persecution of Native Americans  Edwar

 For episode 52 we welcome Adam Sandy, a rather talented cinemaphotographer from the UK.   Podcast contains: Studying visual effects Working alone Collaborating with Instinctive photography Movies on roll film Recommendations + friendships Specialising + niches Differences with videography + stills TIMING  0 - university + starting in videography  9 - editing 24 - loneliness of being self employed 28 - collaboration 53 - random questions  LINKS  https://www.instagram.com/adamsandydop/  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/photography-insights/message

I'm very honoured to present our next guest, who will be the least youngest person I've interviewed! Since its the 50th anniversary of the moon landings, I've got hold of Robert Shanebook who worked for Kodak.  Not only did he join the biggest film company in the world, but he was part of the team who built the camera used on the Appollo space missions!  Yes I'm talking about the camera that filmed Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong!!! Robert is the only remaining member of the team from 1969, due to the age differences of his colleagues (he was only 21).  He has had amazing career with Kodak and published 2 editions of his book.  We discuss: Started shooting at 14 with commercial studio shooting 4x5!! Electrocuted volunteering at Kodak museum Yashica 44 Only team member alive Ektachrome to t-max Travelling the world Mr Hasselblad worked at Kodak! Banned from releasing book Kodak made coating plant each decade up to 2000 Rochester had 60,000 employees! Bankruptcy How to sh

Well folks we made it to episode, so that also means a year of podcasting.  For this one I wanted to have a relaxing chat with some of my prior guests and get an update to what has happened. It's been an amazing, emotional and hard working lesson in life.  I've met some very interesting characters around the world whom I now call friends.  From my early days of just using my mobile phone and playing with different ways of recording, i've settled down in to something custom built by myself.  This now allows me live video with my guests, which helps us with the conversation and allows me to see emotion.  Once I've converted this to audio I can then present the important part of our conversations. For this show we have: Paul McKay from Analogue Wonderland Jon Scrimshaw from Instinctive Photography Jason "speed plates" Lane of Pictoriographica Steve Lloyd from Chroma Camera Paul Lefko from L.A. EM from emulsive.org Yes this did take some planning and took a fair bit of time to get th

Wow, am I excited to present episode 49.  It was an absolute honour to work with the master of wet collodion, Quinn Jacobson.  If you search for wet collodion online you basically see Quinn's book and his videos, articles etc.  Not many people have published and help us the public learn about this historic process. We interview Quinn and discuss so many things, so yes its a long one (we talked for hours actually)! But this podcast does contain discussions on: Combat photography Pixelography + rise of digital Machine learning Constraints are good Photography is not art Leaving your mark Art changes the world archer,daguerre + talbot Importance of 1851 Quinn’s tattoo Family time Spectrum of light + uv Tattoo removal with wet plate Tim berners lee revived wet collodion Choosing your genre Night of broken glass Failure is good iso/aperture/shutter speed need reasons Quinn has literally just released his latest version of his book "chemical pictures" which helps you

For episode 48 we interview a documentary photographer - something new yet again!  It's great fun interviewing people from so many different genres.  Tobias is a friendly person who likes to help others and always glad to listen to.  We recently had our trip around Hull, which you can find on my website. In this podcast we have discussed: Teaching 14-18 age group Burying film Degree + masters Hull fisherman Tips for choosing a uni Cameras lusts Kickstarter M.A.’s Kevin carter pulizter picture Tobias enjoyed his time going through our random questions, so find out: what he's doing on the last day of the planet would he dare turn of a new google app that can foresee the future will he choose truth over ignorance To find check out the show. FURTHER INFO; A walk with Tobias article - https://phlogger.co.uk/a-walk-with-tobias-beachwyld/ Facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/tobias.beachwyld  Instagram -  https://www.instagram.com/tobiasbeachwyld/  --- Send

For episode 47 we get together with the winner of my recent competition sponsored by Kodak Alaris.  Barney Maguire's analogue submission was a superb picture and part of series of his portraiture.  As first prize he won 20 rolls of kodak film and an interview with the Phlogger. As a bonus there are some guest questions from Jon Scrimshaw at Instinctive Photography, who has commented on Barney's work and wanted to know more about him. So I'm glad to present to you, the man behind the image.  In this show (my shortest ever interview) we discuss: Lomography Gaps in film market Subject matter + modelling Rz67 mamiya Zines Influences + chroma camera Spending a £1million on cameras New zealand The smiths  TIMING 0 introduction 9 models and subject matter 13 spending on photography 17 future 19 barney questions the phlogger 22 questions from Instinctive photography 28 random questions + links  INFO Barney Instagram -  https://www.instagram.com/barneymaguirephoto/&nb

 For episode 46 we travel around the globe to Australia, to interview the one, the only - Gina Milicia. Gina has been working in photography for 30 years, so is very experienced.  She has many resources on her website, including a blog, videos, presets, books and training through her gold membership.  Gina also runs a podcast called "so you want to be a photographer" with her friend Valerie Khoo.  In this edition the podcast contains: Garage lighting modifier/diffusing ideas Fuji Camera interfaces Podcasting Shooting kettles Importance of projects Sharing resources Group shots + hot sets Pooling resources Camera alliances Working with models Storyboard + working in media RANDOM QUESTIONS  Gina takes part in the random questions, so find out the relevance of: Poisons Animals Convicts TIMING 0 - garage + split lighting  11 - flash lighting advice 21 - cameras + beginner advice 24 - podcasting addicts + shooting kettles 37 - shooting projects + work

This is your next episode as promised with the Charlie Tadlock.  Charlie is a 2nd year university student and an aspiring photographer from Montana, USA.  He wrote an article for the elusive Emulsive site.  After writing the article EM suggested we talk to Charlie and he was right, a lovely young guy. The idea was to get a students view of photography education following an earlier podcast with Stephen Rendall (college lecturer). It will be interesting to hear 2 separate points of view.   Do you think education is still the answer? We discuss: Education Physical vs digital Mamiya 6's Making money Advocates of film Taking opportunities Working with masters Teaching others Attic finds + hard drives We put Charlie through our random questions too, so find out: is a dog a mans best friend  what the definition of a shutter and click are the relevance of rom coms Why Dracula cant shave The language of cows If you liked the show don't forget to check out Char

We finally announce the winners from the competition ran in association with Kodak Alaris.  Listen to the podcast to see who wins and who gets an "honourable mention".  Winners are notified directly and there prizes will be sent in due course. Thank you to everyone for submitting your images and showcasing what is possible.  This was my first time judging a competition alongside Andy Church of Kodak Alaris.  To pick a winner was very tough, the range of imagery was great.  Having seen street shots, abstract, portraiture and landscape was lovely - your work was extremely appreciated. To see the winning entries please see the website - phlogger.co.uk. Thanks to Andy Church of Kodak Alaris for sponsoring this competition.  If you haven't already please try Kodak products, please try them - you won't be let down.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/photography-insights/message

A one off small episode with your host Andrew Walmsley.  In this one we discuss: Secret project washi project kodak competition studying holiday (annual leave) next podcast with Charlie Anyone still wanting to get involved in the Washi project can still sign up here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/photography-insights/message