LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Sports Photographer Simon Bruty. During his career, Simon has traveled extensively to work on feature stories as diverse as soccer in Zambia, golfers in Greenland, and badminton in Indonesia. He photographs football, tennis, skiing, soccer, and golf for Sports Illustrated. He has developed a diverse archive of portraiture including Michael Phelps with his eight Olympic gold medals, Lance Armstrong, Ben Bradlee, and David Beckham among other modern luminaries. His award-winning photograph of Ronaldo was featured in an ad for Canon Europe before the 2006 World Cup Games and in 2003 The London Observer chose one of Simon’s photographs to be included in their list of the World’s 50 Greatest Sports Photographs.
In this episode, Simon talks about the difference between being a photographer in England and in the US, photographic opportunities, hardest athletes to photograph, what makes sports photographers different than other photographers, shooting the Super Bowl, the Olympics and much more. We created a special video of Simon’s images with his explanation of each that plays (above) and then the full podcast interview, which is below.
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This episode of LensFlareLive is brought to you by NatureScapes.Net and your host Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, panelists Greg Downing and EJ Peiker cover everything from camera gear, to bird blinds, to the digital darkroom. In addition, they answer questions that came in via email, Twitter and from the live listening audience.
Greg Downing is a professional nature photographer specializing in birds. He has been traveling the world teaching professional and amateur photographers for more than a decade hosting workshops and seminars.
As an internationally recognized photographer, Greg’s numerous publishing credits include books, advertising campaigns and editorial publications such as Birding Magazine, Outdoor Photographer Magazine, Birder’s World, National Geographic and many others.
He is currently the Publisher for the online nature photography magazine; NatureScapes.Net, which was created as an exchange for nature photographers.
EJ Peiker is a professional freelance Nature Photographer. He was born in 1960 in Augsburg, Germany in the German state of Bavaria near the Alps. His family moved to Mansfield, Ohio, in 1969 right before his 9th birthday. He became a citizen of the United States of America in 1975 and lived in Ohio until 1979 when he began attending Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
His original goal was to attend the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs but after his distance vision deteriorated late in high school, it precluded him from becoming an Air Force Pilot, EJ followed plan B which was set in motion when he inherited his grandfathers electronics workbench several years earlier. At Purdue, EJ earned a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering and also completed graduate studies in Microelectronics and Semiconductor Physics. For nearly 27 years, he worked for the Intel Corporation in California, New Mexico, Oregon, and Arizona where EJ was engaged in the production of the microprocessors, chip-sets, and communication chips that power modern Personal Computers, Workstations, File Servers, Super Computers and the Internet.
Since 1994, EJ has lived in the south-central Arizona city of Chandler, a suburb southeast of Phoenix in the Sonoran Desert. He has two sons, Nicholas (20) and Gregory (15). Nick is currently attending Arizona State University in Tempe and is in the W.P. Carey Finance program. Greg is in High School. EJ has formally studied photography at the University of New Mexico, the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, and participated in photography seminars and workshops led by several renowned photographers including John Shaw, Arthur Morris, John and Barbara Gerlach, Charles Glatzer and the Nikon Corporation.
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LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Aviation Photographer David Carlson. David has been a professional photographer specializing in aviation photography for over 25 years. His specialty is air-to-air as well as aerial photography. As an FAA Certified Commercial pilot and Certified Flight Instructor he has had the opportunity to fly many of the aircraft that he photographs, from J3 Cub’s to P51 Mustangs.
David has also worked on special events like Super Bowls, World Cup Soccer, the Olympics and Presidential inaugurations just to name a few. In 2008, he was invited to join the prestigious Camera Craftsman of America, a group of the top 40 photographers from around the world.
In this episode, David talks about how you take aircraft images, equipment used, his passion for flying, aircraft he’s photographed, and ones he’s missed, his techniques for getting the best images, and much more. We created a special video of David’s images with his explanation of each that plays (above) and then the full podcast interview, which is below.
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LensFlareLive is a show created and brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, panelists Kevin Shahinian, Steve Weiss and David Ziser discuss HD DSLR’s, convergence, fusion, video and film. In addition, they answer questions that came in via email, Twitter and from the live listening audience.
Kevin Shahinian is an award-winning filmmaker, graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and founder of Pacific Pictures, a boutique film production company based in Los Angeles, CA that produces live event, corporate and original concept productions for clients around the world.
Steve Weiss is with Zacuto – makers of Custom Camera Packages & Zacuto Brand Accessories for both video and DSLR cameras that have video capability. Zacuto is a one-stop-shop for customized camera packages. This includes the latest technology in high definition, where their trademark camera packages are designed by Zacuto staff members who have over 45 years of combined film and video experience. Zacuto USA products are entirely designed and manufactured by Zacuto and made in the USA, with input from staff and customers.
David Ziser is a nationally renowned wedding photographer, lectures to other photographers on the international speaking circuit and writes extensively for professional journals throughout the United States and worldwide. He also has the Digital Pro Talk Blog, does video tutorials, has courses on Kelby Training and has a workshop tour called the Digital Wake up Call – A New Dawn.
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LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Photojournalist Ami Vitale. Best known for her cultural documentation, Ami has received recognition from World Press Photos, Photographer of the Year International, The Lucie Awards and the South Asian Journalists Association, which presented her with the Daniel Pearl Award for outstanding reporting. She has been named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association, and Photo District News recognized her as one of 30 image makers of the future.
Now based in Miami, Florida, Ami is a contract photographer with National Geographic Magazine and Senior Producer for the Knight Center for International Media.
In this episode, Ami talks about why she became a photojournalist, what caused her to almost quit, the most disturbing conflicts she’s covered, images that have had the greatest impact on her life, the introduction of HD DSLR’s and what that means for photojournalists, specialized gear she recommends and much more. We created a special video of Ami’s images with her explanation of each that plays (above) and then the full podcast interview, which is below.
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LensFlareLive is a show created and brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, panelists Jack Hollingsworth, Rosh Sillars and Lindsay Adler discuss Twitter, Facebook and Flickr for Photographers. In addition, they answer questions from the live listening audience.
Lindsay is a professional fashion and portrait photographer in New York and London. Her work [...]
LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Fashion and Portrait Photographer Lindsay Adler. Lindsay is a professional fashion and portrait photographer in New York and London. Her work has been featured in dozens of fashion and photography magazines internationally, including Sublime, Existence, Oasis and [...]
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