LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Wedding Photographer Grant Oakes. Grant is one of the most published photographers in the Colorado region and has shared his experience with his peers by way of speaking at numerous photography conferences. He brings a passion for his craft on every assignment and a commitment to excellence that involves far more than just the images he captures. He is more than a wedding photojournalist; he’s a visual historian that tells the story of your wedding from his heart.
In this episode, Grant talks about wedding photojournalism – the difference between that and a wedding photographer, connecting with the bride, his narrative approach, how he got into the website design business, Flash and the iPad and much more. We created a special video of Grant’s images with his explanation of each that plays (above) and then the full podcast interview, which is below.
Equipment, Software and sites mentioned in this podcast:Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture, Digital Rebel, Nikon D500.
Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., Photo Book Press, Tafota.com and onOne Software. Podcast network commercials from Rosh Sillars New Media Photographer, Jim Goldstein EXIF and beyond and Martin Bailey Photography.
To listen to the full podcast interview, click on the player’s forward arrow below. You can also play the Podcast in a pop up window, download it OR subscribe to it via iTunes. You can download a List of Questions (PDF format) that I ask in the interview.
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Thanks once again for a most entertaining episode. Grant's thoughts on event photography, a type of photography I've often done, has given me a lot to think about. My comment here addresses a false dichotomy Grant presented regarding the choice photographer's face between using Flash or HTML5, saying that HTML5 is years away from adoption, leaving Flash. However, Flash and HTML5 are not the only choices for photography sites: we also have the existing ubiquitous standards, HTML4 and Javascript. Dave, I looked at davidwarnerstudio.com and saw it has a Flash component for the home page slideshow, and it only shows the missing-plugin icon on an iPhone. You can achieve this same functionality (slideshow with cross dissolves) without Flash or HTML5 by using any of the many easy-to-configure Javascript plugins along with the jQuery Javascript library. It would work on iPhone OS devices, Internet Explorer (even version 6), and the usual great FireFox, Chrome, and Safari for the desktop.
Thanks for the comments Forrest! On my page, I’m just using a simple Flash image rotation swf. It reads an XML file, which lists the images to be displayed. I know that I could use Javascript, BUT check out the galleries! Haven’t seen any javascript yet that has all that functionality and even if it did, what a LOT of work! I have seen that the JWPlayer folks (the ones I use on LensFlare35 to show the movies) are working on an HTML 5 viewer. So, I’ll have an easy switch (I hope) on this site so that people can see all the content. I’ve already stopped converting movies into Flash and they are all mp4′s, but they are still playing within a Flash player for control. But then, what about all the interactive Flash ads that are out there? It just means LOTS of changes to allow folks to see all my content on every device.
Thanks once again for a most entertaining episode. Grant's thoughts on event photography, a type of photography I've often done, has given me a lot to think about. My comment here addresses a false dichotomy Grant presented regarding the choice photographer's face between using Flash or HTML5, saying that HTML5 is years away from adoption, leaving Flash. However, Flash and HTML5 are not the only choices for photography sites: we also have the existing ubiquitous standards, HTML4 and Javascript. Dave, I looked at davidwarnerstudio.com and saw it has a Flash component for the home page slideshow, and it only shows the missing-plugin icon on an iPhone. You can achieve this same functionality (slideshow with cross dissolves) without Flash or HTML5 by using any of the many easy-to-configure Javascript plugins along with the jQuery Javascript library. It would work on iPhone OS devices, Internet Explorer (even version 6), and the usual great FireFox, Chrome, and Safari for the desktop.
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