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LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Canon Photographer David duChemin. David is a world and humanitarian photographer based in Vancouver, Canada. His work on behalf of humanitarian organizations like World Vision Canada, Save The Children, and World Education Nepal has helped raise millions of dollars for sustainable community-based development and education in places like Mongolia, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, and Haiti.

When not traveling on assignment, David can be found on Vancouver’s seawall or teaching; lecturing or leading workshops and tours around the world.

In this episode, David talks about his inspiration for taking pictures, the creative side of the business, his book publishing, what it takes in an image to take HIS breath away, motivation for writing Within the Frame and Vision Mongers - Making a Life and Living in Photography, places he’s traveled to, his workshops, gear 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 is below.

Equipment, Software and sites mentioned in this podcast: Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 1Ds Mark III, Canon 1D Mark IV, iPhone, LensBaby, Canon 50mm f1.2 lens, Canon 24-70mm lens, Canon 300mm F2.8 lens, Kelby Training, Aperture 2.0, Lightroom, Spyder 3, Huey, Canon G9, Red Camera, Final Cut Studio 3, Gitzo Weatherproof Tripod.

David’s eBooks are a GREAT buy at only $5.00 each: Drawing the Eye, Ten Ways to Improve Your Craft, Ten More Ways to Improve Your Craft, and finally, the Inspired Eye Volume I

Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., ScanCafe (provide code LF35 for a 20% discount), Podcast network commercials from Rosh Sillars New Media Photographer and Jim Goldstein EXIF and beyond

Podcast on iTunesTo 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 also download a List of Questions (PDF format) that I ask in the interview.

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LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Canon Photographer Adam Brobjorg. Adam is a 17 year old Canon shooter who is the top student photographer in the State of Texas. Adam has already won several international, national and state awards, including the Texas Imagemaker Award, Jon Cone/Piezography prize for Best Black and White Print, ATPI – Two Best of Show and Five first place awards, and awards in the Texas High School Shootout. He has just been named as an NFAA Young Arts Finalist. Adam is also a videographer, painter, sculptor and artist.

In this episode, Adam talks about the awards he’s won and why it’s good to enter contests, how he markets himself and what galleries he is in, his images of Nepal, what is road map is for becoming a photographer for the rest of his life, his equipment, how he comes up with his images, where he thinks photography is going, and advice for people his age who want to BECOME photographers.

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List of Questions (PDF format)

Equipment, Software and sites mentioned in this podcast: Canon 5D Mark II, Canon Rebel XTi, 24-105mm lens, Adobe Photoshop.

Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., ScanCafe

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. We created a special video of Adam’s images with his explanation of each that opens in a pop up window, just click, watch and listen.

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LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Canon Photographer Scott Nathan. According to Scott’s bio he’s always graphical, often whimsical, ironic or comedic. Scott fosters the belief that the first goal of any photograph is to be above all… memorable.

In this episode, he talks about what “graphical, whimsical, ironic or comedic” REALLY means. How he got started in the Hollywood scene, social media (Scott has 1.6 MILLION followers on MySpace), celebrity expectations, trends coming out of Hollywood, camera and lighting setups and if he would recommend this path to younger photographers!

List of Questions (PDF format)

Equipment and Software mentioned in this podcast: Adobe Photoshop CS4, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon 70-200 mm lens, Canon 85 mm lens, Kino Flo Lighting Systems, Elinchrom Octa Light Bank, NIK Color Efex Pro.

Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., ScanCafe

To listen to the full podcast interview, click on the player’s forward arrow below. You can also play the Podcast in a popup window, download it OR subscribe to it via iTunes. We created a special video of Scott’s images with his explanation of each that opens in a popup window, just click, watch and listen.

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