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LensFlareLive 008: Our Panel Discusses Social Media, New Media and Marketing for Photographers

by Dave Warner on March 20, 2010

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 Blogs 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 has been featured in dozens of fashion and photography magazines internationally, including Sublime, Existence, Oasis and Chic Today Magazines as well as MindFood Magazine, Popular Photography, Shutterbug and dozens more.

She currently owns a successful portrait studio and continues to shoot fashion editorials on commission for a variety of publications. Her first book will appear in stores in March. Lindsay travels throughout the Northeast, US and abroad to teach photography workshops and share her knowledge at conferences and seminars.

Jack is one of the most well known names in stock photography and not only sells stock through Getty, Corbis and his own site, but was a founder of BLEND images as well as redchopsticks and PhotosIndia. Jack has been described as “Indiana Jones with a camera” due to his constant world travel. Jack teaches, lectures, blogs and has a column in Shutterbug magazine.

Rosh is a photojournalist, magazine and corporate photographer and specializes in capturing images that tell a story, evoke an emotion or represent the subject in its natural context. He also contributes regularly as a staff and free-lance photographer for multiple daily, weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines. Rosh has photographed presidents, pro and amateur athletes, pop stars and local heroes through his 20 year professional career and he shares photography, new media and creative business ideas at Prosperous Artists.com and New Media Photographer.com.

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Episode 0018: Interview with Melvin Sokolsky, Canon Explorer of Light and Fashion & Advertising Photographer

by Dave Warner on September 22, 2009

LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Canon Photographer Melvin Sokolsky. Melvin was born and raised in Manhattan’s Lower East Side during the lean years of the pre-war era. Here he witnessed the entire spectrum of the human condition played out across a tough and tight-knit community. With no formal training, his photographic education came purely from instinct, desire, and careful observation. Upon learning that photographers could make money for “just taking pictures,” Sokolsky was seized by visions of a previously unimaginable career path. He took up an all-consuming regimen of photographic experimentation with a singular focus and determination that have since become his trademark process.

(C) Melvin Sokolsky

This is a pretty unusual episode, in that it is MUCH longer than normal – one hour and almost 23 minutes long! The video itself is an additional 45 minutes in length. But, at 75 years old, Melvin has a LOT to say, and I just had to record it all. I have almost another hour worth of his discussions, that I COULD put in an out-take reel if enough people make a comment (below). In this episode, he talks about how he got started, what his first break was, about the fashion and advertising world of photography, Harper’s Bazaar, Photoshop, and so much more!

List of Questions (PDF format)

Equipment and Software mentioned in this podcast: Adobe Photoshop CS4, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon 7D, Canon 1DS Mark III.

Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., ScanCafe

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