fashion photography

Episode 0038: Interview with Lindsay Adler, Fashion and Portrait Photographer

by Dave Warner on February 16, 2010

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 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.

In this episode, Lindsay talks about fashion photography, how she has established herself in this industry at such a young age, who her target market is, steps someone could take if they are interested in focusing on fashion photography as a career, her teaching, classes and new book. We created a special video of Lindsay’s images with her explanation of each that plays (above) and then the full podcast interview, which is below.

Equipment, Software and sites mentioned in this podcast: Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Capture One.

Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., ScanCafe (provide code LF35 for a 20% discount off your first order), 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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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

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 Melvin’s images with his explanation of each that opens in a popup window, just click, watch and listen.

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