night photography

LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. This week, Dave interviews night photographer Troy Paiva. Wandering the deserted back roads of the American Southwest, Troy Paiva has explored the abandoned underbelly of America since the 1970s. Since 1989 he’s been taking pictures of it . . . at night, by the light of the full moon with a technique called ‘light painting’.

Since 1998 his Lost America site has been online in one form or another, and Troy’s low cost / high impact lighting techniques have been adopted by amateur and professional photographers all over the world.

In this episode, Troy talks about light painting and what it is, why his sole focus on it, what market there is for this work, how he chooses his locations and books that he’s published on this type of work. We created a multi-media show of his images with an explanation of each one with the full podcast interview (above) and our typical show player and download, which is below.

Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., onOne Software. Also, podcast network commercials from Rosh Sillars New Media Photographer, Jim Goldstein EXIF and beyond and Martin Bailey Photography.

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 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 Jennifer Wu. Jennifer is best known for her nature and landscape photography. Before focusing on nature’s elusive beauty, she specialized in journalism and portrait photography, publishing hundreds of images in newspapers, including The Sacramento Bee. Her images, featured in magazines and books, have won dozens of awards, and Canon uses her spectacular sky photographs in their professional camera brochures.

(C) Jennifer Wu

In this episode, Jennifer talks about her night photography; the software and hardware that she uses to get these amazing shots, how she got to be a Canon Explorer of Light, the state of the fine art print market, some tips about getting shown in galleries, some photo tips for landscape photographers, and she points out some other female photographers that she has met.

Equipment and Software mentioned in this podcast: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon 16-35 mm lens, Canon 17 mm tilt shift lens, Canon 24 mm prime lens, Canon 24-70 mm lens, Canon 17-40 mm lens, Canon 500D 72 mm close up filter, Canon 15 mm fish eye lens, Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, Noise Ninja, Alien Skin, Photomatix, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Astronomy Tools and Photoshop ActionsonOne Software, Canon 70-200 mm F4 lens, Canon Cable Release, Intervalometer.

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

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