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Depth of Field: Jeff Revell

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:16:30 +0000

Jeff Revell is a super nice guy and a talented photographer as well. When Jeff is not shooting his own work, he is managing a group of photographers, authoring books or leading photowalks. In fact, Jeff is the inspiration for the Scott Kelby’s World Wide Photo Walk. You might call Jeff the Photowalk Guru, others call him the Photowalk Pro. I caught up with Jeff at his home in DC. We chatted over Skype, I was on my fancy smancy Blue Snowball mic and Jeff on his iPad. I was amazed at the clarity of the sound coming from his iPad, and with it just sitting on his dinning table to boot! Check out Jeff’s gallery HERE. While you are there he has a whole host of tutorials that you can devour! You can fine them HERE. Anyway, I am sure you will love this fun interview with Jeff Revell, the Photowalk Pro.

Depth of Field: Marco Ryan

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:20:13 +0000

Marco Ryan was born in the UK, but now lives in Cairo, Egypt with his wife and young family. His professional career as an eCommerce Strategist, Digital Marketing expert and speaker is covered on his work blog, marcoryan.com. His speaking and consulting give Marco plenty of opportunity to travel use his photography.

His passion is for travel and reportage photography, especially recording the more humanitarian aspects of life. Being based in Cairo has allowed an unparalleled and privileged view into the lives or ordinary Egyptians. This led Marco to follow the work of many humanitarian photographers like, yours truly, David duChemin, Gavin Gough and others. Once hooked by the humanitarian side of photography, Marco quickly saw the problems. He saw very talented photographers unable to express their vision. Not being called on by NGOs, that actually needed these photographer’s images. He wanted to both help the photographer as well as help the NGO. So, Marco along with his friend, Loren Roberts, decided to go out on a limb and start a grant organization that would provide photographers with the needed funds to provide a leg-up in the field of humanitarian photography. This was the beginnings of Focus For Humanity. You will be hearing more on this in the interview below, as well as in next Fridays blog post. I know you will find this interview as interesting and challenging as all the Depth of Fields. In this interview Marco not only speaks about Focus For Humanity, he also give us a free seminar on marketing and SEO for the photographer. This is a valuable listen.

Depth of Field: Jasmine Star

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 05:01:23 +0000

Jasmine Star is a real person. By that I don’t mean to imply that she was thought to be some fictional character. What I mean, is that for someone who has rocketed to fame in a few short years as she has, she has maintained a grip on reality. She’s not pretentious. I did not find her to be egotistical or unapproachable. Jasmine Star is real. I feel like in this interview, even though it was only one hour, you will get to know her. Jasmine is one of the most respected and sought after wedding photographers in the United States. She has one of the most popular blogs on the net. Yet, she maintains a realistic view of the world around her and is eager to help her clients as well as other photographers. To put it simply, she is a nice lady.

Take a few moments and drop by her blog. Just reading a few of the post you see the honesty that comes out. She talks about her work, her struggles with clients, her husband and yes, even her dog, Polo. For someone who picked up a camera just a few short years ago she is amazingly talented. The only thing I have against Jasmine is that this interview costs me about $1500. Jasmine is in love with the 50 mm 1.2 lens and her love was infectious. After the interview I played with the 50mm 1.4 while in India and new I had to get the 1.2. I did and I love it but, OUCH!

I think you’ll enjoy this interview as much as I did. Just stay away from Amazon.com afterwards.

Depth of Field: Trey Ratcliff

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 00:19:46 +0000

Meeting with Trey Ratcliff online for an interview was about as easy as pulling teeth. This guy is busy. I thought we would never make our schedules match. The irony is after a ton of emails, and a hand full of miss-connects over Skype; after finally getting the interview with him, then posting a blog post about his influence on my Creative Commons position – after all this; we ended up on the same flight from Narita (Tokyo, Japan) to SFO sitting about ten rolls apart. Strange world we live in.

Trey Ratcliff is a huge name in the HDR (High Dynamic Range) community and blog Stuck in Customs is widely popular. Recently he published his first book with our good friends over at Peachpit Press titled “A World in HDR“. It is a 200 page coffee table book of his images with a HDR tutorial at the end. To be fare, I am not very knowledgeable about HDR, so I was not really sure what to expect from the interview. I soon found out Trey is yet another one of those “truly nice guy photographers”. We didn’t have long, this ran only 30 minutes in length, but very interesting. Trey knowledge about HDR is astounding and his joy for this medium is apparent. The guy literally sees the world in HDR. Take some time, listen to this his unique take on photography and life. Enjoy.

Depth of Field: Ralph A. Clevenger

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:49:12 +0000

Photo by Greg Lawler

Ralph Clevenger teaches courses in nature photography, stock photography, video production, and undersea photography at Brooks Institute. Ralph has traveled throughout the world on assignment. His client list is as long as my arm and include the likes of The Nature Conservancy, the National Park Service, and the National Marine Sanctuary. His publication credits include Audubon, Aqua, Islands, Oceans, Outside, National Geographic magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Popular Photography, National Geographic Books, Smithsonian Books, Sierra Club Books, and many other national and international publications. Ralph’s stock images are represented worldwide by Corbis.

My conversation with him was a real pleasure. Ralph is easy to talk with and knows the business. He has been a round the block and has earned that grey in his beard - of course, I like anyone who has as much grey in their beard as I do. You are going to enjoy this one as much as I did. Ralph is one of the only photographers I know that has an Urban Legend built around one of his images. Check out Ralph’s website HERE.

Depth of Field: Nevada Wier Pt1

Matt Brandon — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:30:29 +0000

This week I had the delightful experience to interview Nevada Wier. Nevada is one of the best travel/world photographers shooting today. She not only has an eye for the story but she pushes the boundaries of conventional photojournalism as well. In these interviews she explained to me how she gets joy and fulfillment from experimenting with flash and angle of view she also talked about technology and how it has helped today’s photographers. Like so many of the great photographers of our day, she proves my point that the really great photographers are also really nice people. Today I am posting part one and then tomorrow I will post part two. I hope you enjoy this Depth of Field.

Nevada Wier interview Pt1

Be sure and check out Nevada’s website HERE and follow her on Twitter HERE.

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