Ep. 111: Does Portrait Orientation Have a Future? - and more
Lens Shark Photography Podcast
Sharky James
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Episode 111 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Headshot and portrait photographer Nechama Leitner
In This Episode
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NYC-based headshot and portrait photographer Nechama Leitner opens the show. Thanks Nechama!
Listener Jack wants to know why portrait orientation seems to be out of favor in recent years...even for portraiture.
Olympus explains image stabilization's theoretical limitation, but is IS becoming less relevant as we get higher and higher usable ISOs? (#)
Instagram now allows you to save posts as a draft so you can create then post when it has a better chance of being seen. (#)
Sigma announces development of lenses for Sony's popular E-mount. (#)
Hensel one-ups Profoto, but with a TTL-free monolight. (#)
DJI announces it's Mavic Pro foldable drone with features the recently-announced GoPro Karma drone doesn't have. (#)
Outtakes
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Petapixil Photography with Sharkey James. |
| 0:03.8 | This is Nachama from Nachama Photography. |
| 0:06.4 | Welcome to the Petapixil Photography Podcast, episode 111. |
| 0:11.0 | Does Portrait Orientation Have a Future? |
| 0:14.0 | In this episode, Sigma is developing for E-mount, finally. |
| 0:20.0 | Olympus on the limitations of stabilization, |
| 0:26.4 | pencil one-ups pro- photo, Instagram drops a new feature, DJI best GoPro's karma drone, and listener Jack in Santa Rosa, California wants to know what happened to portrait orientation. |
| 0:40.0 | All that and more in episode 111 of the Petapixil Photography Podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | Thank you so much Nahama for opening the show. I greatly appreciate it sister. |
| 0:55.0 | New York City based headshot and portrait photographer Nahama Lightner is one to watch, let me tell you. |
| 1:01.0 | In 2015, her college thesis project called 26 Faces |
| 1:05.9 | allowed her into the lives of 26 individuals who shared with her an emotional |
| 1:10.4 | moment from their lives which she captured in their portrait. |
| 1:14.3 | Of this project Nahama says quote. |
| 1:17.1 | Creating this project I found how much I loved working with people, |
| 1:20.8 | hearing their stories and finding that priceless moment. |
| 1:24.4 | I realized how much I didn't want the project to end. |
| 1:27.5 | From there, I decided to never stop shooting, end quote. |
| 1:31.5 | Her photography, lighting, and retouching are beautiful and I want you to check that out for yourself. |
| 1:37.0 | And to do that you can head on over to her website at Nahama Photography.com. |
| 1:42.0 | Nahama is spelled NECH. at Nahama Photography.com. |
| 1:42.7 | N-E-C-H-A, by the way. |
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