Ep. 136: The 2016 Holiday Grab Bag Episode - and more
Lens Shark Photography Podcast
Sharky James
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Episode 136 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Photographer, author and educator, Neil van Niekerk
In This Episode
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Photographer, author and educator, Neil van Niekerk opens the show. Thanks Neil!
I've teamed up with thinkTANK and Mindshift Gear to give away a bag from each of them on my Instagram account (LensShark) to celebrate an incredible 2016 for this podcast!
The event that caused the Associated Press to ditch B&W and shoot color forever and set technological advancements in motion. (#)
"Tank Man", the photo by storied photojournalist Jeff Widener which is on the short list of the most-memorable, most-influential photos of all-time. (#)
A filter seeks to cut out light pollution for your night photography, but rather than going in front of your lens, this one goes inside your mirror box and sits in front of your image sensor. (#)
A listener in Israel wants to know if there are any left-handed camera solutions or workarounds for a friend who recently lost his right hand. Michael Bass Designs has potential solutions. (#)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there all you painters with light, this is Neil Vanne Kirk and you are listening to the |
| 0:03.8 | Petapixil photography podcast with Sharky James. |
| 0:07.7 | Who the hell calls themselves Sharky anyway? |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to the Petapixil Photography Podcast, episode 136. |
| 0:15.0 | The 2016 Holiday Grabbag episode. |
| 0:19.0 | In this episode, the event that caused AP photographers to suddenly switch to color, |
| 0:29.7 | forever, the iconic Tank Man photo that nearly didn't happen a filter that'll make you nervous |
| 0:35.9 | It's not too late to enter our think tank photo Mind shift gear bag giveaway and a listener in Israel needs a good solution for a friend. |
| 0:45.0 | All that and more in episode 136 of the Petapixil Photography Podcast. cast. Thank you so much, Neil, for opening the show. |
| 0:58.0 | I greatly appreciate it, brother. |
| 0:59.7 | I first became aware of photographer Neil Vanne Kirk just over five and a half years ago |
| 1:03.9 | now while watching a presentation that he gave on B&H's YouTube channel and I'm |
| 1:08.6 | sure that's probably where many of you guys discovered him as well. It's also |
| 1:12.0 | where you may have first learned of his |
| 1:13.8 | excellent blog called Tangents as well as the now infamous BFT, the black |
| 1:19.3 | foamy thing. It's a simple little device for lack of a better term that Neil came up with that attaches to your flash and keeps light from going where you don't want it to go. |
| 1:29.0 | It's literally a piece of art foam that you hair band to your flash. |
| 1:34.3 | So incredibly simple and the kind of awesome useful tips that Neil imparts over on his blog. |
| 1:40.4 | Now for me, Neil's tangents blog has been essential reading for many years now. |
| 1:45.0 | It's a brain dump of amazing tips and techniques, complete with settings, light placement, and a whole lot more. |
| 1:51.0 | You're going to pick up so many great nuggets of info from |
| 1:54.7 | Neil over on his blog and the best way to find it is by going to tangents dot |
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