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Lens Shark Photography Podcast

Ep. 147: The Death of Triggertrap - and more

Lens Shark Photography Podcast

Sharky James

Visual Arts, Arts

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Episode 147 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Wedding and lifestyle photographer Rich Chapman

In This Episode

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Wedding and lifestyle photographer Rich Chapman opens the show. Thanks Rich!

Triggertrap goes out of business after months of layoffs and struggling to stay afloat. (#)

A journalist falls for an altered photo of President Donald Trump, tweets about it causing it to go viral only to discover she was duped. (#)

A woman takes on the state of Arizona over an image shot of her husband and child. (#)

The National Park Service's large format photographer Jarob Ortiz documents life in and around national parks in the US. (#)

Listener (and YouTuber) Unmesh Dinda wants to know how many megapixels is too much and if we'll see vector photographs shot by future cameras.

Outtake

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Transcript

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This is a photographer Rich Chapman photographers and you're listening to the

0:04.3

Petapixil podcast with Sharky James. Hope you enjoy.

0:07.7

Welcome to the Petapixil Photography Podcast Episode 147.

0:13.2

The Death of Trigger Trap.

0:20.5

In this episode, Trigger Trap fights the dust, a photographer faces the state of Arizona,

0:27.0

the Trump hand photo debacle, the National Park Service's new large format shooter, and a listener poses a couple of interesting questions.

0:36.4

All that and more in episode 147 of the Petapixil Photography Podcast. Thank you so much, Rich, for opening the show.

0:45.0

I greatly appreciate it, brother.

0:50.0

Now, you may recall that way back in May of 2013, also known as about four years ago now, the

0:56.5

Chicago Sun Times did something incredibly foolish and they laid off their entire staff of photojournalists in favor of

1:04.4

training reporters how to shoot with iPhones and relying on freelancers as well.

1:09.2

A move that arguably hasn't worked out very well for them. It hasn't. Well, Rich Chapman, unfortunately, was one of those photojournalists. The Chicago-based photographer now takes that unique vision that photojournalists have and brings that to the world of wedding and lifestyle photography through his company

1:27.5

Rich Chapman photographers the father and son team are killing it with their storytelling photography

1:33.0

there in Chicago land and to check out their work you're going to want to head on

1:36.6

over to their website at rich Chapman photo dot com and I'd like to thank you all

1:41.8

for joining us here in episode 147 of the Petapixil Photography

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podcast.

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We appreciate you all so much and thank you all for subscribing, rating, and reviewing

1:51.4

us in iTunes or wherever else you listen to us.

1:55.0

And as always we appreciate you hitting that subscribe button so you don't miss a single

1:58.5

episode as well as telling all your friends on social media and elsewhere

2:02.4

and helping to get the word out about this show. all your

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