Ep. 158: Why It's Foolish to Shoot on Train Tracks - and more
Lens Shark Photography Podcast
Sharky James
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Episode 158 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Famed photojournalist, Nick Ut
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Yet another young person dies while doing a photoshoot on train tracks. (#)
Meyer-Optik announces the 35mm f/2.8 Trioplan 35+ with that unique "soap bubble" bokeh effect. (#)
Fujifilm managers talk about the future of mirrorless and their company. (#)
The "Azure Window" natural landmark is forever destroyed in a storm. (#)
A photojournalist wins in federal court and affirms the press (and public's) right to photograph and otherwise document the actions of police in the US. (#)
NASA photographs a ravioli in space more than 700 million miles away from a distance of 15,000 miles. (#)
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| 0:00.0 | AP photojournalist Nick Ust and you are listening to the better picture photography |
| 0:08.1 | postcard with shaky games enjoy the show that That's good, right? |
| 0:13.0 | This episode is sponsored by our friends at Tenba. |
| 0:16.0 | Use promo code Petapixil and get 10% off your order at Tenba. |
| 0:21.0 | That's T-E-N-B-A-D-C-C-C-O-C-O-F full details on that as well as where else you can use that code later in the show. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the Petapixil Photography Podcast, Episode 158. |
| 0:35.0 | Why It's Foolish to Shoot on Train Tracks. |
| 0:38.0 | In this episode another senseless death thanks to an ill-advised photo shoot soap bubbles go wide |
| 0:50.4 | Fuji film talks about the future, an oft-fotographed landmark is gone forever, a photographer |
| 0:56.8 | has a victory against the police, and NASA photographs a space ravioli. All that and more in episode 158 of the |
| 1:05.2 | pedophile photography podcast. I've got to tell you it's an absolute honor to have photojournalist Nick Ooot |
| 1:16.8 | open today's show. Now you may not recognize his name but in your mind's eye |
| 1:20.9 | there's no doubt you can picture his Pulitzer Prize winning photo, which he captured on June 8th of 1972 during the Vietnam War. |
| 1:29.0 | An image so powerful that it touched the hearts of millions around the world and instantly became one of the most impactful iconic photos of the 20th century and arguably of all time |
| 1:40.0 | Oats photograph of a nine-year-old Vietnamese girl whose clothes have been completely burned off, |
| 1:45.0 | running down the highway after a napalm bombing, is the kind of photo that you just can't get out of your head. |
| 1:51.0 | U.S. President Richard Nixon saw the photo and wondered if it was fake. |
| 1:55.7 | And of that, Ute said, quote, even though it's become one of the most memorable images of the 20th |
| 2:01.1 | century, President Nixon once doubted the authenticity of my photograph |
| 2:05.2 | when he saw it in the papers on June 12th, 1972. |
| 2:09.3 | The picture for me and unquestionably for many others could not have been more real. The photo was as |
| 2:15.6 | authentic as the Vietnam War itself. The horror of the Vietnam War recorded by me did not have to be fixed." |
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