Ep. 18: Is Portrait Photographer as Lucrative as Fortune Says? - and more
Lens Shark Photography Podcast
Sharky James
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2015
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Here's episode 18 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and subscribe via iTunes or RSS!
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In This Episode
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A very enthusiastic Peter Hurley opens the show. THANKS SO MUCH PETER! (See what I did there?)
Fortune magazine says that Portrait Photographer is one of the top 5 best careers for work-at-home parents. (#)
What happens when you tell 6 photographers something different about their subject? Canon knows. (#)
Sony releases powerful firmware for the a7 II giving it 14-bit uncompressed RAW and phase detection autofocus with adapted lenses. (#)
National Geographic slashes 9% of its staff in advance of 21st Century Fox taking the reigns. (#)
Polaroid sues GoPro over it's cube-shaped Session camera. Does camera shape even mater?!!! (#)
Frederick Douglass appears to be the most-photographed man of the 19th century. (#)
The New York Times teams up with Google and distributes 1.3 million Google Cardboard viewers. (#)
Matthew checks in from Poland. Don't you think you should too? Hint, hint.
Thomas from Madison, Wisconsin in the USA leaves a voicemail via our widget and wants to know if he should stick with the straight-out-of-camera (SOOC) JPG or shoot RAW and convert it to JPG in Apple's Photos app on his Mac.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Peter Hurley from the headshot crew and you are hanging with Sharky James on the |
| 0:04.5 | Petapixil Photography Podcast, Faisal! |
| 0:08.2 | What the? |
| 0:09.2 | Use your indoor voice, Peter. |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome to the Petapixil Photography Podcast, Episode 18. Is portrait photographer as |
| 0:17.0 | lucrative as fortune says? |
| 0:20.0 | In this episode, Fortuneless portrait photographer is a great job to do from home, |
| 0:28.4 | especially if you're a parent, National Geographic slashes 9% of its workforce ahead of Fox taking over. |
| 0:35.8 | Sony rolls out a very welcome firmware update for the A72, and Polaroid and GoPro |
| 0:41.6 | it out. We tell you why. All that and more in episode 18 of the |
| 0:46.7 | Petapixil Photography Podcast. |
| 0:48.8 | Thank you so much Peter for opening the show. That was awesome brother. Next time though, maybe a little bit more enthusiasm. |
| 0:59.0 | All right, maybe that's not possible. If you want to see Peter's amazing work, head on over to Peter Hurley.com and check that out. That's P-E-T-E-R-H-U-R-L-E-Y dot com. And I'd like to thank you all for joining us here in episode 18 of the |
| 1:14.0 | Petapixil Photography podcast. We appreciate you all so much and thank you all for |
| 1:18.5 | subscribing, rating, and reviewing us in iTunes or wherever else you listen to us. |
| 1:23.4 | Okay, with that, I'm your host Sharky James, let's hit it. |
| 1:28.5 | If you listen to the very first episode of this podcast, you heard my good friend and Sony artisan at |
| 1:34.2 | imagery Paul Joroe do the very first intro for this podcast. Well now he's |
| 1:39.2 | been featured in a story on Fortune.com entitled, |
| 1:43.0 | These five work at home careers are great for parents. |
| 1:47.0 | One of those five careers that they highlighted |
| 1:49.5 | is portrait photographer, and Paul is the one that they chose to represent that career. |
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