Ep. 6: The Dark Side of Photography...and When Big Brands Help Themselves to Your Photos - and more
Lens Shark Photography Podcast
Sharky James
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Nikon Ambassador Moose Peterson opens the show.
We're proud to announce that we were contacted by Apple and they hand picked our podcast to be featured on the front of the Podcasts section in iTunes. It's amazing exposure. Thanks Apple!
The New York Times publishes an article about how big brands are using User Generated Content (UGC) via hashtags to promote their brands mostly without compensation. (full story)
Former PetaPixel Editor DL Cade writes about the "Dark Side of Photography". (full story)
Shootout between the Canon 35mm f/1.4L II and the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art. (full story)
Los Angeles Angels Director of Photography Matt Brown gives a behind the scenes look at shooing a Major League Baseball game. (full story)
Samyang announces the Rokinon 50mm f/1.2 and 21mm f/1.4 lenses for Canon EF-M, Fujifilm X, Micro Four Thirds and Sony E mounts. (full story)
RYOT's Christian Stephen shoots the world's first VR film shot in a war zone for "Welcome to Aleppo". (full story)
Philadelphia-based Director of Photography Mitch Martinez captures fire breathers with a stunning bullet time video. (full story)
A new Facebook patent describes technology useful to photographers as well as to Facebook. (full story)
Canon Explorer of Light David Bergman is the master of the Gigapan and produces a crazy large 20,000 megapixel image. (full story)
Amazingly, there are more deaths due to selfies than to shark attacks. (full story)
The solidLUUV and ultraLUUV Kickstarter campaign looks to be a promising image stabilization product for 2016. (full story)
Open-source utility "Airnef" helps you wirelessly transfer photos from your Nikon or Canon to your computer. (full story)
USA Today photographers Robert Hanashiro and Dan McMeden give us a behind the scenes look at shooting TV's biggest night, the Emmy Awards. (full story)
An entertaining video from the 1980s by Toronto Sun photojournalist Hugh Wesley. (full story)
In drone news:
Unbelievably strict new drone regulations out of Colombia which few could possibly comply with. (full story)
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy, this is Nikon Ambassador Moose Peterson, and you're listening to the |
| 0:04.6 | Petapixil Photography podcast with Sharkey James. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to the Petapixil Photography Podcast, episode six, the Dark Side of Photography, |
| 0:15.0 | And When Big Brands Help Them to Your Photos. |
| 0:18.0 | In this episode, |
| 0:23.8 | hashtag your photos and don't be surprised if a big company actually uses them |
| 0:28.2 | the surprisingly dark side of photography. |
| 0:31.2 | Comparing a canon 35 millmm F1.4 to its Sigma counterpart with interesting results, |
| 0:37.2 | the world's first VR film shot in a war zone. |
| 0:40.3 | Two new Rokonon lenses are announced. |
| 0:43.0 | All that and more in episode six of the Petapixil Photography Podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | Thanks so much Moose for opening the show and I like to thank all of you for joining us here in episode six of the Petapixil Photography Podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | We appreciate you all for subscribing, rating and reviewing us in iTunes or wherever else you listen to us. |
| 1:04.0 | Speaking of iTunes, we're proud to announce that this podcast has been hand-picked by |
| 1:08.1 | Apple to be on the featured front page of the podcast section in iTunes so welcome to everyone who's finding out |
| 1:14.4 | about us that way okay with that I'm your host Sharkey James let's hit it |
| 1:20.0 | special thanks to Alan Murrbayashi of Photo Shelter. |
| 1:22.9 | I'm in full agreement of his assessment of a New York Times article just published about how |
| 1:27.4 | brands have taken to using user generated content, that's UGC, without explicit permission permission or payment. Not very long ago a mother |
| 1:35.8 | named Sharon Wei posted a photo of her daughter wearing Crocs, you know those are those |
| 1:40.5 | really awful plastic shoes on Instagram with the hashtag |
| 1:44.8 | hashtag crocks. |
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