Ep. 8: Do Photojournalists Go Too Far...or is Donald Trump Just a Meanie? - and more
Lens Shark Photography Podcast
Sharky James
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In this episode:
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This Week in Photo host Frederick Van Johnson opens the show.
Jim Harmer with the Improve Photography podcast gives an audio response to a story we reported on Episode 6.
U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump goes on the attack over a photo shot at a campaign stop. (full story)
Should animal rights extend to copyright? Find out who has sued on a monkey's behalf. (full story)
Lens Battle helps you compare the quality of lenses in a more logical, interactive way. (full story)
Photoshop Elements 14 features cool new features. Do you need the full version of Photoshop? (full story)
Japanese photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima dies at age 94. (full story)
Is 360 degree interactive video on Facebook important to you as a photographer? (full story)
A photographers makes over $900,000 with photo composites. Find out what it is. (full story)
An Australian wedding photographer donates $3 for every time her photo is shared for charity and the photo goes viral in a big way. (full story)
GoPro releases the more affordable Hero+ and drops prices on the Hero Session. (full story)
Another "professional" photographer fails to back up photos and loses 21 hard drives with over 70,000 photos along with 8 of her cameras. (full story)
Today's listener question:
Rolf in Germany wants to know what camera gear he'll need to achieve maximum depth-of-field and produce a 3' x 8' print.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Frederick Van Johnson from this week in Photo and the TWIP network. |
| 0:04.7 | You are listening to the Petapixil Photography Podcast with Sharky James. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome to the Petapixil Photography Podcast, episode 8. Do photojournalists go too far or is Donald Trump just |
| 0:17.6 | a meany? In this episode, the Donald loses is cool with an AP photographer. Do animals have a right to copyright? We tell you who's suing on their behalf. |
| 0:32.0 | Photoshop Elements has some cool new features. |
| 0:35.0 | Rolf in Germany wants to know what gear to use to get the most depth of field when shooting landscapes. |
| 0:41.0 | Another photographer loses her life's work. All that and more in episode 8 of the |
| 0:46.4 | Petapixil Photography Podcast. Thank you so much Frederick for opening the show. I've been a huge |
| 0:54.2 | twip fan for years and thank you everyone for joining us here in episode 8 of |
| 0:59.2 | the Petapixil Photography podcast. We appreciate you all for subscribing, rating, and reviewing us in iTunes |
| 1:05.5 | or wherever else you listen to us. All right, before we get into today's show, we have a special |
| 1:10.2 | guest who would like to comment about a story we had in episode six. |
| 1:14.6 | Hey everybody I'm Jim Harmer from the Improved Photography Podcast and I've been loving |
| 1:19.6 | Petapixles new podcast and everything that Sharky James does. I want however to make a |
| 1:24.5 | little response about one comment that was made from the article the dark side of |
| 1:28.9 | photography a few episodes ago. The podcast and the article mentioned that it was quote |
| 1:34.3 | abusing your subject for something the Cormorant fishermen do in China and that is |
| 1:39.5 | that they'll take their Cormorant birds and they'll dunk them under water holding them by the neck and then set them on on the little bamboo rafts that they have so that they'll spread their wings and look more interesting in the photograph. |
| 1:52.8 | And what was cited in the podcast and article and by Jimmy McIntyre |
| 1:56.2 | was that this is cruelty to animals. And that's just not true and I want to explain why it is |
| 2:02.0 | because it's a different culture and we can often rush to snap judgments. |
| 2:05.6 | Well the reason the fisherman holds the bird by the neck is because it's the safest place to hold them. |
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