Shutters Inc

Shutters Inc – episode 193

Bruce Williams — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:00:08 +0000

What a way to bring in the new year! Last week, Adobe announced the public beta of Lightroom v4. Grab it here! Plus, we are joined by Australian Portrait Photographer of the Year, Sue Bryce. Sue shares some valuable insights on how she approaches portrait photography. Check out her blog or her website.

Shutters Inc – episode 192

Bruce Williams — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:00:41 +0000

This week, I caught up with Lorna after the final Sydney ‘Focus on Business’ meeting for 2011. We discussed break-ins, insurance, the FOB series of meetings moving into the Adelaide (South Australia) and Newcastle (New South Wales) markets in 2012 (!), the New Zealand holiday, lens lust, the January Sydney group shoot, BWP calendars, and [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 191

Bruce Williams — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:00:40 +0000

This week, I caught up with Lorna Andrikopoulos from Instinctive Desires for a chat about what she’s been up to in the last month… which has included the Nikon AIPP event in Adelaide, plus a double-nighter of the Focus on Business series in Melbourne the week before last, and the same double-nighter in Sydney last [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 190

Bruce Williams — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:00:53 +0000

This week, a quick chat about why I have decided to NOT shoot with auto white balance from here on out. All of which leads perfectly into our interview with this week’s special guest, Les Walkling. Les is Australia’s most highly respected authority on colour managed workflow. Check out the Theory of Practise page on [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 189

Bruce Williams — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:00:15 +0000

This week, I caught up with Lorna Andrikopoulos from Instinctive Desires after the third Sydney “Focus on Business” meeting. I’m off on holiday for a couple of weeks, so there definitely won’t be any podcasts for the next three weeks. Plus, a quick chat about the status (current, and future) of Shutters Inc. Comments will [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 188

Bruce Williams — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:00:15 +0000

This week, Lorna Andrikopoulos pops in for a quick chat about the ‘Focus on Business’ series, what photographic projects Bruce has been involved with recently (and in the near future), plus the importance of setting goals. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love? Feel free to make [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 187

Bruce Williams — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:00:22 +0000

This week, Lee (along with a surprise appearance by Lorna) joins me for a chat about just how the plans are coming along for MY photography business.

Shutters Inc – episode 186

Bruce Williams — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:05:37 +0000

After the first of the monthly Sydney-based “Focus on Business” meetings, Bruce sits down for a chat with Lorna Andrikopoulos from Instinctive Desires for a chat about the program, and why photographers wanting to build a successful business should come along. The next Sydney event is on Tuesday 13th September.

Shutters Inc – episode 185

Bruce Williams — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:00:59 +0000

This week, outback Queensland workshops and small town attitudes, why Bruce knocked back the job offer, Shelton discusses the frame as a compositional element, looking for geometry in images, the Tobruk Station Sydney meetup, and Bruce’s blog.

Shutters Inc – episode 184

Bruce Williams — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:00:10 +0000

This week, Lee shares some absolutely priceless information on handling objections from your portrait clients. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

Shutters Inc – episode 183

Bruce Williams — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:00:22 +0000

We found him!! Shelton is back! A lengthy catch up on the last 4 months, Bruce’s job offer, and do you have what it takes to RUN a photography workshop? Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 182

Bruce Williams — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 02:00:43 +0000

This week, Lee discusses how in order to find your customers, you must first have decided on what style of photography you plan to offer to your customers, the importance of a plan of action for your business (short, medium and long term), dates for the Instinctive Desires business workshops in both Melbourne and Sydney, [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 181

Bruce Williams — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:00:28 +0000

This week, Lee joins us to talk about just how important it is that you communicate clearly with your client prior to a shoot. Make sure you know what they expect from the shoot. Also, how to deal with it if things don’t go exactly to plan. Also in this episode, I have a few [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 180

Bruce Williams — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 02:00:35 +0000

This week, the first in a new series of talks for Shutters Inc. I’m joined by Lee Andrikopoulos from Instictive Desires. Lee has a wealth of experience to share, concerning how photographers can be better BUSINESS people. We all love taking great images, but without understanding the marketing side of things, our photographic services business [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 179

Bruce Williams — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:47:59 +0000

Another year, another PMA trade show! Over the weekend, I attended the PMA trade show in Sydney and spoke with some of the vendors who were in attendance. This year, I made a point of trying to talk with some vendors who were not in the mainstream; the types of vendors who might have not [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 178

Bruce Williams — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:00:14 +0000

This week, we catch up with Phillip Andrews and hear about some of the exciting things his company is doing in the crossover space between photography and iPads, plus we also catch up with Paul Curtis from the PMA to talk about what to expect from this year’s show, which happens next weekend at Sydney’s [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 177

Bruce Williams — Sun, 15 May 2011 02:00:21 +0000

This week, just why has it been so long between drinks? A couple of pieces of good news for Bruce this week. My photos from the New England North West Tourism photoshoot in December have been published in the NRMA’s Open Road magazine! And my image “Caloundra Blue” picked up a Bronze Award in the [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 176

Bruce Williams — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:00:10 +0000

This week, a few listener e-mails regarding composition, Shelton is of the opinion that there is really nothing new in photography, we discuss the concept of ‘mass’ or ‘weight’ in images, Shelton urges us to breathe (wow, thanks for the reminder, guru! ), CPW are enjoying their new Elinchrom Quadra lights, and a small request [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 175

Bruce Williams — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:44:56 +0000

This week, Bruce is doing the whole seachange thing and leaving Sydney, Breaking Bad, Shelton’s TV show idea, part 2 of the series on composition, a correction re: The Beatles (Thanks, Richard), plus e-mail from Rob, Steve and Michael. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love? Feel [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 174

Bruce Williams — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:21:16 +0000

Finally! We’re back for 2011! This week, a quick recap of the wedding Bruce shot in November, the New England North West Tourism shoot with Paul Mercurio, the Williams’ family holiday to Queensland, Shelton’s Egypt tour has been put on hold indefinitely, CPW has an exciting new e-magazine project in the works, and Shelton commences [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 173

Bruce Williams — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:00:42 +0000

This week, the final episode of SI for 2010! Next week’s Outback NSW Tourism shoot with Paul Mercurio, the workshop Bruce conducted for the Anglican Dioscese of Sydney, cruising around New Zealand, Rich Bancini wants us to cover composition, Rakesh’s e-mail, focus modes, and the (count ‘em!) 2 end-of-year dinners! Comments will be closed after [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 172

Bruce Williams — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 02:00:52 +0000

This week, Scott and Stacey’s wedding, when commercial contracts go horribly wrong, and the angels who save your butt, the CPW workshops in Perth, composition, and the new iPad magazine for photographers, DI-magazine. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love? Feel free to make a small donation [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 171

Bruce Williams — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:00:03 +0000

This week, Shelton talks about the workshops which CPW conducted in Brisbane this week (and a big shout out to the Breakfast Creek Hotel for helping out with a last-minute location), including the ups and downs of working with models, coping with inclement weather, photographers guilty of over-lighting a subject, f-stop (backpack style) camera bags, [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 170

Bruce Williams — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 02:00:05 +0000

This week, I’m loving my new Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 lens, the commercial spin off from the film noir shoot, the Fast Track Photographer, and the not one, but TWO SI new year’s parties! More details to come on those. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love? Feel [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 169

Bruce Williams — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 02:00:38 +0000

This week’s episode is inspired by this video. After seeing this, I mentioned to Shelton that with the growing propensity of couples to have both a videographer AND a photographer cover their wedding, these kinds of altercations could potentially become more common if people don’t communicate properly. Hence, our discussion on how we (the photographers) [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 168

Bruce Williams — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 02:00:02 +0000

This week, Shelton asks for my opinion of the David Honl lighting workshop (which I travelled to Melbourne for, on Wednesday… it was awesome btw), we talk about some of Dave’s awesome HonlPhoto gear, which you should definitely check out, I talk about Dave’s approach to lighting a shot in a step-by-step manner (see photos [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 167

Bruce Williams — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 02:00:48 +0000

This week, we’re joined by John Swainston from Maxwell Australia, who has just returned from Cologne, Germany where he was exhibiting at Photokina 2010. Love the podcast? Want to share the love? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received! Size: 43414367 bytes Duration: 29:03

Shutters Inc – episode 166

Bruce Williams — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:01:43 +0000

This week, Mark Loader’s most successful photo, Rob Stimers chimes in on the water skier conundrum, Dave Honl will be conducting a one day flash workshop in Melbourne on October 13th, the boys from CPW are back in the US of A for the next couple of weeks, plus, seeing the world the same way [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 165

Bruce Williams — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:00:21 +0000

This week, we chat about my assignment for Outback NSW Tourism, Echucapolooza 2 (and 2.5), being passionate about your art, the TED speech by Simon Sinek, CPW heading back to the US late September/early October, the Sydney Film noir shoot, my new Lowepro ProRoller AW450, Shelton’s new site, Photomerchant, using a reflector for the water [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 164

Bruce Williams — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:00:10 +0000

This week, I’m joined by long time SI listener, and multi-published author, Mike Hollman. Mike offered to call me on skype to discuss my tourism shoot next week, as he has done quite a few gigs along these lines. Rather than just keep all that info for myself, I asked if Mike would mind if [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 163

Bruce Williams — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:00:25 +0000

This week, Bruce is flying solo. Just a couple of quick things to cover… How I landed the Outback NSW Tourism gig, This week’s Sydney Meetup #8 (the film noir shoot), Day 1 of Visible Light, and the interesting research being done at Microsoft (of all places) to remove camera-shake from your mobile phone pics.

Shutters Inc – episode 162

Bruce Williams — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:00:19 +0000

This week, we give you 50% more! Phillip Andrews (professional photographer, Better Photoshop Techniques magazine publisher, and Adobe Ambassador) joins us for a chat about: the differences between Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3, his new Photoshop CS5 Essential Skills book, which SI listeners can buy at a 20% discount using the code ‘pa123′, the Visible [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 161

Bruce Williams — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:00:51 +0000

This week, we answer some listener e-mail regarding dynamic range, lighting up water skiers, and getting out of a ‘photographic flat spot’. Plus, Shelton goes into some more detail on how to shoot in the film noir genre. Check out the wiki article for more info on film noir. Love the podcast? Want to share [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 160

Bruce Williams — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:00:22 +0000

Finally! We’re back! We wind back the clock to just after our last podcast and start wading through the events which have transpired: Bruce’s car crash, South Africa and the World Cup (Shelton’s posts: one, two and three), Shelton’s trip to Nevada and California (where models don’t show up, either, apparently!), Shelton’s back pain, the [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 159

Bruce Williams — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:00:53 +0000

With Shelton still in South Africa covering the World Cup, and with Adobe having just released Lightroom 3 out into the wild, I thought it might be a good time to get Philip Andrews back on the line for a chat. Love the podcast? Want to share the love? Feel free to make a small [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 158

Bruce Williams — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:34:31 +0000

This week, we catch up with just some of the vendors from the PMA Digital Life Expo in Melbourne. 0:00:43 Samsung Ben Halcomb - 0:06:33 Nittram Photographic Services Tim Gledhill - 0:08:55 Digiframe Lil Jolly - 0:09:56 Photo Gifts World Vicky Singh - 0:11:30 Print 2 Metal Frank Hokestra - 0:16:06 Olympus Lisa Forrest - [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 157

Bruce Williams — Sun, 30 May 2010 02:01:59 +0000

This week, Paul Curtis from the Photo Marketing Accosication pops in for a chat prior to the Digital Life Expo, which will be held in Melbourne the weekend of 5-6 June, 2010. Some of the things to see will be: 3D devies, the iPad, the CPW stand, the photo judging and gallery. Also, remember that [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 156

Bruce Williams — Sun, 23 May 2010 02:02:16 +0000

This week, Shutters Inc will cure your insomnia, Shelton and Glynn have been busy with workshops, the Rob Guest Endowment competition, Kodak announces it officially that Shelton will be shooting the World Cup soccer in South Africa, Shelton loves his Flashwave triggers, and 7 tips to using your tripod, courtesy of the digital photography school [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 155

Bruce Williams — Sun, 16 May 2010 02:00:58 +0000

This week, Shelton talks about the week-long workshop that CPW recently conducted in New Zealand, we talk some more about the histogram, Sydney meetup #4, discuss the meaning of “chromatic aberration”, have a laugh at the guy who didn’t really know what SI was all about, celebrate Nathan Muller’s fantastic achievement, discuss a couple of [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 154

Bruce Williams — Sun, 02 May 2010 02:09:41 +0000

This week, we’re joined by professional photographer, Adobe Ambassador (Photoshop, Lightroom), Co-Editor of Better Photoshop Techniques magazine, and internationally published author, Phillip Andrews. Phil pops in for a chat about Adobe’s Creative Suite 5, and some of the new features of Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3 and Adobe Camera Raw 6. Plus he mentioned these crazy [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 153

Bruce Williams — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:00:31 +0000

This week, on the eve of Shelton and company flying off to Noo Zooland, we announce the winner of the Wacom competition, Richard Annable explains how not only lenses see things differently, but cameras do too, can you trust your on-camera LCD?, Jason Paige gave us some info about the RAW linear/logarithmic question from last [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 152

Bruce Williams — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:18:13 +0000

This week, Bruce’s holiday, in which I played with some more off-camera flash, DIY lighting, Shelton discovers the benefits of blogging, with Kodak asking him to travel to South Africa to shoot/video/blog the World Cup, Richard Annable alerts us to the potential dangers of beta software, the Adobe CS5 launch, content-aware fill in Photoshop CS5, [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 151

Bruce Williams — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:06:23 +0000

This week, want to win yourself the Wacom Intuos 4 graphics tablet? Details at the end of this post. The kill date for Lightroom 3 Beta 2 is officially June 30, 2010. Erin King loves her old graphics tablet, Mark Loader chimed in with his thoughts on 3rd party lenses, to which Shelton agreed, Ray [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 150

Bruce Williams — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:00:28 +0000

This week, Bruce speaks with Leo and Linda from Wacom Australia about the range of Wacom Intuos graphics tablets, and why every photographer can benefit from one. Then, Shelton talks about HIS perceptions of a graphics tablet, we talk about the CPW Advanced Flash Workshop in Melbourne, working with light modifiers like the Honl grids [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 149

Bruce Williams — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:00:06 +0000

This week, just a chat as we catch up with Shelton post-Los Angeles. Turns out, the “creative photo workshop” is an idea whose time has come. Shelton talks about all the aspects of the trip, including the Venice Beach shoot. Last week, I was given an Intuos4 graphics tablet by the nice folks at Wacom [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 148

Bruce Williams — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:02:51 +0000

With Shelton and Glynn still in LA for the PMA Trade Show, I figured it was the perfect opportunity to grab Dave Honl for another chat. Dave and I talked about colour temperatures and white balance and all that juicy stuff, which prompted Dave to talk about this shoot he did a while back, plus [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 147

Bruce Williams — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:47:06 +0000

We’re getting this one out early for the benefit of the U.S. listeners! Shelton and Glynn are off to LA for the PMA trade show, Bruce now has his new (old) 20mm wide angle lens, and is lovin’ it! Facebook users can check out some early shots here, Nodal Ninja panoramic heads, the Emerging nymph [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 146

Bruce Williams — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:02:47 +0000

This week, a quick discussion of changes at audio2u.com, a shout out to Glynn Lavender for organising the Joe McNally interview, the first Sydney meetup, the beauty of sharing what you know, the second Sydney meetup, trying your hand at all styles of photography, prints for Haiti, a shout out to Events In Flower, Dan [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 145

Bruce Williams — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:11:11 +0000

This week, Bruce is excited about having potentially sold his first large format canvas print, which led to a bit of a discussion about marketing ideas for limited edition fine art works, tales of woe over how our listeners killed the server after the Joe McNally epiosde was released, Joe’s video confession, Bruce’s lens dilemma, [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 144

Bruce Williams — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:00:58 +0000

Happy new year! In the first ep for 2010, we talk about our cruise to New Caledonia and Vanuatu, the new Creative Photo Workshops website, My new Sony alpha 850, the Sydney photographers are getting together monthly, the 5MP/SI party in Melbourne, and finally, our special guest interview.

Shutters Inc – episode 143

Bruce Williams — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:58:57 +0000

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! Yep, snuck one more in before the end of the year. But it ain’t what you’re thinkin’, peoples! DO NOT THINK TO YOURSELF “I’LL LISTEN TO THAT TOMORROW.” You NEED to listen to this as soon as you see it in your feed. Time is of the essence. 24 hour essence. Go [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 142

Bruce Williams — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:23:33 +0000

This week, in the final episode for 2009, we rave (again) about David Oakley, I pose the question to Shelton “How do you stay in touch with ‘real world’ working conditions, when you run the risk of doing so much teaching that there’s no time for commercial work?”, Shelton queries whether or not we sometimes [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 141

Bruce Williams — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:24:32 +0000

We’re baaaack! Finally (after the death of my soundcard last week and the subsequent purachase of a new card which is SUPPOSED to be the successor to the card I had, but which has LESS features… grrrrrr!), we managed to hook up this week to catch up on all that has happened in both our [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 140

Bruce Williams — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:00:54 +0000

This week, a verbal version of this blog post from earlier in the week regarding the Konica Minolta and Sony alpha850. Then, a couple of very special guests: Dave Honl, strobist extrordinaire and creator of the Honl light modifiers, and his actress wife, Claudia Christian. There is going to be a giveaway alongside this episode. [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 139

Bruce Williams — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:06:56 +0000

This week, a bit of ‘giggle giggle crap crap’, I’ve decided to stay in the Sony camp, and finally a further exploration of Michael’s “hard’ and ‘soft’ techniques idea.

Shutters Inc – episode 138

Bruce Williams — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:29:27 +0000

This week, we address a couple of the back catalogue of e-mails that we’ve been trying to get to (for weeks, it seems!), and then on to a discussion of the pros and cons of both APS-C sized sensors and 35mm sensors. Is this shaping up to be the new “megapixel race”?

Shutters Inc – episode 137

Bruce Williams — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:00:43 +0000

This week, SI comes to you from the old Victorian river town of Echuca, located on the Murray River (which forms the state boarder between Victoria and New South Wales). Recorded after one day of a 2 day photogrpahic workshop. The usual suspects talk about all aspects of the workshop, photograhy, working with models, lighting, [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 136

Bruce Williams — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:01:45 +0000

This week, we talk about the upcoming (of course, it’ll all be over by the time you read this!) full weekend photography workshop at Echuca, Bruce’s plans on going pro (plus a first sale this week!), Jim Felder wrote to ask about the idea of recording Shelton’s dialogue whilst he’s conducting a workshop, Carl Tregidgo [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 135

Bruce Williams — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:42:19 +0000

This week, Shelton rocks up with a couple of ring-ins. Yes, Richard Annable and Nathan ‘Guru-Junior’ Muller are back to talk about August Exposure, a full week photogrpahy conference that Richard attended a couple of weeks ago, Bruce is moving toward taking his photography more seriously, We’d still like to see some more faces signing [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 134

Bruce Williams — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:55:09 +0000

This week, Richard Ingram wrote to say how much he enjoys the show, but could we have guest hosts when Shelton is unavailable, Bruce got to play with a Nikon D3x for half an hour through the week (verdict: blown away!), the canvas of the Tabourie Lake panorama arrived last week (looks stunning, by all [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 133

Bruce Williams — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:55:26 +0000

This week, David Elfering reminds us of some of the bargains that can be had on Ebay with regards to slightly older digital SLR’s, Jim Rockewll chimed in on the ‘business stationery design’ topic with a reminder to leave some white space in your design, as well as a request for the donation button to [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 132

Bruce Williams — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:31:05 +0000

In this episode, we wrap up the ‘going pro’ series (unless of course you ask for something else on the topic we haven’t covered yet). The discussion includes what type of business (sole trader or company) and the pros and cons for each, the issues surrounding coming up with an image or brand for your [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 131

Bruce Williams — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:30:51 +0000

What happens when 4 guys, 3 pizzas, 2 bottles of red, and one mega trade show reach their ultimate destination? You probably DON’T want to know…. but if you do, then this is your podcast! Shelton Muller, Nathan Muller, Richard Annable and myself sat down for a chat (after the PMA Imaging Technology Show wrapped [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 130 (PMA vendors)

Bruce Williams — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:46:00 +0000

In episode 130, Bruce talks to various vendors on the floor at the PMA Imaging Technology Show at Darling Harbour, Sydney. 00:00:38 Fujifilm 00:04:05 Ricoh Business Printers 00:08:02 Canon 00:11:03 Olympus 00:18:31 Sony 00:30:21 Kodak 00:36:20 Momento Pro 00:38:28 Westwell 00:42:17 Nikon 00:50:00 Adobe 00:53:08 Lifetime Art and Photo 00:56:45 Wacom 01:03:16 Maxwell Australia 01:09:29 [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 129

Bruce Williams — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:13:41 +0000

A special pre-PMA Trade Show episode. Bruce talks with PMA spokesman, Paul Curtis about what to expect at the show, and why anyone interested in photography ought to be there. Remember, you can still register for free access to the show, to save yourself $20.

Shutters Inc – episode 128

Bruce Williams — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:44:42 +0000

In episode 128, we’re nearing the end of the ‘going pro’ series. This week, Shelton talks about when, and how, to push your limitations as a photographer.

Shutters Inc – episode 127

Bruce Williams — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:47:09 +0000

In episode 127, we’re still “going pro”. This week, shooting for stock, part time vs full time, and selling your style to your target audience.

Shutters Inc – episode 126

Bruce Williams — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:01:13 +0000

This week, the ‘going pro’ series continues. The main thrust of this episode is ‘asking the right questions of your client’.

Shutters Inc – episode 125

Bruce Williams — Sun, 24 May 2009 09:57:54 +0000

In ep 125, Shelton continues the ‘going pro’ theme. This week, both sides of the coin… working with direction (from Art Directors, Graphic Designers etc), and working solo when the client trusts your instinct. Also, Daryl Gungadoo alerted us to Cooliris. Thanks Daryl! And the date, which to paraphrase Franklin D. Roosevelt will live in [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 124

Bruce Williams — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:20:27 +0000

This week, Shelton narrowly avoids a heart attack after leaving one of his camera bags on site after a shoot, check out the video of Shelton ripping out “Ain’t no sunshine“, Bruce, Cathie and Max are off for a 12 night cruise for Christmas, and who’s up for an end-of-year bash in Melbourne? Then, Shelton [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 123

Bruce Williams — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:44:30 +0000

This week, Shelton discusses moving into corporate and professional photography.

Shutters Inc – episode 122

Bruce Williams — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:20:03 +0000

This week, how to find the audio2u.com group on Facebook, The D5000 launch in Melbourne, Yervant made a pretty awesome video using a combination of stills and video shot on a Canon 5D mkll, plus Shelton begins a new series on turning your photography hobby in to a profitable venture. In part 1, how to [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 121

Bruce Williams — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:07:07 +0000

This week, Shelton talks about the value of photographic workshops, Daryl Gungadoo alerted me to the “anti-currency-duplication” technology embedded within Photoshop CS4, EURion Constellation link #1, EURion Constellation link #2, Ken Rockwell’s discussion of same, Erin King hasn’t been keeping up to date with her listening to the podcast (tsk tsk!), Shelton heading north for [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 120

Bruce Williams — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:29:25 +0000

This week, Shelton is playing with the new Ricoh CX1, plus we talk about white balance, Daryl Gungadoo’s workflow, and the dude at Paxton’s at North Ryde who deserves an award for telling the truth! Unlike the clown I ran into yesterday (long after this podcast was recorded, unfortunately) at Clive Anthony’s in Castle Hill, [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 119

Bruce Williams — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:51:24 +0000

This week, Shelton talks about the first SLR he bought for his son, Nathan… a Nikon FE… for $40! I asked Shelton what he knew about the Leica M8. Shelton then talks about the issues for photographers shooting in public places, which led me to ask about model release forms.

Video: Cath’s skydive

Bruce Williams — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:45:41 +0000

Last weekend, Cath finally did her skydive. And here’s the proof! (It’s about 32MB.)

Shutters Inc – episode 118

Bruce Williams — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:17:29 +0000

This week, SI listener Roy Booth submitted this image, which he shot on his Nikon D300. This image is straight out of the camera with no post processing. Shelton dicusses the value of doing a photography workshop, I ask whether you rename your images as part of your workflow, and if so, why? David Zack [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 117

Bruce Williams — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:19:21 +0000

This week, Shelton and business partner, Glynn Lavender took a model out to some ruins for a bridal shoot with a difference. Shelton also recommends that we ALL go and watch this video. Also, the Victorian bushfires, and what some very generous local photographers (like Richard Annable) are doing to help out. Shelton, in the [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 116

Bruce Williams — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:00:50 +0000

Yep, 2 weeks in a row! This week, Shelton answers a couple of very old e-mails regarding off-camera flash, Robert Iverson asked about printing an entire folder of images, Bruce asks for clarification on Shelton’s “pocket sunshine” technique, plus the state of play with sensor size and density.

Shutters Inc – episode 115

Bruce Williams — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:15:32 +0000

OMG WTF?? Can it really be? Yes folks, it can. For the faithful who have waited and waited and waited… THANK YOU!

Shutters Inc – episode 114

Bruce Williams — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:51:05 +0000

Surprise!! We’re back! After some catching-up chit-chat, Shelton goes on to talk about the new Sony a900, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, the Nikon D700 (which he’s about to get, naturally!), and some more about off-camera flash. Remember to learn those formulae, folks! Guide number divided by f-stop equals distance, and Guide number divided by [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 113

Bruce Williams — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:00:27 +0000

Something different this week, folks. It’s Shutters Inc sans-Muller. The links as promised: Unlock more features on your Canon compact digital Concert photography woes with the iPhone Facebook and copyright

Shutters Inc – episode 112

Bruce Williams — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:56:19 +0000

OMG! The dramas Shelton and I went through to get this episode out! Listen in for the gory details. In this ep, Shelton delves further into off-camera flash, and how to do it right.

Don’t mind me…

Bruce Williams — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:17:55 +0000

…just testing out the latest version of WordPress. whoosh001 I’m interested to see if that audio file ends up being “published” in the feed, like an episode of a podcast. ok, that ought to be enough mucking around for now. Addendum Well, no, apparently you can now attach media files to a post without [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 111

Bruce Williams — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:15:36 +0000

The audio quality may be a little rough this week. It was a real “last minute” thing that we even got to record at all, but I figured any podcast was better than no podcast! Yay! We’re back! This week, Shelton suggests that there MIGHT be some US workshops in the near future! Woohoo! Stay [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 110

Bruce Williams — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:02:42 +0000

Woohoo! Another ep sees the light of day! This week, Shelton revisits his now-famous mantra of “find the light and put ‘em in it!” Also, check out Soph’s website. Shelton has ANOTHER new favourite lens, and Bruce isn’t taking anywhere near enough photos (but I AM getting fit).

Shutters Inc – episode 109

Bruce Williams — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:32:34 +0000

We’re back! After a chat about my trip to the States (see the last 3 or 4 posts on audio2u.com if you haven’t already), Shelton talks about 5 Minute Photographer, how Richard Annable is one of the best photographic assistants he’s ever worked with, some interesting wedding stories, 5 Minute Photographer (deja vu!), Slideshowpro, where [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 108

Bruce Williams — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:00:33 +0000

This week, our last podcast for about 7 weeks! Shelton is off this week to take a photo tour to Kangaroo Island (for those wanting to see what Kangaroo Island looks like, Shelton recommends the movie, “December Boys” with Daniel Radcliffe), Bruce is freelancing at a radio station in Sydney for the next 3 weeks, [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 107

Bruce Williams — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:00:06 +0000

This week, more on the “after-the-ceremony” shots, Shelton is heading off to Kangaroo Island to conduct a photo tour, a couple of e-mails addressed, Carlos Rivera’s video on YouTube, the photo book company Shelton mentioned last week is Susanpro, Bruce’s dream car, and a few of Shelton’s wedding shots….

Shutters Inc – episode 106

Bruce Williams — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:07:04 +0000

We’re back! This week, the wedding progresses. More on the “after-the-ceremony” shots, then moving on to the “location” shots. Also, making your images distinctly “yours”. And Shelton occasionally uses his 11mm wide angle lens.

Shutters Inc – episode 105

Bruce Williams — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:13:12 +0000

This week, live from the Hundred Acre Wood, Shelton “Tigger” Muller talks about HDR images, the Nikkor D Focus lenses, why he’d still take his 85mm f1.8 over either the Tamron 90mm f2.8, or the Sigma 105mm f2.8, and Jason Paige asks about “finding the light and putting them in it”, particualrly in regard to [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 104

Bruce Williams — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:32:02 +0000

Shelton continues his series on planning the wedding day shoot. This week, your equipment list, plus shooting at the bride’s house. Here’s the shot Shelton mentioned of the bride, taken in the hallway of her own house using nothing more than side lighting: Plus, here’s a few more shots taken in various brides’ homes: Also, [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 103

Bruce Williams — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:01:28 +0000

This week, a listener reminded us of some of the great resources available at DIYphotography, which we’ve mentioned before (but which deserves another mention!). A couple of listener e-mails from Carlos Rivera, who was keen to hear Shelton’s approach to wedding photography. Good news Carlos! This week sees the beginning of what will be a [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 102

Bruce Williams — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:58:49 +0000

This week, a couple of listener e-mails, including one from Landon Michaelson about LensBaby’s bokeh’s, plus Shelton asks what makes your photography distinctive? Also, Shelton’s new video series coming soon!

Shutters Inc – episode 101

Bruce Williams — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:00:27 +0000

This week, a brief chat about the weather in Melbourne, shooting weddings in the heat, depth of field, focal length, and sensor size, Shelton’s youtube video, the death of the ricoh GR, another listener project (making a bokeh), and using off-camera flash in the middle of the day (like Shelton used here).

Another dose of The Man

Bruce Williams — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:53:28 +0000

Shelton was on 3AW again today… those poor, poor Melbourne people! How do they stand it? Anyway, he wanted to subject you to it, as well!

Some midnight munchies to tide you over

Bruce Williams — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:31:59 +0000

OK, it’s not a real ep of Shutters Inc, but Shelton made another appearance on Melbourne’s 3AW today, and asked me to post the audio. Just something to tide you over until we resume in a couple of weeks. Enjoy… and sorry about the audio quality. Out of my hands. Cheers, Bruce.

Shutters Inc – episode 100

Bruce Williams — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:54:45 +0000

Woohoo! We finally got here! This week, Shelton discusses his latest trip to Rockhampton to teach real estate salespeople how to more effectively shoot their properties, more on off-camera flash, and the John Bertrand shoot (pic 1, pic 2). Bruce is planning on using My Reflections to print his photobook of his recent U.S. trip. [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 099

Bruce Williams — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:46:12 +0000

We’re back! This week (as you’d expect), quite a long discussion on my trip to the States, plus Shelton’s golf club shoot, the new Nikon D3 and D300, Shelton’s air conditioner shoot (true!… see below), plus remote flash. Here’s the shot of the tree (mentioned in the podcast): To see more of my trip, check [...]

Shutters Inc – episode 098

Bruce Williams — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:50:49 +0000

I’m letting this one out of the bag early. Not much sense holding it back ’til Sunday, ’cause come Sunday, I won’t know what day it is! In this (very short) ep, Shelton discusses his annual photo weekend away with the boys, taking multiple exposures with his D200, and I’m flying out tomorrow. This will [...]