F-Stop Collaborate and Listen

Welcome to Episode 079 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Jason Matias! Jason Matias is a fine art photographer based in Bellvue, Washington. Jason has been working hard behind the scenes to help other photographers sell their photography through his online masterclass "the art of selling art." Jason is a veteran and has a master's degree in organizational leadership - both experiences he has leveraged to develop his marketing and selling acumen. Jason defines his photography into two different concepts - comfortable isolation, and personification in nature. He leverages those concepts to market his work to potential buyers - something we discussed in great length on the podcast episode. We covered some great topics this week, including: 1. The article about Jason in F-Stoppers. 2. Jason's "Art of Selling Art" service. 3. Email marketing. 4. The importance of persistence - "go for no." 5. Mediums for print and display for wealthy buyers. 6. Using and locating a gallery to display your work. 7. Creating work with a message that makes it more marketable to your target audience. Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon! There's a ton of bonus content over there for subscribers! Your support is critical - it helps with production costs and to improve the podcast over time. Thanks! Even $1 / mo helps a lot!  Over on Patreon this week, Jason and I discuss his really awesome process for how to find your voice as an artist - which I think is a totally unique and worthwhile process for landscape photographers to embark upon. For links to items discussed and to see Jason's work - head over to my blog at www.mattpaynephotography.com

Welcome to Episode 078 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Phill Monson! Phill is a fantastic landscape photographer and graphic designer residing in Utah taking lead with the "Leave It Better" campaign where he is trying to instill the value of leaving it better than you found it in the outdoors. Phill's photography is fantastic, and, he is becoming well-known for his work on a line of stickers and apparel promoting outdoor stewardship through his company Entrada Outdoor Company.   We covered some great topics this week, including: 1. His "Leave it Better" campaign. 2. Wilderness Conservation. 3. The State of Landscape Photography. 4. Social Media's role in landscape photography. 5. Start with Why by Simon Sinek. Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon! There's a ton of bonus content over there for subscribers! Your support is critical - it helps with production costs and to improve the podcast over time. Thanks! Even $1 / mo helps a lot! Thanks! Over on Patreon this week, Phill talks about starting his own company with all of the challenges and rewards to be found there and his love and work as a graphic artist. For the full liner notes and links, head over to my blog at www.mattpaynephotography.com

Welcome to Episode 077 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with David Kingham, Jennifer Renwick, Alex Noriega and Ron Coscorossa! The crew all convened to discuss Nature Photographers Network (NPN) - recently purchased and revamped by David Kingham and Jennifer Renwick. In its heyday, NPN was "THE" spot for landscape photographers to share images and obtain crucial critique. We are hoping to see it make a serious comeback. The time has come. About the podcast episode - its all about NPN: 1. What is it? 2. Why did David and Jennifer purchase the site? 3. What is the benefit of being a member? 4. What role do we all see NPN playing in various aspects of the Nature Photography community? Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon! There's a ton of bonus content over there for subscribers! Your support is critical - it helps with production costs and to improve the podcast over time. Thanks! Even $1 / mo helps a lot! Thanks! Over on Patreon this week, the crew discussed how they have invested in learning to advance their photography and we went on some rants about various topics - a lot of fun! 

Welcome to Episode 076 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Charlotte Gibb! Charlotte spent her childhood romping around and exploring the wilderness areas in the mountains near her northern California home. The youngest of nine children, her father was an avid mountain climber and nature lover, and he made sure his kids were instilled with his passion for the outdoors. After he died in a climbing accident when Charlotte was very young, her mother continued to promote spending time in nature, ensuring that their vacations were spent outdoors camping, hiking and exploring. Charlotte studied journalism in college for two years and worked for her city's newspaper, at which point she discovered that journalism wasn't for her. She transferred to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and studied graphic design instead. She bought a used Beseler enlarger and turned her spare bedroom into a darkroom, where she spent countless hours in the dark happily experimenting with printmaking. In the years following art school, she went to work as an art director for an ad agency, built a successful design business, got married, raised two wonderful sons, and currently uses her camera to tell stories of the natural world.  We covered some great topics this week, including: 1. Her start in a design agency and how it led her to photography. 2. Working alone vs. in a group. 3. Intimate landscapes. 4. Discovering your vision. 5. Photo contests and why you should enter them. Charlotte likes "Lens Culture." Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon! There's a ton of bonus content over there for subscribers! Your support is critical - it helps with production costs and to improve the podcast over time. Thanks! Even $1 / mo helps a lot! Thanks! Over on Patreon this week, Charlotte shares her wisdom on print-making and how it can make you a better landscape photographer. We cover pricing, papers, framing, materials, printers, and lots more - 24 minutes of awesome bonus material!   Here are the photographers that Charlotte recommended for the podcast: 1. Varina and Jay Patel. 2. Michael Frye. 3. Keith Walklet. 4. Evan Russell.   Head to my blog at www.mattpaynephotography.com for the full liner notes and links!

Welcome to Episode 075 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with David Johnston! David Johnston is a renowned landscape photographer and educator. Photographing incredible light and rarely seen moments is what drives David to keep capturing landscapes at their best. When David is not shooting, he's teaching photography to the masses on his YouTube channel. It's his passion for spreading the joy of photography that helps him continue deliver helpful tips for others to improve their skills. It doesn't matter if it's landscapes, night skies, or drone work, David has the gift to freeze amazing scenes and memories in place. Sharing photography through podcasts is also one of David's biggest passions. You can listen to his podcast, Stories About Photos, on any podcast platform to get the details on what it takes to capture amazing images. We covered some great topics this week, including: 1. David's experience with burnout. 2. His move to Haiti and what photography life is like there. 3. How podcasting has influenced his photography. 4. Location sharing. Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon! There's a ton of bonus content over there for subscribers! Your support is critical - it helps with production costs and to improve the podcast over time. Thanks! Even $1 / mo helps a lot! Thanks! Over on Patreon this week, David and I discussed the future of the business of landscape photography. Head to my blog at www.mattpaynephotography.com for the full liner notes and links!

Welcome to Episode 074 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Hans Strand! Hans Strand, born in 1955 in Marmaverken, Sweden. In 1990, after a nine-year career in mechanical engineering he decided to devote his life to landscape photography. Its a change he never regretted. Hans has always felt himself drawn to the untamed and unmanipulated emotions and expressions that he finds in nature. He often says: ”The wilderness is the mother of all living things. It is always true and never trivial.” Hans' work takes him to diverse places worldwide; from polar deserts to steaming rain-forests and expansive deserts. The internationally awarded landscape photography is seldom a portrait of a place, but an expression of forces that create and mold a landscape. His pictures, frozen in a static frame, still tell a story of movement, time and evolution. Lately his photography has also taken a course away from the untouched and wild nature and focused more on people´s influences on ecosystems. Photographs of water pollution and the visual magic of man-made agricultural landscapes have become an important ingredient in his in recent work. We covered some great topics this week, including: 1. Aerial photography and the differences / similarities with land-based photography. 2. His amazing Iceland aerial photography book. 3. Landscape photography - impressing vs. story-telling. 4. The state of landscape photography. 5. Intimate landscape photography vs. grand scenic. Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon! There's a ton of bonus content over there for subscribers! Your support is critical - it helps with production costs and to improve the podcast over time. Thanks! Over on Patreon this week, Hans and I discussed his current photography's focus on man's influence on ecosystems. To learn more about Hans and see his photography, check out the liner notes over on my blog at www.mattpaynephotography.com

Welcome to Episode 073 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Arpan Das! Arpan is a full time Astrophysics/Cosmology research student by profession; however, landscape photography is one of his biggest passions in life. Arpan was born in India where he lived 23 years of his life. Then he moved to Italy for his study and currently living in Canada for the same purpose. Whenever he has free time, he tries to fly far away from the city and loves being outdoors in some mountains where he can connect himself to the beauty of the nature. Even if he is not taking any photographs he just loves to watch a sunrise or sunset over the mountains, big water waves along the sea, or millions of stars over the head in a dark sky. We covered some great topics this week, including: 1. Difficulty today as a landscape photographer. 2. Single exposures vs. multiple exposures. 3. Using astro-trackers, specifically the Skywatcher Star Adventurer Pro. 4. How mood influences photography. 5. Abstract landscape photography. 6. Coming to North America from India. 7. The trend of stretching mountains in photos. 8. Composition - learning from painters like Albert Bierstadt. Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon! There's a ton of bonus content over there for subscribers! Your support is critical - it helps with production costs and to improve the podcast over time. Thanks! Over on Patreon this week, Arpan and I discussed focus stacking, exposure blending, and the importance of reality in landscape photography. To learn more about Arpan, check out the liner notes on my blog at www.mattpaynephotography.com Here are the photographers that Arpan recommended for the podcast: 1. Noel Casaje. 2. Bruno Pisani. 3. Catherine Simard. 4. Patrick Ong 5. Isabella Tabacchi

Welcome to Episode 072 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Scotty Perkins! Scotty is a fantastic landscape photographer living in Boise, ID and he's on a mission to educate other landscape photographers about the importance of being safe in the wilderness that we love to photograph. Scotty is a wilderness EMT and an Amateur Ham Radio enthusiast.  We covered some great topics this week, including: 1. The Landscape Photography Community. 2. Being safe in the back-country as a landscape photographer. 3. NOLS Wilderness First Aid Certification. 3. www.mattpaynephotography.com to learn more about Scotty, see his photography, and find lots of links to radios and topics we discussed - its full of stuff! Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon! There's a ton of bonus content over there for subscribers! Your support is critical - it helps with production costs and to improve the podcast over time. Thanks! Over on Patreon this week, Scotty answered listener questions from the Facebook group.  

Welcome to Episode 071 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen: THE Post-Processing Landscape Photography Debate with Erin Babnik & Alex Nail! Get your popcorn ready - Erin and Alex deliver the goods and share their perspectives on the ever-prevalent debate on post-processing in landscape photography. I'd love to hear where you personally fall on the debate after listening. Alex Nail is a full-time landscape photographer based in Bristol, UK with a passion for mountains and wilderness areas. He increasingly heads to remote or hard to reach locations in search of new images. His photography is largely illustrative, showing magical lighting conditions and spectacular scenery. Alex is a great believer in the trustworthiness of photography as an artistic medium. Alex edits his images; however, they are all real, with nothing added or taken away.  Erin Babnik is a full-time adventure landscape photographer, photography educator, writer, and speaker. She is known for her ambitious images, for her adventurous approach in the field, and for her thought-provoking writing and speaking. Her dedication to outdoor photography evolved out of her years working as an art historian, photographing at archaeological sites and in museums for the purposes of teaching and research. Erin draws upon her background in art history in bringing a deep knowledge of aesthetics, visual communication, and cultural relevancy to her own photographic work and to her ideas about the art of photography, which she expresses to audiences around the world. Here are links to various things that came up on the podcast: 1. Atlantic Magazine article on digital manipulation 2. On Landscape article from Guy Tal Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon! There's a ton of bonus content over there for subscribers! Your support is critical - it helps with production costs and to improve the podcast over time. Thanks! Over on Patreon this week, Alex, Erin, and I discussed the presentation of images taken on exotic workshops, comp stomping, and more. To learn more about Erin and Alex, check out their websites: Erin Babnik. Alex Nail.

Welcome to Episode 070 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen with Sangeeta Dey! Sangeeta is a California Bay area based landscape photographer and pediatric neuropsychologist. Sangeeta’s work was recognized as being amongst top 101 International Landscape Photographers in 2017. More recently, Nikon celebrated their 100th Anniversary milestone. For their centennial celebration, they included Sangeeta in their “#Nikon100” program, which identified 100 photographers as rising photography stars. As per Nikon, it is the list they have curated based on the work of photographers who have been creating inspiring work and telling amazing stories.  We covered some great topics this week, including: 1. Juggling being a pediatric neuropsychologist and a landscape photographer. 2. The Nikon 100 list. 3. Females in landscape photography and the Nikon marketing blunder. 4. Photography as a language. 5. Artistic philosophy. 6. What keeps her inspired. 7. Workshops - how to pick them and how to leverage them. Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon! There's a ton of bonus content over there for subscribers! Your support is critical - it helps with production costs and to improve the podcast over time. Thanks! Over on Patreon this week, Sangeeta and I discussed authenticity and social media, sharing locations, and the power of influence. To learn more about Sangeeta, check out her online presence: Website. Instagram. Here are the photographers that Sangeeta recommended for the podcast: 1. Charlotte Hamilton Gibb. 2. Floris Van Bruegel. 3. Atif Saeed. 4. Matt Jackisch. Some examples of Sangeeta's photography can be seen on the liner notes on my blog at www.mattpaynephotography.com I love hearing from the podcast listeners! Reach out to me via email, Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter if you'd like to be on the podcast or if you have an idea of a topic we can talk about. You can also join the conversation on our Facebook Group! We've also started an Instagram page and a Facebook page for the podcast, where we'll be sharing updates as we go!