Never Go Back? The Random Photography Show (EP187)

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Sam. [00:00:29] Speaker B: Good, everybody, and welcome to the Camera Life podcast. It is Monday, the 1st of June. Does that make it officially winter? Because it certainly felt like it in Melbourne today. [00:00:39] Speaker A: Not for me. [00:00:40] Speaker B: No. Sticky, I think was the word you used earlier. Sticky where you are. Yeah, all things are sticking together. And of course, being a Monday night, we are bringing you live our random photography show. That's right. Every Monday evening We go live, 7.30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, where we cover industry news, new product launches, but more importantly, we look at your images. That's right. You can send in your photos, one or two photos with some camera specs, some settings, and perhaps a little story about your experience capturing that photo to [email protected] and we will bring up your images on the following week. Speaking of Justin. G'. [00:01:19] Speaker A: Day. [00:01:20] Speaker B: How are you? [00:01:21] Speaker A: Hi. [00:01:21] Speaker B: How's Indonesia? [00:01:24] Speaker A: Oh, man, it's. It is amazing. It's amazing. But currently. Hang on, let me. I'm just trying to figure out my headset. I'm so loud and you're so quiet. Maybe the chat can tell me, are we all right on the stream? Because right now I am cooking in my own earbuds. [00:01:40] Speaker B: And your faces. Because it's sticky. [00:01:43] Speaker A: Yeah, that too. That too. Maybe that's a little bit better. We'll see how we go. Yeah, that sounds better. Okay. Yeah, it's. It's hot and fun over here. It's good. But I'll be back on Thursday, no, Wednesday night. And I'm. I'm pretty excited. I'm excited for some winter mornings. Like having a fire in the backyard, cooking my own steak. That's exciting. [00:02:08] Speaker B: What else? [00:02:10] Speaker A: Smoking some meat on the smoker. Yeah, nice. Seeing if there's any leaves left on our trees or if they've all fallen off. Yeah, nice. [00:02:21] Speaker B: Well, we're looking forward to. But, you know, houses. Look who else is looking forward to having you back. Thursday's guest, Marcus Bell. [00:02:29] Speaker A: Oh, man, you snagged the big one there, Greg. That's a. That's the catch of the day. [00:02:36] Speaker B: It is. You know, when I was. I was organizing some stuff this morning and I sent through some info to Markers for Thursday's podcast. So that way everyone who's watching along where every Thursday morning at 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time, we interview an amazing photographer. Last week we had career photographer with almost 60 years experience, Brian Carr. And then coming up this week we've got Marx. He's a photojournalist. He does events, he does families, he does weddings, he does commercial. But he has got a magical Eye for capturing light and moments in time. So, yeah, looking forward to that. [00:03:12] Speaker A: The way that he's crossed those worlds of like, wedding, you know, like the, the business, the wedding and then just full on. Amazing. Art is quite spectacular. Yeah. To dig into that. [00:03:28] Speaker B: Yeah, me too. It always puts me in mind of, you know, past guests, like, well, even, you know, Brian Carr, he was a music photographer, you know, documenting over 50 years of Melbourne's music scene. But he also does this huge portfolio of corporate work. And then we've got Bruce Moyle, our good friend Bruce, you know, he, he is a videography, cinematography, filmmaking guru, but he's a fine art photographer as well. And I love that when people have these almost bipolar experiences with their craft in a nice way. Not a terrible bipolar, obviously no one wants that. [00:04:05] Speaker A: Two different, very different ends, but they work together and they inform each other a little bit. But, but yeah, two different ends of someone's creative spect. Often one is more business focused and one's more of an outlet. But same tools and same. Yeah, I love it. Very cool. [00:04:22] Speaker B: It's very cool. But on tonight's show, we want you guys to stick around. What have we got up tonight? We've got lots of news, relevant news. Leica has decided to show us that what is old is new again. And speaking of Leica, they've partnered yet again with Xiaomi, Chinese smartphone manufacturer, to release yet another Leica inspired smartphone. And then obviously at the end of the episode, we're going to catch up with everyone in the chat and look at images. So, speaking of the chat, do you want to say good day to some people? [00:04:56] Speaker A: Before I do, I have a bit of a theme of tonight's show, so I put it in the title. It's not very clear what was the title of the show, Never Go Back. So I want to put this out there and, and during the show, or if you're listening later, you can put it in the comments on YouTube or send us an email or whatever, because I want to hear from you. [00:05:16] Speaker B: I've. [00:05:17] Speaker A: I seem to be having this thing where if I travel somewhere and then I have fond memories, maybe I took some great photos there or I ate an amazing meal somewhere or I just saw some great things and then I'm like, all right, I'm going to go back there often, almost all the time. It feels like if I retrace my steps, it's a letdown. That's what it seems to be like. Whereas, and I'm not saying, don't get me wrong, guys, the trip that I'm on at the moment. I've seen plenty of amazing new things and I'm very excited about it and I've got some cool photos and things like that. But it feels like if I go back to somewhere that I was three years ago, five years ago, where I had a great experience, a particular place or something like that, often time is marched on. It's not the same as I remember it and it's often a letdown rather than like time's marched on and it's better. And is it am I like looking through it through this, you know, that lens of like, you know, when people used to like a band and then they're like, oh, they got too popular. Now they're not, you know, they used to be cool. I like them when they were, when they were new. But now everyone likes them and I don't like them anymore. Is it just that or is it just the progress of places and what it's like or is retracing your steps sometimes risky because you might taint that original memory? [00:06:40] Speaker B: I think that's it kind of for me it probably leans into that more where it's that rose colored glasses thing that over time you build it up in your mind about how all those little wonderful snippets that happened on the last visit or whatever it was, you kind of amplify them a bit in your memory to keep them fresh because you thought it was such a good experience. And then when you go back, your expectations are far too high. [00:06:59] Speaker A: Maybe it's that I, I think that's definitely part of it. And I think the, the other half of it for me is I'm finding more and more that novelty lights my brain up more than a lot of other things. So on this trip when I'm in a new place and I'm experiencing a new, like new surroundings and new people and things like that, I'm more inspired to take photos. And then when I go back to a sim a place I've been before, I'm much less inspired to take photos that might be just me. That being said, this probably doesn't equate to the sort of things where you see like the lights of. I'm trying to think of who's a good. Well, you going to a skate park in Prahran or whatever or like Nev Clark going to many of the beaches that he goes to on Sunrise. Phil Thompson's going to the same sort of beaches and experiencing amazing sunrises and things. I'm not talking about that. Where you're sort of repeatingly visiting a, a subject matter that, that's kind of different. This is more those more bucket listy trips where it's somewhere you might only go every three years, every 10 years or something like that. And then you go back because you have fond memories and it's not. Doesn't hit the same or it's even a bit of a letdown. I just want to hear if anyone's had those experiences or if it's just me or I don't know. I just want to hear the stories. So tell me. [00:08:22] Speaker B: It is interesting. I often, I obviously often daily, maybe hourly. I think about going back to Japan with Sasha because we've both been individually, I've been several times. She's been once but we've never been together. But there's this little nagging fear that like you've just said what I built it up to be will actually be disappointing, you know. And I know it's, it's, it's very unlikely that Japan will ever disappoint anyone collectively across the whole trip. But I do worry about it. I do worry about what's changed and you know, is it, is it not the same? Is it, you know, anyway. [00:09:01] Speaker A: Well, my experience with Japan was I've had a great trip every time, four times, every time a great trip. But again, when I've retraced my steps as part of that trip, it was not as good as the first time, but it was all the new things. So I, I mean my experience would be. And the way I'm thinking from now it's a bit clearer would be like making sure that I'm going to experience a lot of new things. [00:09:31] Speaker B: Yeah, okay. Yeah. [00:09:32] Speaker A: You know, on, on a trip, if I went to Japan again I'd be like, all right, I know these places are good. I'm going to go there maybe, maybe going to go to this one place but, but 80% of the trip or more is going to be new places. That, that would be my. Anyway, we'll get into that a bit more. I just want to hear what, what you guys think. So tell me if you guys have been. You know, I am. I remember, I remember Matt Palmer talking about Iceland because he did the book on Iceland that I've got. I can't remember what it's called. It'll come to me. Anyway, so he's working on a long term project and they've been to Iceland many times. They've run workshops there and I remember him talking about how it changed hugely in the tourism side of things. Which again is. Is great for Iceland. [00:10:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:23] Speaker A: Getting more popular and busier. But I remember him sort of saying it was a very different experience when he went back and it didn't feel the same. So. Yeah, I'd love to hear if anyone else has had that same sort of experience. Okay, now, long. Long story short, let's get to the chat. Who's here? All right. Philip Johnson. Greetings all. Happy Monday night. Good to see you. Felicity Johnson. David Skinner. Rodney Nicholson says howdy caddies. [00:10:50] Speaker B: G'. Day. [00:10:51] Speaker A: John Lad is here in type man. Fermi. Are you. Oh, Philip Johnson says 130 days to be op. 18 weeks. It's coming up. [00:11:03] Speaker B: Yeah, it is coming off the end. We are making some plans. Little. Little sneak peek. We've already been in touch with the beef up crew. And for those who are uninitiated because there is an initiation ceremony. BFOP is the Bright Festival of Photography. It happens every year in the idyllic country town in the. What do we call it? The Alpine region of Victoria. The town is called Bright and so. Yeah, 130 days. [00:11:32] Speaker A: That's right. [00:11:32] Speaker B: I'm excited. [00:11:34] Speaker A: I'm excited. Are you excited that this year you don't have to wonder if you're sleeping in a tent right up until the week before? [00:11:39] Speaker B: Because I feel like you could still spring it. [00:11:43] Speaker A: Maybe. We'll see. Felicity Johnson says yay. Beef up. Bruce Moyles here. [00:11:53] Speaker B: Hey, Bruce. [00:11:54] Speaker A: Neff Clark says Winters hit Albany. Cyclonic wings. But my house is okay. Yeah. Who else had some audio checks. Thanks, guys. Oh, wind gusts of 83 kilometers an hour. Who else? Rick Nelson. Oh, and a few Phil Thompson's. Marcus Bell is a great block and photographer, but I think that means bloke. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna. Yeah, I'm gonna put it there. Sometimes YouTube just auto corrects my comments to very dumb things, but sure it does. Anyone else? JC Orange one says hi. From a stormy Perth on a wa day. Paul Henderson is here. Whit and Wendy Monday. Obviously it's hitting everybody. This is crazy. [00:12:41] Speaker B: Yes. Stray is getting hammered at the moment. [00:12:44] Speaker A: No, Bruce, I'm not running away from the tax man. It's just been a long. A long holiday. Almost home. But it's not. It's not some sort of Asian or something. Don't send. Yeah. [00:12:54] Speaker B: Az. I was after you. [00:12:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no. Yeah. [00:12:57] Speaker B: You're on the rub. [00:13:01] Speaker A: Oh, all right. A few good. Few good comments here. Bruce Moore says nostalgia is always better in your memory than real life. You forget the Bad things that happen the first time because the shiny gets brighter with age. Think of some movies you liked as a kid. They're better in your head than a re. Watch. No, that's not true. Terminators. [00:13:20] Speaker B: No, it is. [00:13:22] Speaker A: It's better now that Terminated. [00:13:27] Speaker B: There was a show I grew up with as a kid. It was like one of the first science fiction shows that I. I watched, and it kind of helped foster my love of sci fi. And it was the original Battlestar Galactica. And in my head, this was you. Like, it was in the maybe late 70s, early 80s. And in my head, it was amazing. Like the. The. The special effects, the models that they use for the ships, all this sort of stuff. And then years later, probably about 15 years ago now, a friend of mine got me a bootleg copy of it to watch. And I got five minutes into the first episode and then had to turn it off because it was garbage. I just. It was just unwatchable. [00:14:10] Speaker A: How bootleg do we talk? And was there. Were there people walking through it? And every now and then the camera filming looked fine. [00:14:19] Speaker B: It looked fine. It wasn't that sort of bootleg. It was just, you know, it wasn't an official copy. [00:14:24] Speaker A: But there's a reason why there's those. You know, remember the. The things at the start of DVDs that were like, piracy is a crime. [00:14:32] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:14:33] Speaker A: You know, like, oh, and you used [00:14:35] Speaker B: to just have to go, oh, can we just fast forward it? Yeah. [00:14:39] Speaker A: And you're watching it on a bootleg dvd. [00:14:44] Speaker B: Yeah, [00:14:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Look, I don't know. I don't know about movies. I don't know about movies. Some of them. There's definitely some that were better. I know a friend of mine said the other day that he thought. What did he think he told his kids to watch? Do you remember Demolition Man? Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yep, yep. And he was like, kids, you gotta watch this. And they were like, dad, this is lame. [00:15:20] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:15:23] Speaker A: Anyway, who else? Rodney Nicholson says, always better the first time. Jason Hannigan says, hi, everyone. What's up? Hey, Jason. Team type man. I've been to the Scottish Highlands twice in the past six months. The first was spray and pray photographically. The second time I went with knowledge and a plan. And I'm going again in October. [00:15:45] Speaker B: Okay. Sounds like. [00:15:49] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And. And that's true. I guess it's. It depends. Yeah, it really depends. If you, like, explored somewhere photographically and you're like, there's so much more. I Can do here. That could be a very different thing. Whereas that's. I don't know if that's what I'm experiencing. [00:16:09] Speaker B: If I go back to my. Sorry. If I go back to my Tokyo analogy, I guess a place like that is so big and there is so much on offer that you could just move a couple of suburbs away, you know, from where you're based, somewhere in Tokyo, and you could have a completely different experience. [00:16:27] Speaker A: Exactly. And I think that's the thing. It's like not. Not trying to go back to the same restaurant or the same street or the same, you know, like just. It could be. It could literally be the same town. But. But. Yeah, but being more open to new experiences instead of being like, I went to this restaurant. It was great. Let's go back there. [00:16:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I get. [00:16:47] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know. Tony. Hey, Tony. Tony says my Japan experience was running into a tree and flooding a hotel in Shibuya. Yeah, I can. I can attest to that. I was there for both of those experiences. [00:17:00] Speaker B: Good on you, Tony. Leaving a mark in Japan. [00:17:03] Speaker A: He says flooding a hotel in Shibuya and. And it's sort of easy to gloss over that. It was an entire floor, like, down the hall, there was a small Japanese man mopping the floor down the entire hallway of a. A hotel that. An expensive hotel that overlooks the Shibuya crossing. We're on, like, level 20. The entire floor was flooded. Tony's a special. [00:17:28] Speaker B: Well done, Tony. Proud of you, son. [00:17:33] Speaker A: Nev Clark says it's strange, a little bit. Why I'm not attracted to the iconic places that everyone's already photographed. I would rather photograph a random fence line in the middle of nowhere. [00:17:45] Speaker B: Yep. [00:17:46] Speaker A: Blah, blah, blah. If you. I can't. I'm not sure what you're saying. If you. If you've seen the photo, you'll be disappointed because it's not what you thought the Iconics would be. Yeah, I agree with that. Where it's like you, that's all. That's a different thing, but also a thing where you. Where you're heading somewhere with an expectation of getting a certain photograph can also be a big problem, I think. [00:18:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:09] Speaker A: Oh, tweaks. Tweak's not going to be at BFOP this year. [00:18:14] Speaker B: Why not? Or have you been forbidden? [00:18:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. What happened? Rick Nelson says, I was left alone in the camera store all day, so I didn't see the weather. Oh, so you were just stuck selling cameras? [00:18:28] Speaker B: What a terrible place to be. [00:18:30] Speaker A: The gas 9 says hello. Guys, nice to catch a live stream for once. Well, it's good to see you watching from Rushton uk. That's cool. What's the weather like there? [00:18:38] Speaker B: Is it hot? [00:18:39] Speaker A: It's been heat wave, hasn't it? [00:18:42] Speaker B: I mean it got over 21 degrees a few days. [00:18:44] Speaker A: I was gonna say a heat wave. Oh yeah. [00:18:53] Speaker B: Tony has added a little bit more to the story and he said it was booked on Jim's credit card, so it was fine. [00:19:03] Speaker A: It was actually all booked on Jim's credit card and he took it like a champ. Bruce Boyle, someone who gets my movie references says the three seashells. If anyone doesn't get that, you should re watch Demolition man tonight. Enjoy, enjoy. [00:19:19] Speaker B: After. After this. [00:19:24] Speaker A: Who's is this a new person? Kate. Kate star. Kate, Kate. K8. K8 star. Good to see you. And Tweet can't come because her husband's going to New Zealand. Have to adult look after my kids. [00:19:37] Speaker B: Boo. [00:19:37] Speaker A: Rather be at beef up. Agree. [00:19:38] Speaker B: Oh look, I just scatter some cereal on the floor. It's only for three days. They'll be fine. Bowl of water and some scattered cornflakes or something, you know. [00:19:50] Speaker A: Oh dear. Oh no. Tint up bands mean buying more stuff. Two four 800 watt power packs for one cent. One cent? What? Boom. Wow. Wow. Congratulations. [00:20:07] Speaker B: I had a buyee account for a while and I can't get rid of it. I can't. I just don't know why it won't let me unsubscribe and shut down. They just keep sending me stuff. [00:20:18] Speaker A: Damn. Well, I can't close ebay. That's just where we're at. [00:20:24] Speaker B: Yeah, postage was 400, he said. [00:20:28] Speaker A: Well, four 800 watt power packs, what'd you expect? Okay, should we. Where do we go? Should we. Should we start the news? Where are we at? [00:20:39] Speaker B: Yeah, we can talk a little bit about the news. Yeah. If we start with Lens news. Let's just. There's not a lot of news. It's been a bit quiet last couple of weeks. Well, certainly quieter last week. But we've got a couple of choice things to look at. You want to bring up the. The Nikon 120 to 300. I thought some people out there, some birders and some sports photographers might be keen on this one. [00:21:03] Speaker A: Some people with a lot of money. [00:21:08] Speaker B: Yeah. I wonder what this is going to retail for. I should look that up. [00:21:14] Speaker A: Yeah, a lot I think. Look at this bad boy. [00:21:17] Speaker B: Jeez, it's a beast. There's a comparison there image of it with the 402.8, which is also a beast, obviously, [00:21:35] Speaker A: but, yeah, a little bit smaller. Impressive. And having that converter in, it's. Yeah, that's. That's gonna be a weapon. [00:21:45] Speaker B: So apparently that there will be select photographers will be provided with a copy of the new upcoming Niko Z120-300F with a constant F 2.8 for the upcoming World cup in North America. Should it go ahead? So, yeah. [00:22:07] Speaker A: Should it go ahead? [00:22:09] Speaker B: Oh, you know, who knows what's going on with America currently, this. Preparing just to host a stage fight on the White House lawn. Because, you know, that makes sense. [00:22:19] Speaker A: I thought you had a. I thought you had inside knowledge or something that it wasn't. [00:22:25] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:22:25] Speaker A: Moving forward. [00:22:27] Speaker B: Yeah. But it wouldn't surprise me. [00:22:29] Speaker A: No, it won't surprise me there anymore. [00:22:33] Speaker B: Just want to see if that new Nikon 120 to 300 is. Oh, no pricing just yet. [00:22:46] Speaker A: Yeah, apparently it's. Yeah, it's definitely been hot in the uk. Thunderstorms rumored, though. Thunderstorms. [00:22:53] Speaker B: Nice. [00:22:56] Speaker A: We're at a small resort on the north of Bali doing our scuba diving course and there was a big sign next to the pool that said the pool must be closed during thunderstorms. And we had a good kick. Thunderstorms. Yeah. [00:23:12] Speaker B: Nice. [00:23:13] Speaker A: A lot of. There was a lot of thunderstorm jokes. [00:23:16] Speaker B: Yep. Actually, I've got a book somewhere and it's of Japanese, English, E, N, G, R, I, S, H. Yeah. It's all the signs that people have found in like toilets and restaurants and [00:23:28] Speaker A: that have close, but not quite. Yeah, I love it. [00:23:34] Speaker B: Let's jump to camera news. A little bit of news out of cannons backyard here. This is a rumor still, but the next Canon Power Shop will be coming this year and they believe it won't be another like a V cine camera, that it will actually be something similar to the, you know, hugely popular G7 series. What did they get up to? [00:24:02] Speaker A: G7X. [00:24:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:05] Speaker A: Mark 3. Yeah. [00:24:06] Speaker B: Yeah. So hopefully yet another point and shoot. It's on its way. We talked about last week or the week before the Panasonic Lumix L10, which would be a great little travel and street camera. [00:24:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:24] Speaker B: And I think, you know, it's taken a while, but they're kind of going, oh, actually maybe Fuji and Leica are onto something. You know, there's a market there, obviously. [00:24:34] Speaker A: Yeah. But also food. Fuji aren't hitting the button. Like, that's what's crazy. I. I guess this is the thing. The X100 is so good and commands so much of the Market. [00:24:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:45] Speaker A: But I think there's a slot under that. And that's what everyone wanted the X half to be, but Fujifilm wanted the X half to be something else. And that was the mismatch. It's not that the X half was bad, but everyone wanted the X half to be maybe even a touch more expensive than it was, would be okay, but just way more capable as a photographic camera rather than more of a. I'm not gonna say it. Yeah, I'm gonna say it. And rather than more of a cosplay camera, more of a, like a fun heading towards Instax experience. Point shooting, point and shoot. Bit of fun. Lots of, lots of feel about it, but less real power. And so everyone. And it was, what was it? Twelve hundred dollars. Whereas everyone, everyone was much more, maybe more excited about something that cost 1600, 1800, but was like, hey, this thing's really good. You know, like a really good second camera. Travel point and shoot. But photographer worthy camera. [00:25:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:55] Speaker A: Sort of does double duties. It's either the phone, it's a phone replacement for someone who doesn't have a camera and wants to level up, or it's the photographer's second camera that they take when they don't want to take their main camera. [00:26:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I get it. I carry my X70 everywhere. If I'm not taking the other one just there, it's small, it's got enough oomph to take a good image and it's fun. It's fun to shoot with. Yeah. [00:26:26] Speaker A: So hopefully, hopefully Canon can do it. This article says. This article actually says one of my screens doing this espresso display app. It's a great screen, but it keeps. It automatically changes where it wants the screen to be and then it messes with me. Anyway, it says in this, the Canon Rumors person is saying, will there be a new Canon app? Because the Canon app is not good. And I would agree it's not. But it also says, has anyone in the history of digital cameras and smartphones ever had an app from a camera brand that is consistently reliable? I personally use Canon, Leica and OM system apps and none of them are what I'd call consistent. You know what, the Leica one is pretty freaking good. [00:27:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:23] Speaker A: Way better than Canon. [00:27:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:26] Speaker A: But every now and then, yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't connect. You have to like hit reconnect or something like that. But it's still very good. Yeah, Very, very good. So I don't know. Yeah. But I do agree. I think there's a big gap. We've talked about it before. There's a big gap there for brands to just throw some money at just the way that you connect to smartphones instead of. I don't know, I don't know what, how it is that they do it, but it just never quite works properly. [00:27:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:00] Speaker A: Fujifilm one's pretty good, isn't it? [00:28:02] Speaker B: Hit and miss. The original version of Fuji app was always coming under fire for compatible, like, for pairing issues with the cameras, I think, and then they sort of upgraded it. Yeah. And maybe it's just that the camera and the phone connectivity protocols just don't marry very well. You know, I'm not a tech. I'm not a tech person at all, but, you know, there's obviously something there that's making it tricky for them to actually get a, you know, dedicated connection. But then having said that, my. My Apple AirPods sometimes don't pair properly with my Apple iPhone. You know, it's just one of those things that happens. [00:28:43] Speaker A: True. But it's pretty. It's definitely not at the level that cameras experience like, and that's to be expected because they're an Apple product and they're talking to an Apple product. So it's going to be one of the easiest things for them to integrate because they built both of them. So I'm not. Phones are going to always have a backseat to that. But, yeah, I don't know. It's. The Leica one's the best I've experienced, but I certainly haven't used all the brands. But I think it's something that all the brands should be putting more effort into because if people have a tough experience getting their photos onto their phone, they're more likely to just use their phone. [00:29:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:21] Speaker A: And then all of a sudden, they're not upgrading their camera as often, they're upgrading their phone more often because they're like, oh, there's a new Apple Ultra Pro Max Mega out, which has more megapixels in my camera anyway, you know. [00:29:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Yep. But you're right, though, that's a fair point that, you know, if camera companies really want people to put down their phones and actually take photos with a camera, they need to make that pairing and that compatibility seamless. Yeah. You know, because that should be the last stage of your photo experience, is downloading the photos, editing them on your phone and sharing them with the world, you know. [00:30:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:01] Speaker B: Anyway, so we wish Canon all the very best for that endeavor. [00:30:08] Speaker A: Before we go to the next thing, I just want to. I want to read out a couple of comments that were relevant to this. What have we got? David Skinner says that has dollars written all over it. That was about the Nikon 120 to 300. Yes, it certainly does. It's got all the dollars. Nev Clark says Fuji should make an X100 V50 mil F2 lens. Yep. There's been a lot of us for that. And that's what. That's what Leica did with the Q3 and. And introduced a longer lens. There's been a lot of us for it. Debbie Blennahasset 8139 says. Hi, Justin and Greg. Been watching you guys for quite a while now, but first time on a live show. Well, thank you. Thanks for jumping on. Long time Nikon fan heading up to see Adam Edwards for his Mungo workshop. Love you. That's cool. You'll have a ball. I'm jealous. I want to go to Mungo. I want to see Adam Edwards. I want to go up and just hang out in his gallery. Just annoy him. Who else? Nev Clark says Leica is good. Leica app is good. Twig Productions hates all the camera apps. No matter what brand never had a good streamlined experience. Yeah, it definitely could be better. KK Star says, I think the latest Fujifilm one is much better than the original. More reliable to connect for sure. [00:31:35] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:31:36] Speaker A: You agree? [00:31:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. The first one was such a pain. The amount of times people would, you know, reach out to me or come to me at a photo walk or a meetup and say, can you help me with this app? Because I can't get it to pair or won't stay paired or whatever it may be. Once it's working, it's great because you can do the in camera raw conversion, you know, do some edits in the camera, send it over to your smartphone to finish it off before you do whatever you want to do with it. It's very cool. [00:32:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:05] Speaker B: When it works. [00:32:08] Speaker A: Nev Clark agrees to updated the firmware on my son's camera as I was borrowing his XT5. And the X app is a lot better than it used to be. Well done, Fuji. Well, that's good. So they're making strides. They're doing the work. Good on them. [00:32:22] Speaker B: Absolutely. All right, what next? Well, you know, speaking of highly affordable cameras, Leica has gone and dropped three new versions of the M11P, the Deluxe 8 and the Q3, as well as a new version of a APO Summicron M50 lens, which probably costs about $44 million. And so what they brought in Is this kind of this metal gray with the black kind of finish. New finishes or different finishes isn't a new thing for Leica. You know, if you, if you do a search on even just, you know, weird Leica cameras, you'll see some of the stuff out there is just bananas. You know, snake skin and crocodile skin and jewels and, you know, the pope one that was ordained and, you know. [00:33:13] Speaker A: Yeah. But even that, that reporter edition that they do, man, every time that comes out, I'm just like, that's exactly what I want. [00:33:22] Speaker B: That one right now. Do you know there's a new video game just dropped. It's a new James Bond 007 video game. I think it's called First Light. And in the game, the character has Leica as this special sort of camera. It has weird technology. Not just camera technology. Yeah. And the in game assets look really good. But Leica also brought out a Special edition Daniel Craig 007 version A few years back that was. [00:33:51] Speaker A: Well, I mean, it's called the Leica Q3. Is called the Q. Like the original Q was called the Q because it's, it's like a A. And the sort of camera James Bond could, would have it. It does everything. It shoots macro like it's. It's the perfect, you know, one and done camera. [00:34:11] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:34:12] Speaker A: All right, let me bring, let me bring these finishes. I wouldn't buy one now because. Holy God, they're expensive. [00:34:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:21] Speaker A: And I've got an amazing Q3. But if I could just change my Q3 to that finish. I think I would if I could just switch a rule. [00:34:33] Speaker B: Yeah, it looks, it looks very slick. It looks very modern. You still got the rangefinder stylings. I actually caught myself today looking at that deluxe eight. [00:34:44] Speaker A: Oh, [00:34:48] Speaker B: that's not too bad. [00:34:49] Speaker A: How much is that deluxe? [00:34:53] Speaker B: Let me have a quick look in the Leica store. Melbourne, like you, it's already here. It's already open. [00:35:01] Speaker A: I don't know how that happened with [00:35:07] Speaker B: the metal gray finish. It's 3150. 3150. Without the, the special finish, it's 2990. They're stinging you an extra 160 worth. [00:35:20] Speaker A: Easily worth it. The problem is, oh, I don't know. [00:35:25] Speaker B: Three grand isn't bad. Like, that's, that's not that far off what the X1 hundreds are. [00:35:30] Speaker A: That's true. And that Lumix was up there. The Lumix that just got released was up there. Yeah. 2000s. Like 2000 or something. [00:35:42] Speaker B: So let's have a look. The L10 is 2600 at Ted's. [00:35:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:49] Speaker B: And X106, which is also available in different finishes. 2800 still at Ted's. So it's not that far off. [00:36:03] Speaker A: Yeah. X100 is a more capable camera overall, although it's not a zoom lens, but it depends what you're looking for. But obviously the X100 got a bit more horsepower in the sensor and the processing and things like that. [00:36:15] Speaker B: Yeah. And the Deluxe 8 is a micro four thirds sensor. [00:36:20] Speaker A: Yes. [00:36:21] Speaker B: And the. Obviously the Fuji is a APS C. Yeah. [00:36:26] Speaker A: So you're not. You're not going to get, you know, your shallow depth of field and stuff so much with the Deluxe 8. Deluxe. Deluxe. What do they call it? Deluxe. Anyway, anyway, I like the finish, but I'm not buying one because I can't afford that. I already got a Q3 and that was my one big expense. But man, it does look good. Look at that. [00:36:49] Speaker B: Yeah, [00:36:53] Speaker A: yeah. It's like black but just not quiet, you know? [00:36:56] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It reminds me when Fujifilm brought out that X1, the X Pro 3 in those special finishes. Yeah. Just. It just looks so slick. So. Yeah. So three new Leica cameras and a new Leica lens. [00:37:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Who's behind that lens? Only someone that's buying that. You would only get that if you had the matching. Yeah. Gosh. [00:37:26] Speaker B: Because that'd be a nice combo, wouldn't it? 50 miles. [00:37:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. But what's that cost? Insane. [00:37:32] Speaker B: It would be a lot. I don't know. [00:37:36] Speaker A: What else? [00:37:39] Speaker B: And what else have we got? Oh, just a little bit of fun news here. The photographer. A photographer has installed. Speaking of video games, a very video game centric night. A photographer has installed Doom, which is a classic video game on a Nikon ZF camera and can play it on their ZF on the screen of the social post. The buttons. The buttons are the controller. This is a really. This is a trend that's happening. It's been happening for a couple of years. [00:38:13] Speaker A: Did Taylor Jackson do it? He's. He's. I'm a big fan of his. He's a great wedding photographer. Wedding photos and videos. Let me see if I can watch this. [00:38:23] Speaker B: Did you see the. Bring up the post? Because it's funny. [00:38:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm working on it. He's on my list. He's on my list for you to try and get on the podcast. It might be difficult, but he is, he's a funny guy and he's a great photographer and. And you know, business guy. He's. Yeah, he's very. He's a YouTuber. He shoots a ton of film. He does all these funny. He's got like a whole film channel where he shoots film and he gets nowhere near as many views on it, but he still put its out views or puts out videos all the time. Sorry, I'm just waiting for this. This thing's coming but it's just not quite ready to go yet. [00:39:03] Speaker B: There's been a real trend of. And Bruce has said here Doom can be played on a potato. So this checks out of people getting doomed to play on all these different devices. And. And yeah, this guy Taylor has managed to put the gameplay. So not that he showed much of it. [00:39:24] Speaker A: Yeah, he is actually playing it. Yep. Right. That's crazy. [00:39:35] Speaker B: Yeah. But when he posted this on socials. If you jump to the Nick on rumors page that I linked. [00:39:49] Speaker A: This one. [00:39:51] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, go to that photo. So under that it says finally got doomed installed on my Nikon zf. And then Nikon USA have said we have questions. [00:39:59] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, exactly How. [00:40:02] Speaker B: How did you do that? [00:40:04] Speaker A: That's a funny answer. [00:40:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I like it. All right, well I'll have a look for him. [00:40:12] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely worth. Worth a watch. And. And we'll get him on. [00:40:18] Speaker B: Oh no. Oh, we've lost him, people. Oh gosh, he's gone. Oh, that's a shame, isn't it? I'm sorry everybody. Yeah. So where to from here? Let me bring up the last news article while we wait and see if Justin jumps back in. And this is in reference to what I mentioned at the top of the show, which is Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi. I'm assuming that's how you say it. Has announced that their 17T series phone features like a technology and a new 5 time 5X camera. 5 times zoom. I'm assuming that's what it means. Let's have a look what it says. So we've got. Xiaomi has unveiled its latest T series smartphone. The Xiaomi 17T and a 17T Pro, both CO engineered with Leica. Both phones feature triple rear camera arrays which is nothing unusual these days. Although the specific cameras available Differ. So there's two models smaller. 17T has a 50 megapixel main camera with a type 1.155 sensor. I don't think I've ever heard of that. And a 23 mil equivalent 1.7 lens. Oh, dream lens. But the Pro has a much bigger display, has a larger sensor. Not by a lot. Still mega pic, still 50 megapixel, but the same 23 1.7 equivalent lens. [00:41:59] Speaker A: So yeah, [00:42:02] Speaker B: And I certainly love. I really love these exploded views when they do this with cameras, especially smartphone cameras. I think Apple did it on one of their ads in the past as well. So, yeah, that's where we're at. That's what it's become. Let me just have a quick look at some of these comments. Going back to playing Doom on a camera, Paul said, my daughter is playing the honor the James Bond game as we speak. Haven't noticed the liker yet. Yeah, it's in there somewhere. We've got Robin Aldridge. G', day, Robin. Good evening from Avalon beach. Again. Jason says the price of the Lumix L10 raises a score point, a sore point. How does 1495 US become 2600 Australian? Yeah, that's a fair call. Are they. Are they being shipped in gold boxes? What else have we got? Oh, yeah, Bruce has said. Oh, that. Oh, Justin just sent me a text message. His Internet's not working. It's just gone. All right, we'll push on. Anyway, folks, the tax man did find him and yes, Azo got him. Tweak. Absolutely. And then Rick Nelson said, yeah, I saw on Reddit that people are spotting likers in the new James Bond game also. So that's pretty cool. A little bit of fun, a little bit of free advertising, although I'm sure it wasn't free for Leica. So. Yeah, so that's kind of been the news. Guys. The next step is really to jump into your images, but you're not going to believe this, but Justin has access to your images, so I might bring up just mine while we wait and see if he jumps back in. So bear with me just a moment and I'll just see if I can get this ramped up and ready to go. Okay, so this week, this past week, I haven't been out a lot, but I did go out one night with David, Paul, Anne Marie and Levi, who all live in the Geelong area. And is that the right one? Yes. And yeah, we caught up for a street walk sort of about 4 o'. Clock. I think it was Wednesday night or Thursday night, one of those. And yeah, we caught up for a street walk. It was a pretty cold, moody afternoon and evening. We didn't have much time left because by the time they got in from Geelong to Southern Cross station here in Melbourne, it was already about 4 o' clock and we only had about an hour tops, an hour and a half of light left in the day. But we made the most of it, which was amazing. And these are just a few of my images, I've seen some of David's and I'm yet to see Paul Levi's and Anne Marie's. But it was just a gorgeous little afternoon walk with four like minded friends and yeah, we just, we just rocked around Docklands. I think Justin's back. He is. I'm back. Welcome back. [00:45:18] Speaker A: What happened? That was just. [00:45:20] Speaker B: You just went. [00:45:22] Speaker A: Yeah, just the Internet, the Bali Internet just snatches you sometimes it's just gone and then. Yeah, I'm trying to connect my phone. Didn't work. Anyway, I'm back, I'm back. Are these. Is this your photo? [00:45:32] Speaker B: Yeah, I, I finished off the news segment. Everyone thinks that you're being chased by asio, by the way. I was just, I was just saying that I caught up with four photographers from Geelong. I think it was Wednesday night. Memory senior moment. And we started at Southern Cross station. They arrived about 4. We only had about an hour and a bit of daylight and so I mostly did some architect. We all mostly did architecture because we're in the Docklands area and it's got a nice sort of west of the city looking into the city, which is this view here. And I've done that one going the wrong way and yeah, it was just, it was just really lovely late afternoon light. And the good thing about this afternoon, there's many good things. But when I left home and jumped on the train and started into the underground loop here at Melbourne, the train loop, it was really drizzly, it was really dark. And then I came out of the loop at Southern Cross station and the sun had come out and peeked through and the clouds started to part and got these really beautiful cloud patterns in the sky which just helped to elevate the light. Hunting. [00:46:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:47] Speaker B: And it had just rained, so everything was wet and reflective and glistening and all those sorts of things. This is down by Doc Lens. [00:46:57] Speaker A: Yeah, I remember this is that. This is where I took some photos that we showed on the show recently, like a bit over a month ago or something. That same, the same spot with the. Yeah, nice, nice peer posts. [00:47:16] Speaker B: And then this was. I had to go down to. I had to go to my son's school. I think that was Thursday night, maybe Friday night. They had a little bit of a performance on and on the way. I just took my camera and just grabbed some nice shots when I saw the light. I love this building. [00:47:39] Speaker A: Yeah, it's beautiful. And catches that afternoon light. [00:47:42] Speaker B: Oh, it so does. And then this was at the back of a cafe. It's hard to tell, but there's A whole bunch of chefs sitting there. [00:47:49] Speaker A: Ah, yeah. That makes it. [00:47:54] Speaker B: I chose not to crop it in. I probably could a little bit. It's. [00:47:58] Speaker A: No, it's one of those things. It just needs to be presented larger than the Internet allows. Like, if it was on a wall, it would. It would. I think it would draw you into those. To that shot, because the way it's framed, I think the framing is good. [00:48:13] Speaker B: Yeah. This beam across the top, or I think it's the roller door, you know. [00:48:20] Speaker A: You know what's interesting is the. The beam across the top and the wall. Oh, it's gone. Oh, make it. Make it be. Hang on, hang on, hang on. [00:48:31] Speaker B: I'll bring it back. Why isn't it working? Oh, here we go. Sorry, folks. Yep. [00:48:40] Speaker A: So the beam across the top and the wall kind of mimic. Are mimicked a little bit in the. The white above them. That goes across and then to the right, like, it's. It's almost a repeating pattern. [00:48:54] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:48:55] Speaker A: So just above them. Yeah, but. Yeah, yeah, that white bit directly above the chefs sort of goes across, and then dog legs down is repeated in the same over the top. And then that leading line in on. From the right bottom, bottom, right corner, like through. Along the laneway, just draws your eyes straight to those guys. Yeah, I think it's just one of those things. It's just on. On this medium, on the screen is too small for it, but if it was printed on the wall, even at like. Even at, like, a three, it would draw you into it. [00:49:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I was pretty happy. It was a. It was a, you know, accidental spot. And again, this is kind of, you know, it's about my philosophy of always having the camera in your hand or at least having the camera with you, no matter where you go, what you do, because you don't know what you're going to spot, you know? [00:49:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:44] Speaker B: And this. This moment might be hard to capture again. Maybe from there on, they never open the roller door. Maybe, you know, they were allowed to eat inside. I don't know, like, you know, like. But it's that whole thing of always having the camera with you ready and having your photographer's eye on helps you to stop these things. So. But. Yeah, so that was. That was kind of my way I went. I did a couple of photos in the city today. I had to go into the city, And. Yeah, I'll show those next week. [00:50:15] Speaker A: Okay. [00:50:15] Speaker B: Still working on it, but, yeah, that was fun. [00:50:20] Speaker A: Very cool. I'll. I guess I'll go through some of mine and then we'll get into everyone else's images. [00:50:27] Speaker B: That'd be great. [00:50:29] Speaker A: Oh, look, everyone loves it. [00:50:30] Speaker B: Look at this. [00:50:30] Speaker A: Bill Thompson's great shots. Felicity Johnson. That's cool. Fantastic shots. John Letterman says, classic Greg Carrick. I like this one. Sliver of blue. That was the one. Yeah. With that building. That was cool. [00:50:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:44] Speaker A: These are great. Wispy clouds over the architecture. Something about it. [00:50:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:49] Speaker A: Oh, good luck to everyone that's entered the Australian Photographic Prize. Yeah. I wish I had been organized enough to have a swing at that, but it come at the wrong time for me. Yeah. One of my goals today, this year. Sorry, not today. Is enter two photography competitions and that should have been one of them. And I kept seeing it pop up on social media and I was like, I just don't have everything together to make that work. But Anyway, hopefully. Hopefully 20, 26. [00:51:20] Speaker B: It's hard when you're on the run, you know, you've only got small time before you burn it or snap the. Snap the. The card inside it. [00:51:30] Speaker A: Catch up with me. [00:51:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:31] Speaker A: Kind of like what's the born. The born identity. Just like that. Yeah, just like that. Oh, Felicity Johnson entered for a first time. Very cool. Well, we'll be interested. We might have to get you on the podcast, Lucy, to let us know how. How the process was and how you go. [00:51:47] Speaker B: It's a great idea. [00:51:49] Speaker A: Yeah. And David Skinner says the chef one would be better as a print. Agree with me. I've got some more Bali photos that I went through. Where are we? Let's bring them up. These are kind of. So basically, this is a collection of what I would call. I don't even know what it called them. There's a few in the last that I showed on here. They're like. I call them like flat lays. They're like scenes. Flat scenes. That's what I tend to get drawn to. If it doesn't have. There's not people around. They're flat scenes. I thought, Greg, you might like this first one. [00:52:31] Speaker B: I love it. Are they your. [00:52:39] Speaker A: It's an odd thing to come across. And I was like, I have to take a photo of this. [00:52:44] Speaker B: No, but I like the way you framed it. You've stepped back a bit. You've got a red border on each side of it and you really. And that just helps to define the shape and the fact that the shape. Like if you'd cropped in a tiny bit, it would have felt like, oh, it's just a wall because you've stepped back. [00:53:03] Speaker A: I desperately tried to make it symmetrical, but if you look closely, the floor where they've positioned this background thing isn't actually symmetrically lined up with the tiles on the floor and that. But. But the desk is. And it kills me looking at this photo. But I still had to show it because it's slightly weird. It's offset. The legs are just. The legs are bizarre. The legs are a tiny bit of green. With the weird lamp. Yeah, the odd lamp. Anyway, it was. [00:53:35] Speaker B: That's really cool. [00:53:36] Speaker A: And so the rest of these are just strange flat lays and things that I'm drawn to while I've been traveling. And then the last photo is. Is one of my more. I really enjoyed it. But I'll be interesting to see if you guys. It's not really part of this set. There's like a set and then there's a one. Odd one out. We'll see what. All right. What you think. Okay. Make us a little bit bigger. So that one. This one was just. I just enjoyed this one because of all the orange and then the two guys just doing their job. [00:54:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:07] Speaker A: In blue. [00:54:08] Speaker B: Yeah. That's cool. [00:54:13] Speaker A: This one, [00:54:15] Speaker B: I really like that. They're just the. [00:54:19] Speaker A: These. They're like that even in real life. The Leica did a good job of capturing these, but they. They're. They were more yellowy orange in just. In real life. They just popped out of nowhere. And then there's this. You can't quite tell, but. So there's these two buildings either side. They're both white. What are the chances? But then if you zoom in on this building, which I've seen from many angles because it captivates me and I wanted to go on it. This building in the background. Gosh. [00:54:50] Speaker B: The. [00:54:51] Speaker A: Like, it's got. Is. It's. It's completely abandoned. It's an abandoned tower. Every. Every level, never finished, is complete. It's like a skeleton. And that's. It's perfectly framed. Not perfectly. Sorry. But it's in the middle of buildings with this gate. And then the scooter just sitting there, just. Just being part of it. So I kind of. I enjoyed that. [00:55:13] Speaker B: And I love the odd. The random numbers on the gate. Like, what is 68? What is that for? [00:55:19] Speaker A: What's that for? [00:55:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:23] Speaker A: All right, next one. A lot of red going on. [00:55:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Gosh. Like, I do good reds, don't they? [00:55:31] Speaker A: Don't they? [00:55:32] Speaker B: Yeah, they do. They really do. [00:55:34] Speaker A: And then I enjoyed this one because of the. The shape of the. Like the red fence with. And then the red building offsetting it and then the no standing sign. But Then I really enjoyed the fact that there's a no standing sign directly where is it this one? Directly above this. [00:55:56] Speaker B: Something standing. Yeah. [00:55:57] Speaker A: Where there's something standing there. [00:56:00] Speaker B: Restaurant on wheels. [00:56:01] Speaker A: It's a restaurant on wheels. Yeah. So, yeah, I really like that. [00:56:07] Speaker B: And I love the shadows. I love the use of the contrast. It's really cool. [00:56:16] Speaker A: What's this next one? Oh, yeah, the dog gate. I don't know why dogs walking out of a gate just made me laugh. [00:56:23] Speaker B: Yep. [00:56:24] Speaker A: The. Again, ominous. Random number 1001. What is that? No idea. [00:56:31] Speaker B: That could almost be a series, couldn't it? Just finding random gates with random numbers that don't look like a street address. [00:56:37] Speaker A: Yeah, that's right. The. Sadly, just before this, I couldn't bring the camera up to my eye quick enough. That dog was sitting perfectly in that gap. Like just. Just like. Like exactly in the gap. Just sitting there. But then it decided to stroll off as I lifted the camera to my eye. But still I enjoyed that one. This one was actually inspired by one of. I was editing this when Greg Carrick. When I was looking. When I was getting images ready for tonight's show. So this is cropped the same as tonight's images from Greg Carrick. [00:57:14] Speaker B: Nice. [00:57:15] Speaker A: Well done. [00:57:16] Speaker B: Crackers. Great shot. I love it. [00:57:19] Speaker A: And so this is. This is actually. Well, it's a convenient. This is a convenience store. If you. But that's the. Obviously the sun. But if you look at the front of this. Where are we? We stopped here to get some. That's actually an Indoma convenience store and stuff. Yelena's behind this fence. That's a coffee. Let's say point coffee. But just the way that it was placed. And so this. This is a big like Indomart. And then there's just the ocean, [00:57:59] Speaker B: those clouds. [00:58:02] Speaker A: And then the next one is from the same spot, which is this. And the sad palm tree. Yeah, that has no. That has no palm. It's just a stick. Yeah, I don't know. The layout got me. And then that's a little. A tiny little warung. Which is like a place to stop. Well. Oh, hang on. I've lost my. My screen's not playing ball. Let me bring it down. There we go. This is like a place to have lunch. Just a rest stop. [00:58:39] Speaker B: Wow. [00:58:42] Speaker A: Just there on the beach. Right next to that convenience store. But I just love that there was a missing. A missing palm. [00:58:49] Speaker B: Yep. [00:58:49] Speaker A: And it is. Yeah, it's sort of like. Anyway, we stopped specifically for that. I was riding past. We're on like a four hour scooter. Ride. And I was like, I've. I've got to stop and get that. Yeah, well, and then this next one is. Is. I think it's. I don't know, it might be one of my favorite photos of the trip, but I'm not sure. Maybe it's recency bias. It was from yesterday. It's. To me, it's a little bit of, like, the epitome of what you can Capture with the Q3, but this is it. Oh, [00:59:34] Speaker B: yeah. That's very cool. [00:59:38] Speaker A: And so we were at. Yeah, and this is. This is. Yeah, I'll zoom in on a couple of the characters in here. But, like, this is at Uluwatu, like, so we were just sitting there having a. Having a drink. There's a massive sign up. No photography. Because there were guys there with, like. So there's tons of surface out on really good waves. So there was also multiple photographers set up there with tripods and long lenses shooting all the photographers shooting all the surface. And then they would sell the images to those surfers. So there's big signs up there. Hey, no photography. There's already photographers that are like, the official photographers here and in Bali, a lot of this stuff is just, like, local rules. Like, it doesn't matter if it's. Doesn't matter whose rules it is. There's just decided these guys have put the work in, so they get to take photos here. No one else can take photos here, even though it's a public. So I was just sitting in the bar. [01:00:41] Speaker B: With all your white power and privilege, you would just ignore that and take a photo? [01:00:46] Speaker A: Well, the difference is they're taking long, lean shots of people surfing on waves. Either Q3, the equivalent of a phone, basically. And I only took three photos. There's three versions of this. That's all I took while I was here. I took three shots. So basically, I was sitting at a bar that overlooked this scene. But you couldn't see this scene unless you leant over. Otherwise you're just looking at the ocean. [01:01:14] Speaker B: Was the bar, like, on top of a bluff or something? [01:01:17] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. On. Everything's on cliffs in Uluwatu. So you can see we're looking down at this other. Where those umbrellas are. That. That's on top of a tiny little cliff. We're on a bigger cliff up, back, further. And this is a gap in those rocks that people are using to access the beach. Yeah, to go in and out to the waves. So if I. And then, yeah, basically I just. I was waiting and there was some Stuff happening. We were kind of watching what's happening. People are coming in and going out and surfing and stuff like that. And every now and then I'd lean over, and then just before we left, I was like, oh, this. There's a scene unfolding now. Whereas normally there'd just been one or two people going in or out. But there was a bit of a scene, and so I just tilted the screen up. That's why the Q3 is awesome, because it's got the tilty screen. Lent it over the railing, held it out at the point where I could drop it off a cliff and never have it again. And took three shots. And I'll zoom in on some of the characters, but, like, you've got this guy with his red board, and then down here, these two getting ready. Somewhere over here, this girl. This girl had the ride of a lifetime coming back in. Like, she shredded a wave and then come back in. We. We had to watch it. Like, it was a. Yeah, she sent it. And then out here. Where are we? [01:02:43] Speaker B: God, look at that resolution, even. Oh, yeah. [01:02:47] Speaker A: You've got this guy paddling out. And so it was. And then this guy here, girl. Sorry, Coming back in. And then I could have cropped these out, but I thought the umbrellas kept something. I'm not sure still. Yeah, I thought it, like, added. [01:03:05] Speaker B: I think it does the story because it helps you kind of understand where you were. [01:03:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:03:11] Speaker B: Oh, well, that's a cliff with, you know, a place where people can be. Maybe the photographers on a cliff where people can be like. You know, it sort of helps to ground it a little bit, I think. [01:03:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I liked it. That's why, sort of. Yeah, I picked this, but, yeah, the resolution of the Q3 as a travel camera. Unmatched, that. That is. Yeah. I might print. I think I'll print this. I might print it big. I'm not sure, but I really like the way that they're the. This random layout suits the shape that's created by the reef and the water and stuff like that. [01:03:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:49] Speaker A: People seem to be filling the gaps in just the perfect spots for me. So. [01:03:52] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it's definitely got a flow. It leads your eye around and the chat is going off. Interesting. I dig it. Felicity. Love the colors, Justin, and the reflections of the legs. Everyone loves your legs. Great pair of legs there, Justin. Great characterist. Sweet. Minimal. The green one. Oh, that was one of the previous ones. Sorry. Love the orange gate. That's cool. Jay has become the orange man. Oh, this is Lisa Leach. She's joined the chat. G', day, Lisa. Hi, guys. Got engrossed with packing for the house move and now I'm fashionably late for my favorite podcast. [01:04:42] Speaker A: Welcome. Good to see you. Thanks for joining. [01:04:46] Speaker B: This is N1337PE. [01:04:50] Speaker A: Oh, that's an evil clippy. I love that avatar. That's like the devil clippy. [01:04:58] Speaker B: They call it Dog Gate. [01:05:00] Speaker A: Dog Gate is wonderful. Yeah. Dog Gate I like. Yeah. [01:05:04] Speaker B: Greg says that the ratio is 65 by 24. [01:05:08] Speaker A: That it is. Thank you, Greg. [01:05:11] Speaker B: Lots of great comments here. So much texture and colors. Love how the sun lines up with the horizon. Yeah. [01:05:19] Speaker A: Well, thanks, everybody. [01:05:21] Speaker B: With the orange and the sun. The convenience store. That was amazing. [01:05:27] Speaker A: Yeah. It's funny because I stopped to take this photo. [01:05:31] Speaker B: Yeah, [01:05:34] Speaker A: but it was. Yeah, just if I turn to the left, that's what was there. [01:05:38] Speaker B: That deserves a print. I think so. [01:05:42] Speaker A: It's a lot of rubbish in the foreground. That is all just rubbish. But that's Bali. I didn't remove anything out of any of those photos. It's just. It's the reality of what is here [01:05:52] Speaker B: because you're doing a lot. That horizon line and the orange dot and then your eye travels left or right across the frame because of the pano formatting. David Skinner's just dropped a really lovely comment. Can I say, Justin, your travel street photography is getting better and better. [01:06:09] Speaker A: You can say that, David. You can say that as much as you want. Thank you. Yeah, I appreciate it. [01:06:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Lots of amazing love in the chat for your images. [01:06:20] Speaker A: Appreciate you all. Thank you very much. [01:06:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:06:24] Speaker A: Now, speaking of images, to get on to everyone else's. [01:06:29] Speaker B: Well, just before we do that, I thought I might give you a little test just to see how much you're in the holiday spirit. Could you please do an ad read for the podcast? Ad lib, off you go. [01:06:40] Speaker A: For the podcast or for Lucky Straps? What do you want from Lucky Straps? A bit of both. Oh, for Lucky Straps. Okay. Okay, let's go with. [01:06:50] Speaker B: It'll be a score. I want everyone in the chat to write Justin's ad read out of five. Five being great, zero being terrible. Over to you. [01:07:00] Speaker A: Okay. If you don't have a comfortable camera strap right now, you should go to Luckystraps.com, read some reviews, have a look at what we've got to offer, and then if you're still not sure which one is for you, email me justinuckystraps.com and I'll help you find the perfect camera strap for what you like to do. So you Might want a wrist strap, you might want a shoulder strap, you might want a neck strap, you might want something really big and comfortable for a heavy setup so you can walk all day long, or you might want something really thin and minimal so it's out of the way. Either way, we'll figure it out. But what we make is designed for photographers that like to shoot. We don't make things that look cool on shelves in camera stores or look cool in Instagram ads with lots of features and things like that. We make stuff that gets out of the way while you're trying to shoot so it's got less things on it, not more things on it. So all I'm saying, if you don't already have a really comfortable camera strap, go to Luckystraps.com have a look around, and if you can't find what you want, email me justinuckystraps.com and we'll find you the perfect camera strap. If you do find what you want, use Code Greg. Because if we get enough people to buy camera straps that use Code Greg, we're going to Japan anyway. End of ad read. [01:08:27] Speaker B: Hey, well done. Look at you. That came from the heart in your holiday days. I do like that one, folks. What do you think? Give it a score out of five or 10. Whatever you want, I can do. The math. Scores are coming in. Felicity says smooth gets a 10 out of 10. Tweak says 5 out of 5. Smooth read. Rodney Nicholson's just said too long. 3. Keeping it real. 4.5 out of 5. What was the 0.5 that you dropped? Let me know. [01:09:02] Speaker A: Phil, you can never get a perfect score. [01:09:05] Speaker B: Some people a 5 just for the Japan reference. And I can come to absolutely. No, hang on, hang on. I'm having enough trouble getting myself to Japan. No, they're just baggage. Five. Very heartfelt and personal. Robin Aldridge gives a five. Jason says no, three needs a jingle. I need to get a little xylophone, and I can play the jingle anyway. Well done. That was. That was good. Look at some people's images. [01:09:43] Speaker A: Yep. You. You call him out. I'll bring him up. [01:09:47] Speaker B: Let's start with John Lessima. He's John. In the chat tonight, he commented really early on. [01:09:58] Speaker A: Hey, guys. [01:09:59] Speaker B: I was lucky enough early on in the year to find a lukistic. Lukistic. L E U C I S T I C Leucistic baby kangaroo in the wild. Does that mean albino? They are extremely rare, and to find one in my local area, I was ecstatic. Oh, here we go. Lukism or leucism affects the pigment going to the skin and fur resulting in close to pure white. But not like Albany albinoism. [01:10:27] Speaker A: Albinism. [01:10:28] Speaker B: Well, I can't do it where you get pink eyes or you don't want pink eye skin and ears. Haven't shown the photo before. As parks Vic weren't sure that the added attention, if the added attention would be harmful or impactful to its well being. That's a fair call. But it has moved on now, so I'm able to share. Well, I think that's wonderful that you took that into consideration, John. This was shot with the Sony A7R3.200 to 600 at 600 mil. ISO 1250 at f 6.3. Take care and have a great week. [01:11:04] Speaker A: Gosh, what a shot too. Is it. Is it staring straight at you? That's so cool. [01:11:10] Speaker B: Yeah, but the lighting, the gold background. [01:11:14] Speaker A: I don't know what size file you sent us, but I'm going to do this anyway. Enhance. Oh my gosh. [01:11:22] Speaker B: Look at that. [01:11:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Wow. [01:11:26] Speaker B: Wow. [01:11:28] Speaker A: So much detail. [01:11:29] Speaker B: That's 600 mil. [01:11:32] Speaker A: Look at it. [01:11:33] Speaker B: Yeah, that's gorgeous. Well done, John. That. That's a winning shot. [01:11:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Beautiful light. Beautiful shot. That's special. [01:11:43] Speaker B: Yeah, that's very cool. Print that. Frame it for sure. [01:11:47] Speaker A: Print that. [01:11:47] Speaker B: Yeah. It's a rare animal. Like you might not ever see another one like that in your life. But you photographed it and you. You photographed it perfectly. You did it justice. So please, at least print it. Justin will pay for it. He's got a printer. Just send in the file. It's fine. [01:12:03] Speaker A: I got that thing. I. I'm scared about firing that up when I get back. There was all this stuff about how if you leave it for too long, you know that it'll clog the nozzles and all that sort of stuff. I'm kind of concerned that I'm gonna get back and it's just gonna. I don't know, just spit out nothing. [01:12:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:20] Speaker A: Anyway, Robin Aldridge says Lou Cystic. That's how you're told to say Antarctica when I visited. Lucistic Lucy the Penguin. Oh. Phil Thompson says, incredible shot detail, contrasting colors and perfect pose. John, Magic of the moment. [01:12:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:44] Speaker A: And unfortunately, no 1337 PE, which is the evil devil. Clippy says now it's a lucky strap. No, it's not. That's. It's. No, we don't make straps out of kangaroos. Especially not leucistic ones. [01:13:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:01] Speaker A: It's not a luck. It's still hopping around. Having a good time. Yeah. It is. It's a beautiful shot. Amazing. [01:13:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:13:10] Speaker A: All right, who we got next? [01:13:12] Speaker B: Next up, we have Greg Crackers Carrick. Hey, Justin. Greg and Jim. Here's two xpan ratio seascapes, the Pinnacles on Phillip Island. We shot with the Fujifilm GFX50R at f22,11,25 seconds with a focal length of 24.5 mil. Gosh, the panos really make that sing, don't they? And the second shot was London Bridge. I think this one's a Pinnacle's. The previous one was London Bridge. Yeah, Portsy. That one's London Bridge at Portsy. Fujifilm XT2F8, 20 seconds, focal length 50 mil, ISO 200. The 64, 65 by 24 ratio really suits landscape and seascape images. And I agree. It just adds this cinematic. It just. Yeah, it just feels right, doesn't it? [01:14:11] Speaker A: Yeah, it definitely adds. I. Yeah, there's a lot of scenes where you just don't have anything at the top and the bottom. It's because landscape and seascape is just such a vast horizon style composition. So for those particularly. And that's why. That's why the Q3 should have a crop mode that suits it. And that's why the. What was it, the X100? No, the DFX100 is such a cool camera. [01:14:44] Speaker B: Yeah. John's just jumped in. He says, thanks, guys. I am in the chat, but also a lot of work and definitely will print it. I have a few printers. [01:14:54] Speaker A: Nice. [01:14:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Nice. [01:14:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Awesome shot, Greg. Beautiful crackers. Love the crop. And thanks for the inspiration for my crop, because I was. I often tend towards, like, a cinema. A cinema crop. Like what? You know, like a 16 by 9 or something like that. But I was like, no, I'm gonna do the xpan crop that Greg Carrick sent his images in and that's what inspired me to crop mine. So thank you. [01:15:21] Speaker B: Nice. Well done. Up next we have Felicity Johnson, who surely by now is running out of wall and shelf space for all her awards. She's been on a roll lately. Hello? [01:15:39] Speaker A: Hang on. Where is it? [01:15:41] Speaker B: Come on. You can't not have them after that intro. [01:15:44] Speaker A: Give me. Just give me one second because I definitely have done hers because that's why it's in the thing. There it is. Got it. Never mind. Done. Okay. [01:15:54] Speaker B: Hello. It was great seeing the presence of lucky straps at the recent Victorian association of Photographic Societies at Moemma. [01:16:02] Speaker A: First look at these. He took some shots. No, no, look, look, it's us. [01:16:10] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [01:16:12] Speaker A: Yelena. Coordinated with. I can't remember a name, someone that was helping out with the. The VAPs. Victorian association of Photographic Societies. Is that what it was during Animature Photography Society. Sorry. And yeah, we had. We had some straps and belts and stuff there and some prize packs to give away. That's pretty cool. [01:16:38] Speaker B: Very cool. [01:16:39] Speaker A: So that was over the weekend. Anyway, I'll let you continue. [01:16:47] Speaker B: Where was I? Lucky straps at the thing. I enjoyed the convention with some fantastic speakers. We are lucky to have over 7,000 hectares of box iron bark forest across the road. And it is a place where I go to immerse myself in nature. These rainbow bee eaters fly down from Northern Australia Oxygen, October to March. And I love photographing them. We are also lucky in that they love our property as well. It makes hanging out in the. Hanging out the washing a joy, watching them fly around. This image won a gold medal in the Kakak Circuit, Serbia the other day. Well done. And I can see why. [01:17:26] Speaker A: This is insane. Look at it. That's it. That's crazy. How often does this happen? Do they. [01:17:36] Speaker B: Do you. [01:17:36] Speaker A: How often do you get an opportunity to take a photo of a bird eating. [01:17:42] Speaker B: Only between October and March. I said that. [01:17:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I know, but like, how often do you see this happen? This is crazy. [01:17:50] Speaker B: Yeah, but remember, like, for this a few months ago, Felicity had that photo of. Was it a kingfisher attacking a snake? [01:18:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [01:18:02] Speaker B: That's always in the right stuff. Yeah. Look at the detail in the eye. [01:18:08] Speaker A: That's amazing. [01:18:10] Speaker B: That's worth a print too. [01:18:12] Speaker A: Yeah, [01:18:15] Speaker B: yeah. [01:18:16] Speaker A: Well framed. I'd love to know, did you have to crop much? Did you get it perfectly in camera? Yeah, yeah. How. How did you miss any shots trying to get this or where you just like nailed it first go. It's. That's awesome. [01:18:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it's gorgeous. Incredible. All right, well done, Felicity. Moving right along. Camera Life alumni Nev Clark. Oh, she's just replied. Yes. Cropped one shot. [01:18:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:18:51] Speaker B: Nice, nice, nice, nice. This is Nev's story. I was wandering through Spotlight looking for picture hanging brackets. There is a photo of a Highlands Highland cow that's often sold in these stores. I looked at the cow and thought, I'm going to find one to photograph. I started to do a bit of Googling and maybe it was the algorithm, but suddenly on my Instagram, a photo of a Highland cow appeared and it was a local person. So I reached out to her and she let me come and take a photo of her Highland cows. They are beautiful, placid animals as well. Despite the scary look of the horns [01:19:27] Speaker A: and that. That's the Highland cow photos that you see. Yeah. Like in Spotlight and in all those places. So host of the show who we. We don't see much anymore because he's a busy man and a secret agent Grant, he's got a Highland cow photo. We actually did an episode on it that got stolen. So he, he put it on a stock site and then someone licensed it off a stock site for like not much money. But then printed it big on a canvas and sold it in a cafe as if it was being sold by a, a photographer. You know how people do that where they're like, you know, you hang your art in a cafe and then. And then people can buy it. And he saw like someone saw it and alerted him to it and was getting sold for like $800 or something. But they just licensed it for $5 on high stock and then printed it and then we're selling it as if it was something. [01:20:28] Speaker B: How did you find out? [01:20:31] Speaker A: I think someone sent it to him. Anyway, not to take away from your image, Nev. I love the idea that you found some inspiration walking through Spotlight and we're like, I'm going to go and do this. I think that's a great way to. With an idea to push into a different, you know, different style, different genre. Where are some Highland cows? In my area you make some connections. That's awesome. I love it. Very, very cool. That's beautiful. [01:21:03] Speaker B: This was shot on the GFX1 hundreds mark II. Sorry. With the GF100. 200. [01:21:09] Speaker A: Oh, should we zoom in? [01:21:11] Speaker B: Yep, let's do it. [01:21:12] Speaker A: I don't know what, I don't know what size Farley sent us, but let's have a look anyway. I didn't send us a big one. Can't tell. It looks like on a xr. No, I'm kidding. [01:21:22] Speaker B: Look at the fur around. It's around his chin and nose. [01:21:25] Speaker A: I know. That's a funny looking animal. [01:21:28] Speaker B: I love them. [01:21:30] Speaker A: Yeah. No wonder they're in so many images. They're cool. [01:21:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [01:21:38] Speaker A: Nev Clark says I took a series of them and have sold a few. I even printed one for the farm owner for free as well as she's. And she's got proudly hanging on her wall. Yeah, that's the way to do it, isn't it? [01:21:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:21:50] Speaker A: Give any get. [01:21:52] Speaker B: Yep, that's very cool. Well done, mate. [01:21:56] Speaker A: Great work. [01:21:57] Speaker B: I think what you should do now Nev, is print a few of them and go back to Spotlight and secretly put them in the frames. [01:22:03] Speaker A: Just swap them over, [01:22:10] Speaker B: But. Yeah. All right, let's get on to the next one. Yep. Andrew Connor. [01:22:18] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:22:19] Speaker B: Whoops. [01:22:20] Speaker A: That's not Andrew Connor. Just wait. Press the wrong button. Here we go. No. What's it doing? There we go. Got it. [01:22:31] Speaker B: Wow. Out at my local lake in Sunbury again for another pretty colorful sunrise. It is the most tranquil place to the to start the day. Rarely see anyone there at this hour. This was shot on The Sony Bridge. RX10 mark IV, ISO 321, 640th and F 2.5. That's amazing. [01:22:54] Speaker A: Beautiful. Yeah. That's one of those magic days that you just can't. Yeah. Can't plan for it. It just happens or it doesn't happen. [01:23:05] Speaker B: Yeah. That's why you will always have a camera with you. It's just this sort of stuff pops up. [01:23:15] Speaker A: Nothing's blown out. That's what's crazy. [01:23:19] Speaker B: Yeah, it's got that beautiful soft. [01:23:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Transition you often get, like, little hot spots and things in the clouds. But yep, great work indeed. Sucks me right into that middle section. That's still like clear light. I don't know what the word is for it. White light. [01:23:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And lots of love in the chat. [01:23:49] Speaker A: Wow. [01:23:49] Speaker B: Well deserved, too. That's. There, that's gorgeous. Gosh, we're seeing some crackers tonight. [01:23:55] Speaker A: We are, Yeah. We've given. We've given no feedback. We're just like, wow. [01:24:04] Speaker B: Yep. Tweek wishes they were more of a morning person so could get this light. [01:24:13] Speaker A: That's right. [01:24:14] Speaker B: Phil Thompson's. Wow. What a moment. Superbly captured, Jason. Crikey, that's good. And tweak again. Lovely photo. Indeed. Well done, Andrew. [01:24:26] Speaker A: Print it. [01:24:27] Speaker B: Gosh, I've said that so many times tonight. [01:24:29] Speaker A: That's right. All right. [01:24:33] Speaker B: Is it time to speak of the devil? Phil Thompson. Yeah. [01:24:36] Speaker A: Where is it? [01:24:40] Speaker B: I saw these earlier before I jumped on here, some photos of the Town hall station on the Melbourne Underground rail loop filling some time a couple of Saturdays ago when I went to a concert at the Regent Theater in Collins Street. Well, la dee da. I went, had a look at this station nearby. So I caught a train up from Geelong yesterday and spent some time photographing it. Also the State Library station and some street photography nearby. Here are just a few of the stations through the lens of my Pentax K1 Mark 2 with either the 15 to 30 mil or the 28 to 105. Shutter settings were shutter speed 1 15, 1 30th, 1 60th, so fairly slow and usually narrow aperture. ISO around 6400 for all of them edited in ACDC Photo Studio Ultimate 2026. And as always, guys, thank you for all your work, the wonderful shows and the entertaining guests that you have on each week. It is our pleasure. [01:25:41] Speaker A: It is our pleasure. This is an interesting one. You've got the subjects on the left. You know, a dad walking his kids to a kid. Sorry. To head down to the platforms. And then you've got the exit sign up the top pointing and all these [01:25:59] Speaker B: leading lines just coming in. Like, just drawing you to that orange at the back. [01:26:04] Speaker A: And if. Yeah, everything else is symmetrical. [01:26:07] Speaker B: Yeah, [01:26:12] Speaker A: Yeah. I think that first one, though, this. This is the one. This is. Which I think I've seen. I've seen you take a similar shot to this. No, it's. It must be so striking. I haven't seen this in person, but that. Those. Those orange columns. Yeah. [01:26:28] Speaker B: Like, the stations are very cool. Like, really clever design. Love the geometry from Lisa. Rick Nelson. Love the composition. And so symmetrical. And finally, really like that one with the dad and the kid and the overhead color lines. [01:26:49] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:26:51] Speaker B: Amazing. [01:26:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Beautiful collection. Thanks. [01:26:55] Speaker B: Yeah, well done. Well done. Phil Thompson. And finally. [01:27:04] Speaker A: Oh, not finally. [01:27:06] Speaker B: No. [01:27:06] Speaker A: I think we've got two more. I might have missed someone. Let me have a look. [01:27:10] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Or did I miss someone, Phil? All I've got left is Philip Johnson. [01:27:19] Speaker A: What have I done? Oh, we've missed some people. [01:27:29] Speaker B: Haven't missed anybody. [01:27:31] Speaker A: David Skinner. John Latimer. [01:27:37] Speaker B: No, I might have missed David Skinner. [01:27:39] Speaker A: I think we missed David Skinner. And then Lisa Leach. [01:27:44] Speaker B: How did I miss all of those? [01:27:46] Speaker A: I don't know. You're telling the story. I just put the stuff in the document. Hey, don't be sorry. We got this. It's fine. [01:27:55] Speaker B: Should we start with David Skinner? [01:27:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, let's do David Skinner. I've got him here. Yeah, go for it. [01:28:05] Speaker B: All right, so. Hi, Justin, Greg and Jim. Here are some images from Charlie Brown's workshop held recently. A great time was had by all, including me. Hope four images is okay. Cheers, David. Look at the color. Oh, look at that. [01:28:26] Speaker A: Yeah, Some crackers. Yeah. Getting the workshop. And doing a workshop with Jeff Freestone next week. [01:28:39] Speaker B: Gosh. Yeah, [01:28:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Look at that mist. I just. [01:28:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Colors, [01:28:56] Speaker A: cracking shots. Charlie Brown must know what he's doing. And multiple workshops held recently. And then back to another one. I love it. Just getting in there. But, yeah, these are all beautiful. You got a favorite out of those three, Greg. [01:29:19] Speaker B: This one. No, go back. The one in the middle. The. Yeah. And the reason why I love this is because there's all of these beautiful curves. There's curves in the cloud, there's curves in the mountain. There's curves in the mist that's under the mountain. There's the curvature of the lake at the front in the foreground. Like it's just got this beautiful soft gliding series of curves that sort of alternate in direction. Yeah, that's my favorite. What about you? [01:29:47] Speaker A: I don't know why, but I think I like this first one and I think it's just the. I don't know why. So we've got beautiful colors. Obviously the tree slightly off center, the trunk and then you've got the main lot of branches that are visible heading off to the left, balancing out that off center trunk. I think that's why. I don't know, I just, I saw it and I was like, this is. And it could be anywhere as well. Yeah, any, any country. You know, it's very. I don't know, it just. I like it. Enjoy it. Cool. [01:30:31] Speaker B: All right. Lisa Leach. I'm so sorry, Lisa. I skipped over your image. [01:30:36] Speaker A: Lisa Leach. Here we go. [01:30:38] Speaker B: I think that was the tree in the lake. Was it? [01:30:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Now my computer doesn't want to open. It's like everyone's against Lisa tonight. There we go. Got it. [01:30:47] Speaker B: Here we go. Oh, wow. It's like hands, it's like limbs reaching into the water and pointing up. Oh, it's stunning. Lisa says I'm sharing another image from my recent New Zealand trip for your feedback and input. A very wet sunrise in Glenorchy on the south island. I captured this lone willow tree at the lake edge whilst balancing an umbrella to try and keep my lens dry. With the mist obscuring the mountains and a 3 second exposure to smooth the water, I was very happy with the ethyl feel or you should be very happy. It's a gorgeous shot. [01:31:32] Speaker A: Yeah, it's beautiful. I'm trying to. You ask for feedback. So I'm trying to think of something and I can't think of much at all. And it would all be trial and error stuff for me and it would only be based around the crop. That's. That's all I can think of. And even then I was like, oh, I don't know if I would have maybe. I think the crops perfect, like side to side scented. I think it might be perfect. I'm trying to weigh up the space on the right hand side versus the branch reaching into the left hand side. And I don't know if you could have got it more balanced feeling than what it is the tonality is beautiful. Yeah. [01:32:24] Speaker B: And the softness of the colors, especially at the shore's edge. [01:32:28] Speaker A: Yeah. And then the shore just extending from the bottom left corner in a nice little, nice little arc just to frame everything. [01:32:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:32:40] Speaker A: I, I've got. This is where we need someone with some more advanced skills to be. To be talking about feedback on an image like this. I really don't know. [01:32:52] Speaker B: Well, here's a suggestion from, you know, Rodney Nicholson, 50 years as a photographer, especially around the water. He says it needs a nude. [01:33:02] Speaker A: Well, I mean that's a. That. That would certainly change the dynamic. That's for sure. It would still have the ethereal feel. But yeah, as. As far as in terms of. In these same conditions, what could you have done differently? I don't know. I really don't know. It'd be interesting to see what it would look like up closer with a wider lens, but you would probably have a blown out. Based on what I can see with the, you know, the conditions. I'm really not sure what you could have done to do better. It's perfect. So that's my feedback. [01:33:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Other than putting a nude in. I agree. I think that's. It's a masterful image. And the timing to soften that waterline has also allowed those colors to show through. Otherwise it would probably be. Maybe there'd be a slight wash at the shore's edge depending on, you know, if there was wind or not. But either way it's just there's. Yeah, there's something very ethereal and eerie about it, about this tree because it almost looks like it's kind of. It's reaching an army in to the lake to grab something and pluck it out. You know, it's like this monster. [01:34:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Lisa Leach, it was too. Said it was too chilly for her to go nude. We're going to do a self portrait. Lisa. That would have been. Yeah, that would have been old, but I love it otherwise. Greg might come over next time and do some modeling for you. [01:34:28] Speaker B: Yeah, that won't be happening. [01:34:30] Speaker A: Ah. What you don't like? [01:34:31] Speaker B: I like seeing myself naked. I'm not going to show myself to anyone else. [01:34:35] Speaker A: Ah. Phil Thompson says, thought I recognize that tree at Glenorchy, Lisa. But the missed mood cropping, especially when there are other ones in that lake too. It is perfect. Yeah, I agree. And David Skinner says perhaps if possible, I think that means to have no beach in the foreground. That would be interesting. But yeah, I think. And that's why I was thinking, you know, you could experiment with wide angle. But I think you would end up with a sky that would be very hot just based on where the clouds are looking or the misting clouds are looking in the background. Yeah, I don't know. Felicity Johnson. Oh, sorry. Felicity Johnson says, who needs a nude when you have a very sensual tree. That's true. [01:35:26] Speaker B: Whatever floats your boat, Felicity. [01:35:28] Speaker A: That's right. [01:35:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:35:30] Speaker A: Very cool. Nev Clark would love to see it in black and white with a moody edit as well. With a Wii with a bit of the tree being the star of the show. Great work. At least the composition is great. [01:35:45] Speaker B: Yep. [01:35:46] Speaker A: Yeah, it's perfect. So that means we still have anyone. Yes. [01:35:52] Speaker B: One more, one more. First one in, last one out. Philip Johnson. Yes. Here is my image. [01:36:03] Speaker A: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Something's gone wrong here. And also we got a late entry from Rick Nelson. It wasn't showing up. So I'll see if I can get that to work. But I don't think Philip Johnson's has gone to my. Where is it? There it is. It didn't go into my folder. One second. [01:36:28] Speaker B: Do this, this, this. All right. [01:36:33] Speaker A: Philip Johnson. [01:36:35] Speaker B: Okay. So Philip says, here's my image. My favorite time of year is autumn and now into winter. I love capturing the color of the leaves on the trees and in this case at your feet. It creates abstract. I have always thought I'm a frustrated artist somewhere in me. Remnants of autumn. This was shot with the Sony A7 IV with the Sony 70-200 Mark II 2.8. Gorgeous lens and processed in Photoshop. Topaz photo. [01:37:05] Speaker A: Nice image. [01:37:07] Speaker B: I love the detail and the overlay of those purple leaves in the bottom left corner on top of the. The kind of. The yellow ones. [01:37:16] Speaker A: I like the square crop. I'd be interested to know what you. What you framed up to start with and why you chose square. But I think. I think the square crop really works well having the. You sort of got the brighter leaves coming down the. The right hand side sort of center of the image offset by the one big. What you would call this sort of neutral leaf. [01:37:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:37:41] Speaker A: On the left. [01:37:42] Speaker B: And then you've got that line below it of the purple. So the purple sort of cuts across the frame. Yeah, that's great. You've got a great eye, Philip. I love how you see the abstract in the things that most people don't even give a casual glance to. [01:37:57] Speaker A: Well, most people would just step on that, wouldn't they? Just. Just walk straight over. [01:38:02] Speaker B: Yeah, [01:38:05] Speaker A: yeah. I think more time. Yeah. Spent looking at the smaller things. Would probably be good for all of us. I'm sure it would be good for me. Anyway, just looking into the. The smaller parts of life. [01:38:25] Speaker B: I've been playing around with some of this architecture stuff I've been doing of just pointing straight up. Like when I was in the city today and I had my X70 with the little screen flipped out like you're talking about with the Leica, where you can flip the screen out to get an interesting angle and just shooting straight up into the. And getting those leading lines in buildings. I'm just loving it because you look around you, no one looks up at the tops of buildings. [01:38:47] Speaker A: No. [01:38:47] Speaker B: Especially in a busy city, you know, and there's so much to see. So. [01:38:51] Speaker A: Yeah. But this is great. All right. We had a late edition from Rick Nelson. I've found it. I've got it. He sent it through twice because he's a legend. And here it is. And it says, I'll read it out because it's not in the thing yet. Hello, Justin and Greg. I noticed the pic didn't send the first time. It can wait till next week. Well, too bad. It's coming on this week. We're here. Great to see you both every week. The photo I have here is shot on the OM system TG7 last night. Last night. I love it when a photo's new. And I also love it when it shot on dj7 because that's cool. As the blue moon was rising. Yeah, that's it. Like more proof that you can get a great shot with whatever camera. [01:39:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:39:45] Speaker A: And not. Not that the OG. Sorry, the. The system CG7. Not that it's not a great camera, but it's not a, you know, it's not a new Sony A7R whatever. It's. It's just a regular sort of waterproof camera. But you can get great shots with it. [01:40:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:40:05] Speaker A: Especially get down low like that. It's awesome. [01:40:09] Speaker B: Yeah. And we're getting some nice feedback from the chat. Reflective, solitary mood. Nice. From Greg Carrick. Phil Johnson says. Thanks, Phil. Oh, that was in response to previous comments. Sorry. And then Lisa Leach has said that moon. No, sorry. Love this. It has a story. Who sat in that chair? Yeah. Who's watching the moon tonight? Tweak production says that moon was pretty nice colors. It's amazing what the TG7 can do. Yeah. It's a wonderful little camera, isn't it? [01:40:46] Speaker A: It is. [01:40:47] Speaker B: Have you guys used it much more? [01:40:49] Speaker A: Mainly for. Mainly for scuba. And then like what Elaine has learned so far. But I'll Be interested to know her thoughts is like. She tends to. She's not much of a. I'll take it if we're going for a walk or something like that. That's when I might take a camera. Depending on the time of day. She. She wanted it specifically for, like, if she's hanging out with friends. So that. [01:41:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:41:17] Speaker A: She doesn't have her phone. So that she doesn't have to have her phone to capture the memories. [01:41:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:41:24] Speaker A: So there hasn't been a lot of that over here because a lot of the stuff we've been doing has just been us two, so she's sort of less likely to use it. But yeah, it's. It's. It's interesting. So not probably not as much over here as I might have thought, but it's definitely this. The scuba was worth it alone. Because to get a camera that can do that without a housing is pretty insane. [01:41:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:41:53] Speaker A: And to be able to play around with photography underwater without having to spend money on housing, but then. Yeah. To be able to also take it to an event or something like that and then just leave your phone away and take a photo if you want to and not get pulled into any social media distractions or anything like that. [01:42:14] Speaker B: Very true. Yeah, very true. [01:42:19] Speaker A: Cool. [01:42:20] Speaker B: Amazing. There was a comment here from Rodney that says we missed his image last week. Did we, Justin? Last week you forgot my crane shot. [01:42:28] Speaker A: Did we? Let's find it. [01:42:30] Speaker B: We're gonna hunt it down. Rodney. That and the nude. You seem to be all about the nudes today. [01:42:37] Speaker A: Podcast picks. May 18th crane shot. Oh, we did too. How did I do that? Well, let's bring it up. Let's bring it up right now. I did, too. Good. Good spotting. I am. But believe it or not, I am not perfect. [01:43:04] Speaker B: Stop it. I won't listen. I won't hear this. [01:43:12] Speaker A: This was another a. Another, I believe, phone photo. From when Rodney. After Rodney had surgery and was rocking around with the phone. [01:43:27] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's right. [01:43:30] Speaker A: With his left hand. And it's. It's actually the colors. The. [01:43:37] Speaker B: They're probably not coming through on the [01:43:38] Speaker A: stream as good as they are on my screen. The colors actually pretty crazy on from this shot. Love it. [01:43:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I love it too. [01:43:52] Speaker A: This Rodney, based. I assume based on this, you. You enjoyed this shot out of the whole collection, was this your favorite shot that you sent through from last week? It's a great image. [01:44:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I love it. The other one, it just raises so many questions for me. [01:44:10] Speaker A: Like what? [01:44:11] Speaker B: Oh, like what's being built? What's this structure in front of what's being built. What is that structure for? Like, it's. [01:44:20] Speaker A: It needs three cranes within that small space of. [01:44:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:44:24] Speaker A: Area building. [01:44:25] Speaker B: That, that building's really unusual. Like the green windows and the. The way the brickwork looks. Yeah. Like it's. It just draws you in to ask questions. He says it's a hospital. [01:44:37] Speaker A: Yeah. I think it's sucks me in. [01:44:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And the clouds sort of offer that. Like, there's a lot of hard edges, hard lines, but the background's that soft cloud. Yeah. Very cool. Oh, it was worth waiting for. [01:44:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Sorry I forgot Rodney. [01:44:58] Speaker B: And sorry for anyone else. [01:45:00] Speaker A: If this is your first time listening, send your photos to me justinuckystrapes.com and we'll bring them up on the show. Ideally, I would love it if you title the file as your name. That would make my life so much easier. Give us a little bit of info about why you shot it and what you're. You know, if you want any feedback and what your settings were and other than that, just come and. Yeah, come and be a part of the show. Even if you can't listen live, you can still send your photo in. We'll bring it up and you can listen back later. You can leave a comment on YouTube later or whatever. You don't have to listen live to send a photo in. So we want to see more photos from more people from all over the world. So please, please, please, please send us something. Can be something you shot yesterday or it could be something you shot 10 years ago on film that you just really love. Just anything. Start with that Y. [01:45:54] Speaker B: And don't forget to include what camera, what lens, Maybe your specs, if you've got them, if you've got access to them. But also a little bit story about your experience in taking that photo. We always love to hear where you were, what you were doing, why this grabbed you so. Exactly. [01:46:12] Speaker A: Yeah. And yeah, Rodney Nicholson says upper back alley. And speaking of back alleys, a huge ass photo says, I will send something. So that would be good. You could send us. Send us something. I'd like to see it. Anything you want. Twig production says smash that. Like button and print photos. Yes, do print some photos. I'll be printing a lot of photos when I get back. And Rodney says it's all about the image. Is that a. Is that a flask? Is that a whiskey flask? No. [01:46:43] Speaker B: What is a big one? Like a water bottle? Yeah, it's cool. This Melbourne company called Memo, they're made of steel. Oh, yeah. [01:46:52] Speaker A: I've Seen those? They used to do the clear one. [01:46:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Now they do them. They've just done a titanium one. They're really cool. And they double as a weapon or a rounder's bat. Anyone play rounders in high school or primary school? That's what it's like. It's like a rounder's back. [01:47:06] Speaker A: Watch out. All right, we should probably call it. I gotta go have some dinner. [01:47:13] Speaker B: All right. [01:47:14] Speaker A: Lisa Lee, huge ass photo says I have a crack in my lens. Well, get another lens. You only got one lens. Come on. [01:47:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:47:24] Speaker A: Oh, I get it. Crack because of the ass. I get it. [01:47:27] Speaker B: Never mind. [01:47:30] Speaker A: Oh, it's a night. [01:47:32] Speaker B: I think that's a good place to draw a line in the sand and end this episode of the Camera Life podcast random photography show. If you're watching along, please give us a like. It certainly helps out a lot because it lets YouTube know that we're worth watching and then it will share us more with other people. And that's what we want. But also it helps us out and it means the world if you subscribe. If you subscribe to the Camera Life podcast and you hit the bell icon notification for always, you will get a notification in your time zone every time. We've got a live, live video coming up. Live podcast. And we go live twice a week. That's right, twice a week. Every Monday evening, 7.30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, the random photography show comes to you live with the latest industry news, reviews, product launches, sometimes unboxings. But more importantly, we look at your images and discuss what you've been up to with your camera. And then every Thursday morning, we have amazing guests. Join us at 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time for a live chat. That's right, live chat about their photography, about their career, their journey, their early inspirations and what they've got coming up next. So please, like, subscribe and hit the bell icon. Three simple little steps means the world to us. Got any final words there, boss? [01:48:52] Speaker A: Well, that's the thing. So. So, Kate. Kate Starr. Good to see you. First show, I think, live. Is this live every Monday, as Greg said? Yes, every Monday. Oh, I don't. We haven't missed many. Maybe one in like a year or two. Very few. Maybe two. I don't know. [01:49:07] Speaker B: Was it Christmas Day? We didn't do. We had Christmas Day off. [01:49:10] Speaker A: Yeah, Christmas Day. Anyway, live every Monday, but also every Thursday and Thursdays. Thursdays are crazy. We have some of the biggest photographers that we can get our hands on. People that have shot the Olympics, people that have shot images for 50 years. People that have won the biggest awards that you can win every genre. We try and go as broad as possible. We don't focus in on just landscapes or just street photography or anything. We try and get a bit of everything that we can find. But the crazy thing is because we go live, if you put a question in the live chat, we'll just bring it up on the show and they'll answer it. It's amazing. You can actually interact with the guests that we have and be part of the show and help guide our show to get the answers that you want. So it doesn't just rely on Greg and I asking the right questions. You can ask the questions too. So please be a part of the Thursday morning shows if you're available. That's Australian Eastern Standard Time, 9am this week. Marcus Bell. That'll be amazing. [01:50:13] Speaker B: Yep, yep. Absolutely. [01:50:16] Speaker A: Okay, let me, let me, let me read out some more comments and then we'll call it because I've got no music because I still haven't figured that out while I'm on the road. It. But I'll be back next week and we'll have music which will be great. Huge ass photo says I'm swiping as we speak. See you next Monday. Perfect. Thanks you. Phil Thompson says next week is King's birthday here in Vic. Will you still be online? Oh, I hadn't thought that far ahead. Probably. Yeah. But most likely Rick Delson. Use Code Greg to buy a strap and get Greg to Japan the camera. That's. Yes, please. If you are going to buy something from Luckystraps.com use code Greg. You might as well save some money and help Greg out. Greg Stubbing says looking forward to the Marcus Bell show on Thursday. Me too. Rodney Nicholson says five out of five for that. The camera Life ad read perfect. I only got a three out of five. [01:51:13] Speaker B: Gosh, [01:51:16] Speaker A: yes. First show. Well, I'm glad you're here. Please join us. Send a photo in. Send a photo to justin Luckystraps.com today and we'll bring it up next week, please. [01:51:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:51:25] Speaker A: Paul Henderson. Good night. Felicity Johnson says good night everyone. Great images, great news, great fun, great mob of people. Well, it's great to have. [01:51:32] Speaker B: Couldn't have said it better. [01:51:34] Speaker A: Yeah, smash that like button from Greg Carrick. Good night everybody. Always a joy. You guys are my happy space. Well, thanks Tweak. That's awesome. I'm shanty. What does that mean? No idea. Nev Clark says it's a badass show. I think that was inspired by Hugh Jass, Robin Aldridge, thank you for this question. Bruce Boyle. Thanks, guys. And everyone once again distracted by admin, but good photos submissions this week. Thanks, Bruce. Thanks for being. [01:52:00] Speaker B: Thanks, Bruce. [01:52:01] Speaker A: John Latimer. Take care, everyone. And Shamacha3346 says, Great photos. Good to see you. Naughty Night from David Skinner. It's a comedy hour. I don't know so many things. Phil Thompson's another fine show. Lots of fantastic images. I agree. Great show. Rick Nelson, and with all of that tin type man capping it off, says, good night, everyone. Good night, tin type man. We'll see you guys next week. [01:52:30] Speaker B: Be safe, everyone. Bye. Bye.