SHOW NOTES Episode 5: Left Brain Right Brain
Welcome everyone to Midwest Photo’s new podcast 2 Weird Camera Dudes. Midwest is excited to bring another form of photography education to our community. Every other week your hosts Tom Wright and Kevin Deskins will be sharing tips, stories, new releases, and even some bad jokes all about photography and the gear that surrounds it. Subscribe and stay tuned for a wild ride. Be sure to check us out on Instagram @2weirdcamerabeards for images and more from this week’s episode.
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Gear used: RODEcaster Pro Podcast Studio https://mpex.com/rode-rodecaster-pro-integrated-podcast-production-studio.html
Rode Podmic https://mpex.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=rode%20podmic
Music by: Ray Schierloh https://rayschierloh.bandcamp.com/
Important Folks: Madi O’Neill—Executive Producer Josh Appelbaum—Graphic Designer Ken Lewis and Moishe Appelbaum—Allowing us to take over and make this podcast
Podcast Homework/Challenges Do you take on photography as a left-brain or a right brain? Try doing a shoot opposite to what you are used to and see if you learn something new. Let’s start a conversation on copy vs inspiration. Let us know over on our Instagram! Send us a message or shoot us an email at 2weirdcamerabeards@mpex.com
Try some of the studio lighting Tom mentioned or the gear Kevin mentioned by renting them from https://www.mpexrentals.com
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Links and Timestamps
Kevin’s Inspirations (9:45) Technical inspiration comes from compact discrete range finders with small primes: -My Canonet QL17: https://bit.ly/3iBaIcw -Fuji X-100v: https://mpex.com/fujifilm-x100v-digital-camera-black.html -Fuji Xpro3: https://mpex.com/fujifilm-x-pro3-mirrorless-digital-camera-body-only-black.html -Fuji XF 50mm F2: https://mpex.com/fujifilm-xf-50mm-f2-r-wr-lens-black.html -Fuji XF 35mm F2: https://mpex.com/fuji-xf-35mm-f2-r-wr-lens-black.html -Fuji XF 23mm F2: https://mpex.com/fuji-xf-23mm-f2-r-wr-lens-black.html -Fuji XF 16mm F2.8: https://mpex.com/fujifilm-xf-16mm-f2-8-r-wr-lens-black.html -My Artistic inspiration has come from “unconventional portrait photographers” -Matt Day: @mattdayphoto on Instagram -Noah Kalina: @noahkalina on Instagram -Gregory Crewdson: @crewdsonstudio -@LeonardoCarrizo on Instagram -Kevin’s wife who IS A PHOTOGRAPHER @ashrae30 on Instagram -Tariq Tarey: @tariqtarey on Instagram -Former Chief White House Photographer for Reagan and Obama, Pete Souza: -https://www.petesouza.com/
Tom’s Inspirations (23:00) Thomas Demand, Exhibition Catalog https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/116 Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/books/regardingPain.shtml Saving Face: The Art and History of the Goalie Mask https://bit.ly/3jHc1rO
Book Recommendations
Pete Souza-Obama Intimate Portrait- https://amzn.to/36LbO30 Lighting by David Prakel: https://bit.ly/36EFD5i Intimate Presidency Ronal Reagan: https://amzn.to/3ljWcHR Josef Albers, Interaction of Color https://albersfoundation.org/teaching/josef-albers/interaction-of-color/publications/#slide1 Edward Steichen, The Family of Man https://mo.ma/34yVEY3 John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
Honorable Mentions
Our very own Sarah’s work: @sarahkpfeifer Alec Soth @LittleBrownMushroom on Instagram
Fuji X-Trans Film Simulation Sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R7Zau2LIoy5vd5sPXrIGmtGbrSGlj_fPYPPG2rsWMFg/htmlview?fbclid=IwAR0OIBC8MAG8CyeZIU5-YOI_S_vaovETn5iUzTEKLFN__Glf6owWuUDyuxA#
The Ted Radio Hour podcast: What is Original? https://apple.co/30EFvPG
99 % Invisible Podcast: 389- Whomst Among Us Has Let The Dogs Out https://apple.co/30F6GK8
