The BFOP Afterparty: Recent Episodes
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Join the BFOP team in the aftermath of the festival to banter, laugh, smile and maybe even learn something useful... no promises though!
Last year we witnessed Naomi Sherman make a can of soup look like it had come out of a 5-star kitchen!
This year you guys are going to follow along with Naomi in her "Food Photography Follow Along" workshop at 12pm on Saturday! She has or will be supplying you with a shopping list of everything you can get from the supermarket and follow along with Naomi in creating some amazing looking mini cupcakes! Yes, that’s right, you get to take some of the best food shots you’ve taken and reward yourself afterwards with cupcakes!!!
For her second workshop "Ugly Beautiful" at 10am on Sunday, Naomi did a survey with the BFOP’ers about what the ugliest food is, the results are in, and this year Naomi is going to show us all how to make a canned stew look better than it’s ever looked before!
I sure won’t be missing these ones!
Are you sick of blog post after blog post telling you about all the hard fast photography rules you need to follow to capture a great image? What if you could be free of those rules and just be totally creative without needing any fancy equipment?
Bruce Moyle is going to show you how to break the rules and take even better photos while doing it in his Creating Abstract Portraits workshop at 6pm on Saturday so if you’re looking for something new that you might not have played around with before, make sure you come along to Bruce’s workshop.
My wife keeps telling me to stop pretending to be butter.
But I'm on a roll now...
If you've been to BFOP before, after reading the above, I'm sure our resident king of puns and dad jokes Karl Ludik comes to mind! But he isn't just the king of puns and dad jokes, he is also the king of sometimes useful and interesting, sometimes useless knowledge on photography, language and history to name a few!
He is also an amazing cook and phenomenal photographer. I know right... what can't he do!?
Karl has fused these 2 passions together for most of his career and is bringing some really cool sounding workshops to BFOP this year!
1 - Food - The Next Steps. Which will be all about shooting food with creative lighting! Karl will show us some different creative ways we can take our food photography to another level. He's also going to show us how to plate our food up properly!
2 - Understanding Still Life. Which will be something a little different. We're going to learn some amazingly interesting history about what Still Life photography is and of course, how we can do it at home!
Karl always brings some fantastic knowledge and fun to BFOP and you'd be hard done to find someone as passionate about what he does! Have a listen for more info and don't miss Karl's workshops!
What happens when you leave Nick in charge of creating a shenanigans social event on Facebook? You're about to find out!
Join team BFOP as they interrogate Julie from Nikon on what they are brining to the party this year!
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No!!! It's Cam White's drone! Join the team at BFOP HQ as we catch up with DJI Drone expert Cam White and the workshops he's bringing to the 2021 BFOP festival!
Our resident wedding, maternity and family photographer joins us again at BFOP 2021! Tune in to hear what Anne Scott-Virtue of White Shutter photography is brining to the party!
I've never met a more awarded street photographer and he's not even in the pro game! Meet legend Adrian Whear our resident street photography master and catch up with all he's doing at BFOP Online 2021!
Louise Sedgman the horse whisperer herself joins the BFOP crew for a catch up on the amazing workshops she's brining to the 2021 festival!
The Energiser Bunny of BFOP Denis Smith joins us from Adelaide to step us through his incredible plans for BFOP 2021. We talk light painting, big projects and of course... about the date of BFOP
Join the BFOP team as they interrogate Keren on the workshops she's bringing to this years festival!
Can we convince Cam Blake to dress up as an Echidna Puggle and fly a helicopter to the highest peak of Tasmania? I guess there's only one way to find out! Join us on this episode where we interview Cam Blake about his BFOP 2021 plans!
Join Wes Nick and Matt as they interrogate Vicki Bell on her plans to make BFOP 20.21 the spookiest BFOP EVER!
That's right, the pubs are open so in true BFOP fashion we went to one to discuss what BFOP 2021 might look like.
Here's some of the things you might find out from this podcast;
-The random ideas that might or might not happen
-The new toys we've been playing with over lockdown
-Matt has a ridiculously small bladder
-Who's coming back for BFOP 2021
-Nick all of a sudden is interested in Terms and Conditions
-How to secure your opportunity to have a chance to put a deposit on and maybe secure a ticket to BFOP 2021
And more importantly how the hell did it go so smoothly!?
We catch up to talk about the expectations in the lead up to the 2020 festival versus how everything actually went, what we loved, what surprised us and maybe even a little bit about what's in the though processes for next year!
Naomi Sherman is a food photography master! You could be forgiven for thinking all of Naomi's work was captured in a professional studio with lights galore and an abundance of stylists running around, but Naomi is going to show us how to capture her images at home with natural light! Campbells soup has never looked so good! So if you want to learn how to take image of your food that will leave you salivating, don't miss this one!
Serach Naomi Sherman Food Creative to check out her work!
Everyone meet Vicki Bell! Vicki might be a first time at the festival this year but after this conversation we were completely assured Vicki will fit right in with us BFOPers!
Vicki's career shooting portraits and fine art photography has spanned over 30 years and won her countless awards from the AIPP! Vicki has a fantastic workshop planned which also involves a competition with a pretty amazing prize! Thanks Nikon!
Jump on Insta and check out Vickis work! @vicki_bell_photography
If its a style of photography, Matt's done it! He also hasnt slept for 6 months with his gorgoues newborn baby Isla and BFOP organizing.
Matt is keeping busy as always this year with 3 workshops! Product Photography and how to do it at home without a studio! How to shoot the moon, cause let's be honest. It's not that easy is it!?
Also, Matt's passion is wildlife photography so a festival wouldn't be complete without Matt doing his Wildlife workshop!
head over to https://mattkruminsphotography.com.au/ to see Matts work!
Olympus have been huge supporters of the festival and that continues this year!
Karl himself will be running some workshops not just about dad jokes and useless facts but on Planning, Shooting and Designing your own Cookbook and an Intro to Better Birding!
Also the Olympus team will be running their Coffee With Olympus sessions so if you have any questions about your Olympus equipment then you need to get along to those with Aaron!
Olympus are also running a pretty cool competition that could have you walkinng away with something pretty awesome!
Nikon have always been amazing supporters of the festival and this year is no different.
Julie is bring a team of staff with her who will be running workshops such as "Photographing Flowers with Flash" and "Multiple Exposures and Birds". Don't worry if you don't shoot with Nikon either because these workshops are open to anyone with any brand of camera!
They will also be doing their Ask Nikon Sessions and an intro session to their Z-Series range of Mirrorless cameras.
But that's not all! Nikon are also sponsoring a competition and giving away a pretty amazing prize that you are going to want to hear about!
JP Ronco is another one of the lucky ones who get to call Bright home and he will be a busy man this weekend! He is running a workshop all about shooting the Tour De France, because he has actually been one of the photographers for the Tour!
He than changes speeds and does an intro to studio lighting which will be perfect for anyone who hasn't worked with artificial light before and he will finish the weekend off talking about how to protect your images when you start looking to sell your work commercially, which can be a very complicated endeavour but never fear! JP is here to help!
Check out his work at https://www.imagewriter.com.au/
Nick Fletcher, or Mother BFOP as he prefers to be called, is not only the brains behind this festival but he is also a motorbke and sports photography master!
Join Nick as he shows you how to create professional level sports photographs with just one speedlight! Then after that join him again on and let him critique your sports photographs on his Sports Image Critique workshop! We promise he will be nice!
Nickfletchersportsphotography.com.au is where you can go to see Nick's work!
While seen as decent, considerate, and reflective, he is also awkward. This is an exerpt from a bio of Charlie Brown. The Peanuts character, you know with the pet dog Snoopy? The similarities between the charater Charlie Brown and our High Country local Charlie Brown are uncanny!
Charlie is lucky enough to call High Country home and we are all very jealous that he will be one of the very few people in Bright during the Bright Festival of Photography. Charlie is all about sports and mountians, he will be taking us through his sports workshops, featuring downhill mountain bikers and then will be heading into the mountains to show us all the best spots to shoot from when we can bet back up into high country!
Check out his work at www.mountainside.net.au
Shooting weddings must be fun right?! Anne Scott Virtue is our resident wedding expert and despite Matt and Nicks efforts to talk us all out of shooting weddings, Anne's here to not only show us how to shoot weddings but how to do all that other behind the scenes stuff no one thinks much about. Like communicating with the Bride and Groom.
But that's not all! Anne will also be running a Maternity and Newborn workshop, once again not only showing us how to capture amazing shots but the other important stuff like safe handling of a newborn! As a new dad I'll certainly be truning in for that one!
Check out Anne's work at White Shutter Photography!
There were 3 horses, 2 dogs, a pony, a cat and a farrier (and a donkey if you ask Nick). This describes one of Keren Dobia's images and its shot in a single capture. Complicated comes to mind when describing Kez's shots. Complicated and Amazing. Kez is a master of storytelling through her images and she's with us this year to run a studio portrait workshop using selfies and she is also going to help us get better at using photoshop! I know I can't wait for the photoshop workshop!
Head over to www.Kerendobia.com.au and you will see what we mean!
Jess is BFOP's resident free spirit who bring a completely unique approach to her portrait work. Jess has an amazing ability to make her subjects feel completely comfortable in front of the camera, and if you were here last year, comfortable enough to submerge themselves in a fresh snow melt river! Focussing mainly of womens empowerment through photography, if you do any kind of portrait work, seeing how Jess works and understanding why Jess does things this way will not only help you connect with your subjects but also how to connect more with your creative mind!
Feedback from last year was that Jess' approach put all her workshop attendees in the perfect head space for their photography! Check out Jess' work
https://www.jessicashepherd.com.au/
What would a BFOP be without Craig Wetjen, the man behind the Breaking the Brumbies and Environmental Portrait workshops?
Well don't worry, we've somehow talked him into giving up his weekend again to be with us. One of the most experienced and knowledgeable photographers going around and he loves sharing his experience and knowledge! He's the master of creating relationships with his subjects in very short periods of time, sometimes alightly longer periods of time cause Craig loves a chat!
In the lead up to the Festival you can check out Craigs work here;
https://www.craigwetjen.com/
Join us as we hear all about the super cool stuff that the 2019 Victorian Landscape Photographer of the year, Mieke Boynton has in store for BFOP 2020. It's not all about landscapes either!!
Tickets are still on sale so head over the www.BFOPAustralia.com to get yours!
In the meantime you can check out Mieke's amazing word here
https://www.miekeboynton.com/
Tom's back again!! Join us on this episode as Tom talks about his plans for you at BFOP 2020 10-13th Sept. A conversation about aerials and awards that he probably wont remember!
Don't forget to check out his website as well!
https://tomputt.com/
With the state in lockdown, Adam won't be out chasing waterfalls this year, but he will be with us to show all of his secrets on how to nail our waterfall shots!
Join us on this episode as Adam talks about his plans for you at BFOP 2020 10-13th Sept!
While you're here, check out his website! http://www.adamdyson.com/
BFOP 2020 is going to be a full online digital festival and Louise Sedgman is chomping at the bit to get back on the BFOP horse! Join us on this episode as Louise talks about her plans for you at BFOP 2020 10-13th Sept!
While you're here, check out her website https://giddyupfoto.com/
Join team BFOP as we chat to Cam Blake about what he has in store for you during BFOP Digital 2020! F.R.E.A.K.I.N.G EPIC!
BFOP 2020 is going to be a full online digital festival and who better to have along than the energiser bunny from South Australia gallivanting around the state teaching light painting! Join us on this episode as Denis Smith talks about his plans for you at BFOP 2020 10-13th Sept! Whilst you're here, check out his TOTALY FREE SCHOOL OF LIGHT series! https://youtu.be/gTpw1hSlsJc
Covid is being a dick but what do you do when someone is being a dick? You just don't invite them! That's why this year we are going for the COVID-FREE experience of an online BFOP Festival! Sound horribly boring you say? Listen in to hear some of the crazy plans we have in store for you!
The age old question for photographers is 'Should I specialise or should I generalise?' and you bet our BFOP hosts have some pretty strong opinions on it. Before recording this ep we caught Nick rocking back and forth in his garage staring intensely at his freshly polished Ducati singing 'you are my sunshine, my ONLY sunshine...' to his motorbike whilst demanding that you should stick to one genre (motorbikes) whilst Matt nearly died leaving the house tripping over his wildlife lens which landed him face first in an underwater housing that he once used on a wedding... the generalist. Who is correct? Is there a correct? You decide.
Join us as 3 of our favourite BFOP instructors play the Photography version of never have I ever. We share laughs and stories as Anne Scott-Virtue from White Shutter Photography, Mark Watson our resident adrenaline junkie and Nitro Circus and Red Bull photographer and Mother BFOP himself Nick Fletcher do their best to ruin their careers with the stories, or even confessions from their photographic adventures!
Have you done any of the things we talk about? Feel free to play along at home!
Wes catches up with Craig Wetjen for a moment of reflection on his photography whilst Matt hounds Nigel from Camera House for macro tips!
Join Wes, Matt and Nick for a hearty insult filled debate about which version of lenses should you buy? F2.8 or F4!
Welcome to the first episode!
Nick, Matt and Wes give us a rundown on what to expect in the coming episodes!