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Make a sustaining financial donation, Visit the Support Page here.
If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email.
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you can download Working With Film here.
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0:14
Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. I think today we are getting a recorded podcast and a little bit about some of the videos that we recorded in the high desert when we had the GoPro fusion 360 camera. It was cool in the high desert.
0:33
Yeah, it was an awesome trip. We made it out to Fort rock and Smith rock in the
0:39
Pine Mountain Observatory, Pine Mountain Observatory, and Astronomy Observatory. That’s a cool spot. Yeah, it’s like owned by the University of Oregon. We went there in the daytime, we’ve been there in the evening before. But it’s cool, you get a view that looks out where you can see like, all the way out toward like burns in the east, you see that like the rim of Fort rock out there. It’s cool. But I liked it out there. I had a good time, like going up and like hiking through fort rock and getting some videos and photos and stuff. And then I like to kind of do that late night trip and driving over to Smith rock and doing some like rim rock shots of it too. That was cool.
1:14
Yeah, it was great. It was cool getting to be there in the evening. And then that next morning,
1:18
yeah, the morning video that we just started rendering out is cool. I liked the way that that looks. We’ve been rendering out like this big file so you’d like dodge mo v files Yeah, like when we’re trying to render out like before 5.2k versions of some of these, which ends up being a little fast because it doesn’t have to transcode it to a different format of video or different size video from its original. It just has to stitch the file together. And I guess that’s like a lot faster for it. Even though it ends up in enormous files like gigabytes and gigabytes of files just for a few seconds of video It seems like that was like a 45-second video was like three or four gigabytes. That’s a lot every time but what we were thinking about though in this conversation was what computer would you get to do this kind of like heavy or this more intensive rendering for video. And the link is where right now we just have like 2015 I call it five MacBooks. It’s okay, it doesn’t have like a real dedicated graphics card, you know what I mean? And so like there’s not like a lot that we could do with it so it’s a lot we could do with it it’s fantastic for the types of high definition rendering or even 4k rendering that you would have to do for like a lot of situations but this new 360 stuff is just so hard for So I was thinking about like well we’ll probably talk about a little bit more on the podcast is like different computers that you would use to do like the 360 rendering with ultra-high definition video footage and I was thinking about like the Mac Pro as an option because it’s been a few years now. But I think that’s like deprecated too because I think the graphics cards weren’t keeping up with the internal graphics cards. So it was an idea but I think now they’ve dropped in price and they may drop in price again, like later in this year if Apple announces any kind of special, like pro hardware, but I was thinking about the macro as it’s dropped in price to like the kind of around the 1400 15 $100 price range. If you got that you could maybe like set that up with a bunch and just have it process out a bunch of videos over time. Yeah, or, or maybe you just need an iMac.
3:21
That was pretty cool. They’ll probably be an upgrade from where we’re at right now.
3:25
Yeah, we’ll just with our little laptop, but
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you can see more of my work at Dooley Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you can look at that Bitly Newman under the author’s section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism, camping, and cool stuff over there.
3:55
My name is Billy Newman. I’m a photographer based in Oregon, I do a lot of landscape work. And this image was taken in California on a trip that we did to Mount Shasta to the east side of Mount Shasta. It was just kind of a cool spot. It’s kind of interesting near the town of Mount Shasta near the town of McLeod, if I remember right, there’s a lot of good stuff over there a lot of good camping too. There’s a lot of I think it was the Shasta Trinity national forest that stretches out over there. So there are a lot of public lands that are developed enough and accessible for several things you can do for summer recreation. It was pretty cool. I remember going up to a lookout tower up there, checking out some stuff. I think there’s a fire lookout tower. Some old timer was up there too. But this image was taken on a government camp road in the evening as the sun was setting and this is kind of looking up to the I guess it’s the East face of Mount Shasta on the east side. And it’s a really beautiful spot but I kind of love the angle of it their kind of the sweep that the mountain had. And I tried as hard as I could to sort of square that up the way I wanted and match that up with the trees. And the grass and the shadows and get some of those towns but this was shot on that nav film camera, some of my best images from one of the cheapest, most, I don’t know, just common cameras that are out there. Cool stuff and I love that I
5:14
got it. It was really fun and reminds me of a lot of great stuff from that school trip.
5:27
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6:06
Yeah, this summer, I’ve been trying to do a lot to work to get together some new photos, some new stuff to try and kind of build a base and then move from there a little bit. But I’m excited to try and put up a bunch of the older portfolio photographs that I have. And I was really happy to work on the website a lot this summer, I kind of redesigned a bit of that, you check that out tell you anything about it’s a billion human photo.com. And I tried to strip out a lot of the unnecessary parts, and I’m trying to kind of hone it down a little bit. So it’s a little cleaner, but it’s gone. Well, I’ve tried to set it up a little bit more. So it’s stream-based if that makes sense. You know, we’ve kind of moved toward like the Facebook stream, the Twitter stream, the Instagram stream. So I’m trying to kind of move it to where like I talked about on the podcast before where a lot of the media stuff that I put together, the video clips, the photographs, and stuff that wherever they do end up going whatever sites I am populating, like flicker and Instagram and Facebook and all the rest of that’s kind of what’s shown on the website or you know, have the websites kind of try and automatically pull that stuff and ingest that into the website. So I don’t have to do it as much. And that’s kind of been fun. It’s kind of been cool doing that. But the thing that I need to do, the part that is still left is I need to go through my photo portfolio, kind of the long-term portfolio of images I haven’t I’m trying to go through and select what would be good to show the work that I’ve done so far. And I’m trying to do that in a way that’s more developed than I had before I’ve gone through and I’ve selected, I’ve kind of picked the photos that I like a lot. But I’ve tried to do a couple of different things. And hey, another truck. Man, that looks like a few times of gravel in the back. So what I want to do, though, with the photo stuff, and what I’ve kind of been trying to work on a little bit, is to go through Instagram or to go through Facebook and to try and select my favorite photographs, but then also just select the ones that have been sort of chosen by the market. That’s the idea that I’m trying to go for what do people like about the pictures that I take? What are the ones that people seem to connect with the most? So on one level, I’m trying to find all those photos. And then I’m trying to sort of remake those photos or re-edit them or you know, kind of re-republish them in a way that looks sort of new. And that’s cleaned up a little bit in the way that I can edit and create stuff now. So part of the step is that and then the other part is to sort of learning what people like of the photos I’m making that I want to go out and try and make more of that or try and dig in a little deeper on the part that seems to get the most traction or that seems to be seen as the most valuable. So what are those, like what I’ve noticed?
8:46
Well, yeah, what I’ve noticed anecdotally so far is that the low light stuff, or the Astrophotography, the night photography, the landscapes, where there are stars matched in the background seem to perform well. And I love trying to take those photos and I know a lot about how to lay out the stars that I would want in that foot or you know, I know where the stars are, I know how to kind of line some of the landscapes I thought that I know how to expose for it. So that’s the part that I’d like to get into and push for more of what seems to be a draw the photos that I take. But on the other side of that too, I want to do more, more fine art photography. That’s what I liked, and was kind of drawn into when I first started taking photos, even way back on the film before I knew how at all but I liked the fine art side of it where you could go through and try and put the nicest elements together or you know, try and put a landscape together but I liked that side of it a lot more than the product or production side of it. In a sense at least. And I’ve always been interested in the fine art photographers that are out there are the fine art landscape photographers where you see some of the advanced kind of work that they put together some of the ways that they’re able to put real pieces real elements into a photograph. It’s always seemed So cool when you’re able to be in tune with that sort of stuff. And I just always loved the old landscapes, and, you know, old Fine Art images from the past. So that’s kind of the stuff that I’m trying to get into. But organizing this stuff has been interesting. So I’m trying to use this program called Scrivener. And maybe I talked about it before or maybe a while back, I talked about it. But Scrivener is kind of interesting. It’s this. And I talked about it yesterday, no, but it’s this writing application that I’m trying to get into. And it seems like it would take a few tutorials to figure out it’s a little bit more in-depth, hey, gravel truck, it’s a little bit, it’s quite a bit more in-depth than something like Word. Even though Microsoft Word is sort of an industry standard that everyone has sort of learned on for the last 1520 years, it is a little bit more specific to like an essay for at least the way I’ve learned it. But it’s more specific to the essay format of word processing, where you’re trying to get a page accomplished, and you’re trying to edit through that or you’re trying to edit through kind of a single document. And Scrivener is sort of laid out in a way where there are a few more pieces on the side of it, where it’s supposed to be a research applique, or you’re supposed to kind of compile different documents of text research or photo research and kind of put that together. And then you’re able to sort of assemble a larger writing project from there, which I think is kind of interesting. Like I figure that book authors would use a writing program like this to work on their character outlines. And their story outlines their plot summaries, and then they would work that into the manuscript that they would make into their book later. So I just think it’s kind of an interesting way that they seem to be going, or that the program is built to sort of going about it. So I’m trying to get into that and do it well, but one of the aspects I’m trying to do is to put in all the portfolio photographs that I have, into this Word document, and then sort of sort those photographs, and write about those photographs a little bit to see which photographs seem to connect with me, or connect and connect with an audience the most and then also a photograph sort of having a story associated with them, I
12:06
love that. Like, if you would follow me for this for a second, you would kind of see that there’s a difference between the photographs that are going to be the most monetizable, the ones that you can make money from like, let’s say portraits, let’s say business portraits for some company, you could get, you could get some money for that. But you wouldn’t want to post that in your portfolio of work necessary, you’d want to like, at least in my case, what I’d like to do is show some photos from the imnaha River Canyon, like where we were last week on our photo trip. So you kind of want to move into that stuff. But you don’t, it’s not gonna be the same sort of thing. Like those landscape Fine Art photos are just, you know, the landscape, travel, adventure, tourism sort of stuff, that’s all gonna be on one side of it. And then the other is going to be, you know, senior portraits, business portraits, event photography, wedding photography, that sort of stuff. So there is sort of two sides of part of a portfolio one of them’s a photo product that’s valuable for money. And the other one’s, an art piece that’s valuable because of its aesthetic. And those are sort of different things that you’ve kind of, as a photographer, you’re trying to build both of those up at the same time, it’s sort of like two different routes that you have to work on at the same time until they sort of merge together and unify. So it’s kind of an interesting part of it. And that seems to be part of the process that I’m in right now trying to figure that stuff out. So some weeks, it’s, I’m working hard on the aesthetic side of the photography. And then some weeks I’m working hard on the monetizable compensation-based side of the products that I want to try and build as a photographer that’s in business, right? And there are those are interesting challenges. But I guess I’ve been doing it for a couple of years, and it’s kind of fun, at least to get to still be doing it. So a couple of things that I’m trying to do is I’m trying to go through and build a new Lightroom catalog of all the photos that I’ve taken this year and all the photos from the last couple of years so I can organize those and do a little bit of what I’m talking about. So I have this kind of tighter collection of maybe the top 100 Top 200 Top 50 some number in there of well laid out photo essays and stories with an image you know, that’s kind of what I’m trying to get to especially for like the social media content side of it, I want to try and have that ready to go with a higher frequency almost all the time. So I’m trying to get everything kind of pre-produced right? Does that make sense? Once all the portfolio photos are selected and then ready for me to go if I want to post those, I get those out on any given day. So it’s interesting, it’s kind of a cool project. I worked on it a little bit to work on it a little bit here and there when I can but that’s another part that’s kind of tough. I mean, gosh, I haven’t even finished my website yet. I guess the last part is still just this I need to it’s kind of what it’s been waiting for is I I need to finish the selection of the portfolio and then I can build the portfolio gallery and put that up on the website. But so far it’s been working great just to send y’all over to Instagram. I think that’s where most of the stuff goes. That’s where all the current content goes. Anyway.
15:19
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