Billy Newman Photo Podcast | 110 Photos From Imnaha
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Billy Newman Photo Podcast | 110 Photos From Imnaha
Gear that I work with
Professional film stock I work with https://imaging.kodakalaris.com/photographers-photo-printing/film/color
I keep my camera in a Lowepro camera bag
https://www.lowepro.com/us-en/magnum-400-aw-lp36054-pww/
When I am photographing landscape images I use a Manfrotto tripod
https://www.manfrotto.com/us-en/057-carbon-fiber-4-section-geared-tripod-mt057c4-g/
A lot of my film portfolio was created with the Nikon N80 and Nikon F4
https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/f4.htm
https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/n80.htm
The Nikon D2H and Nikon D3 were used to create many of the digital images on this site https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond3 https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond2h
Two lenses I am using all the time are the 50mm f1.8 and the 17-40mm f4
https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/5018daf.htm
https://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/lenses/17-40mm.htm
Some astrophotography and documentary video work was created with the Sony A7r
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-alpha-a7r
I am currently taking photographs with a Canon 5D
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Billy Newman Photo Podcast | Photos From Imnaha
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Hey, what’s going on? This is Billy Newman and you’re listening to the Billy Newman photo podcast. I’m recording from the truck studio again, and I’m trying out a couple different things I have been messing around with some other audio recording software stuff, like I’ve talked about a couple of times that the some mics set up at home and I have the kind of audio interface set up at home, I’m trying to figure out a way to do some more stuff on the go. And so that’s a little test of what I’m working on today. But a lot of stuff coming out today, I’m really trying to push a lot harder. Here at the end of September. And October, for the rest of the year of a lot of the media content is gone. I’ve been doing a bunch of summer and hay trucks coming back. What’s up gravel dump truck? See ya. But 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 really 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 a thing of it, it’s a billion human photo.com. And I try 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 it, 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. Actually, it’s kind of been cool doing that. But the thing that I need to do, the part that still left is I need to go through my photo portfolio, kind of the long term portfolio of images I have. And 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 liked a lot. But I’ve tried to do a couple 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 another idea that I’m trying to go for what what do people actually like of 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 I can edit and create stuff now. So part of the step is that and then the other part is to sort of learn what people like are the photos I make. And then I want to go out and try and make more of that. Or try and dig in a little deeper on 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? Well, yeah, what I’ve noticed anecdotally so far is that the low light stuff, or the Astro photography, the night photography, the landscapes, where there’s stars matched in the background seem to really perform really well. And I really 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 a part that I’d really 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 really want to do more, more fine art photography, that’s what I really liked, and was kind of drawn into when I first started taking photos, even way back on film, before I knew how at all but I really 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 like that side of it a lot more than the product or production side of it. In a in a sense at least. And I’ve always been really interested in the fine art photographers that are out there, or 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 really 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 got to 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. scriveners 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 really 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 really 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 an 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 sort of laid out in a way where there’s a few more pieces on the side of it, where it’s really supposed to be a research applicant, 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, like 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 go 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 really seem to connect with me, or connect and connect with an audience the most and, but also a photograph sort of have a story associated with them, I 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 really want to post that in your portfolio of work necessarily, you’d want to like, at least in my case, what I’d like to do is show some photos from the in the high 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 there’s landscape, fine art photos, or just, you know, the landscape, travel, adventure, tourism sort of stuff, that’s all going to 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’s sort of two sides of, of a portfolio. One of them’s a photo product that’s valuable for money. And the other one’s a, 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 merged together and unify. So just got him an interesting part of it. And that seems to be part of the process that I’m in right now is trying to figure that stuff out. So some weeks, it’s, I’m working really hard on the aesthetic side of the photography. And then some weeks, I’m working really 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 years. And it’s kind of fun, at least to 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 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 to maybe the top 100, top 200 Top 50 some number in there have have 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 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, if that makes sense when all the portfolio photos pre selected, and then ready for me to go if I want to 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. I’ll 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. Which I guess the last part is still just this I need to it’s kind of what it’s been waiting for is 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 the y’all over to Instagram. I think that’s where most of the stuff goes. That’s where all the current content goes anyway,
so it’s fine and
up on Hootsuite or it was up on Facebook up on Instagram. Today I was putting up a photo from the imnaha River Canyon, it’s this really cool spot when you get to the town. And that’s right where the river would run through the M na River. And then from there, it, it’s really cool. There’s like steep canyon walls on either side of it that go out but it’s cool in that area, it’s it’s kind of this, this like, Highland grassland that kind of goes out and and that morning when we were camping that we got to take a lot of really cool photos up by the campsite that we were at that was just right up on the rim of the mountain or the rim of the ridge, and it looks out down into the canyon. So you get to kind of see a few 1000 feet down into the canyon. And then as it kind of climbs back up to the other side, as you would look West out toward the Willa mountains, the ego cap wilderness area, and then over to your east, which you can’t see really, but over to East, if you kept going would be the ridge that would go down to the Snake River on that site into the hell’s Canyon. So it’s really cool, really beautiful spot up there to get to spend some time but but the spot that I took the photograph that was posted today was this really pretty. Just corner of the the in the high River Canyon on the road that you would drive on to get out toward Hell’s Canyon. And as you stopped there, we were taking photos in the morning while the shadows are still kind of at an angle, which is what I love it. But you know, it’s tough when you get into Mid Day, like where I am right now, the shadows from the sun that comes straight down. And so you don’t really get any, any detail in some of the contours of the shapes that you’d be taking photographs, if so. So I really liked the angle, the position the lighting and stuff for the photograph. I thought it was cool to get to be out there again. And I love that area. But I have a bunch of other photos from from that area. And then kind of kind of on from there when we went to a few other spots. But I have a photo from imnaha going up today. Check that out. At Billy Newman on Instagram. I’m also trying to put up a video clip, I’ll probably pull it up from the imnaha photo trip. Also, I’ll put up a longer clip of Marina and I work in in the morning and just kind of working on photos and trying to set up stuff and take photos. So it’s maybe a little behind the scenes stuff of while we were running around working on stuff. So it should be kind of cool. I’ll try and get that up on the YouTube and maybe I’ll cross post that over to Facebook or, or I’ll get that up on as a Hootsuite scheduled link here sometime soon. But yeah, I got to figure that out. Probably before the end of my lunch break here. Oh, and then I’m also trying to get the podcasts that I’m recording here up on the YouTube. So you can go to to my YouTube page. If you search for Billy Newman photo, we should be able to find it. And I think I have a whole section of the channel they devoted to all the podcasts episodes that I put together so far in the past. But I think that’s just about everything that I am working on media wise today. Hope you guys are all having a swell day and thanks a lot for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast.