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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
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-5d-mark-iii
If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Drop Billy Newman an email here.
If you want to book a wedding photography package, or a family portrait session, please visit GoldenHourWedding.com or you can email the Golden Hour Wedding booking manager here.
If you want to look at my photography, my current portfolio is here.
If you want to purchase stock images by Billy Newman, my current Stock photo library is here.
If you want to learn more about the work Billy is doing as an Oregon outdoor travel guide, you can find resources on GoldenHourExperience.com.
If you want to listen to the Archeoastronomy research podcast created by Billy Newman, you can listen to the Night Sky Podcast here.
If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography: you can download Working With Film here. Yours free.
Want to hear from me more often? Subscribe to the Billy Newman Photo Podcast on Apple Podcasts here.
If you get value out of the photography content I produce, consider making a sustaining value for value financial contribution, visit the Support Page here.
You can find my latest photo books all on Amazon here.
I am Billy Newman, a photographer and creative director that has served clients in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii for 10 years. I am an author, digital publisher, and Oregon travel guide. I have worked with businesses and individuals to create a portfolio of commercial photography. The images have been placed within billboard, print, and digital campaigns including Travel Oregon, Airbnb, Chevrolet, and Guaranty RV.
My photographs often incorporate outdoor landscape environments with strong elements of light, weather, and sky. Through my work, I have published several books of photographs that further explore my connection to natural places.
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Hey, what’s going on? This is Billy Newman. And thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast, you can check more out at Billy Newman photo calm. I’m a photographer, I’m based in the Northwest. And this is a little bit of the podcast that I’m recording kind of covering some of the the projects and media stuff that I end up working on through my weeks here as a photographer, but yeah, Happy New Year to everybody. I think it’s kind of cool that we’re dropping into 2018 It’s weird, sort of wrapping up 2017. And I think it’s been a couple weeks since I’ve done a podcast, I was up to the holidays, which I bet everybody was gonna have to for the last little bit. But the holidays was kind of an interesting time, because I ended up sort of thinking a lot about what, but Well, what photographs are, you know, I’m getting a little bit older now. And I think there’s there’s sort of like a change in the vision that I have of the way that I kind of think about photographs are, you know, what, what is their purpose? Why are we making them and in a big way, like maybe propagated by the Instagram culture, or the the sharing content creation culture that sort of seems to be out right now, especially for those the you know, photographers or artists, I think they feel the pressure to be content producers now, and that maybe is a little bit of a different job than the photographer, or the real artists, that kind of that kind of a person. And so, I’ve been trying to sort of think about that a little bit, and then sort of take a look at the trends of Instagram, and are those my art is that what I need to pursue, and allow the time I sort of noticed this, and even in my own image is this like super sharp, super crisp, everything has to be really perfect, or really edited, or really meaningful, and dramatic and these images. And what I’m noticing a little bit, especially as I review my older images is that the photographs that I’m really drawn to, they’re the photographs that represent the truth more, they’re the photographs that kind of have, I don’t know what it is, really, but they have a little bit more of an essence of reality. Or maybe it’s its reality, but it’s also a little bit of grit to it to like this really happened. It was it was magical, it was interesting, I really liked that surrealism in the photographs that I take, and I have for a long time. But but there’s a little bit more. And I’ve always I think a lot of stuff I’ve done kind of pushed for the Unreal. And some of the stuff that I’m kind of noticing last couple years as I looked at like the photographs and how they changed is sort of how that shifted from the Unreal of landscapes or of the world, you know, kind of trying to select things about landscapes, you know, when they have unusual colors to them, or unusual dynamics or phenomena like like clouds or weather or water or something like that, that makes it sort of feel like a different look or a different image than like what we’d see midday at noon, if we looked at the same thing. So I think that’s definitely still part of photography. But one thing I was though, since the holidays, and through reviewing a bunch of my old photographs was how much the stock value of of a photograph goes up over time, over one year, it’s a bit over a few years, it’s a bit more, but over a decade, you really get, you really get to see the change that happens in time, you know, I get to see, like relatives that were much younger. And these photographs I took 15 years ago than they are now and it seems like kind of an obvious point, or seems like something everyone should know. But really, there’s a huge amount of value in the photographs because they capture something at the time that it was and you get to hold on to that after the after their people or the moment or the event or the experience changes, I’m starting to notice as I’m getting older is that life does sort of change, it changes. And it’s an obvious kind of point, in fact that everybody’s sort of known about for a long time. But in my naive sense, I’ve been so focused on photography or on image creation or on the product making something that’s kind of crisp and sharp and perfectly usable today. I don’t know if I was thinking so clearly about how the nostalgia factor or how the value of something you know, from a family or just sort of a small moment, it’s capture this this more real, how that escalates in value over time. And like coming at these photos. 15 years later, even like seven years later from some of the stuff that I had, it’s really interesting to see, like, wow, like I took a ton of photos of this type of topic. But I didn’t I didn’t take as many photographs that sort of represented my artistic experience in my life. For that humanity, I really want to try and show more of that. And the photographs, the humanity that kind of the way you feel about a photograph. And I think that’s so much about what a photographer is there to do is sort of be be able to kind of pick and select which moments to capture and which ways you’re going to be able to share that stuff in the future. That’s going to become more nostalgic, more meaningful, or just just a way of kind of knowing that this was part of my life. Wow, that’s really cool. So I’ve been trying to think about some of those ideas around photography for the new year a
little bit. But along with that I’ve been going through the last like 15 years of photos and in my big super catalog that that collect Have a Lightroom photos I made that’s kind of trying to pull in every phone photo, every phone, video, every every different camera I’ve had since 2002, I’m trying to get all those photos together, put them in there, I think it was like 120,000 images, something like that, which really isn’t that many photos for someone that’s been doing so for a long time, but I went through those and I tried to like punch those down to a lot of the Select so out of the images that I kind of want to keep from and I was trying to pull out a lot of good photos but but photos that were kind of irrelevant to me for this sort of future moving forward catalogue of stuff, I want to get rid of like product photos or word photos that are hundreds and 1000s of photos, even the kind of fill up space and memory in the catalog. I’ll keep those definitely but those will be backed up on another harddrive. But what’s active to me what’s in my library currently, I want to be like the last I think I’ve talked about this for like the last two years or so photos in whole in total. So I can get back to that library and edit any one of those raw files that have, but for stuff that’s older than two years, like 2015. And before I kind of want to pair those down a little bit, so that I’m a little bit more specific. And enabled to get to those photos that were selects a little bit faster. And then especially for older stuff, like pre pre 2010 or so I want to run really have those pared down to like the the 100 photos, I actually you know I need to have around to get to for for whatever kind of stuff I need to do. But it was really cool, I’ve gone through the old photos, and you just kind of do it. And it’s pretty quick way, you know, this is a one star, this is a two star kind of thing. So you kind of punched through those pretty fast. And then and then I have another round to do or I’m gonna I’m gonna try and punch it, you know, from one star to star, those are going to be what I keep for a while. And then from that, I’m going to try to render that down to select all the all the three star photos, all the that’s kind of like I would pick this photo and sort of put it under review. And then and then my system at least is a little bit of the four star five stars down that’s for this is going to be published or this is going into the portfolio or as content sort of thing. So yeah, I’m gonna try and push on that stuff a bit more, and get some photographs sorted for the year, but is really cool going through all of these old trips that we’ve done. All those different places that we’ve gone to. And of course I’ve seen Well, one thing I’ve noticed is good Lord, how bad at Photoshop I was. And I want to, I want to say that I’m gonna put a little blame because I remember this happened at the time. But I want to put a little blame on how god awful my laptop monitor was like a 2006 2007 2008 laptop monitor just had no color gamut against what we know now in like modern AOL, or LED Retina Display monitors like Apple puts out, or like any kind of modern LED, more color accurate monitor that we have now. But I was looking at it and there’s like, it’s just so muddy, there’s, there’s so few colors that it can really represent. So you have to push things a little further out of gamut. Or at least I did at the time, kind of not understanding what I was compensating to. So I look back at some of these photos ago, oh, I would never make it this yellow and green. In a modern world. So it’s kind of interesting what you know, whatever was going on, or whatever I was thinking about at the time visually, that sort of drew me to that place. But it’s interesting to see like how that changes, how your aesthetic sort of change, and also a little bit of how your tools and calibration systems changed and sort of seeing like, wow, off was that way back, then. So all stuff that you kind of learn and you get better at and it’s interesting, at least to the benefit, you get better over time. And like a decade later, I see changes in the the kind of creative or the the style that I would lay out just if I started working, you know, out without actually having to try and implement a style, you know, try and lay with Oh, I’m going to make a photograph that’s black and white, and of events and personal or something, instead of trying to go out with it with you know, a set intention of that which you should or could in any set of photos. But if I just go out and am shooting what I am drawn to the photographs that I capture and get in the way that I kind of perceive what they look like and how I want to show them to people, that’s all kind of changed and evolved over time. And it seems like my choices in that are better than they once were. But it was interesting to just kind of seeing like, man, how many years and years and years, it takes me taking photographs, before any of these photographs really got good or got to the point where they were more than snapshots or more than just kind of data collection. I sort of thought of myself as an archivist for a long time where we’re like the job wasn’t really to be a photographer where I was editing to select like a moment in character and sort of like nuance between things that had like emotional pull to them. I didn’t really understand that type of composition stuff. I just sort of understood the camera mechanically functioning as a light capturing tool. And so that was like that was probably the first four years
of photography was we sort of thinking about it like that, like I’m capturing data of a reality. And then that’s going to be processed in to something else later and it wasn’t really for years. I understood like emotional vision or you know, like having some way to kind of tie the way you feel to the way that you see something. And that was really interesting kind of learning about how some of those things work. And yeah, it’s still such a long road and I still have, you know, no, no real understood or no real experience in that by anybody that’s really trying just self taught. Little Little Billy out here. And nowhere Willamette Valley, so yeah, that’s some of the stuff about making selects for a new Lightroom catalog. The other deal that I got going is kind of fun, geeky one but like kind of over the Christmas break and stuff have been eBay and around a lot and I found like, way back when I went to college I hadn’t I ended up getting a laptop which was fine and it was cool as like a Windows PC but I remember when I was in college back in like oh 70809 2010 2011 I kind of changed over the course of those years but I remember when I first got there I really wanted that 13 inch black Mac Book. Oh yeah, I guess it was just a Mac Book. Yeah, remember that one that they had like the white model and the black model mac book for a while he’s like 13 inch ones and I always thought they’re really sweet like I think that kind of came out right as I was getting out of high school and they were a pretty solid machine back in the day for you know, you know, whatever it was for for college stuff but but times times of change times have gone on and I was on eBay and I saw one for like 60 bucks.
I remember them being
$2,000 right like the black one was kind of the souped up one you had to pay more for and you know Apple always it was always it was always a lot more and that was already hundreds of dollars more than probably what I was gonna end up paying you know for any kind of laptop computer I get back in college. So I saw this thing pop up on on eBay and I think it was 60 bucks. I could swing 60 bucks to get you know this laptop that I had wanted that you know in my memory I can’t remember is to 20 $200 so it seemed like a screaming deal even though really it’s just time has elapsed it’s a decade later and this is obsolete antiquated computing equipment. But about this I bought this MacBook body is shipped out to me it’s a working laptop it really is nice remember a lot of his black Mac books had this this design flower this little clip at the top of the screen would fold over you know as you’d clamshell the laptop down to close it in this little tab and sort of break the keyboard plastic that was below I This one was replaced or an older person had it and never really got into it like that but it’s super clean like it doesn’t have that little greasy wet puddle look on the on the the some What is that like the mousepad piece and like none of that like where and stuff on so it’s a super fresh computer but it was cool and difficult so project thing you know like when I got it it was running I think it was running leopard which is the the Mac operating system that it probably would have first shipped with back in like 2007 maybe is when I was around those before they switched over from power PC to or I think as they were switching over that was the last version that it was like compressed compatible between like the power PC and the Intel Max is that right and then they switched over to snow leopard that was all Intel PC based stuff and so this computer was capable of it was Intel based and what I did is I had to I wiped it and then set it up again with what is it like mac os 10.7 which I think it went from like 10 four to 10 seven that was the like os 10 Lion it was the thing I was learning about the the Mac stuff is that they kind of they kind of obsolete themselves after so many versions right like I think I can’t run mountain lion that’s why I didn’t end up installing it and I can’t run Mavericks which is you know why didn’t end up installing it. It’s kind of interesting. I didn’t realize that at first but but yeah, I guess it’s set up so that it’s supposed to go up to lie and then stay there and you know really in most ways like Abba with me today it works it works fine with Lyon I but but the other fun thing was you know, since it’s kind of like a project computer to do some stuff I really never worked with with Unix the way that I need to or well really with Linux the way that I need to and so I was trying to think well what if I do like a dual boot where I get everything working with Mac OS 10 lion and then I install some software to do a dual boot and then I set up a distribution of Linux Mint, which is like a Linux distro there’s like a boon to that’s a really big kind of consumer popular one there’s this other one Linux Mint and I installed that with the program is the file manager Program Manager window manager it’s cinnamon right i think that’s there’s a few there’s a few different ones like Debian there’s cinnamon maybe I’m all twist I think Debbie and psycho district I don’t know anything about open source or Atlantic’s? It’s way above me in most ways, really but but yeah, kind of for fun and to be to be up to a fun little project. Yeah, install Linux Mint on this old laptop and it really screams through you know runs a lot like Windows seven or something like that, it seems like pretty comparable. And that way, you know, it’s all free and just kind of cool i was i was messing around with the Unix terminal in Linux in Linux Mint. And it’s kind of interesting like seeing some of the differences between like the Unix terminal work that you can do in Linux versus like what you can do on the Mac. And I was kind of noticing like the package installer system, like it was called, like apt get where you can, you can just type like a PT dash get. And then like space, like, you know, the name of some program and the command line terminal. And it’s like a package install, ready to go out on the internet, it’ll find the package where it is on a git repository, I don’t know, I don’t know, I mean, this stuff works. And then it pulls that down and installs the package on your computer, all within the command line all from like typing a couple of things. I was just kind of a fun, sort of like power user thing that I was trying to get into.
I’ve also been trying to get into using nano, which is like, it’s, it’s a word processor built into terminal. I know you guys are really excited about this one Oh, word processor built in the terminal. Say what Billy. It’s a word processor that was built in the terminal way back, like when Unix was a file manager operating system where you know, you had like a big hard disk, you had to make a document and put it in a file. And then and then kind of search for access to a file later. And you’d have it contain the records or contain the information. I think like Stephen King wrote a bunch of books. In his word processor, you’re just on like a super old system, das computer, mainframe computer, something like that. Whatever, you know, what a run Unix, a Unix operating system, just a command line screen back in the 80s, or whatever it was when you had a personal computer finally. But yeah, the it’s like a full screen app, it’s got a black screen, or you know, black background, it’s just like the Notes app, basically. But you do everything on the keyboard. And you kind of save files out. But I’ve been trying to do that as like a distraction removal system, you know, you kind of you pop into you pop into Unix, you do some your stuff on the keyboard on the command line, there’s no visuals or like stuff that’s popping up or getting in your way. And I just got a been an interesting way to do a little bit of work stuff. But but I’m trying to like go through and I journal a little bit. Like I write down like handwritten stuff, I write down a few things about like a photo or something I’m working on or one of these little ideas I’m trying to sort in draft and I get it out there a little bit. But then like, while I’m at work, I’ll I’ll throw open the laptop and I’ll pop in the nano. And then I’ll like end up writing the text document. Like I’ll draft it a little bit on the paper and then I’ll write it out. I’ll type it up in nano. And then I get the the text document, you know, on the operating system and I put that or throw it out to wherever I want to it’s probably silly and unnecessary. But it’s been kind of a fun, a fun way to make use of Unix for for something for a few days. So kind of cool stuff. But yeah, messing around with some Unix, some Linux, some old Mac books. Yeah, pretty fun. And make new Lightroom catalog so that and so much more in 2018. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. You can check out more of my stuff at Billy Newman on Instagram or you can see this podcast a few other podcasts and other photos at Billy Newman photo.com. Thanks a lot for listening. Bye