The 365 Days Project Video Podcast

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This week’s show starts off with a bit of discussion about the comic that Mav has been working on for the past few months, Cosmic Hellcats. Mav is set to launch the comic at the Pittsburgh Comicon next weekend. If at all possible, he will be shooting his segment of the show on location, but if not, we’ll be having a special guest on the show next week with Stephen.

Mav did a tutorial this week after a bit of a hiatus and talked about the rule of thirds, one of the most basic compositional guidelines. This also led into James’ tip of the week, which discussed using negative space as a dominant element of composition.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK

We had another great week last week, with a ton of people participating in the Close Crop challenge.

This week’s winner was a photo by thehalfshow.com.

Stephen and Mav also talked about this image, by Mikey aka DaSkinnyBlackMan.

And this one, by Lividfiction, was also mentioned.

Flickr has proposed some fixes to the group moderation issues, and those were discussed in this week’s show as well.

With two great tutorials on composition in this episode, we are expecting to see some creative photos submitted to Picture of the Week this week. The theme is Rule of Thirds / Negative Space. You can concentrate on one, or try and do both in one shot.

See you next week!

-jessi.
(who is too tired to think of another cute name.)

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With all of the controversy about the addition of videos to flickr, and the reformatting of group administration, this week’s show opens with a discussion about both of these issues. Members of the 365 Days group had the chance to weigh in last week on their feelings about video being included in the project, but the decision was fairly unanimous that video be kept out of 365 Days.

As far as the permissions, flickr is forcing us to either boot out members who are not deemed as ’safe’, or allow those members and make the group 18+, and not visible to the world outside flickr. This will also restrict our membership, and underage photographers will no longer be allowed to participate in the 365 Days group. Mav has been voicing his opinions on this issue pretty loudly, and appears to be getting his voice heard.

Stephen received some mail this week - a moo card from mickeysacks, who was on the show to talk about making photo books with Blurb, and a cool doodle from disco~stu.

After a tutorial on using diffusion, James Bruntz was back on the show with this week’s tip. With the help of his lovely wife, James discussed using cropping to improve composition, and create more dynamic images.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK

The podcast mini-challenge theme last week, Dramatic Lighting, inspired a ton of fantastic photos from members of the 365 Days group. The winner this week is a shadowy photo by dm74.

Our runner-up photo is from Mr. Fun., who used his dramatic lighting for a less intense effect.

We also had a viewer request a list of tutorials and the episodes in which they appear. This list will be up on the site as soon as we get the information together.

The show ended with a video Stephen put together over the weekend, to show that video on flickr can be a good thing.

This week’s Picture of the Week theme is Close Crop, so put James’ tips to use!

Until next week!

- jessi.
Show Note Goddess.

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After some major hardware malfunctions, this week’s podcast is finally posted!

The show opens with a tutorial on shutter speed, where Stephen Poff demonstrates the benefits of both fast and slow speeds. He talks about using a slow shutter speed to create the ‘light writing’ effect as seen in his photo for April 2nd, and uses a fast shutter speed to capture motion, like in a jumping shot.

After the break, James Bruntz (aka Sick Little Monkey) joins Mav and Stephen to introduce his tip of the week, which will now be a regular feature included in the podcast. (Especially since on it’s own, the tip of the week seems to get MORE hits than the podcast itself… hmmmm…)

This week, James talks about how to use dramatic lighting in self-portraits, like he does in his Mr. Sinister set. He demonstrates how to do this using simple lights that can be purchased from any hardware store.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK

Since we talked about TTVs on the show last week, the podcast challenge theme was Frames and Borders. This week’s winner of Picture of the Week was Xelia, who called in to the show for the Valentine’s Day episode.

When you visit her stream to congratulate her, as I’m sure you will, also wish her a happy birthday!

The runner-up for this week’s Picture of the Week was a really creative shot by Sungazing.

We also wanted to add that in last week’s episode on TTVs, we neglected to mention the original founders of the TTV group, as pointed out to us by the real Queen of TTV, sadandbeautiful (Sarah). Mr. E. and Russ started the Through the Viewfinder group on flickr, which is full of great tips and tutorials for anyone interested in TTV.

Enjoy the show, and we’ll see you again next week! Don’t forget to take a picture or two this week using dramatic lighting to submit to Picture of the Week!

- jessi.
Master of the Show Notes.

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James Bruntz, aka Sick Little Monkey, will be doing a regular photography tip for you guys and this got in a little late to include it into the regular episode. But it relates to TTV and it’s definitely worth giving a watch… especially for the new snazzy theme and opening animation .

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Special Guest Jessi Bruntz

This week we had a very special guest with us. Jessi Bruntz was on our show back in February and was the winner of Picture of the Week last week.

After seeing her photo I decided to resume my hunt for a camera that would allow me to take TTV (through the viewfinder) shots. I was lucky enough to find one and had a fun week with it. So Mav and I thought it only appropriate to have the Queen of TTV back on the show to give us the lowdown on her workflow.

Be both discussed photos from our flickr streams. If you’d like to view these photos:

Jessi
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jesstheex/sets/72157603812903358/

Stephen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenpoff/sets/72157604248644436/

Picture of the Week

Jessi also sat in with us during Picture of the Week.

Our winner was Ein Schub

We also talked about this photo from Clande

and this photo from Daz

Picture of the Week Theme

Our Picture of the Week theme for this week is “Borders and Frames” You can enter the contest HERE

Have a great week!

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I really think you guys are going to enjoy this weeks show, but before going any further, I’d like to thank our PayPal donors.

Sponsors

Thanks so much to those of you who let go of some of your hard earned cash to help us out. It really means a lot to us.

Mav’s Comic

We opened the show with some talk about Mav’s comic. He’s written a 24 page epic involving four “Cosmic Hellcats” on a science mission in space. He plans to have it ready by Comicon and also hopes to do the show from there on April 24th! Sounds like a good show to me.

Long Exposure Tutorial

Our tutorial for the week was about long exposures or night photography. We spent a little time dicussing different techniques and gave some examples from my 2006 365 Days set on flickr. To see just the night shots, go HERE

We also talked about two of our audience members who have tutorials on thier flickr sites. The first was from flickr user like_shipwrecks and here tutorial can be found HERE. MacAddict also has some great stuff as well. You can find his tutorials HERE.

Thanks for being a shining light to those trying to continue thier photography education!

Picture of the Week

Our picture of the week was by jessi.

Our runners up were Rachel.::.K

and ecky_ducky_loves_threadless

Picture of the Week Theme

Our podcast drop it in the forum… you might just win Picture of the Week!

Hope you guys have a great week!

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I’ve been backed up lately and getting the show out has been a lot of work… sometimes the show notes have been suffering. Anyone want to be a production assistant?

This week Mav and I were both of town for a bit. Mav went to Tallahassee Florida for a work assignment and later in the week I was in Moselle, Mississippi to visit with some family.

While there, my Dad took me out to see a cabin in his little rural community that was made out of trees that had fallen during Katrina. So Mav and I decided to do a little interview with Mr. Patterson, the gentleman who was building the cabin. My Dad, Scott Hall, was kind enough to do a little interview with him while I ran the camera. He’s known Mr. Patterson for a long time.

In the spirit of full disclosure, since we’re airing the show on our local channel 3 here in Montgomery, we are leaving room for commercial breaks. We don’t have any advertisers yet, so I am taking the opportunity to fill it with some advertisement for my film “Songs About Your Girlfriend”. I figured… I work really hard on this show… I should get some benefit right? . I hope you guys will take a moment to give it a look and maybe purchase a copy for yourself.

Later on in the show, we talked about our winner for Picture of the Week. Last weeks theme was to “Jump Like Mikey” and you guys sent in a lot of fun photos.

Our winner was from flickr user M. Gruber.

We also spoke about another fun photo by hellopoe.

Next weeks theme involves going on location. We’d like to see you guys go somewhere other than where you usually take your photos and tell us a story about that location. We look forward to seeing what you guys have to show us about your hometown.

I wanted to close by saying that… I really didn’t know what Mav’s studio looked like before I got his footage the next day. LOL… I wish I had’ve brought up the Easter decorations. I’m sure he would’ve had some good things to say about that. He had those items laying around from a shoot he was doing the day before. Nice.

See you next week!

This show has been archived HERE

This show has been archived HERE

Last week was pretty hectic for both Mav and I. I didn’t get the show notes up and we didn’t get to film a tutorial. So we decided to do a live tutorial on how to light for a Black or a White backdrop.

Picture of the Week

After that we announced Helder as our Picture of the Week. How cool is this?

We aslso spoke about our runner up photo from Jessi

365 Love

Speaking of Jessi, We had both her and James on the show a couple of weeks ago and they talked about getting married. Well they finally made the “leap” (sorry, I crack myself up when I’m tired) on leap day.

They’ve had people ask where they are registered. Jessi says that they are not registered anywhere and asked for anyone who would like to give them a gift to go to thier website and buy a print. That way you have a piece of thier art and they can use the money for immigration expenses and what not. Link is below.

jessiandjames.imagekind.com

Congrats guys!!

Special Thanks

I wanted to give a big thank you to everyone that we’ve noticed leaving us reviews in iTunes. Special thanks goes out to:
Disco~stu
Or4ngecrush
FeXd
Ecky_Ducky_Loves_Threadless
KatColorado

Leap Day

The show ran a little too long so we had to cut a bit out, but one of our regrets was not thinking about Leaping for Leap Day as a mini challenge. Lots of you did some WONDERFUL leaping photos (joined in as well). If you’d like to see them, Just click on this link here for more leaping goodness.

Podcast Min Challenge

Lastly, we talked about our mini challenge for this week. The theme is Solid Color Backgrounds

See you next week!

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