Up until now, we’ve used the PhotoNetCast site mainly to announce new shows and offer links and other material that are not easy to provide in the audio stream. Moving on, however, we’re really keen to start posting occasional technical articles and reviews too. This brings up the question, however, of what our listeners are interested in reading about. We have a few articles lined up already but please let us know what you would like to read here by leaving us some suggestions in the comments. Just to get the ball rolling, here are a few high level categories that may spark some ideas:
- Basic photography concepts – camera controls, exposure, focusing, white balance.
- Advanced exposure control – when to ignore the meter and using histograms to best effect.
- Rules of composition – using them and breaking them.
- Photo correction and post-processing techniques.
- Camera raw adjustments.
- Lightroom workflow.
- Night and low light photography.
- Photography book reviews.
- Software package reviews.
Let us know your thoughts and suggestions!
First of all I’d like to thank all our listeners and friends for all the support you’ve been sending our way. It has been a great ride and, hopefully, it will continue to get always better.
Although we haven’t received much criticism from listeners for this, it is a topic that recurrently comes up in our pre or post-show discussions: the amount of content we should have on the site. And at the moment we feel that is probably our weakest front and it would be beneficial for the community around PhotoNetCast if some more quality information was published on the site.
And so, we are going to look into the community for this – we need some guest writers, people that want an established platform with an audience to write a few articles for once in a while.
Writing about industry news, gear, tutorials, opinions or commentary… You know what we are talking about. And you don’t have to be some big name either. As long as you have something interesting to say and have knowledge of what you want to write about, you’re good.
Interested? Get in touch. Use the contact form or email directly at photonetcat (at) photonetcast.com and we’ll discuss it further in detail.
Discovering the true value of a photography magazine
For this episode two new voices join us on the show: Sean Galbraith, co-owner of galleryDK and Achim Runnebaum, editor of RAN Magazine.
A few days ago I posted an article on my blog explaining why I don’t subscribe to generalist photography magazines and would rather pay a higher price for a good quality magazine showcasing photography art and documentary, and asking the readers how much would such a magazine be worth for them. This was the same question I brought to the panel for discussion on the show.
We’ve also analyzed some of the new features of Lightroom 3 namely the noise reduction and how it compares to some third party applications.
iPhone 4 anyone? Is iphoneography here to stay with the new improvements (supposed) on the new iPhone’s camera? Everyone seems to think so.
Got some thoughts on the topics? Just drop us a comment…
If you want to submit your photos to the PhotoNetCast group on Flickr, we are looking for your black & white landscapes. Don’t forget to tag them with PNC46.
Very nice conversation with everyone. Thanks again to Sean and Achim. I’m sure we’ll have them again on the show soon.
Enjoy the show…
PhotoNetCast #47 - The Value of Photography Magazines [70:04m]:
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