On Taking Pictures
Every week, Jeffery Saddoris and Bill Wadman take on the art, science, and philosophy of photography and explore how they play out behind the camera in the process of making images. Insider insights for the novice, shop talk for the professional, and opinionated discussion for the interested observer of the field's trends and legacy. Hosted by Bill Wadman & Jeffery Saddoris.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 90 minutes
- Episodes
- 368
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2024
288: An Iterative Process Like Everything Else
This week, happy Halloween! What constitutes a cultural experience for you? A museum? A gallery? Going bowling? Also, what motivates you to look at art? Plus, we talk about managing expectations of …
01:47:03 |
Tue 31 Oct 2017
287: If It Sounds Good Now, It’ll Sound Good Later
This week, when do great cameras (or any other tools for that matter) cease to be great? Many of us chase the latest and greatest, but even the older version was great once. Also, some thoughts on ph…
01:42:02 |
Tue 24 Oct 2017
286: You Don’t Need To Make New Friends
This week, the amount of new post-production tools (including the newly announced Lightroom CC) inspires a discussion around workflow and the potential need for evolution in how we catalog and proces…
01:50:06 |
Fri 20 Oct 2017
285: The Composition Within the Chaos
This week, how do you approach a new project or body of work? Is the making more important than the potential juice? Or is potential monetization always a component? Also, a discussion around creatin…
01:28:08 |
Tue 10 Oct 2017
284: Time Is Your Only Currency
This week, have improvements to the gear side of photography affected the overall craft of making pictures? Or are we now able to simply pick and choose the pieces of the craft that matter most to us…
01:35:00 |
Tue 03 Oct 2017
283: Somewhere To Get A Cleat In
This week, we’re addressing some of your feedback from email and the Google+ group, including the impact that mobile photography has had on how we take and share pictures. Also, we talk about the ite…
01:38:13 |
Wed 27 Sep 2017
282: All Of This Shenanigans Over A Camera
This week, does having tools at the ready make you more likely to actually create? Or is preparing to create a necessary part of your process? Sometimes creativity shows up messy, if it comes at all.…
01:38:20 |
Tue 19 Sep 2017
281: Hidden Under Hair and Self-Doubt
This week, we’re attempting to answer some of your questions that range from our desert island photo choices to whether or not ego affects how we take pictures. There are also questions on how to rec…
02:03:34 |
Tue 12 Sep 2017
280: Tacking Left And Right Into The Wind
This week, can creatives have concrete long term goals or is the nature of making such that clarity beyond a certain point is elusive by design? Then again, if you can’t define a specific goal or end…
01:27:27 |
Tue 05 Sep 2017
279: Letting It Go For A Better Offer
This week, does progress take the place of craft, or can things simultaneously move on while still staying the same? Or is the romance and nostalgia of “the way things used to be” just a manufactured…
01:44:06 |
Tue 29 Aug 2017
278: One and A Quarter Step Forward
This week, how do you know when you’re making good work? There are so many factors that contribute to the success of a project that worrying about a subjective definition of good ends up getting lost…
01:26:12 |
Mon 21 Aug 2017
277: We Both Work Great In Planned Chaos
This week, we’re discussing order vs chaos and how each of us feels most productive. We also talk about how some forms of chaos can actually act as a motivator to help you focus and get more done. Pl…
01:40:18 |
Tue 15 Aug 2017
276: Gas Money and a New Alternator
This week, what is the purpose of your work? What does it mean to live with purpose? Is purpose a necessary component to making good work? Also, the web is filled with reviews of everything you can i…
01:26:48 |
Wed 09 Aug 2017
275: The Good, Fast, and Cheap of Photography
This week, we discuss the work of photographer Chris Killip, whose photographs of Northern England from the 1970s and 1980s manage to embody the spirit of the people as well as the landscape. Who are…
01:26:17 |
Tue 01 Aug 2017
274: The Unatographer
We begin this week with a little tech talk around monitors. Is 4K the way to go, or is an ultrawide 1080 the better play? In the end it’s just pixels, but most photographers want as many as they can …
01:29:32 |
Tue 25 Jul 2017
273: Kenneth Is Funded With Advice
This week, a listener asks for advice on how to fund a print project, which leads us on a discussion around potential solutions as well as options for compromise on what the end product looks like — …
01:33:48 |
Tue 18 Jul 2017
272: If I Stand Still, That’s When the Cobwebs Grow
This week, we discuss the possibilities of stepping outside our comfort zones. Sometimes, the beginning of a project seems too far out of reach — maybe even more than we can handle — but we find that…
01:41:15 |
Tue 11 Jul 2017
271: Hanging Out With The Other Kids Drinking Cristal
This week, for all of the “improvements” in the creative tools we use — specifically around software — have they really gotten noticeably better? Faster, yes. But are we more productive and is the wo…
01:28:49 |
Wed 05 Jul 2017
270: The Luster Dulls Over Time
This week, we’re talking about inherited meaning, specifically related to last week’s discussion around using tintype to capture older blues musicians and how that process seemed to “fit” the subject…
01:16:23 |
Tue 27 Jun 2017
269: Breadcrumbs To Find Your Way Home
This week, a discussion around long term projects, inspired by the work and career of Ed Gold, a photographer who often spends years on a single body of work. Also, art and politics have had a long s…
00:55:11 |
Wed 21 Jun 2017
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