SmugMug Live Special - Flickr World Photography Day 2023 Contest Winners
Join your host Alastair Jolly from the SmugMug team along with special guest Frederick Van Johnson from This Week in Photo TWiP as they announce the winners of Flickr's World Photography Day Contest 2023.
Portfolio Websites — Build or Buy? with Alex Vita
In this episode, I chat with web designer Alex Vita. We talk about web design and website galleries - as they apply to photographers.
Hey, welcome back to another episode. This is Frederick Van Johnson. Today. We're going to be talking with Alex Vita about galleries, in particular, and websites for photographers. And what are some best-practices for displaying work online and just having everything Bulletproof?
Should you go with a roll your own solution, like WordPress and install, awesome plugins into it, or should you just, pay a subscription fee to a Squarespace or someone like that and have it all managed by third-parties in the cloud here to demystify all that is Alex Vita.
Alex is a Romania-based web designer who knows pretty much everything there is to know about web design and photography, as it applies to websites and galleries. And we're going to pick his brain today.
Alex, welcome to the show, man. How are you doing?
Alex: Hi. Frederick nice to meet you. Happy to be here.
Frederick: Nice to meet you too. Are you ready for this? I got a ton of questions for you.
Alex: I'm ready. Go ahead. I'm an open book.
Frederick: Cool. All right, let's start with chapter one of that open book. who is Alex Vita? How did you get started in all this? And how did you start building your niche in web design and gallery design for photographers?
Alex: I started as an amateur photographer myself. I had a photo studio, I shot a few weddings, a few portraits sold some stock images. So that's how I got introduced to the field of photography. But I have a degree in computer science and I started building websites for a few photographers and that grew over time. And now I'm doing only that I have web design services exclusively for photographers, and I'm enjoying every minute of it and having to do work only with photographers. Over time, I started learning the nuances of the industry. It's a bit different than building generic websites, I think.
Frederick: One of the big ques
TWiP PRO Photo Critique 131 - PLANTS!
This week's photo critique topic was PLANTS!
The images we review during these critiques are submitted by TWiP PRO members. If you'd like to become a member, just head over to http://www.twippro.com.
"Focusing" on Lensbaby's VELVET 28 - with Craig Strong
In this interview Lensbaby co-founder Craig Strong and I discuss one of their latest lens releases — the Velvet 28. We discuss the manufacture of the lens, who it's for, and how best to make the most out its capabilities.
Assisting the Professional Photography Assistant
In this interview NYC-based photographer Jesse Dittmar joins the show to discuss his experiences with socially-distanced photography in the Big Apple. We also discuss the challenges of hiring and being a photographer's assistant an also some of the challenges underprivileged (not rich) aspiring photographers face when considering starting a career in photography through assisting.
About Jesse:
Jesse Dittmar is a portrait photographer working with publications such as The New York Times and The Washington Post and brands like Apple and Hulu. The New Yorker, People, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and New York Magazine have all published his work.
He has photographed the most accomplished figures of the 21st century, including Denzel Washington, Tom Brady, Serena Williams, Tom Hanks, Patti Smith, David Letterman, the cast of Star Wars, and hundreds of more.
Typically using black and white film, Jesse's photographs invoke a sense that one is standing in front of the subject along with h
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TWiP PRO Photo Critique 62 (WIND)
Join Frederick Van Johnson and Troy Miller as they review the latest submissions to the TWiP PRO Photo Critique (TWIPPRO.com).
This week’s topic was WIND! Watch as they step through each photo in real-time, and from inside the slick TWiP PRO community. The critiques are always entertaining, educational, and informative. Watch and see! Next week’s critique topic is FIRE!
Congratulations to this weeks favorite, submitted by @Erik Pronske!
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