Photo Talk Plus, EP34 with Special Guest Mike Spinak

Thomas Hawk and I were joined by special guest Mike Spinak on this fabulous episode of Photo Talk Plus. Mike is a nature and landscape photographer who also enjoys capturing real moments in the lives of friends and family – natural portraiture. The three of us along with panelists Barry Blanchard, Patricia Davidson, Vivienne Gucwa and Keith Barrett discussed various stories including Trey Ratcliff‘s new Lightroom 4 Presets, removal of black bars from photos in the Google+ stream, the first color image of Mars, the hacking of Mat Honan including permanent loss of the first year of photos of his daughter, and more.

During the second half of the show we got in-depth with Mike about his photographic journey (including his love interest and dark room experience), processing strategies, and projects that he’s working on currently and has planned for the future, as well as viewing some of his beautiful work. Mike’s book “Growing Up Humming” is available soon and if you place a preorder you will be eligible to receive 20% off the eBook (send a message via the contact form on naturography.com).

As always, huge thanks to our sponsors who support our show every week so we can keep bringing great content to our viewers. We are so lucky to have some of the most amazing sponsors out there – SmugMug (http://smugmug.com) - photo hosting and sharing that’s so much more with amazing customer service, the best profit for photographers around and beautiful website options. Find images from other photographers, and store your own in the cloud for extra safety. These guys do it well and it shows that they genuinely love photography. Adorama (http://adorama.com) - the best deals on camera equipment and unrivaled customer service from a company that gets the community and is always involved with photography learning, products, and support. Drobo (http://drobo.com) - it’s not a matter of whether your hard drives will fail, it’s when. It will happen to everyone,  but with a Drobo you have a self healing storage solution that delivers room for your data along with a huge and invaluable thing called peace of mind. Finally, Blurb Books (http://blurb.com), the best place on the web to take your projects and elevate them to the next level with a beautifully printed book – there’s just something special about having your work all together in one place that you can hold in your hand. For example, check out Brad Sloan‘s book, Visions of Metropolis. These are all high quality sponsors that we love (and we’re picky!) so visit them and see how well they serve and support the photography community.

And stay tuned for our next show. We had a great time interviewing Kelli Seeger Kim last night – check out YouTube to watch now or look for the post here soon.

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