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Whether or not you wear glasses in your everyday life, you know that they have the ability to make everything look crisp and clear or blurry and out of focus. Many designers fail to realize that the lenses they currently wear are optional. If your lenses are making your life and business more challenging than necessary, you might want to consider trying on a different pair.

Hear examples of how your current lenses might be manifesting in your life and business right now, and why exploring your lenses will leave you empowered and in control, rather than at the mercy of your business.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.desicreswell.com/39

God wants to lead us out of our personal battles. He wants us to be victorious. We all have private battles that we must overcome. We must make sure we are wearing a lens from God and not one of Satans lenses. The wrong lenses can keep us from receiving from God.

Christopher Wren, who died 300 years ago this year, is famed as the architect of St Paul’s Cathedral. But he was also Gresham Professor of Astronomy, and one of the founders of a society “for the promotion of Physico-Mathematicall Experimental Learning” which became the Royal Society.

This lecture explores some of Wren’s mathematical work on curves including spirals and ellipses and the mathematics behind his most impressive architectural achievement – the dome of St Paul’s.

A lecture by Sarah Hart recorded on 7 March 2023 at David Game College, London.

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/maths-wren

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This week Connor is joined by photographer Marcus Doyle. Marcus is the assistant professor of photography at IWU, and has served as associate professor at Azusa Pacific and Christchurch Canterbury University. He has been in the field of photography for 30 years where he has hosted 35 solo exhibitions, and is a member of the Royal Photographic Society and Association of Photographers. Listen in to hear about composition in photographs, making a living while being a photographer, and how to best display your work.

Link to Marcus' Website: https://www.marcusdoylephotography.com/

All those fingerprints that other people and institutions have dirtied your lenses with, wipe them all off!!

I got the idea for this Podcast episode from a very quick and visionary meditation session today.

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(Photo by Ed Leszczynskl on Unsplash. Much gratitude.)

Food, glorious food—there’s no better time than the holiday season for a bountiful exploration of food photography—a fan favorite. For this episode of the podcast, we’re delighted to connect with food blogger, educator, and content creator extraordinaire Joanie Simon. Listen in as she discusses the magic behind her aspirational, achievable shooting style. Besides examining the limits to reality when shooting fake food, Simon describes her collaborations with a dedicated crew, offers advice about a photographer’s responsibilities when working remotely, and describes her personal evolution through camera brands and models to arrive at the Nikon Z mirrorless system she shoots with today. Discover all these things and much, much more—including a secret recipe for fake ice cream!

Guests: Joanie Simon

Photograph © Joanie Simon

Guest Bio: Instead of an apron, Joanie Simon wears many hats. She’s a food photographer, published author, educator, and content queen, and her daily life is a bouillabaisse of camera gear and culinary delights. In just a baker’s dozen year—that’s 13 for the inexperienced cooks—Simon has built her brand into a powerhouse of creative content and learning.

In addition to shooting commercial and editorial assignments, Joanie teaches food photography through her online platform, The Bite Shot. Her food photo adventures on YouTube and Instagram can be found at @thebiteshot and on Tik Tok @joaniesimonsays, and you learn tons more from the many tutorials in her 2021 book, Picture Perfect Food.

For more information on our guests and the gear they use, see: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/podcasts/photography/festive-food-photography-with-joanie-simon

Stay Connected:

Website: https://joaniesimon.com

Education Website: https://thebiteshot.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebiteshot

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/joaniesimonmedia

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joaniesimonsays

Episode Timeline

3:56: Joanie Simon’s favorite holiday and seasonal foods to photograph

4:34: Cultivating aspirational, achievable food content

6:11: Images created with high quality gear requires exact timing

6:58: How far can you push reality and tricks to making food look good.

8:38: Editorial shooting - an opportunity to run wild, get creative, and shoot conceptually

9:48: A secret recipe for fake ice cream.

12:18: The hero of the shot vs the crash test dummy

13:12: The ratio between single shot pictures and food items that need a test run

15:18: How many team members are on set during a food shoot?

17:37: The evolution of Joanie Simon’s food photography career

19:16: Discovery of remote work and creating digital content from home

21:26: The need to take responsibility for communications when working remotely

23:10: What’s Joanie’s preference: mouth-watering stills or toe tapping videos and stop motion content?

27:18: Software for stills, video, and animation content: Capture One, Dragonframe, and Premiere Pro

29:44: The benefits to and workflow behind shooting tethered

31:09: Joanie Simon’s art background and her hesitation about studying art in school  

33:10: Episode break

33:58: Thoughts on using gear in a controlled environment:

35:38: Joanie’s personal evolution through camera brands: from Nikon to Sony mirrorless to Canon and back to Nikon

40:04: The benefits to working in manual mode, and when to use auto focus

42:14: Joanie’s go-to lighting tool: the Godox AD 600 Pro strobe

43:52:  Advantages to flash over working with continuous light LEDs

45:44: Drag your shutter when shooting with flash to control the ambient light

46:33: Joanie’s primary light modelling tool: Westcott 4’x4’ Scrim Jim Cineframe

48:36: Lens preferences: Primes or zooms and Joanie’s go-to lenses: 24 – 70 f/2.8 for flexibility and 105 macro lens for background compression

51:02: Food photography with a phone: wipe off the lenses and it all comes down to the light

52:30: Key elements to a food photograph: Texture, highlights, and getting close up to the food

53:36: Tips for transitioning from a phone to a more formalized camera: Look to the mirrorless world and get a camera in your hands to test

54:50: When photographing people around a holiday table: Stage the magic and direct your subjects.

56:54: Joanie’s free workshop about building a food photography business

57:34: Connect with Joanie at thebiteshot.com for links to TicToc, Instagram, YouTube, and blog

Food, glorious food—there’s no better time than the holiday season for a bountiful exploration of food photography—a fan favorite. For this episode of the podcast, we’re delighted to connect with food blogger, educator, and content creator extraordinaire Joanie Simon. Listen in as she discusses the magic behind her aspirational, achievable shooting style. Besides examining the limits to reality when shooting fake food, Simon describes her collaborations with a dedicated crew, offers advice about a photographer’s responsibilities when working remotely, and describes her personal evolution through camera brands and models to arrive at the Nikon Z mirrorless system she shoots with today. Discover all these things and much, much more—including a secret recipe for fake ice cream!

Guests: Joanie Simon

Photograph © Joanie Simon

Guest Bio: Instead of an apron, Joanie Simon wears many hats. She’s a food photographer, published author, educator, and content queen, and her daily life is a bouillabaisse of camera gear and culinary delights. In just a baker’s dozen year—that’s 13 for the inexperienced cooks—Simon has built her brand into a powerhouse of creative content and learning.

In addition to shooting commercial and editorial assignments, Joanie teaches food photography through her online platform, The Bite Shot. Her food photo adventures on YouTube and Instagram can be found at @thebiteshot and on Tik Tok @joaniesimonsays, and you learn tons more from the many tutorials in her 2021 book, Picture Perfect Food.

For more information on our guests and the gear they use, see: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/podcasts/photography/festive-food-photography-with-joanie-simon

Stay Connected:

Website: https://joaniesimon.com

Education Website: https://thebiteshot.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebiteshot

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/joaniesimonmedia

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joaniesimonsays

Episode Timeline

3:56: Joanie Simon’s favorite holiday and seasonal foods to photograph

4:34: Cultivating aspirational, achievable food content

6:11: Images created with high quality gear requires exact timing

6:58: How far can you push reality and tricks to making food look good.

8:38: Editorial shooting - an opportunity to run wild, get creative, and shoot conceptually

9:48: A secret recipe for fake ice cream.

12:18: The hero of the shot vs the crash test dummy

13:12: The ratio between single shot pictures and food items that need a test run

15:18: How many team members are on set during a food shoot?

17:37: The evolution of Joanie Simon’s food photography career

19:16: Discovery of remote work and creating digital content from home

21:26: The need to take responsibility for communications when working remotely

23:10: What’s Joanie’s preference: mouth-watering stills or toe tapping videos and stop motion content?

27:18: Software for stills, video, and animation content: Capture One, Dragonframe, and Premiere Pro

29:44: The benefits to and workflow behind shooting tethered

31:09: Joanie Simon’s art background and her hesitation about studying art in school  

33:10: Episode break

33:58: Thoughts on using gear in a controlled environment:

35:38: Joanie’s personal evolution through camera brands: from Nikon to Sony mirrorless to Canon and back to Nikon

40:04: The benefits to working in manual mode, and when to use auto focus

42:14: Joanie’s go-to lighting tool: the Godox AD 600 Pro strobe

43:52:  Advantages to flash over working with continuous light LEDs

45:44: Drag your shutter when shooting with flash to control the ambient light

46:33: Joanie’s primary light modelling tool: Westcott 4’x4’ Scrim Jim Cineframe

48:36: Lens preferences: Primes or zooms and Joanie’s go-to lenses: 24 – 70 f/2.8 for flexibility and 105 macro lens for background compression

51:02: Food photography with a phone: wipe off the lenses and it all comes down to the light

52:30: Key elements to a food photograph: Texture, highlights, and getting close up to the food

53:36: Tips for transitioning from a phone to a more formalized camera: Look to the mirrorless world and get a camera in your hands to test

54:50: When photographing people around a holiday table: Stage the magic and direct your subjects.

56:54: Joanie’s free workshop about building a food photography business

57:34: Connect with Joanie at thebiteshot.com for links to TicToc, Instagram, YouTube, and blog

In this episode, we sit down with PECAA's EVP for Member Business Advisory Bryan Hoban to discuss key performance indicators that give us a deeper look into the health of the practice. 

Key Takeaways:

1. The basics are always important: Revenue Per Patient, Frame Capture Rate, Revenue Per Pair, CL Capture Rate
2. Data is only as valuate as the insight it provides: why the numbers are what they are and the steps that need to be taken to improve them. Deeper KPI's provide greater understanding as to why the main KPIs are there they are. 
3. Unique KPI metrics to consider:
   1. Frame line by gender
   2. Frame line by age
   3. Frame sales by gender
   4. Frame sales by age
   5. $0 frame sales
   6. Frame sales per period of time
   7. CL sales per period of time
   8. Months of CL sold
   9. Annual supply rate
   10. Frames per refraction and Lenses per refraction
4. KPI's that don't always help:
   1. Revenue per refraction. High amounts of medical can really throw this data points off.
   2. Chair cost. It can be skewed in a way that leads to poor decisions especially around managed care plan acceptance.

Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast host Tony Gale chats with travel photographer and Sony Alpha Collective Member Michael Hollender in Michael's second time on the podcast. They chat about Michael's van-life experiment, the US National Parks and more.

You can see his work on Instagram @mrhollender 

The Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast is part of the Alpha Universe Podcast Network. See more at alphauniverse.com.

Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast host Tony Gale chats with astro and time-lapse photographer Noel Thomas. They talk about how he got started, his astro photography and time lapse, his go-to gear and more.

You can see Noel's work on Instagram @majestic_flights  and on Youtube.

The Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast is part of the Alpha Universe Podcast Network. See more at alphauniverse.com.

In today's episode, I sit down with Doug Martin, founder of InD Eyewear, a private label frame line exclusive to PECAA members. Every day consumers purchase private label products and goods. Offering these types of products to your patients dramatically impacts your practices profitability while delivering a product your patients will love. 

Key Takeaways:

1. 4/10 consumers embrace private label AND 9/10 consumers will purchase private label products and goods.
2. Private label reduces cost by lowering the amount companies need to invest in marketing, merchandising, and branding. This means lower costs and higher margins to your patients.
3. Private label no longer means low cost and low quality. Most patients are not brand conscious especially when it comes to eyewear.
4. Private label is a proven success in other industries, it will work in optometry. It dramatically works to improve margins with managed vision care.
5. The primary avenues for private label:
   1. Patients only want what their insurance covers
   2. Long margin play
   3. Saving walking Rx's by creating packages

What Doug is Reading:

• The First Major by John Feinstein

Learn more about InD Eyewear and how to leverage the power of Private Label in your own practice!

Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast host Tony Gale chats with Malaysia based portrait photographer and Sony Alpha Guru Michael Chee. They chat about how Michael got started with photography, his advice for new photographers, his go-to camera and more.

You can see his work on Instagram @michael_chee

The Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast is part of the Alpha Universe Podcast Network. See more at alphauniverse.com.

NEW bonus content! FUN SIZE Post Mortem: Ask Mick Anything - Producer Joe Russo is here to ask your fan-submitted questions to the keeper of the slab, Mick Garris! This episode they discuss why they keeper doing the podcast, whether modern restorations hurt or help a movie, what makes the "Amblin" look, their attitudes while collaborating on a script and more!

Have a question for Mick? Send it to our E-Mail at: AskMickAnything@gmail.com

POST MORTEM WITH MICK GARRIS

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Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast host Tony Gale chats with Indonesia based commercial photographer and Sony Alpha Guru Antonius Widjaya. They talk about Antonius got started with photography, his work, his advice for new architecture photographers, the gear he uses and more. You can see his work on on his website antoniphotography.com, and on Instagram @antoniuswidjaya

The Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast is part of the Alpha Universe Podcast Network. See more at alphauniverse.com.

Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast host Tony Gale chats with South Africa based filmmakers and Sony Ambassadors Hloni Coleman and Luke Bell. They talk about how they got started with filmmaking, their go-to gear, and more. You can see Hloni's work on Instagram at @hlonicoleman and Luke's work on Instagram @lukemaximobell and on Youtube, and both their work at XCIV.co.uk

The Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast is part of the Alpha Universe Podcast Network. See more at alphauniverse.com

Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast host Tony Gale chats with Connecticut-based wedding & portrait photographer Cate Barry. They talk about how Cate got started with photography, her advice for portrait photographers, the gear she uses and more. You can see her work at catebarry.com and on Instagram @catebarryphotography

The Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast is part of the Alpha Universe Podcast Network. See more at alphauniverse.com.

Tony Gale chats with celebrity, entertainment and film set photographer Clifton Prescod. They talk about how Clifton got started with photography, his advice for people who want to be set photographers, the gear he uses and more. You can see his work at cliftonprescod.com and on Instagram @cliftonprescod.

The Sony Alpha Photographers Podcast is part of the Alpha Universe Podcast Network. See more at alphauniverse.com.

A listicle is an article comprising a list.

A listicle is any piece of digital content that’s formatted as a list.

A listicle is an article comprising a list, usually with some kind of extra detail added to each item.

What we have here, then, is a podsticle.

Today on the B&H Photography Podcast, we catch up with the new photography gear that has been announced over the past few months. Attention goes to the Canon EOS R3 and Nikon Z 9 as big deal mirrorless reveals, the Nikon still scant on details, but what’s clear from these releases is the continued shift away from the DSLR format for these manufacturers. FUJIFILM, Pentax, Olympus, and Sigma added mostly updates to existing cameras over recent months, while Panasonic and Sony offered new models aimed at vloggers and streamers. An odd couple of Sony a7R series updates also made our list of new cameras, a list that will surely have many additions by the time we host our “cameras of the year” episode, in December.

The second half of the show is dedicated to lenses and accessories. Canon’s funky new RF 5.2mm f/2.8L Dual Fisheye 3D VR lens is highlighted and we mention several new Canon RF lenses, including the Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM. FUJIFILM introduced two new fast aperture lenses to go with the X-T30 II camera announcement and a beautiful 18mm f/1.4 R WR lens. Nikon put out several lenses for the Z system, including the affordable NIKKOR Z 40mm f/2 lens. Of the other manufacturers, all of whom released new lenses recently, Tamron was the busiest, with five entries. Also of note is Sigma’s new “Sports” designated 150-600mm f/5.6-6.3 DG DN OS telephoto zoom lens available in Leica L, Canon EF, Nikon F and Sony E mounts and the Venus Optics Laowa Argus 35mm f/0.95 lens.

We conclude the gear update with new light systems from Profoto, Godox, and Aputure, and we also mention webcams, drones, and new tabletop tripods from Joby.