Jeff Curto's Camera Position
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Jeff Curto's Camera Position
A Podcast About the Creative Side of Photography
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Camera Position 213 : What’s your hashtag?
How do you consider yourself as a photographer in terms of the work you do? Is it important to tell your viewers how you define your work as being a p...
Camera Position 212 : Sources & Resources
This episode covers some practical details. I go over the places where you can listen to Camera Position and list a number of online resources for you...
Camera Position 211 : What not to do
"Whatever you do with your photography - don't ever do... "that"
Our desire to learn quickly, be noticed in social media and not make any...
Camera Postion 210 : The Calming Camera
I can’t think of a time in my life that has been more disconcerting than this last year. The pandemic and the disruption to our daily routine. We don’...
Camera Position 209 : Your Own BackYard
During this pandemic time, we have been forced to trade in the allure of travel for the allure of the backyard. As I return to the podcast after a lon...
Camera position 208 : Bringing Ourselves to the Photograph
By slowing down as we look at photographs – ours or someone else’s – we can more easily bring ourselves to the photograph, and by doing that, learn mo...
Camera Position 207 : On Warming Up
Musicians warm up before they make music, but what about visual artists? Do photographers need to warm up before they create photographs? I think yes,...
Camera Position 206 : The Artful Life
Some thoughts on living an artful life, led off by poet Mary Oliver’s “Instructions on Living a Life” Pay attention Be Astonished Tell about it. Play...
Camera Position 205 : Your Life Is Your Art
Rather than trying to make art your life, work instead on trying to make every day of your life into art. “You just have to live and life will give yo...
Camera Position 204 : Always A Reward
The act of making photographs connects me to the world, to my medium and to myself. When I make photographs, there is always a reward. Play Podcast: ...
Camera Position 203 : Your Eyes and The Lens
Many people think of a wide lens as a way to get farther away from a subject, but I think of a wide lens as a way for us to get closer… a wide lens is...
Camera Position 202 : Exploring The World And Ourselves
Podcast listener Tracy wrote: “Photography comes from the depths of who we are. It is not only an exploration of our world, it is also an exploration...
Camera Position 201 : Digging Deeper
What is your story? What are you curious about? What do you care about? How can your photographs express those interests? Making stronger photographs...
Camera Position 200 : Make Interesting Mistakes
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes and art is knowing which mistakes to keep. Instead of living in fear of “getting it wrong,” a better...
Camera Position 199 : Playing Like Yourself
“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.” -Miles Davis One of the most consistent questions I get from students is th...
Camera Position 198 : Losing and Finding Ourselves
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton How can we use the art we make with the camera to grow, learn...
Camera Position 197 : Let the Subject Take Precedence
When the subject takes precedence – when you point your camera at things that are the most interesting thing to you – you are on your way to developin...
Camera Position 196 : A Sense of Place
How do we go beyond a record of a place and begin to make photographs that convey a real sense of place? The objective is not just to show what your...
Camera Position 195 : The River of a Story
This episode is a little meditation on the importance of aligning ourselves with the messages around us, using Anne Lamott’s book Bird by Bird as insp...
Camera Position 194 : Our Wish To Persist
“But the art in an artwork might not be located precisely where you thought it was. Perhaps it was just as much in the damage and decay as it was in t...
Camera Position 193 : Is It Art?
As photographers, we know that there is a fairly wide range of options available to us that change what was to what we show the world in our images. E...
Camera Position 192 : John Berger, Looking and Seeing
An early influence on my ways of thinking about photography on a deeper level was the great writer John Berger. A poet, novelist, artist screenwriter...
Camera Position 191 : Walt Whitman, Poetry and Photography
Walt Whitman’s poems in his opus Leaves of Grass mirror the actions of the photographer by beginning with facts and transforming those facts into idea...
Camera Position 190 : Watching Photographers Photograph
“You can observe a lot just by watching.” – Yogi Berra I like to see photographers out in the world and watch them photograph. Observing how photograp...
Camera Position 189 : Cultivate The Itch, Not The Scratch
What drives and motivates photographers to do the work they do? I think that our unifying motivation is curiosity – an unrelenting, never-ending curio...
Camera Position 188 : You Are Worth The Time
Do you take time to be creative each day? The creative act is worth taking the time for. It’s worth making the time for. It’s what holds us up and kee...
Camera Position 187 : Always Make the Photograph
If you see a picture that you think you may have photographed before, take it. Both the subject and the photographer may have changed since the last t...
Camera Position 186 : Objective and Subjective
Among the many things that make photography such an interesting pursuit are its qualities of objectivity combined with subjectivity. In the end, photo...
Camera Position 185 : God Is In The Details
In addition to the phrase “Less is More,” the great architect Mies Van der Rohe also had another saying that relates to making creative work, and that...
Camera Position 184 : Look At The Path, Not The Mountain
Whether it’s a stack of dishes in the sink, moving forward with your photography or climbing up a steep mountain, looking at the path that you’re trav...
Camera Position 183 : Conscious Photography
The difference between a conscious and an unconscious photographer is that the conscious photographer produces better work by thinking more and photog...
Camera Position 182 : The Art of the ‘Zine
In a few past episodes, we’ve looked at alternate ways to get your work in front of an audience, and here’s another one: ‘Zines. This “low-fi” type o...
Camera Position 181 : Less Is More
The great architect Mies van der Rohe is famous for the phrase “Less is More” to describe his approach to simplifying his designs. That philosophy can...
Camera Position 180 : Mining the Data Set
From aperture and focal length to shutter speeds and focus points, our modern photographic tools give us a wealth of information about our photographs...
Camera Position 179 : Embracing the Almost
All of us make photographs that, for some reason, don’t quite work, even though we had high hopes for them. If we embrace those photographs that almos...
Camera Position 178 : Everyday Creativity
When you face something you think you can’t possibly do and then go ahead and do it anyway creativity is the tool you use. Play Podcast: Links for thi...
Camera Position 177 : It’s Not a Pursuit, It’s a Medium
A lot of people who are “into” photography seem to think of the “doing” of photography as the end unto itself. While the mechanical act of making phot...
Camera Position 176 : 10 Rules Rules for Getting Started
The American abstract expressionist painter Richard Diebenkorn (1922 –1993) is noted not only for his great work, but also for his thoughts about the...
Camera Position 175 : From One, Many
There’s an old adage in photography: “inside every 8×10” print, there is a really excellent 5×7” image waiting to be found.” That old saw is the found...
Camera Position 174 : The Lone Tree & The Logo
A listener asked where the logo for Camera Position came from, which gave me an impetus to talk about that photograph and the concept of the Lone Tree...