Moving things around

It’s a big day here at On Taking Pictures and some big changes are afoot.

If you’re looking for my (that is Bill Wadman’s) rants, articles, and pictures well then you’ve got a new place to go. I’ve started blogging over on my new billwadman.com Squarespace site which you can get to here: http://www.billwadman.com/blog/

And of course if you want to be up to date on the latest On Taking Pictures podcast news, head over to our main page on 5by5 which is at: http://www.5by5.tv/otp  That’s where you can find all the episodes, show notes, iTunes links etc.

As for what’s going to happen to ontakingpictures.com, that’s a good question. I’ll mostly likely mirror the latest information from the 5by5 show page just in case. Who knows, maybe another adventure is on the horizon.

Thanks everyone!

On Eleanor

I got some terrible news last night. My good friend and muse Eleanor had died suddenly while visiting family for the holiday. No warning, no sickness, no time to say goodbye. She was one of the outliers the entire time I knew her. I would often use her as an example in conversations when I needed an example of someone who confounded the world’s expectations. Sassy to the nines and always so incredibly full of life that I can hardly believe that she could possibly be gone.

If you needed another reason why you should never wait to do that thing you’ve been meaning to do, or tell someone that you love them, here it is.

Below are a few of the photographs I made with Eleanor over the years.

For Sale: Like New Fuji x100s – SOLD!

*** SOLD!!! ***

In the end, this wonderful piece of photographic equipment just isn’t right for me so I’d like to find it a good home.

I’m selling my ‘Like New’ Fuji X100s.
– That includes the camera in the original box with all of the included accessories
– One additional battery
– 49mm Tiffen multi-coated sky filter (which can act as a permanent lens cap without worrying that the lens will get scratched)
– JB Camera Designs Grip-Base which protects the bottom of the camera and gives it a bit more size to boot.

A total of about $1400 worth of stuff list price, which I bought about a month ago so it’s still very much under warranty.

I’m selling for $1050. Plus you will save yourself the sales tax. US only please.

If you’re interested, email me bill@billwadman.com

Motion on Huffington Post

My Motion series from a few years ago was featured on Huffington Post today.
Pretty cool. Always nice to get millions of potential viewers for your work.

Go check it out yourself:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/14/bill-wadman_n_4086019.html?utm_hp_ref=arts

Beer Diplomacy Podcast Guest Spot

I was the guest today on Stuart Tracte’s podcast Beer Diplomacy. Which is interesting for multiple reasons. First, I don’t drink, and second we didn’t talk politics much at all. But we did discuss photography (of course), the new iPhone, and why the NSA spying pisses me off so much. Also, you can hear me swear which I don’t do very much on On Taking Pictures.

Enjoy.

Guest post on ScottKelby.com

I had the opportunity to write a guest post over on Scott Kelby’s blog this week. I wrote about working with portrait subjects and a few anecdotes about people I’ve worked with and how the experiences differed.

Go check it out if you’ve got a few minutes.

http://scottkelby.com/2013/its-guest-blog-wednesday-featuring-bill-wadman/

On Taking Pictures Podcast Theme Song

A lot of people have been asking about the song we use as the main theme for On Taking Pictures. It’s actually a song I wrote and performed with Andrea Mann from 2006 called ‘Eyes This Way’.

If you’d like to download it for your music collection, here’s a link to the mp3. You can do this for free of course, but please consider tipping Jeffery and I (in the right sidebar) or using the Amazon affiliate link (also in the right sidebar) to send a few cents our way. We greatly appreciate it.

Randy Duchaine’s “Created in Brooklyn” at Brooklyn Library 6/13 to 8/31

My good friend Randy Duchaine is showing a bunch of portrait photographs from his “Created in Brooklyn” series, which he’s been shooting as a personal project for the last 20 years(!), at the main branch of the Brooklyn Library at Grand Army Plaza from today until the end of August. It’s an amazing series and features a very diverse set of subjects from all around the borough. If you live in NYC or are visiting, you should definitely check it out. Here are a few of my favorites.

On Taking Pictures on 5by5

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We are pleased to announce that On Taking Pictures, everybody’s favorite photography podcast, is joining Dan Benjamin’s wonderful 5by5 network of shows. This way we’ll be painted with the same brush as Gina Trapani, Merlin Mann, and Andy Ihnatko. At least we can aspire to be as wonderful as those folks.

As far as the content of the show goes, it’s not going to change one iota. We have full creative control over where it’s going and what we say. I’ll still be fancy, Jeffery will still be old, and we’ll still blather on about the creative process for hours on end. The only thing that will change (hopefully) is that there will be more of you listening.

From here on in the new url for the podcast and shownotes is: http://5by5.tv/otp. I will likely mirror the show notes and such here at ontakingpictures.com as well, but the official feed will be on Dan’s servers. If you’re subscribed to the current feed, we’re doing some redirect magic which should automatically update on your end. However, the process of moving a feed from one place to another, and one cms to another is a complicated one. This may mean that your favorite podcast software will download multiple copies of the latest show and other such nonsense. This is a temporary and unavoidable issue, but we’ll do our best to mitigate any of your pain going forward. If you end up having any serious or fatal problems that you think we should be aware of, send us an email to podcast at ontakingpictures.com and we’ll get right on it.

Thank you so much for your support and listenership. We’d be nothing without our community.

– Bill Wadman & Jeffery Saddoris

Subjects Required: December Portrait Project 2012

Last year during the month of December, I photographed a daily series of conceptual portraits. Shot and posted by the time I went to bed, it reminded me of the heady days of 365 Portraits when the pressure of having to produce constantly fed my creativity. Well it’s time to do it again starting on Saturday and I need a pool of subjects to work from. So if you’re interested in being part of some art, listen up!

• You need to be in NYC or can be in NYC for the shoot. (I’ll also be in the Arlington, VA / DC area for a few days the weekend before Christmas if you live down there)
• You need to be reliable, because I’m doing one a day and the shoots will often require a bit of planning and involve other people so I can’t have you canceling at the last minute.
• You need to be willing to play a role and possibly ham it up a bit for the camera if necessary.
• You understand that this is not an opportunity for a free headshot or portrait session.
• You will be required to sign a model release.
• Most importantly I want people who want to make something great.

So if you meet all these requirements then send me an email to bill@billwadman.com with:

1. A recent picture of yourself
2. Your whereabouts in NYC
3. Your general schedule or particular dates which might work
4. Any interesting places you have access to which might make for an interesting setting

As I book certain dates, I’ll be updating this public Google calendar to show which slots are taken.

Thanks so much and please spread the word.

To get an idea of what you’d be in for, here are some of my favorites from last year: