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!

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.

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

Go check it out yourself:

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

Enjoy.

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/

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.

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

• 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:

They’re a family run company who make fantastic products which make manipulating your pictures a breeze. Today’s sale only makes it more appetizing. So if you’ve been considering taking the plunge, right now would be a good time to do it.

http://www.gettotallyrad.com/?id=1435

Click to expand and they may get big enough to read the text comfortably.

A few years ago I made series of 45 ‘cinematic’ portraits. Each image was a little vignette , just a piece of a larger story where you got to fill in the rest with your imagination. As a play off the ‘picture is worth a thousand words’ thing, I called the series Drabbles after a narrative literary form of exactly one hundred words. So, 100 words of a 1000 where you fill in the other 900. Cute right?

Well today my long-time friend and author Jes Young, whose book “Tab Bennett and the Inbetween” you should go buy on the Amazon kindle store right now (Especially if you’re into elf princesses and love triangles), wrote a couple of actual drabbles to go with a couple of my actual Drabbles.  Very cool. And is even inviting her readers to submit their own, which is also very cool.

“Mary is Dead”
http://jesyoung.com/2012/08/mary-is-dead-a-drabble/

“Sonya s Leonard: A Drabble”
http://jesyoung.com/2012/08/sonya-%E2%99%A5s-leonard-a-drabble/

So go check them out and submit your own in the comments. I’m still waiting for someone to write one about the shot of Chris Berger at the top of this post.

You can check out the whole series again here: http://www.billwadman.com/drabbles/

And of course as always, there are prints available over at: http://www.wadmaneditions.com/

I’m in a printing frenzy today while updating my portfolio, so I thought I’d do a little special print sale of a street photograph I took last summer. Not the kind of thing I’m typically known for, but geometric, interesting and a little abstract. It was one of my favorites of the year despite the fact that I don’t like shooting street photography.

So I’m going to put up only five 11×14″ signed prints for sale for the low-low price of $50 plus shipping.

If you’ve ever wanted a print of my work for your wall. Now’s your chance. Get ’em while they’re hot!

If you want more, there’s always http://www.wadmaneditions.com/

There will be more workshop announcements in NYC area later in the summer but in the meantime I’m looking to expand westward.

Apparently it’ll also be available in fancier magazine stores in NYC, LA, and SF, but you don’t have to wait, you can check out my interview on the interwebs. http://issuu.com/eloquence/docs/eloquence_may_05   My article starts on page 70.

Tab Bennett and the Inbetween (Princess of Twilight and Dawn)

Seriously, I learned all kinds of new tricks for masking hair on this one.

In the meantime, I wanted to let you guys know that there are still a couple of slots left for my May 12th Workshop on ‘Mastering Light’ for Portraits. I’ve even put up a page on my site where you can read more details and keep track of upcoming dates!

http://www.billwadman.com/workshop/

I admit it. I love sharing what I know with people. In fact, that’s what most of the writing on this blog is about. But there’s something about teaching people in person which totally trounces writing, so I’m going to do what I’ve been meaning to do for years now.

I’m announcing a series of workshops here in New York City in which I’ll going to explain how I make portraits. One every couple of months is the plan. Since it’s a lot of information, we’re going to start at the beginning with the first workshop with ‘Light’. I’ll talk about controlling available light, how I use speedlights, studio strobes & modifiers, how to get the best out of your subject, lens selection, and more. You’ll have questions, I’ll have answers.

Saturday May 12th is going to be the date, and we’ll work together for 4 hours from 1PM to 5PM in the afternoon. I’ll have an attractive model of some persuasion for you to work with, and we’ll spend some time critiquing each other’s results so that all of us can walk away better photographers.

Total Workshop Fee for ‘Light’: $250 + $50 model fee

If you’re interested and would like to register, all I need right now is a $125 non-refundable deposit to save your spot.
Click below to be taken to the Paypal site to snag a seat for what I hope is going to be a great and knowledge packed afternoon.

Also, since this is the first one, I’m going to limit it to a fairly small number of participants so don’t wait too long to sign-up!

In subsequent workshops I plan to cover conceptual compositing, digital workflow, and retouching.
Don’t panic this is just the beginning. Very exciting!