Tonight’s episode is like an Adelaide photography masterclass.
Close your eyes and imagine a documentary about a rock star. Imagine the way they pan across still photos while the narrator shares stories about the artist. When I do this exercise, I think of Janis Joplin on her knees, Elvis Presley with beads of perspiration dripping from his forehead and cheeks, and Freddie Mercury punching the sky in front of a blazing wall of lights. Still images like these, the ones that make it to print and get etched into our cultural memories, are the ones that capture the essence of the performer and their performance. Our two guests tonight are masters of the lens. Leonard Choice is a New Yorker who lives in Adelaide. He switched from anatomy to fine arts at an early age, then became a performer, moved on to become an event creator and nowadays is a photographer and author with another book due for release. Paul Heck has a PhD in Photography and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Politics, who travels the state on photography assignments. He has run a successful glass art business, worked in Vocational Education and Training, been a member of the CFS for 36 years, and is even a high-performance motorcycle technician.
The image of Leonard Choice, Paul Heck, Steve and Nigel, was taken by Dr Astrid Birgden.
We discuss
- The role of shadow in photography
- Printed images vs virtual
- How to shoot in low light
- Can anybody take a great photograph
- Upcoming lessons with Leonard and Paul
- Leonard’s new book
Also appearing in the Adelaide photography masterclass episode
We hear about Nigel’s dalliance in the desert
In the musical pilgrimage, we hear a track by Ben Searcy
The SA Drink Of The Week is from Fox Creek.
In IS IT NEWS, Nigel tests us on
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Show notes running sheet by timecode
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| TIME | SEGMENT |
| 00:00:00 | Outtake |
| Are you recording us? | |
| 00:00:16 | Theme |
| Theme and introduction. Our original theme song in full is here, Adelaidey-hoo. | |
| 00:00:00 |
Talk Of The Town |
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David is on extended leave and will return later in 2016. David Washington, editor of In Daily, gives us a midweek wrap of the news we’ve been talking about in South Australia this week. |
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| 00:02:24 | SA Drink Of The Week |
| 2013 Fox Creek Shadow’s Run Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon McLaren Vale … tasting notes | |
| 00:15:38 | Items Without Notice |
| Nigel’s tales from Burning Man | |
| 00:30:08 | Leonard Choice and Paul Heck |
| Close your eyes and imagine a documentary about a rock star. Imagine the way they pan across still photos while the narrator shares stories about the artist. When I do this exercise, I think of Janis Joplin on her knees, Elvis Presley with beads of perspiration dripping from his forehead and cheeks, and Freddie Mercury punching the sky in front of a blazing wall of lights. Still images like these, the ones that make it to print and get etched into our cultural memories, are the ones that capture the essence of the performer and their performance. Our two guests tonight are masters of the lens. Leonard Choice is a New Yorker who lives in Adelaide. He switched from anatomy to fine arts at an early age, then became a performer, moved on to become an event creator and nowadays is a photographer and author with another book due for release. Paul Heck has a PhD in Photography and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Politics, who travels the state on photography assignments. He has run a successful glass art business, worked in Vocational Education and Training, been a member of the CFS for 36 years, and is even a high performance motorcycle technician. | |
| 01:38:54 | Is It News? |
| The news history quiz with Nigel Dobson-Keeffe. Read the stories. They get published each Sunday. | |
| 00:00:00 | Adelaide Visa Council |
| No cases this week. | |
| 01:57:54 | Musical Pilgrimage |
| And our song this week is Wangary by Ben Searcy, selected by our musical curator Dan Drummond. See video below. | |
| 02:11:50 | Outtake |
| Leonard is drooping … Obsessive photograhers | |
Here is this week’s preview video:
Ben Searcy, Wangary
SFX: Throughout the podcast we use free sfx from freesfx.co.uk for the harp, the visa stamp, the silent movie music, the stylus, the radio signal sfx, the wine pouring and cork pulling sfx, and the swooshes around Siri.