Light Meter

Photography books play a huge role in my life, from giving me inspiration to an inside look of the mind of the photographer, this episode discusses the importance of books and printed mediums, and how designing my own books has helped me as an artist.

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Gregory Crewdson is hugely inspiring to me with his cinematic landscapes, his tiny, hidden evocative details in every photo and a dreamlike feeling that accompanies every one of his images.

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In this episode I discuss movies, from the making to the collecting of them.

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Sally Mann is a fine art photographer that I connected with deeply after I moved away from my own family in the midwest to the opposite coast in California. I find her images comforting and relatable in that they speak of family and intimacy. However a result of this aesthetic was that she was accused of child pornography and racial insensitivity. 

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A big part of my development as a photographer was shooting live shows and bands. Here I talk about the journey from shooting tiny open mics to powell street in San Francisco to big venues.

Featuring photos of:

Robert Schultze

Arto

Wolves in the Throne Room

Hit Haunted

Pelican

Mono

Triclops

Boris

Jack Killed Jill

Alpine White

Katie Small

Chris Royall

John Praw Kruse

Kristin Jones

Alanna Jones

Darija Andzacovic

Bucket Man Band

Joshua Jahnke

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Featuring music (in order of appearance) by:

Pony “Lacuna Edo Voluntas”

Franz Schubert “Sonata Arpeggione”

The Twelve Bar Bluesband “Life is Hard (when you play the blues)”

Triclops, Live at Punfest

Bucketman, Live on Powell Street

Wrath of the Girth “Andromeda”

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Kent Marshall was my teacher for location lighting when I was at school in San Francisco. He’s one of the first people I showed my breakout body of work, Portraits of the 99% to.

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Richard Avedon was one of my biggest and earliest influences. His "In the West" series of portraits inspired my "Occupy Wallstreet" series, which launched my career.

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*Sorry about the audio, it sounds poor in the first half, but we were able to properly capture the 2nd half*

Daniel Garcia is a photographer in San Jose and the founder, photographer, and editor at Content Magazine. Here we discuss him coming up in the world of photography with model test shoots and film, his personal philosophies and what it’s like running a print magazine in the technology capital of the world.

Robert Stivers was the first photographer I can remember seeing their images and being floored by them. As a young man in the midwest I was not even aware of photography as a fine art, and his work opened my eyes as to what that could mean. He inspired me to attempt to create images I had never imagined before through technique and meticulous planning.

LightMeter Ep02: Interview with David Wasserman

David Wasserman is a commercial photographer and educator in California. His career has spanned 30+ years and he has worked with industrial and commercial clients like GM, Xerox and Bank of America, along with editorial clients like WIRED and New Media Magazine.

He taught several of my classes while I was in school, both on photography concepts and how to execute them.

This is the trailer for "Light Meter" a podcast by professional photographer Robert J Schultze. In future episodes we'll be discussing ideas and theories behind why pictures are the way they are, interviewing industry professionals and taking dives into the work of well known and lesser known photographers.  

Subscribe to hear and see future content, uploaded on a bi-weekly basis.  Written, produced and Recorded by Robert Schultze Assistant Producer Lauren Baines.  

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