Welcome to ReImagine Season 2 with Ewen Bell and Grant Williams. Today we’re talking about curating sets of images. A single image can tell a thousand words, but a curated set can tell the whole story. Selecting your images is a skill that take

S2E2 / How To Make A Living

Sep 28th, 2021 1h 6m

Welcome to ReImagine Season 2 with Ewen Bell and Grant Williams. This episode is all about the career side of photography – HOW TO MAKE A LIVING. We look inside the world of running a business and what’s required to move from something you do f

S2E1 / Walk With Me

Sep 7th, 2021 1h 19m

Welcome to the ReIMAGINE podcast with Ewen Bell, and Grant Williams. This week we’re back with Season Two of the podcast and we’re taking a deep dive into the world of bird photography in the city. “Walk With Me” is a new video collection you c

15 / The One Essential Food Shot

Dec 12th, 2020 30m 26s

Welcome to the ReIMAGINE podcast with Ewen Bell, and Shellie Froidevaux. This week we’re chatting about food photography and how to capture that “one essential food shot”. Normally we record with David Norris, but for this chapter I’ve called i

14 / Shallow Depth of Field

Nov 10th, 2020 40m 35s

Welcome to the ReIMAGINE podcast with Ewen Bell, and David Norris. This week we’re chatting about “shallow depth of field” and why it’s such a powerful creative tool for photographers. What do you need to make it work, and what hurdles stand in

SP1 / Auroras from Norway

Sep 30th, 2020 34m

This podcast was recorded while on the road in Arctic Norway. We want to bring you along to experience the challenge of capturing the Northern Lights deep inside the Arctic Circle where the temperatures are well below zero.Join us for our aur

12 / Life After The Shutter

Sep 4th, 2020 33m 50s

Welcome to the ReIMAGINE podcast with Ewen Bell, and David Norris. This week we’re looking at a chapter called “Life After The Shutter”, and the idea of getting those images off the hard drive and into the world. Our discussion looks at why the

11 / Less is More

Aug 11th, 2020 39m 59s

This week we’re talking about curation of images. The process of culling, selecting and rejecting your photos is a difficult step in presenting work. The chapter is called “Less is more”, because we seek the balance between too little and too m

10 / The Image Gap

Jul 7th, 2020 33m 13s

This episode we’re talking about the IMAGE GAP, and it’s many forms. Sometimes it’s the gap between your skills and your ambition. Sometimes it’s the gap between reality and photography. Often it’s the gap bap between the world you see on socia

09 / Pointlessly Lovely

Jun 1st, 2020 32m 57s

This week David Norris joins us over the wire to talk about the deeper meaning of art in photography, and capturing with a conceptual foundation. Taking photography beyond the lovely and into the expressive.We start the discussion in Paris, w

08 / Inclusive Frame of Mind

May 1st, 2020 31m 57s

"Inclusive frame of mind” is a technique I teach to people to improve their compositions, as an antidote to that tendency to crop too tight. We often end up focusing too much on what we want out of the frame, and not enough on what we want IN t

07 / Learning to Love the Digital Darkroom

Apr 2nd, 2020 45m 59s

Capturing images is only half the job. Processing is essential. This chapter is not so much about HOW to process but WHY to process. Learning to love the Digital Darkroom explores the joy of digital imaging and the power of the RAW file. We als

06 / Panoramas

Mar 18th, 2020 26m 50s

This episode of ReIMAGINE we’re talking about stitching panoramas together, with Ian Rolfe. He’s just launched a new youtube channel to share his secrets and inspiration. We talk to Ian about techniques for processing panos, shooting them and s

05 / Birds for Photographers

Mar 7th, 2020 44m 28s

A big conversation about small birds. How to focus your creativity on our feathered friends, and what techniques can help improve your luck with the camera.ewenbell.com/birds

04 / Slow Shutter Photography

Feb 25th, 2020 45m 19s

We talk a little bit about the practicalities of slow shutter work, but also want to give you inspiration as to *why* you might want to give it a go. We look at all the gear that is essential to slow shutter photography, and then get to grips w

03 / Getting It Wrong

Feb 16th, 2020 22m 25s

Perfection is the antithesis of creativity and making mistakes is an essential part of learning. The path to success is through your failures, not around them. How to get it wrong in the best possible way.

02 / Why We Ask First

Feb 8th, 2020 24m 7s

What's more important, to get permission or to get the shot? What if getting permission *IS* the best wasy to get the shot?A version of this conversation happens on every photo tour. The idea within is powerful and can really transform your a

01 / Why Competitions Suck

Feb 6th, 2020 26m 22s

This episode we’re exploring a chapter of my book called “Why Competitions Suck”, with David Norris. David has a lot of experience judging competitions at club, state and national level. So we started by talking about what it means to score a p

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