Ep. 18: Is Portrait Photographer as Lucrative as Fortune Says? - and more

Here's episode 18 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and subscribe via iTunes or RSS! Call 1-206-333-9308, leave a comment in this post, or use our voicemail widget for feedback/questions for the show. In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. A very enthusiastic Peter Hurley opens the show. THANKS SO MUCH PETER! (See what I did there?) Fortune magazine says that Portrait Photographer is one of the top 5 best careers for work-at-home parents. (#) What happens when you tell 6 photographers something different about their subject? Canon knows. (#) Sony releases powerful firmware for the a7 II giving it 14-bit uncompressed RAW and phase detection autofocus with adapted lenses. (#) National Geographic slashes 9% of its staff in advance of 21st Century Fox taking the reigns. (#) Polaroid sues GoPro over it's cube-shaped Session camera. Does camera shape even mater?!!! (#) Frederick Douglass appears to be the most-photographed man of the 19th century. (#) The New York Times teams up with Google and distributes 1.3 million Google Cardboard viewers. (#) Matthew checks in from Poland. Don't you think you should too?  Hint, hint. Thomas from Madison, Wisconsin in the USA leaves a voicemail via our widget and wants to know if he should stick with the straight-out-of-camera (SOOC) JPG or shoot RAW and convert it to JPG in Apple's Photos app on his Mac. Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget or call us at 1-206-333-9308. Alternatively, you can comment below or via social media. But we'd love to play and answer your question on the show! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: "Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you're listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!"