Great podcast, what always makes laugh is beginner and others getting all tribal with camera brands. If camera companies were aiming everything at the professional they wouldn't sell many,for my business I have to justify every piece of gear, if it gets the job done it stays in the bag. But hobby photographers tend to be more seduced by the latest and greatest. Go out and buy a Canon 5D mark ii or Nikon D700 and a couple of primes and go out and practice.

Nice review.

This video and you are FAB. A breath of fresh air. Loving your work and am looking forward to following along on your incredible journey, now go out and fill that space! Hurrah.

Is it just me or your content is the realest I've found on KZbin thus far, so relatable and personal. Thank you Khandie❤

Love, love, love Loxley. Have a look at their alumini range. Utterly gorgeous.

Most things these days you can learn on the internet - I regret taking a photography course, people learn more from experimenting and books than doing a course. 😂

love this❤

All these so-called photographers need to be called out and, if possible, driven from the industry. Tough poop for them.

I am not a professional photographer, but I am a designer. The number of portfolios that i have received for jobs... i reverse image check and found the work on other peoples pages is crazy! Like what did they think would happen? Now, with students still in school, you will often see them use photos found online. I have no issue with this, and if they get to the interview process i tell them that they need to credit the photographer and they cannot use the photos / artwork as stand alones in the spread, and see if they understand that you cannot do that in a professional setting. usually, if they were students of a credible university they have already done this or already know, understand I know talent has little to nothing to do with attending a 'good school', but you are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT in saying if you are entering an industry you have to know the basic laws (and what baffles me is how much of this is common sense). story of how i was screwed by someone using my work. this goes way way back to when i was applying to schools. I had a pretty strong portfolio and had to travel about 8 hours to do an in person interview. they looked at my work and seemed impressed until they got to my photography pages (all black and white done in my high school lab). One photo, the largest of the set, was an image of tire tracks on snow. The one instructor nudge his coworker (who was basically there to just give the stern silent intimidating stares). they started asking me questions about that one piece. me thinking "oh these guys must really like this cliché representation of the north" ... I stated where it was taken, the camera I had (an old made in the USSR SLR that my father owned) and you know stuff like that. they just nodded and sent me off on my way. i was speaking with other students and the senior student helping with the admitting and everyone seemed to say that they were looking for designers that didnt just have drawing skills, but photographic and video skills. I thought WOW GREAT ... they seemed quite interested in my photography. Fast forward, I am at a friends place for a going away party for his sister. He tells me that he applied to the same school and i say cool hopefully we both get in. he offered to show me his portfolio ... all his anime art (not judging but that was the thing at the time for some) and then ... the photographs. now, him and i were often lab partners. and i had GIFTED him several prints at the end of the term ... and you guessed it 'tire tracks on snow' was one of them. I know i had written on the BACK OF THE PHOTO ... something like "best of luck, loved having you as a lab partner and taxi driver and my name" OF COURSE, he mounted this photo. and when i question him... and said I ALSO SHOWED THIS ... THIS GUY... THIS IDIOT says "oh well i guess we kinda screwed each other then" i was livid! i said "no you screwed me... this isn't your work" and he didn't give three shits. As I have now worked in the industry for as long as I have ... I see that the people who don't really have the passion for it are the ones that do the copying and think nothing of it. They usually dont even attend industry events or even get newsletters. but sadly for some of them the delusion gets them jobs. and it is so frustrating and leaves people like myself who work hard, have the capabilities constantly questioning their own stills and living in imposter syndrome jail. sadly with the uptake in certain technologies ... more and more it seems people do not care. and to have an industry full of professionals who have just dropped the ball on the ethics is disheartening.

You're completely right - and I think it all stems from a mindset put in place years and years ago with the advent of Google Images and the distribution of free music through Napster, Limewire etc. It's the idea that "copyright" is the thing of big bad corporations and people are entitled to free access to whatever they want. Erm... No. It's the artists that ultimately suffers. Before I decided to make photography my bread and butter, I used to be a web developer. The amount of times I'd have clients giving me images they pulled off Google. "Use that".... "erm... I can't". Zero understanding or education. Even my professional indemnity insurance had a paragraph that said it would protect me if a 3rd party was stupid enough to use unauthorised images.. so it's a known issue. However, I'm shocked that other photographers would pass images off as their own though. Authenticity is everything in this biz, so it makes zero sense to me. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. Keep up the great videos. Go get a hot toddy for that throat :)

Hi Khandie. I have thoroughly enjoyed your 2024 podcast. It made me laugh out loud and it also made me cry😢. I am so happy that you accepted my invitation to V and B to enjoy an evening of amazing music with Stephen Tanner. Your book title is perfect, I have read it and gifted it to a photographer friend. Your work in Northampton highlighting graffiti and fly tipping should give the lazy councillors a fiem kich up the backside!. I love the person that you are, you remind me of my much younger self. I will have another copy of your book ( signed of course!) Get me in 'that members club' in Northampton and we can cause mayhem together! Most of all, love yourself in 2025 and you'll be just fine! Happy New year! Barbara. X

Giving this a 👍 is insufficient… there needs to be a standing & applauding & whooping & hollering emoji. Khandie… love ya matey 🤘

BRAVO Khandie, Although i only play at photography you are the one person who inspires what i do everyday , Good luck in 2025 and maybe we will meet up at the Cruisers weekender and you can sign my book .🙂

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What a wonderful project!

At first i thought oh no not another photography podcast, And wasn't going to watch it but i have, Did i like it, Yes i did, Am i going to watch the next one, Of course i am. Nice one Khandie you being you is always entertaining and interesting.😀

What a stunning, amazing lady you are. Such an inspiration. 👏👏👏

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You're fabulous❤

Thanks for the name drop 😊Keep being you and you'll keep growing, I promise 👍

I totally get you abput the way Sean Tucker talks to your soul, and he's such a genuine personality.

do you have any tips for male poses for the newbie/wannabe fashion fan? you are using handheld and have a moving model, doesn't that risk getting blurred shots or is that not so much of a issue because you had such strong natural light?

I've had my business cards moved/binned by a competitor and it's so disrespectful! But also, if you feel that threatened by my work, I must be doing something right lmaooo

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Better than digital

Thanks so much for this! so useful hearing real advice! im building my own business this year after 7 years of photography :)

I have fallen into this trap to the point I wonder if anyone will ever pay me a proper fee!

Love this book.

Gear is always loaned on a "You bend it, you mend it!" basis. Always!

A great little book, Straight to the point with no BS , If you own a camera this is the only book you need 😁

Sadly i know photographers who thought they had relinquished their copyright by uploading it to facebook, and thought by putting online it makes it public domain

Just ordered my copy 😀

Bought it this morning, gonna use it every time I need a kick up the ar*e !

Unless it's really cool concept and I can use it in my portfolio , I just move on.

The sad thing about all of this is that you literally need to explain why you shouldn’t provide a service for free - people are so wrapped up in their own work that nobody else’s work is valuable.

The only free work I shoot is concert shoots, only because I'm a metal head and I love it !

Awesome video - totally hits the nail on the head. I think one step up from working for free (but just as bad) is when you get asked for a shoot and the person says their budget is like £100. Then in the next breath they show you a mood board they’ve created showing what they want - and it’s got shoots for mainstream products that probably had a six+ figure shoot budget. Yeah, sure.. I’ll replicate that.. As for charities - yep, used to do design work for a couple (paid) - they have massive budgets. Fundraisers and the management teams usually give themselves pretty tasty salaries as well as other perks - so defo never work for free.

Now....This is eactly WHY i prefer photographing nature and what I want. So what you see is my perspective, nothing more, nothing less. I dont do weddings, i dont do ANYTHING else than what i want. So it might not pertain fully to me, but its my take on it.

Is this who I think it is?

Thats funny holding my head x

I saw a homeless man masturbating in public. I was going to take a picture to turn in to the police, but I didn’t want to offend him and his dignity so I didn’t.

If I am just practicing and not making money off the photos I see no worries about it. But if I do plan to make money I will ask them for their permission and some contact info. IF I do make money off of it, I then contact them to pay them a royalty. Sharing people at their worst can be a good thing, be it for someone that might be traveling down a similar path or for the one photographed as a way for them to change their path. Having done work with homeless in the Seattle area for years, almost everyone from Vancouver BC to at least San Francisco are there by choice. They have traveled here to get cheap drugs, free money, and okay weather (not too hot or cold but damp). The few that end up homeless and not on drugs are there for a very short time and there are tons of resources to help them out. I stopped working with the homeless after getting sandwiches thrown at me and telling me to F off and give them cash. That wasn't even the first time that happened. If you want to take photos and show the worst that a society with no issues can devolve to, then go for it. I have traveled the world and been to many nations where our homeless have it better than most citizens have it. Most of our homeless are there by choice not by accident. A few of the homeless I took photos of got help after I printed them out and shared the picture with them. One hunted me down and showed me he got clean and is working and doing well, and keeps the photo frames in his living room to not only remember what bad choices got him, but to show new friends that you to are just a couple bad choices away from being like he was. For context I have spent most of my professional life covering war and protests. So, homeless in the western world are nothing in comparison. When you see suffering thrust upon others and it will change you're outlook on things like taking a photo of the homeless. But if you are a street photographer or a wedding photographer, I get why you're soft and think it could be wrong.

You can take the Sontag stance, that everything photographed is automatically an interpretation of a likeness, not really the thing itself, but don't over-intellectualize the whole thing. It is a Picture. That's it. If you need a photograph of a homeless person, you go find one. Hopefully, you have that person's permission to make such an image. The problem with this type of story is it takes an INORDINATE amount of time to sit down and connect with people/persons who are perhaps "homeless" or some variation thereof. But, if you can do that, you may have something worth sharing. I had a professor who used to give as one of the rules for his photo class: "NO SLEEPING HOMELESS PEOPLE". Yeah.

I was recently in Vancouver, and I was walking through a spot where there were hundreds of homeless folks on a short stretch of road. What I saw was jarring, so I put the camera away. They are all human beings and deserve dignity. So, to me, photographing those who are homeless -- off limits.

Q. Is it wrong to give homeless people money?… Is it wrong to ignore people begging?… Is it wrong to ignore that homeless people exist right in front of you?… If you are documenting your environment, is it wrong to then ignore them by not photographing them, and photographing everyone else? Ditto for Children?… Ditto for the elderly?… Ditto for candid shots of people minding their own business or just out shopping? Q. Is it wrong to photography any of these, or is it more wrong to publish?… Does this extend to video or is it just photography that is wrong? For me, as a street documenter it is only wrong, if you tell yourself it is wrong. There are other genres of photography that I would not do, so I don't do them, but I wouldn't attempt to stop those who are doing it, so long as it is not breaking the law. We are not all going to agree on this, and we all have our red lines, but to me that is a good thing not bad.

You will find that in any profession or expensive hobby.