Suzanne Fritz-Hanson
Co-Host of Everyday Photography, Every Day
Suzanne Fritz-Hanson is a collaborator, a creative-problem-solver, a scrappy-maker-of-things-to-happen, a practiced-question-asker, a silly-dance-choreographer and a lover of hyphens... also, she's a Senior Creative Director at an experience marketing agency. Instead of a traditional print or digital advertising, she works with brands to merge physical and digital elements: "phydigital". "I love the power of a great image that captures more than a visual record and instead can tell an entire story. I love the constraints of photography and simultaneously appreciate the technological advancements that have democratized and advanced the medium."
Suzanne Fritz-Hanson has hosted 136 Episodes.
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44: A Minimum Quantity of Gear
26 December 2018 | 19 mins 53 secs
art, crafts, creativity, photography
Pros have great gear. But what do you need when you aren't a pro?
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43: Landscapes, Mostly...
23 December 2018 | 19 mins 37 secs
art, crafts, creativity, photography
Ansel Adams suggested that landscapes are the hardest photos to pull off. They are inspired by our amazing real life experience of the majestic outdoors, but somehow get crushed into little photos. Is there anything that can be done?
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41: The Instagram Dilemma
19 December 2018 | 20 mins 4 secs
Photographers have a love/hate with Instagram. It uses photos as social currency, which is a great way to get your images seen, but also suffers as a marginal way to experience a photo (small, quick), which isn't always what a photographer wants.
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40: Some Technical Questions Before the Holidays
16 December 2018 | 9 mins 38 secs
In this mini-episode Suzanne learns about smart phone image quality, archival printing, and making your images into something cool.
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39: The Composition "Asana"
14 December 2018 | 16 mins 46 secs
In my ongoing effort to replace traditional composition rules with a practice to exercise these skills, i take you on a visual tour over the radio. You might want the show notes to go with this one...
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38: Now, With Even More Zen...
11 December 2018 | 13 mins 32 secs
After a little googling, there's an entire "zen photography" ethos out there which resonates nicely with "everyday photography" -- learn how to make mindfulness and breath part of your picture-taking practice.
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37: The Way to Give Photographs as Gifts
8 December 2018 | 21 mins 34 secs
Giving art as a gift is always a dicey business; at the same time, there's nothing better than handmaking a personal present. Somewhere in there is the sweet spot: we also talk about size (it matters).
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36: The Presumption of Truth
4 December 2018 | 12 mins 49 secs
art, crafts, creativity, photography
Strong opinions, weakly held. Perhaps we shouldn't presume photographs are so true...
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35: Zen Your Photography
2 December 2018 | 15 mins 50 secs
So much of what we see is unconscious. This is generally a good thing, but being able to be present with what is around us is an important skill. As Dorthea Lange said "a camera is a device that teaches us to see without a camera."
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34: Composition Lessons from Louis (Stettner)
28 November 2018 | 18 mins 55 secs
and what, exactly, is "PhotoYoga"? Stettner is currently being featured at the SFMOMA, and I have a few take-aways from that exhibition.
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30: Learning from Looking
15 November 2018 | 18 mins 53 secs
Mastering your camera is fundamental, but the way to become good at photography is largely about looking at lots of photographs. By great photographers. A range of them. So how do you look at old work and what's the take away?
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29: Filters and Post Production (Great Photos are Made, Not Shot)
12 November 2018 | 16 mins 54 secs
Ansel Adams famously said that photographs were made, not taken. And while he invented the Zone System and "pre-visualization" his secret was to make images in post production. To paraphrase Adams' musical metaphor, the taken picture is the written song; the printing is the performance.
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28: Constraints and Photographic "Games"
10 November 2018 | 15 mins 4 secs
art, crafts, creativity, photography
There's nothing worse than a blank canvas. And being told you can take pictures of anything is actually a bit paralyzing. So here's some ways to break the jam and play creatively.
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27: The Annual Thanksgiving Show
8 November 2018 | 14 mins 20 secs
holiday, photos, thanksgiving
The holidays are picture-taking days! Tips and thoughts on shooting your festivities.
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26: Creating Personal Projects
6 November 2018 | 15 mins 50 secs
If you shoot enough, at some point someone will ask "what do you take pictures of?" and it's a surprisingly difficult question.
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25: How NOT to be an Amateurish Amateur
4 November 2018 | 13 mins 53 secs
What are the things we do as beginners that are good to work through...