M.H. Rubin
Co-Host of Everyday Photography, Every Day
Rubin's pedigree swings wide: making movies with Bernardo Bertolluci; premastering CDs for the Grateful Dead; developing the “paint-your-own pottery” studio industry; years at Netflix... but through it all he’s been a passionate photographer and collector. A few years ago he left his Senior Innovator role at Adobe to focus on fine art photography. He's now dedicated to his own work as well as teaching and collecting. His philosophy and workshops can be found at www.neomodern.com
M.H. Rubin has hosted 143 Episodes.
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47: Wabi Sabi and Photographic Imperfection
10 January 2019 | 13 mins 41 secs
art, crafts, creativity, photography
It's hard not to want to make your photos "perfect" whatever that might mean -- skin with no blemishes, compositions elegant, no reflections... but embracing the imperfect is part of improving your pictures. Learn about the philosophy of wabi-sabi...
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46: Look at the Light
6 January 2019 | 25 mins
art, crafts, creativity, photography
We're back and looking at moody lighting opportunities and how the think about them. Also, we dig into some reasons to limit how much you shoot, and how to organize the things you keep. But mostly it's about the light.
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45: Photographing Nudes - A Privileged Intimacy (The NSFW Episode)
31 December 2018 | 28 mins 18 secs
art, crafts, creativity, photography
One of the most fun and challenging subjects for photographers is nude figures; but how do you start? what do you say? In this episode Rubin reflects on his process in ways that are applicable to all sorts of every day photography.
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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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33: Interview about F64
25 November 2018 | 16 mins 25 secs
Concluding our Thanksgiving family series of episodes, this is an interview I did with my parents Mel and Lorna in 2001 about their art collection of photography.
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Thanksgiving Special Edition - The Rubin Bros.
24 November 2018 | 37 mins 37 secs
art, crafts, creativity, photography
The Rubin Brothers enjoy a lively conversation about our various interests; photography, magic, media, film and family. While the turkey was cooking, we retreated to his studio for a chat.
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32: Exploring Time, with Danny
21 November 2018 | 26 mins 19 secs
Danny Rubin is not only the writer of the movie "Groundhog Day" but as my brother, he was subjected to many of the same creative influences as visual artists like my sister and me. And yet all of us think a lot about time.