Photo Breakdown

Born in Los Angeles, Armando studied photography, architecture, and graphic design. The early ninety’s found him in Colorado where he worked in advertising, design, and publishing for the first 10 years. The last 18 years with his own company Mando-Matic, a photography, video, and retouching studio, has allowed Martinez to concentrate on the photographic image. An award-winning filmmaker, photo re...

Everyone can learn a lesson from this story. At some point in their career, every photographer will be put into a situation that makes them feel uncomfortable, disrespected, degraded, and so on. But today, I want to share a story with you, which was initially shared on Reddit and then made its rounds in mainstream news. Find the show notes and see the photo at photobreakdown.com Photo Breakdown do...

Dave Wilson, who hails from Scotland but has now lived in Texas longer than the UK (despite what you may think from his accent), has been an avid photographer since his early teens. While he’ll point a camera at just about anything, his favorite subjects are landscapes, architecture, rodeo, and sport although portraiture is beginning to play a larger role in his photographic life these days. He wr...

Kendrix has had a love for cameras, both photo, and video, since a young child. After spending time in Atlanta as a personal photographer, he moved to Thailand in 2012. That's when he focused on travel photography and started Freedom of Photography to share some of the photos and stories from his travels. He mainly photographs landscapes but he also works with non-profits and NGOs to photograph th...

Scott Diussa is a photographer, teacher, musician, and traveler.  He is a graduate of the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies at Daytona Beach College in Florida with a degree in Commercial Photography. His first position out of school was teaching photography at the Disney Institute at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. From there he joined Nikon and held five positions over twenty year...

Hi, it's your host Scott Wyden Kivowitz back with another episode sharing the story behind one of my favorite photographs in my collection. This photograph is 1 of 20,000 photographs I made for a client (and then Karate instructor) for a book that was published. In this episode, I share the story behind a flying sidekick photo and how it was made, and why one wasn't used. Find the show notes and s...

Travel photography is Mitch Russo's excuse to get out of town, visit crazy, exotic places, and make art. On a normal day, Mitch is an entrepreneur, coach, and advisor to startups. As a CEO Advisor to several companies at the same time, Mitch participates in many different business types, solving many diverse types of problems in sales organizations, marketing, technology, systems, and HR. Mitch ha...

David Rubin is a Dallas-based photographer specializing in Street Photography from around the world, especially Europe and Asia. He has had 4 exhibitions in Dallas at Zhens Music and Art Institute, where he also teaches photography for kids, hoping to inspire the same passion behind the camera. He has also shown twice in San Antonio during the city-wide Foto Septiembre as well as participating in...

Arnold has been an avid amateur photographer since the early 1980s. He worked with black and white and color negatives as well as slides. He had his own darkroom for color or black and white and after attending the Continuation of the Ansel Adams course at Yosemite in 1986. Arnold has attended a number of photo courses and trips throughout the years, but has been fortunate enough to travel with hi...

James Maher is most known for his street photography and photography talks at conferences, articles at industry sites like Digital Photography School and Photofocus, and of course, his ebooks. But James has been a commercial photographer for many years, working with clients including Daily News, Tiffany & Co, and many other New York businesses and businesses around the world.  In this episode,...

Lauri Novak is an award-winning fine art photographer, mentor, and author based outside of Chicago. She has an eye for photographing architecture, traveling as much as possible, and just wandering in nature with her camera.  In this episode, Lauri shares the story behind one of her favorite recent architecture photographs.  Find the show notes and see the photo at photobreakdown.com Photo Breakdow...

Welcome to the first episode of Photo Breakdown, a podcast where I talk with a photographer sharing the story of a specific photograph, technique, or business win. To kick things off, I share one of my favorite proposal photography photos in my portfolio. Find the show notes and see the photo at photobreakdown.com Photo Breakdown does not currently have a sponsor, so I thought I would give a shout...

Photo Breakdown is a podcast where I talk with a photographer sharing the story of a specific photograph, technique, or business win. I'm your host, Scott Wyden Kivowitz and this is photo breakdown - let’s break it down...