In this episode, Daniel will discuss the specialist – generalist debate in photography.
Episode 031: Duologues – A conversation with Nina Welch-Kling
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, Daniel Sigg will discuss the 19th century art movement impressionism, and how it relates and intersects with photography.
Create (daily): Concepts
This is an article I drafted in early 2021, and never published. I recently went over my draft posts and re-discovered it and decided to post. It is interesting how almost everybody talks about how bad 2020 was, and how much better (hopefully) 2021 will be (or should be). But we are just talking about a concept, an arbitrary day … Read More
Episode 030: Should you specialize?
In this episode, Daniel will discuss the specialist – generalist debate in photography.
Episode 029: Seeing with your heart – A conversation with Valérie Jardin
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, we will discuss how to use intuition in photography.
Create (Daily): Architektur
Architektur (german) is architecture. Some recent images. Minneapolis, downtown.
Episode 028: Intuition and Photography
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, we will discuss how to use intuition in photography.
Episode 027: Exploring the True Face of the World – An introduction to Werner Bischof
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, Daniel Sigg is introducing Swiss Magnum photographer Werner Bischof.
Episode 026: Impressionism
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, Daniel Sigg will discuss the 19th century art movement impressionism, and how it relates and intersects with photography.
Episode 025: The Power of Print – A Conversation with Daniel Milnor
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, Daniel Sigg has a conversation with Daniel Milnor about the power of print and other things.
Episode 024: Cinematic Portraiture – A Conversation with Ben Staley
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, Daniel Sigg is discussing portraiture with filmmaker and photographer Ben Staley.
Episode 023: The creative intersection of different art forms
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify RSS Feed Listen on Google Podcasts Listen on Stitcher For more listening options and all other episodes, please click here. For sharing, download or additional listening options, hover over the player and click on the sharing icon on the player (bottom right). In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, we will discuss the … Read More
Episode 022: The Art of Seeing in Street Photography – a Conversation with Rinzi Ruiz
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg had a conversation with New Zealand based photographer Paul C Smith. We talked about his style / finding a voice, his influences, and other aspects of his creative process.
Episode 021: Depth
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, Daniel will talk about creating depth in our images. We will discuss 10 ways on how we can create depth including perspective, selective focus, layers and many others.
Episode 020: Film Photography in 2021? Some Thoughts
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg will discuss how the physics of light. This in theory dry topic will hopefully become more interesting as we discuss how we can leverage some of the light properties creatively.
Episode 019: a Simple Approach to Artistic Photography – a Conversation with Paul C Smith
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg had a conversation with New Zealand based photographer Paul C Smith. We talked about his style / finding a voice, his influences, and other aspects of his creative process.
Episode 018: 70s, Surrealism and Super 8 – a Conversation With Em Jensen
Em is based in Melbourne, although she’s often on a roadie in the outback. She photographs fashion, love and adventures on 35mm film, polaroid, digital and super 8 (video).
A Conversation with Bastian Roman Peter
Bastian, you have been doing street photography in Switzerland for a while. Can you tell me what it is like? What has your experience been? It has been great so far. Honestly. But I haven’t been doing it for long and I wouldn’t call myself experienced or even very good at it. But the negative experiences were very little and … Read More
Episode 017: Authentic Portraiture – a Conversation with Chris Orwig
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg had a conversation with California-based based portrait photographer, teacher and author Chris Orwig. We talked about authentic portraiture.
Episode 016: The Art of Seeing – an Introduction to the Photography of Ernst Haas
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg will discuss the photography of Ernst Haas. There will be a brief overview of his work, and then an image review of three of his images. Haas was one most influential photographers of the 20th century. And one of the pioneers of color photography.
Episode 015: Quitting Social Media – a Conversation with David duChemin
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg had a conversation with Canadian Photographer, Author and Creativity Expert David duChemin. David has been a professional creative and has a big social media following. We talked about his experience of quitting social media, the life after and other things.
Episode 014: Minimalism In Photography And Gear – A Conversation With Nicole Struppert
In this episode Daniel will have a conversation with Nicole Struppert about her photography, creative process, minimalism in photography and gear, and other things.
Episode 013: Light, Gesture and Color – a brief introduction to Jay Maisel
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, Daniel will give a brief introduction to the stunning photography of American photographer Jay Maisel. Jay had a long career as commercial photographer, and photographed the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Miles Davis. But he really got well know for his use of light, gesture and color in everyday scenes. Daniel will also review 3 of Jay’s images.
Create (daily): Just Another Street Photography Outing
The cities are so empty these days (December 3 2020). We are still in partial lockdown, restaurants are closed, and the streets more than ghostly. I have been out photographing in downtown Minneapolis again. Street photography with plenty of empty streets and almost no people. The few people I did see I tried to capture including myself in a reflection! … Read More
Episode 012: Color Theory, Color For Emotion And For Composition
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg will discuss how the color theory, color for emotion and color as compositional element.
The initial theoretical discussion will be supplemented with practical examples and review of 3 images (by Jay Maisel and Ernst Haas).
Episode 011: Creative Use Of The Physics Of Light
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify RSS Feed Listen on Google Podcasts Listen on Stitcher For more listening options and all other episodes, please click here. For sharing, download or additional listening options, hover over the player and click on the sharing icon on the player (bottom right). In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg will … Read More
Create (daily): More Impressionism
There was another snow fall in my city, this time in November and not October. We walked around our urban neighborhood after sunset and the streets were, as so often in our neighborhood and since the pandemic, very empty. The snowfall further prevented people from walking. I brought a long lens like I did during the last snow fall (see … Read More
Create (daily): Why Gear Does Not Matter
As photographers, we often worry about gear. I certainly have … trying to find the perfect camera, lens, or other tool. Film, Digital? I have been focusing on film photography and thought I would not go back to digital. Well, this wasn’t so. I have been shooting much more digital lately, for a few reasons. First, I wanted to do … Read More
Episode 010: Why To Creatively Pursue Black And White Photography
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, Daniel will discuss some thoughts and considerations why to creatively pursue black and white photography. Daniel will also review two images from two photographers (René Burri, Thomas Leuthard).
Episode 009: Lighting Essentials (with Don Giannatti)
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg will discuss light, lighting and other creative topics with Don Giannatti. Don is a former commercial photographer, owner of an ad agency, and current photography mentor/coach.
Don understands lighting, and teaches how to light correctly (whether natural or with strobes or with reflectors or combinations of thereof) to photographers around the world.