The Nerdy Photographer Podcast

189 - The Only One in the Room: Race, Respect, and Turning Bias into Fuel in Photography

In this episode, Casey Fatchett talks with nature and landscape photographer Vicky Thompson about her journey from a teenage film photographer to a respected voice in her

188 - Real Photographers, Real Scary Stories: A Halloween Replay

This is a spooky-season re-release of episode 76. Casey welcomes back photographer Jeremy Harris to react to scary and unexplained stories submitted by photographers arou

187 - Turn Off Instagram: Building a Photography Style That's Actually Yours

Street and portrait photographer Tom Hoops joins us to talk about his unplanned path into photography, why he builds his portrait style around rawness instead of polish,

186 - Intentional Failure: The Photography Skill No One Teaches

Photography culture treats technical perfection as the goal and any deviation from it as failure. This episode argues that some of the medium's most resonant images come

185 - Tintypes, Roller Derby, and Rewriting Photography's Power Dynamics

Host Casey Fatchett talks with alternative process photographer Britt Bradley, known professionally as Nitrate Fox, about wet plate collodion photography, the history and

184 - Is Burst Mode Ruining Your Photography?

In this nerdlet, Casey makes the case for deliberately slowing down — and why the unlimited frame rates of modern cameras and phones may be quietly working against better

183 - Serendipity, Trust, and the Humanity Behind Every Photograph

In this episode, Casey Fatchett sits down with award-winning photographer Ari Espay, who splits his time between New York City and Santiago, Chile. Ari discusses his deca

182 - The Comparison Trap in the Instagram Age

You finish editing a photo you're proud of. You post it. Then you scroll — and within thirty seconds you feel like giving up. This episode explains exactly why that happe

181 - Why Every Photographer Needs a Vision

What do you do when you've had two successful careers — and neither of them is the one you actually love? For David Hendley, the answer was waking up at 4:30 in the mor

180 - Backup or Bust – Building a Digital Safety Net

Every single hard drive you own will eventually fail. Not might fail — will fail. It is just a matter of time. The photographers who lose irreplaceable work aren't the on

179 - How to Create Portraits That Feel Raw, Honest, and Powerful

In this episode, I sit down with portrait photographer Betina LaPlante to explore the philosophy and practice behind her visceral, intimate portraiture. Topics covered:

178 - The 10-Minute SEO Audit for Photographers

You can be an exceptional photographer and still be completely invisible to the clients actively searching for someone like you. Not because your work isn't good enough,

177 - Old Palaces and Glass Towers: Street Photography in Modern Seoul

In this episode, Casey speaks with photographer, filmmaker, and DePaul University professor James Choi, who returned to Seoul after 46 years away and came back with the i

176 - Bit Depth Demystified: The Math of Color

You've probably been told you should shoot RAW. And I'm sure you've also thought - WHY? I'm just delivering a JPEG file anyway. What's inside a RAW file that makes it wor

175 - Art Comes From the Soul: Analog, AI, and Authentic Portraits

Portrait photographer Craig Fleming has spent decades navigating the space between film and digital, celebrity commissions and working-class subjects, polish and truth. I

174 - The "Why" Behind Your Aperture – Beyond the Bokeh

Many photographers learn aperture in two steps: wide for blur, narrow for sharpness. It's a reasonable starting point, but it skips the physics that actually determines h

173 - Building What Didn't Exist: Creating Space for Black Women in Nature Photography

Nature photography is often associated with solitude, exploration, and connection to the outdoors. But for many photographers, especially Black women, entering those spac

172 - The Power of Black & White: Your Photo Archive Through the Monochrome Lens

Most photographers have thousands, or even tens of thousands, of forgotten images sitting on hard drives. But what if some of your best work is already there, waiting t

Colorizing an Icon - The Danziger Gallery's Moonrise Controversy

Some stories in the art world land with a quiet thud and then just keep reverberating louder and louder. The decision by Danziger Gallery to display, and sell, an AI-colo

171 - Why Imperfection Is Becoming the Most Powerful Style in Photography

In a time when photography is more accessible, and more polished, than ever, something unexpected is happening: imperfection is making a comeback. In this episode of Th