Shutters Inc is a photography podcast hosted by Bruce Williams. It offers discussion and insight for people interested in photography, cameras, and the creative process behind making images. The show is aimed at photographers who want an engaging, conversational take on the medium.
Episodes
Glynn wears lots of hats
This week, Glynn recounts his time at the 2026 Bright Festival of Photography.
We discuss his tours of Bangladesh and India.
He's bought 2 new cameras, while Bruce is looking to sell stuff.
Plus we discuss Artcraft and vibecoding,
plus heaps more!
Episode 589 – Bruce is a b******d
This week, we started with nothing to say, and ended up with potentially the most informative photography episode we've ever recorded! Who knew?
We talk unpredictability, photo tours, the Bright Festival of Photography,
the big lap, and heaps more!
Episode 588 – Rabbit holes
This week, we're talking about rabbit holes,
some audio geekery,
portraits for work being delayed,
Glynn shooting landscapes... what wha?
focal lengths and your view of the world,
one-lens challenges... are they good or bad,
plus heaps more.
Episode 587 – A lens and a shoot
This week, we have just 2 topics of conversation. Glynn explains why he is so hot and bothered (in a
Episode 586 – Tales from the Balkans
Two weeks in a car, driving through Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, back into Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Montenegro. An amazing trip, some stress-inducing driving experiences (narrow roads, manual transmission and left hand drive... a great combination!), and scenery that was simply beyond expectations.
Followed up with a 7 night island-hopping cruise from Dubrovnik to Trogir.
Episode 585 – Europe-bound
This week, Bruce is packing his bags and heading to Europe.
We chat about Glynn's lens chices for Bangladesh,
why the Fuji system didn't really work for him,
Peter McKinnon and the Widelux camera
and heaps more!
Episode 584 – Space, the final frontier
This week, we’re talking about a comet exploding behind the sun, the Artemis ii mission, and Hidden Figures (a movie
Episode 583 – The Bangladesh Incursion
This week, Glynn is packing his bags for Bangladesh. The lens he couldn’t mention by name last episode was the
Episode 582 – We’re back for 2026… finally!
We’re back for 2026! Glynn is preparing for his upcoming Bangladesh tour, and currently booking tours in 2027. He’s been
Episode 581 – Another year done
This week, we’re wrapping it up (see what I did there?) for another year! Glynn has been on an extended
Episode 580 – Now with 50% more ugly!
This week, Glynn has received his SECOND new camera (in as many months!)… the Fuji XE5. Bruce has attempted to
Episode 579 – YOU get a new toy, and YOU get a new toy!
This week, Glynn's new camera, and Bruce's new lens. We talk selling old gear on ebay, selling to mates, travel plans for each of us, intermittent faults, and much more.
Episode 578 – Tasmanian adventures
This week, we talk about my recent two week roadtrip around Tassie, Glynn's flash (or not-so-flash) workshops, plus heaps more!
Episode 577 – Not what he was expecting
This week, shooting with the Nikon ZF has not been what Glynn thought it would be.
He's also awaiting the arrival of a Fuji EX5.
We discuss the Helsinki bus terminal analogy (again),
we talk about changing the way we shoot,
plus heaps more.
Episode 576 – Winners are grinners
This week, more creative whiskey photos,
shooting images for footy trading cards,
Glynn's new camera,
why he might be planning a final brand-jump,
and heaps more!
Episode 575 – Whisky’s a go-go
This week, Glynn has a "photo mis-management system",
Bruce is doing whisky shots,
Carl is watching tv,
we've got sexy cameras,
and much more!
Episode 574 – Where have they been?
This week (or is that 'this month'?), Glynn is organizing a trip to Bangladesh,
going otter fishing,
handing out 40 year old rolls of b+w film,
and shooting natural light portraits in the dark!
Phil, Carl and David sent us stories, plus heaps more.
Episode 573 – The phoenix rises
This week, we're finally back with our 3rd attempt at recording this episode.
We discuss how some of the best new cameras are coming from lens manufacturers,
Glynn's social media experiment,
Ralph Snowball,
and heaps more!
Episode 572 – You can’t say THAT!
This week, we're talking about iconic Australian photographer Max Dupain,
comets,
dead cicadas,
the black card technique,
racism,
yachts at sunset,
and heaps more!
Episode 571 – We’re back for 2025!
We're back for another year!
I went to Western Australia to catch up wih family, but that didn't go entirely to plan.
But I did get to take a heap of photos.
We also talk about the LA fires, and heaps more!
Episode 570 – When life gives you lemons…
This week, Glynn talks about the trials and tribulations of running a photography tour in India. Want to help keep
Episode 569 – ‘Tis but a flesh wound!
This week, we're back after a lengthier-than-planned break.
Glynn has his new lights to take to India,
he's been to Bright for the FoP,
Bruce is destined to keep missing astronomical events,
Plus heaps more.
Episode 568 – Time for a new portrait
This week, Bruce gets a new portrait shot by Doug Coleman (not mentioned on the podcast).
Glynn calculates the weight of a megapixel,
drives 7 hours to do a 1 hour talk,
there's a new video from the day of the JFK assassination,
plus heaps more!
Episode 567 – Happy Father’s Day!
This week, we're chatting about Glynn embracing photo judging,
why he'll be shooting Sony cameras in India this year.
I've been shooting the moon, and more ABC portraits,
plus I saw a great video on youtube about film aspect ratios.
Plus heaps more!
Episode 566 – Editing my top 100 photos
This week, we talk about some of the crazy stuff Glynn hears at his workshops,
the depth and complexity of camera menus,
Hugin and panoramas,
interesting movie-making techniques,
and heaps more.
Episode 565 – Glynn hosts the podcast
This week, Glynn decides to host the podcast.
We discuss my Landline shoot,
how long focal lengths can save you,
the Glynn Lavender AI coming to a camera near you soon,
a new Leica clone (in more ways than one!),
plus heaps more!
Episode 564 – A lot of laughs
This week, we have a lot of laughs, discussing Glynn's India 2025 tour,
his new talk topic,
Pentax's half frame film camera,
Bruce's second Landline shoot
and heaps more!
Episode 563 – Death by powerpoint
This week, Glynn is setting new world records for powerpoint.
We talk about paying for photos when travelling,
more ABC portraits,
hobo lights,
luminar neo,
how does an image make you feel,
and heaps more!
Episode 562 – 17 hrs of screentime per day
This week, auroras for everybody (except Bruce), inspiration from one of the few photographers Glynn follows, and my recent photoshoot.
Episode 561 – Ripley
This week, we have a great chat about the Netflix show, Ripley.
We revisit Carl's story from last episode,
Philip shared a post about the ethics of photo editing.
Glynn found stories about an AI beauty comp,
synthetic memories,
and heaps more!
Episode 560 – Bruce has GAS
This week, Glynn asks about my new lens and trigger,
staff portraits I've shot for the ABC,
and whether I should sell my Sony 70-200/f4 lens.
We've also got door cams for da fishes,
Ricoh GR highlight diffusion filters,
Nikon goes shopping,
and heaps more!
Episode 559 – A great chat
This week, Glynn and I talk about workshop customers,
are there any unique photos,
why we took an image,
crowdfunding done right,
photographer horror stories,
how our processing changes over time,
and heaps more.
Episode 558 – Carly
This week, Glynn heaps praise on a natural-light portrait Bruce took this week.
Processing film with saltwater (amongst other things),
how will we fight deepfakes,
get paid to save your photos,
drone-based pet detective,
and heaps more!
Episode 557 – Joe’s first right of reply
In this episode, I welcome Joe Edelman back to the podcast, and give him the floor to more accurately explain his theory on exposure that I TRIED (badly!) to explain last episode.
Episode 556 – We’re back for 2024!
We're back for 2024, and we're now on youtube!
Bruce bought himself a new monitor,
and has been out shooting with Teigan again.
Joe Edelman posted an interesting article about the exposure triangle.
Plus heaps more!
Episode 555 – Schrödinger’s photos
In the final episode for 2023, Glynn is thinking of jumping ship.
Why? And to what?
We've got Schrodinger's photos... are they there or not?
Some of Bruce's Alaska photos,
how smartphones are changing how we take pictures,
and much more.
Episode 554 – A year of goodbyes
We're back!
In this episode, we simply catch up on everything that has gone down in the last 3 months.
Which has been a lot!
Alaska. The move. Glynn getting back into the workshop scene.
But overall, it's been a year of goodbyes for Bruce and Cath.
Episode 553 – A pair of size queens
This week, we love big bu.... er, lenses.
We've got a cool tripod,
more AI stories,
Bruce shooting video,
Canon opeing up its RF mount to 3rd party manufacurers... kind of,
third party women,
and heaps more!
Episode 552 – Don’t lose your memory cards
This week, Bruce has been shooting video backdrops for Aunty,
Glynn wraps up his Secret Squirrel mission,
we've got travel tips,
you're not as ugly as photos make you look,
the earth spinning while the heavens stay still,
and heaps more!
Episode 551 – Saturn’s rings
This week, Glynn shared an interesting video about how we're all more alike than we are different,
Saturn's rings disappearing,
iPhone app Spectre is now free,
how gorillas are just as sucked in by social media as us,
plus heaps more!
Episode 550 – How discussions about photography SHOULD go
This week, Glynn shares an interesting experience talking to another photographer,
Bruce and his impulse buy,
portraiture to spark conversation,
the Kurt Cobain of photography,
lightning on Jupiter,
and heaps more!
Episode 549 – That will NOT buff out
This week, ND filters for staring into the sun,
darktable 4.4 released,
lens watching SpaceX launch goes up in flames,
new offerings from Pentax coming,
denoising algorithms,
and heaps more!
Episode 548 – Drones going where no man has gone for 7000 years
This week, we talk about DoF, and how we both have a different attitude to what we need to understand.
Should divorce entitle you to a refund on your wedding photos? Er... no!
Opticull aims to save you a heap of time sorting your shoot.
Plus heaps more!
Episode 547 – Ashes and Snow
This week, we're looking at some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning images from across the decades.
Glynn discovered and shared a doco called Ashes and Snow,
we shared some "actually useful" photography tips (you'll need to listen!),
plus heaps more!
Episode 546 – Judas
This week, Glynn is back, running his first one-on-one in over 2 years.
David Marland shared a playlist of youtube vids about infrared photography,
Glynn is impressed with youtuber Ren on many levels including cinematography,
plus heaps more.
Episode 545 – Go north, the rush is on
We're back at last!
This week, Glynn questions me about my fine art nude photoshoot.
Bruce and Cath are off to Alaska,
we discuss the closing down of DPreview,
photos of Venus,
Canon's R3 remembers faces,
and heaps more!
Episode 544 – What a time to be alive
This week, we talk about the Steve McCurry exhibition, Icons, which is coming to Sydney,
the camera musem which looks like a camera,
fastone image editor,
Anne Geddes,
Sony lets YOU control a camera mounted on a satellite,
and heaps more!
Episode 543 – Needs more cowb… er, guitars
This week, Glynn is knee-deep in a new accessory sport.
We hear about the AI-generated image which won a photo competition,
when computational photography makes things worse,
Christ The Redeemer's electric personality,
and heaps more.
Episode 542 – That time that Glynn was nice to me
This week, we've got an old mobile darkroom,
the best underwater pics from 2022,
the amazing work of Anthony Schmidt,
why all Ayers Rock images are the same,
NY cabbie shoots his passengers for 30 years,
and heaps more!
Episode 541 – We’re back for 2023!
We're back for 2023!
This week, Glynn has been cycling... AND shooting!
Sadly, I was deprived of great photo opportunities in the Top End.
We've got some great dog photos,
why you don't use flash in an aquarium,
Sony's 20-70/f4 lens,
plus heaps more!
Episode 540 – Farewell to 2022
This week, we're wrapping up 2022.
We've got snow leopards.... or do we?
And we've got the other side of that coin.
Neil Armstrong pic passed in at auction,
the year in pictures,
and heaps more!
Catch you all in 2023!
Episode 539 – 25 years
This week, we talk about concert photography,
AI-generated portraits,
Artemis 1,
Othersies,
the end of Konika Minolta,
Fuji suspending production due to parts shortages,
plus heaps more!
Episode 538 – Glynn gets the travel bug again
This week, Glynn is getting the travel bug again,
Bruce gets a new phone,
and Carl has the warm and fuzzies.
Paul sent us some stories,
while Glynn found the strangest law suit he's heard of in photography.
Plus heaps more!
Episode 537 – Why photographers suck at social media
This week, Paul sent us a few stories including one about ways to damage your gear,
Victorian-era mugshots saved from the dumpster,
and Joe explains why he believes photographers suck at social media.
Episode 536 – Back from the dead
This week, Glynn is back from the dead!
We've got enhanced filters for Potatoshop,
the Bright Photo Festival seminars available free,
Kodak hiring film technicians,
the wildlife photo of the year,
and heaps more.
Episode 535 – The tri-state tour
This week, we discuss the roadtrip,
Glynn's upcoming SA tour,
the Queen,
space,
software advances and old RAW files,
building your own camera based on Raspberry Pi,
uncool rock stars doing cool things for fans,
and heaps more!
Episode 534 – JWST amazeballs
This week, we're talking a lot of astro-related stuff.
The JWST continues to amaze us day by day, and it's only been active for a month or two!
Glynn talked about Bohemian New York in the 1920's,
video game photography,
and heaps more!
Episode 533 – Midjourney madness
This week, the Midjourney fascination continues, with Glynn joining in.
Panasonic getting out of the low-end camera business?
Camera bags made out of recycled fishing line? Why not!
Bill Wyman is also a keen photographer.
Plus heaps more!
Episode 532 – Out in the cold
This week, Glynn is banished from his home.
Plus we've got the photographer who syas he's shot a million pics, and 50 of them were good,
bird pics,
JWST and the Huntsman Array telescope,
the days of the DSLR coming to an end,
plus heaps more!
Episode 531 – One big chatfest
This week, it's one big chatfest.
We talk about hunting fossils,
Bruce and Tiegan's steampunk shoot,
the schism in the darktable developer community,
Bruce's roadtrip,
and more!
Episode 530 – A trip to the West
This week, we chat about funerals,
garden renovations,
a photo-tour-operator's worst nightmare,
Pultizer Prize winning photos,
and more.
Episode 529 – Joe’s back!
This week, Joe's back!
We talk about his travel plans,
the changing nature of photo shows,
he reviews my recent steampunk shoot with Teigan,
and we discuss his new website and community, TogKnowledge.
Episode 528 – Back in business
Finally, we're back in business!
This week, we talk Fiji,
AI developments and what they mean for photography,
Robert Rosen and the Boston Tea Party,
THE most incredible photo ever taken,
and heaps more!
Episode 527 – A rough couple of weeks
This week, we've got stuff you may (or may not) regret buying in 2022,
wooden cameras,
a ton of undeveloped film capturing a moment of rock history,
action cameras with interchangeale lenses,
Thingify pinhole camera,
and heaps more!
Episode 526 – William Henry Jackson
This week, we've got more images from photographers we don't like. Glynn REALLY doesn't like them.
Floods in New South Wales,
Frank Sinatra shooting for Life,
Adobe (and other companies) restricting business operations in Russia,
and heaps more!
Episode 525 – Livin’ large in Junee
This week, we've got famous landmarks recreated withhousehold objects,
Leica watches that can help empty your wallet,
light-painted stills turned into video,
new Sigma prime lenses,
more kickstarter fun and games,
and much more!
Episode 524 – The solar-powered and the guitarist
This week, we've got a couple of video links about the JWST,
a sad tale from Paris,
another interesting lo-fi camera, story,
underwater photography,
the Empire State building,
an online editor,
and another "oldest living creature" story.
Episode 523 – Back for… shhhh…. 2022.
We're back, but let's not make too much noise, ok?
This week, what sensor SHOULD you shoot with?
Shooting underwater with your cellphone,
Gnarbox closes up shop,
Imagen AI,
more on the James Webb deep space telescope,
and heaps more.
Episode 522 – Goodbye and good riddance to 2021
This week, we're saying goodbye to 2021!
Bruce has been shooting (badly again),
Hubble is back online,
Afghan Girl gets asylum in Italy,
a high-res colour camera the size of a grain of salt,
$1100 for a battery,
plus heaps more!
Episode 521 – Slowly returning to normal
This week, a wedding photographer identifies 3 telltale signs the marriage won't last,
a cracking set of images from the streets of New York,
be quick to get a Black Friday special on Nik Software,
the Dragonfly array,
plus heaps more!
Episode 520 – A plug for Anthony
A quick episode this week to feature an e-mail from Paul, and to give my mate, Anthony from ipanoramic.com.au a
Episode 519 – New wheels, new debts
This week, new wheels and new debts.
When you export an image from your computer, do you know what metadata is included?
Do you know how various sites treat that metadata?
These questions and more... answered.
Episode 518 – We’re still breathing
Just a quick catch up to see how we are each doing. The podcast will now resume on a 2-weekly
Episode 517 – R.I.P. Hank
This week, Bruce and Glynn chat about the passing of Bruce's dad, Glynn's health, and the age-old theme of the importance of taking family portraits whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Episode 516 – Hated the commute, think I’ll drive for a living
This week, the "Potato photographer of the year" Awards are not as ridiculous as they may sound,
and what does "photographing inclusivity" really mean or acheive?
Imagine picking up a Leica M2 for just $5 in a thrift store!
plus heaps more!
Episode 515 – Just what is a portrait anyway?
This week, we have a spirited discussion about just what exactly qualifies as a portrait,
when buying local doesn't always mean you made the right choice,
what it takes to photograph the Olympics,
2 new e-mount lenses from Tamron,
plus heaps more!
Episode 514 – Staring at the walls
This week, the "ussie" is the new "selfie".
We've got various digital backs for film cameras,
Glynn discusses the importance of craft over technology (regardless of whether the tech is old OR new),
finding new comets,
plus heaps more!
Episode 513 – No more commute!
This week, is Sony'sA7IV getting closer?
Know your rolling shutter from your global shutter,
Shooting in Antelope Canyon,
lets turn Hubble off and switch it back on again,
Fujifilm pivots to pharmaceuticals,
plus heaps more!
Episode 512 – Lockdown and other crappy things
This week, Lexar develops a new memory card,
photography for those with disabilites,
how does film work,
should kit lenses be banned from workshops,
Bruce hits a speedhump,
Norway's new photo manipulation laws,
plus heaps more!
Episode 511 – The death of photography (part ll)
This week, heaps of listener feedback and comments.
Glynn has more to say on the future of photography,
tips on flying drones legally,
Bruce chats with Celia from Celia Faith Photography about her commercial career,
plus heaps more!
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