Steve & Nicole Gettle on the Great Big Photography World Podcast

I used to be lately invited to be a visitor on the Great Big Photography World podcast.

It’s an incredible present that includes conversations with photographers from all over the world, sharing their experiences, insights and approaches to images.

I actually loved sitting down with host Perrin Adams for a wide-ranging dialog about wildlife images, my journey over practically 40 years behind the digicam and a few of the classes I’ve discovered alongside the way in which.

What We Talked About on The Great Big Photography World Podcast

Making Photographs Rather Than Taking Them

One of the concepts I mentioned was one thing that’s been central to my method for a few years: the distinction between taking {a photograph} and making one.

Great nature and wildlife images isn’t merely about reacting to no matter occurs in entrance of you. Knowing your topic and anticipating its habits may also help you place your self in the absolute best place for the {photograph} you’re hoping to make.

I shared the instance of photographing a looking cheetah. Rather than merely following the animal, I stated how l’ll look forward for someplace it would naturally cease. This could possibly be one thing like a termite mound or snag, that might give it an elevated view.

As I defined within the dialog, “I want to be positioned where the animal’s going to be.”

Finding Great Photographs Close to Home

The dialog additionally touched on how nice nature images doesn’t must contain unique wildlife or far-flung areas.

I shared the story behind {a photograph} of an opossum captured in my very own yard in Michigan, in addition to how the property I share with Nicole has turn out to be an necessary place for our images.

Over the years, Nicole and I’ve created a wide range of wildlife habitats right here, together with a wildlife backyard that gives alternatives to {photograph} bugs, flowers and different small topics.

That led into one other of my favourite areas of images: macro images, and the chances that open up while you begin paying nearer consideration to the smaller particulars of the pure world.

Photography, Storytelling and Authenticity

Perrin and I additionally mentioned the significance of the story behind {a photograph} and the distinction between pictures with “stopping power” and people with “staying power.”

As I stated, some pictures instantly seize our consideration. Others have a narrative or which means behind them that retains us for longer.

We additionally touched on the growing affect of AI in images. I defined why transparency issues to me, and why I take into account it necessary to be open about issues akin to cropping so viewers perceive how a picture was made.

Listen to the Great Big Photography World Podcast

We’d love so that you can hearken to the complete dialog.

Listen to the episode right here: “Every Photo Has a Story: Forty Years of Chasing Wildlife and Meaning,” on the Great Big Photography World podcast.

We hope you take pleasure in it, and an enormous thanks to Perrin and the Great Big Photography World group for the invitation onto the podcast.

Good Luck and Good Light!

Steve & Nicole

Related: Our interview on The Wildlife & Adventure Photography Podcast