Best David Bracetty Podcasts (2024)

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S2E6 DP Shannon Palmer 59:24

3y ago59:24

59:24

I’m thrilled to finally get the chance to speak with DP Shannon Palmer. Based out of New York by way of Baltimore (crabs cakes, football and DP’s… am I right?) she shares her journey from athlete to DP. In this episode you’ll find out her thoughts on film school, having a full time job and what steps she took in her career to make a name for hersel…

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#23 Caitlin Dooley | The Power of a Stylist 45:43

4y ago45:43

45:43

New York City based Stylist Caitlin Dooley keeps Season 2 of The Creative Freelancer going strong. It’s already our 23rd episode of this podcast and like all great things with the number #23, Caitlin delivers. Ever wonder what a photographer should have lined up before dropping into that stylist’s DM and asking them to work together on a personal p…

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S2E4: Elizabeth Collins | Working with a Producer 47:27

4y ago47:27

47:27

Season 2 continues to roll along with Producer Elizabeth Collins. Elizabeth’s company, CTRL E Content produces branded content and commercials for companies including UPS, Jersey Mike Subs, Nike, L.L. Bean and others. In this conversation, we discuss the top 3 mistakes Directors are making by self producing. We also talk about when is “the right” t…

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S2E3 : Emily Maye | How Personal Projects Can Open Doors 58:30

4y ago58:30

58:30

Continuing with our pattern of all female creatives for Season 2, photographer/director Emily Maye is our guest on this episode of The Creative Freelancer Podcast. Based in the US, represented worldwide, Emily’s client roster is amazing and includes Adidas, The North Face, Rapha, Lululemon, Whoop, Trek, Tracksmith and the list goes on and on. One t…

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S2E2 : Amy Wolff | How to shoot for a magazine 1:00:00

4y ago1:00:00

1:00:00

Our guest on this week’s podcast episode is Hearst Photo Director Amy Wolff. Amy oversees the photo departments for Runner’s World, Bicycling and Popular Mechanics magazines. Last month I put out a question on my Instagram asking everyone “Who do you want to be a guest on The Creative Freelancer?” Amy Wolff was the collective request (alongside Emi…

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S2E1 : Daniele Anastasion | Writer + Director 55:29

4y ago55:29

55:29

Welcome back to Season 2 of The Creative Freelancer, I’m your host David Bracetty and on this episode, our guest is D.C. based writer and director Daniel Anastasion. I first discovered Daniele’s work on I am Yupik, a short film about a native Alaskan teenager’s quest to preserve his culture, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Her first f…

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Clay Cook | Building Your First Print Portfolio 50:57

7y ago50:57

50:57

Welcome fellow photographers to another hot one! On this podcast episode we feature Louisville based commercial and editorial photographer Clay Cook. I was on Instagram an saw that he just recently teamed up with Wonderful Machine and Mullenberg Designs to print and produce his first official looking print portfolio. This obviously leads me to ques…

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Zoe Rain | Hard Work and Getting Lucky 50:35

7y ago50:35

50:35

Seattle born Zoe Rain has already accomplished a lot in her young, creative career. By the age of 20, she was touring the world with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis as their official photographer. The list of artists she’s worked with include Lorde, Chance the Rapper, Ed Sheeran, Miley Cyrus and more. Now based in Chicago, Zoe lives in the same studio wh…

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Philip Haynes | Putting in the Work and Staying Positive 59:30

7y ago59:30

59:30

Philip Hayes is a UK based commercial and advertising sports + lifestyle photographer… a pretty damn good one. Only 30, Philip somehow managed to compress 20 years worth of assisting, retouching, digi teching for others and signing with an Agency in the span of 10 years. As mentioned in our podcast together, “I was the guy that was in at 8am every …

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Anthony Supreme – Taking Chances + Building Relationships 54:31

7+ y ago54:31

54:31

LA based director/photographer Anthony “Supreme” Thompson sat down with us this week to share his story of how he went from directing and producing music videos in North Carolina, to living out of his car in LA and landing the opportunity to photograph the cover of J. Cole’s newest album “4 Your Eyez Only“. This Anthony Supreme interview is not one…

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Brook Pifer – From Personal Project to Client 56:04

7+ y ago56:04

56:04

New York based lifestyle photographer Brook Pifer recently sat down on our podcast to talk shop. After meeting her at this year's PhotoPlus Expo, we linked up and expanded on a few points mentioned during the conference and dug deep... like really deep.Brook was gracious enough to spend an hour with us answering specific questions regarding the exe…

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Aaron Anderson- Printing Promos and List Building 1:01:47

7+ y ago1:01:47

1:01:47

This week we sit down with Colorado Springs based photographer Aaron Anderson. In this episode, we talk about how he goes about building his list and what the process of printing his promo's looks. Aaron also shares what strategies he's seen pay off for him and how he's used LinkedIn to connect with art directors and art buyers.Aaron Anderson Photo…

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Mike Holland – Photographing Concert Tours and Shooting Documentaries 50:11

8y ago50:11

50:11

Maryland based photographer, Mike Holland is no stranger to capturing artist performances. Since high school, he quickly started working with other Maryland based artists his craft. Connecting early on with Logic and creating work has led to a relationship with Visionary Music Group. Mike has established himself as one of the go-to photographers/ v…

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John Keatley – Creating personal projects 54:37

8y ago54:37

54:37

This week, we sat down for an interview with John Keatley, Seattle based advertising and fine art photographer. On this podcast episode he shares some behind the scenes of his recent project "Uniform" and why it's so important to be creating personal work. We also talk about what is was like when he started off in advertising, and was told "It take…

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Lou Lesko- Building Confidence and Bidding for Jobs 43:44

8y ago43:44

43:44

If you're looking to get some epic knowledge bombs dropped on you (like the one below) with a dose or motivation and confidence building, you need to listen to this episode as Lou Lesko, photographer, writer and founder of BlinkBid. Lou and I sat down to discus bidding with confidence and what tools someone up and coming can use to educated themsel…

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Corey Jenkins | Commercial Fitness and Assisting Pro’s 59:14

8+ y ago59:14

59:14

Meet photographer Corey Jenkins. Based in Miami, Corey specializes in fitness and sports creating images for Image Source in addition to other advertising and commercial clients.After landing an internship with photographer Tim Tadder, Corey quickly figured out he could learn more by doing and being on set, than in a classroom environment.In our co…

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Alexandra Ostebo – Marketing Consultant 58:26

8+ y ago58:26

58:26

Alexandra (Ally) Ostebo was a former Senior Marketing Consultant at Wonderful Machine and is currently the executive director at Creative Picnic. Over the last few years, she's worked with over 100 photographers to help them successfully promote themselves. Currently, her company Creative Picnic represents some amazing photographers and directors b…

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Craig Oppenheimer – Producing and Pricing 1:15:45

8+ y ago1:15:45

1:15:45

"Hi, yes I'd like to hire you for an assignment and it has to happen tomorrow. Our day rate is $900 and we need the rights to images." If that phone call hit you today, would you be prepared to answer it? Well this episode of The Creative Freelancer can help educate you to know what questions to ask and how to make sure you aren't screwing yourself…

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Victor G Thomas (@Vic.Invades) | Urbex in Brooklyn 58:05

8+ y ago58:05

58:05

Brooklyn based creative, Victor G Thomas (@vic.invades), is a freelance photographer who is 100% self taught and also happens to be an urban explorer (urbexer).For Victor, photography came first and then Urbexing. It made perfect sense to mix the two and capture those views to share with everyone through his artistic eye.In this week's conversation…

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Zach Hetrick | Around the World with Kevin Hart 1:11:26

8+ y ago1:11:26

1:11:26

Brooklyn based running and sports photographer Zach Hetrick sits down with me for episode 5. Last summer, Zach photographed comedian Kevin Hart as he traveled to various cities in the US and Canada. Through establishing the right connections, Zach's career has really taken off by carving himself a niche of being a photographer that can run with the…

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Blair Madigan | Learning Gear and Extreme Weather 55:24

8+ y ago55:24

55:24

Freelance cinematographer Blair Madigan has traveled the world and back. Growing up in Colorado surrounded by travel and visual artists in his family, it's as if Blair was destined to be a kick-ass, nomadic cinematographer guru, who can pretty much MacGyver zip lock bags into a poncho during Monsoon season.He's traveled on assignment to Haiti, Mexi…

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Esteban Jimenez (Copter Pilot) 1:12:15

8+ y ago1:12:15

1:12:15

Hollywood motion picture pilot, Esteban Jimenez (@copterpilot on Instgram) has over 70k followers and doing amazing things in LA. He's flown Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York & San Fransisco. Recently, he's opened the doors of aerial photography to famous Instagram photographers.Additionally, he is helping local youth and photographers explor…

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Ep2: Mike Tang & Cristina Pilo 1:42:06

9y ago1:42:06

1:42:06

Miami based husband and wife team of Mike Tang & Cristina Pilo dive deep to share how they met and were able to build such the very successful photo & video company, Ohrangutang... and they are just getting started.Nearing 1 Million followers on Instagram, Ohrangutang is a team of 5 consisting of lead creative, Mike Tang, elite make up artist, Cris…

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Ep1: Steve Boyle 1:22:32

9y ago1:22:32

1:22:32

Philadelphia based advertising and editorial sports photographer Steve Boyle shares his thoughts on personal work, building a portfolio and relationships.Steve attending University of Missouri's photo journalism school and shortly after began assisting Sports Illustrated photographer, Al Tielemans. After two years, he ventured off to do personal wo…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

David Bracetty Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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S2E6 DP Shannon Palmer 59:24

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#23 Caitlin Dooley | The Power of a Stylist 45:43

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S2E4: Elizabeth Collins | Working with a Producer 47:27

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S2E3 : Emily Maye | How Personal Projects Can Open Doors 58:30

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S2E2 : Amy Wolff | How to shoot for a magazine 1:00:00

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S2E1 : Daniele Anastasion | Writer + Director 55:29

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Clay Cook | Building Your First Print Portfolio 50:57

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Zoe Rain | Hard Work and Getting Lucky 50:35

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Philip Haynes | Putting in the Work and Staying Positive 59:30

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Anthony Supreme – Taking Chances + Building Relationships 54:31

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Brook Pifer – From Personal Project to Client 56:04

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Aaron Anderson- Printing Promos and List Building 1:01:47

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Mike Holland – Photographing Concert Tours and Shooting Documentaries 50:11

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John Keatley – Creating personal projects 54:37

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Lou Lesko- Building Confidence and Bidding for Jobs 43:44

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Corey Jenkins | Commercial Fitness and Assisting Pro’s 59:14

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Alexandra Ostebo – Marketing Consultant 58:26

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Craig Oppenheimer – Producing and Pricing 1:15:45

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Victor G Thomas (@Vic.Invades) | Urbex in Brooklyn 58:05

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Zach Hetrick | Around the World with Kevin Hart 1:11:26

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Blair Madigan | Learning Gear and Extreme Weather 55:24

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Esteban Jimenez (Copter Pilot) 1:12:15

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Ep2: Mike Tang & Cristina Pilo 1:42:06

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Ep1: Steve Boyle 1:22:32

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