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Lumica turns your trapped phone pictures into prints Podcasts 

Lumica turns your trapped phone pictures into prints

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Your phone can hold 20,000 photos and still feel empty when you go looking for the moments that mattered. That’s why Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society talked with Patrick Collet, founder of Lumica, a direct-to-print photography app built around one stubborn rule: Once you press the shutter, the photo is committed to print. No cropping. No editing. No... Read More
From passion to profit with systems that scale with Damon Flowers Podcasts 

From passion to profit with systems that scale with Damon Flowers

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Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society interviews Damon Flowers, CEO and founder of Modern Operators, about how “modern operators” differ from old-school business approaches in a fast-changing world shaped by AI. Flowers shares his background as a contrarian problem-solver who left corporate life to build businesses, and explains how passion becomes a viable business only when customers will pay... Read More
How Jonathan Schuessler sells luxury wedding photography with video, SEO, and smart systems Podcasts 

How Jonathan Schuessler sells luxury wedding photography with video, SEO, and smart systems

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Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society interviews Jonathan Schuessler, a Heidelberg-based marketing expert, photographer, and filmmaker, about building a hybrid wedding photo/video business and a separate B2B marketing offering. Schuessler traces his start from building a DIY photo booth for his father’s weddings to shooting weddings in London and Germany, then pivoting hard after COVID to learn videography and agency marketing. He explains... Read More
How Entourage Yearbooks uses AI to speed up workflow, with Elias Jo Podcasts 

How Entourage Yearbooks uses AI to speed up workflow, with Elias Jo

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AI is moving fast, but the real advantage isn’t sounding smart, it’s getting work done faster without breaking your team. Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society sits down with Elias Jo, CEO of Entourage Yearbooks, to talk about what’s actually changing inside the yearbook and volume photography workflow and what studios of every size can do right now to keep up. Joe digs into how... Read More
Candid Copyright Conversation with Sheryl Bashore and Bob Kenward Podcasts 

Candid Copyright Conversation with Sheryl Bashore and Bob Kenward

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Parents can erase a watermark for five bucks, AI keeps getting better, and “just screenshot it” has become a reflex. So what do you do if you make your living in volume sports photography? Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society sits down with Bob Kenward of Fluvanna Photography and Sheryl Bashore of Sheryl Z Photography, two of the most respected voices in youth sports and cheer, dance, and gymnastics photography,... Read More
How To Exit A Small Business With A Real Plan, with David Hori Podcasts 

How To Exit A Small Business With A Real Plan, with David Hori

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If your business disappeared for two weeks, would it keep running, or would everything grind to a halt because the “manual” is in your head? The Dead Pixels Society sits down with David Hori, principal at Topline Operators, to get practical about small business acquisition and what actually makes a company transferable, financeable, and worth buying. Hori brings a rare mix of experience:... Read More
How Dale Farkas Built a Photo Lab that Endured for 50 Years Podcasts 

How Dale Farkas Built a Photo Lab that Endured for 50 Years

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A photo lab is a lot more than chemistry, scanners, and printers. It’s a discipline. In this episode of the Dead Pixels Society podcast, we are joined by Dale Farkas of Dale Laboratories in Hollywood, Florida. He lays out the principle that quietly separates labs that last from labs that fade: the difference between quality and quality control. Great prints are not an accident, and... Read More
Inside Evoto: Speed, Trust, And Authenticity In Photo Editing Podcasts 

Inside Evoto: Speed, Trust, And Authenticity In Photo Editing

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Ever wish your edits moved fast? We sat down with Jay Peterson of Evoto to unpack how AI can make portrait workflows radically quicker without removing the realism that clients recognize and trust. Peterson explains Evoto’s slider-first, standalone desktop editor and how its proprietary algorithms target the work that slows pros down—frequency separation, dodging and burning, glasses glare, and flyaway hair—while keeping processing local... Read More
PIC Preview: LEAN Principles Turn A Magic Act Into A Global Breakthrough Events Podcasts 

PIC Preview: LEAN Principles Turn A Magic Act Into A Global Breakthrough

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In the preview of his Photo Imaging CONNECT keynote, Stuart MacDonald — magician, filmmaker, entrepreneur — explores how LEAN principles, continuous improvement, and ruthless clarity transformed a faceplant into standing ovations, a win on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, and a top-10 finish at the world championships. MacDonald takes us through the nerve-wracking world of competitive magic, where originality is mandatory,... Read More
Inside Dscoop: Trust, Growth, And Smart Print, with Peter Van Teeseling and Chris Hyde Events Podcasts 

Inside Dscoop: Trust, Growth, And Smart Print, with Peter Van Teeseling and Chris Hyde

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If you think great industry breakthroughs happen on a show floor, think again. We sat down with Dscoop’s Peter Van Teeseling and Chris Hyde to unpack how a trust-first, member-led community is helping HP print businesses grow faster through intentional connections, candid playbook sharing, and events designed for action, not spectacle. We trace Dscoop’s 20-year arc from a “crazy idea” to a global network... Read More
When Nostalgia Meets AI: The Future Of Photo Commerce with Mediaclip Podcasts 

When Nostalgia Meets AI: The Future Of Photo Commerce with Mediaclip

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What if the best product designer is the one you barely notice? We sit down with Mediaclip CEO Marion Duchesne to explore how photo and product personalization is moving from heavy, time-consuming builders to fast, elegant flows that deliver a finished result in a single action. From early DVD slideshows to Flash and now a cloud-native, API-first platform, her team’s throughline is simple: clean... Read More
From Film To Volume: How Alkit Lab Reinvented Itself News Podcasts 

From Film To Volume: How Alkit Lab Reinvented Itself

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What does it take for a family photo lab to thrive across three generations and multiple technology upheavals? We sit down with David Buchbinder of Alkit to trace an unvarnished journey from New York City retail counters to a lean, volume-first lab that ships in three days. Buchbinder walks us through the hard calls: expanding into Kodak-branded stores, then cutting overhead and rebuilding around... Read More
Richmond Pro Lab Shares the Journey From Film To Fast, High-Quality Digital Podcasts 

Richmond Pro Lab Shares the Journey From Film To Fast, High-Quality Digital

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A 1938 basement lab that processed black-and-white alongside amateur rolls now runs a high-speed digital operation that can ship school orders in about two days. The Dead Pixels Society sits down with Richmond Professional Lab’s Ted Bullard and Josh Lewis to map the decisions that made digital not just viable, but superior, for volume photographers who demand both quality and speed. Bullard recounts how Kodak’s consent decree... Read More
From Spreadsheets To Streamlined: How Airstudio Connects Scheduling, Payroll, Equipment, And Analytics News Podcasts 

From Spreadsheets To Streamlined: How Airstudio Connects Scheduling, Payroll, Equipment, And Analytics

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If your studio juggles spreadsheets, calendars, and three different apps just to run picture day, this conversation will feel like oxygen. The Dead Pixels Society sits down with Scott Rodgers and Peter Koop from Airstudio to unpack how a platform built by school photographers solves the messy middle of volume photography—linking CRM, senior bookings, staff scheduling, payroll, equipment, workflows, and e‑commerce integrations into one place. We start... Read More
The top five Dead Pixels Society podcast episodes of 2025 Podcasts 

The top five Dead Pixels Society podcast episodes of 2025

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The Dead Pixels Society podcast continues to grow, thanks in part to the support of our lead sponsors Mediaclip, Advertek Printing, and Independent Photo Imagers. In 2025, 52 episodes were published, for total downloads of more than 8,900. In total, the Dead Pixels Society podcast has more than 43,000 downloads. Here are the top 5 most downloaded and streamed episodes... Read More