Episode 113 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes or RSS! Featured: Commercial lifestyle and environmental portrait photographer Erik Valind In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. NYC-based photographer, author and educator, Erik Valind opens the show. Thanks Erik! Listener Joe in Delaware wants to know alternatives to the overdone couch in the field, train tracks, etc. shoots and if more giveaways are coming. MeFOTO announces a new line of tripods with a removable leg that's not a monopod this time around. (#) Hoya releases a line of Infrared ND filters to help solve color-shift in newer, high resolution sensors. (#) Facebook helps make it easier for photographers and others to buy and sell locally. (#) Google releases the Pixel and Pixel XL and DxOMark's tests show it bests the iPhone. (#) Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans dies in Libya. (#) Outtake Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. We’d love to answer your question on the show. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget, comment below or via social media. But audio questions are awesome! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”