{"id":37323,"date":"2020-11-13T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=37323"},"modified":"2020-11-13T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T18:23:34","slug":"daniel-schaefer-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/daniel-schaefer-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Schaefer, Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our guest this week is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outlierimagery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Schaefer<\/a>. Daniel is the kind of person who often finds himself in too many interesting situations to choose just a few to throw in a bio, but through his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/outlierimagery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photography<\/a>, his writing, and the various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/erry_day_carry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nonsense in his pockets<\/a>, you may be able to glean just a little bit about what he brings to the table.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/928151521&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cool-tools\" title=\"Cool Tools\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Cool Tools<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cool-tools\/252-daniel-schaefer\" title=\"252: Daniel Schaefer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">252: Daniel Schaefer<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cool-tools-show-and-tell\/id605920446?mt=2\">Subscribe to the Cool Tools Show on iTunes<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/feedpress.me\/cooltoolsshow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/11Er4SmhTH49Hk09sFMcWa1zC5HjQKGmZ\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transcript<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/tag\/cool-tools-show\/\">See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Show notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37337\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9402.jpg\" alt=\"Processed with VSCO with c1 preset\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9402.jpg 500w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9402-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9402-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reylight.net\/product\/gemini\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reylight Gemini Flashlight<\/a> ($110)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe perfect flashlight to land in your back pocket. Hefty for its size, short, stout, and overbuilt as if it was meant to hold diamonds dipped in nitroglycerine. I opted for the orange Cerakote, which at the time was no longer available, but after a round of emails with the maker he was able to throw one last one into the batch for me. Additionally, I opted for a slightly less luminous set of higher CRI LED\u2019s having the additional color clarity is invaluable as a photographer. My favorite thing about the design though has to be the \u201cAfterburner\u201d which consists of a high glow insert that leaves the light easy to find in the dark after it\u2019s been switched off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37335\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9400.jpg\" alt=\"Processed with VSCO with c1 preset\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9400.jpg 500w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9400-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Custom front left pocket wallet by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sanch33\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shane Sanchez Leather<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019ve been on a quest for the perfect wallet since the only thing slotted inside was six dollars and my middleschool ID. I\u2019ve long been a fan of hard body wallets, i\u2019ve tried every trayvax, ridge, any metal on the market, typically avoiding leather since I carry SD cards which can quickly become expensive toothpicks if they flex too far. It wasn\u2019t until I stumbled across Shane\u2019s work on Instagram that I finally found a leather wallet that held to my standard. The construction is absolutely excellent, flawlessly smooth fused edges, I actually sent him two of my default EDC items, a Baliyo pen and a Butterfly comb, which he formed the pockets to flawlessly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37336\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9401.jpg\" alt=\"Processed with VSCO with c1 preset\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9401.jpg 500w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9401-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9401-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Custom bladeless brass Swiss Army Knife by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/toolsalot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toolsalot<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nAs someone who has had a pocket knife riding at right hand draw since I was in the seventh grade, Swiss Army Knives have always been a loyal sidecar to a main blade, but I\u2019ve often wanted something slim and simple that didn\u2019t have a blade of it\u2019s own. The redundancy isn\u2019t necessary, and often i\u2019d love to have my own tools when traveling, so after almost three years of hunting and being turned down by more than a dozen SAK custom builders, I found a blank Instagram run by a gent named Toolsalot, not an image on his own page, but tucked into his tags were half a dozen of the most impressive custom SAK jobs i\u2019d ever seen, nothing flashy or impractical, all blunt and utilitarian, impressively overbuilt. I dropped him a line and without a blink he said no problem to the build that i\u2019d been told was impossible over and over. Brass scales, no blades, and a simple pair of full size SAK scissors, and nestled next to them the full size SAK pliers. It\u2019s ridden in my pocket every day since.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37334\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9399.jpg\" alt=\"Processed with VSCO with c1 preset\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9399.jpg 500w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9399-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2020\/11\/IMG_9399-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Various Vintage rangefinder camera optics<\/strong><br \/>\nAs a photographer one of the hardest things nowadays, especially in the photo market, is making your work immediately visually recognizable and different. There are so many really excellent amateur photographers and excellent professional photographers, all sharing via the same medium nowadays. So it&#8217;s really hard to make your work stand out. I&#8217;ve always been a sucker for handmade, vintage, strange objects and such, so it was a natural path for me to take into vintage optics. Essentially the lenses that I look for are unusual, off-brand, things you wouldn&#8217;t expect. Work that I&#8217;ve done for Netflix and for Vogue and Harper&#8217;s has been shot on $10 lenses that I bought at thrift shops. Some of those are just old Vivitars. Some of them are just mismarked Longines, which are incredible, incredible lenses. So by dropping into the world of vintage lenses you immediately give yourself a lot of extra flavor when it comes to the images, you give yourself a little extra building block of creativity, and just gives your images an immediately different look from almost anyone else, because once you get into those vintage lenses, no two are the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>We have hired professional editors to help create our weekly podcasts and video reviews. 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