Having just taken delivery of my brand spanking new iMac Pro, today I'm going to share my first impressions of this awesome machine, with a few comparisons to other Apple computers of recent years to give you an idea of the perform these new Pro machines can provide....
In Conversation with Nicole S. Young and Brian Matiash (Podcast 600)
Today I'm thrilled to bring you a great conversation with photographers Nicole S. Young and Brian Matiash, and I didn't tell them until we'd finished that this conversation was even more special because it's my 600th episode! I was just starting to think about...
Introducing Capture One Pro 11 New Features (Podcast 599)
Phase One has launched version 11 of my chosen raw image editing software Capture One Pro with some great new features that we're going to take a look at today. I have been using Capture One Pro 11 over the past few weeks, getting used to the new features, and I am...
Morocco 2017 Tour Travelogue Part 4 (Podcast 598)
Today we conclude our Morocco 2017 tour travelogue series, with some beautiful portrait opportunities and a visit to the incredible Portuguese cistern at El Jadida. On our second morning waking from our luxury tents in the Moroccan Sahara, I ventured back out again...
Morocco 2017 Tour Travelogue Part 3 (Podcast 597)
Back from Morocco, we continue our travelogue series today to walk you through the trip, picking up the trail in Erfoud, a beautiful little town on the edge of the Sahara. Erfoud Musician We'd spent the morning in a local market photographing the people there, like...
Morocco 2017 Tour Travelogue Part 2 (Podcast 596)
Just back from my first tour of Morocco, this week we continue our series of travelogues to walk you through our antics in this majestic north-western corner of Africa. Having just about finished my edit of my photos, I now have around fifty in a collection, so...
Morocco 2017 Tour Travelogue Part 1 (Podcast 595)
Having just completed my first tour of Morocco, today we start a short series of travelogues to walk you through our antics in this wonderful land. I have to tell you, before visiting Morocco for the first time this year, I wasn't sure what I'd make of it, but right...
Circle of Confusion, the Airy Disk and Diffraction (Podcast 594)
Today I'm going to explain what causes diffraction as we stop down the aperture in our lenses past a certain point, and how this may affect our photographs. I've been working on an update to our iOS app Photographer's Friend so that you'll be able to do two new...
Updating Some of My Photography Mantras (Podcast 593)
Over the years, I developed a number of photography related mantras that seemed like a good idea at the time, but have since changed my thinking as my understanding gets better, the technology improves, and as the times change. Today I'm going to update a few of these...
Introducing Photographer’s Friend for iPhone and iPad (Podcast 592)
It gives me great pleasure to tell you that I have now released the update to our iPhone app, Photographer's Friend. We now support iPad in addition to iPhone and iPod touch, as well as landscape and portrait orientations. As I mentioned in an update a few weeks ago,...
What Focal Length is Closest to Human Eyesight? (Podcast 591)
Following a recent question, today we're going to explore how we see and how we perceive a scene, in relation to the focal length numbers we are familiar with from our camera lenses. Before we start, I'd like to apologize for skipping last week's episode. I'm still...
MBP Companion App Update (Podcast 590)
Today I really just have an announcement for all of the listeners that use our MBP Companion iPhone App, which is currently showing a message about not being supported by the imminent new release of iOS, which is version 11. You may recall that I mentioned a few weeks...