Today we continue our journey on the first of my two Japan Winter Wildlife photography tours for 2018, as we photograph the Whooper Swans, but then go back to the Red-Crowned Cranes for a chance of photographing them in the fresh and falling snow. On day six of the...
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2018 Japan Winter Wildlife Photography Tour #1 Travelogue #1 (Podcast 608)
Today we start a travelogue series to walk you through the first of my two Japan Winter Wildlife photography tours, during which we visit the snow monkeys in Nagano for three days before traveling up to Hokkaido, the northern-most island of Japan for a...
Hokkaido Winter Landscape Adventure 2018 Travelogue #3 (Podcast 607)
Today we conclude our travelogue series from my recent Hokkaido Winter Landscape Photography Adventure tour and workshop, as we pick up the trail on the morning of day eight, as we left Wakkanai and first visited the Souya Fishing Port at the northern-most tip of...
Creating stunning black and white images in Capture One Pro (Podcast 606)
I recently created a video for the Phase One team to show how I created my Boat Graveyard black and white image using a number of techniques and features of Capture One Pro 11. We'll pick up the trail with the concluding episode of my 2018 Hokkaido Winter...
Hokkaido Winter Landscape Adventure 2018 Travelogue #2 (Podcast 605)
Continuing our travelogue series from my recent Hokkaido Winter Landscape Photography Adventure tour and workshop, today we pick up the trail on the morning of day three, when we took a walk around the back of our hotel to photograph the blue waterfall there. This is...
Hokkaido Winter Landscape Adventure 2018 Travelogue #1 (Podcast 604)
Just back from the 2018 Hokkaido Winter Landscape Adventure tour and workshop, today I'm going to start a travelogue series to walk you through our antics as we pretty much circumnavigated the beautiful northern island of Japan. Having met the group over dinner on the...
Martin’s 2017 Personal Top Ten Photographs (Podcast 603)
Following on from my selection process episode last week, this week I'm going to tell you a little about each of my personal top ten favorite images from 2017. We'll work through my top ten in chronological order, starting from January and working through the year. My...
2017 Top Ten Photographs Selection Process (Podcast 602)
As 2017 drew to an end, I completed my yearly exercise of selecting my personal favorite top ten images from the year, and as has become a tradition, I'm going to share my process with you today. As usual, I started this exercise by creating a Group in the...
Mid-Spec iMac Pro Review – Wow! (Podcast 601)
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...