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...
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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...
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...