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,...
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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...
What Makes a Photograph or Print Fine Art? (Podcast 589)
Today I'm going to share my thoughts on what makes a photograph or a print "fine art". This is something that I've seen various takes on, and frankly, nothing I've read over the years really resonates with me personally, for reasons that I'll explain. The impetus for...
Be Ready with Custom Shooting Modes (Podcast 588)
Today we're going to look at a feature that is on most cameras but often overlooked, and that is the Custom Shooting Modes, which enable you to quickly change many of the settings of your camera with the flick of a switch. In last week's episode, I touched on the...
The Balance Between Healthy Learning and Analysis Paralysis (Podcast 587)
As creative artists and sometimes small business owners, it's vitally important to continue to learn and grow on many levels, but I urge you to not get so caught up in technical details that you become paralyzed in the field through overthinking every...
The Boot Cleaning Ceremony (Podcast 586)
On July 8 this year, almost three weeks after returning from Namibia, I cleaned my boots. So what? I can almost hear you saying, but to me, this is always a relatively deep, thought provoking, experience, which I'd like to explain today. When I started hiking in the...
Portfolio for iPad App Review (Podcast 585)
This week I'm going to tell you all about Portfolio for iPad, an app that I've just started using to display my portfolios in, and I'm mostly very impressed with. For a number of years, I used an app called Foliobook to share my portfolios on my iPad and I...
Shooting and Focusing Techniques for Telephoto Lenses (Podcast 584)
Last week a friend and fellow traveler on my workshops Ulana Switucha asked me a question about good techniques for using long telephoto lenses to photograph moving subjects. Although I have talked about much of what I will cover in other posts over the years, today...
NextGEN Pro Gallery Review and Walkthrough (Podcast 583)
This week I've created a video to review and walk you through the NextGEN PRO gallery that I have recently implemented on my web site. As you'll see, it isn't perfect, but it's a very feature rich gallery and lightbox solution. With e-commerce built right in, it will...
Complete Namibia Tour 2017 Travelogue 5 (Podcast 582)
This week conclude our Complete Namibia Tour Travelogue series with my final twelve wildlife images from the awesome Etosha National Park. [smart_track_player url="https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/mbppodcast/mbpp_ep582"...
Complete Namibia Tour 2017 Travelogue 4 (Podcast 581)
This week I'm going to share twelve wildlife images from the Etosha National Park with you, as we near the end of our Complete Namibia Tour Travelogue series. [smart_track_player url="https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/mbppodcast/mbpp_ep581"...