Today I'm going to go into detail on why I expose to the right, as I get asked about this a lot. Exposing to the right means adjusting your exposure so that the image data we see in the histogram falls as close to the right shoulder as possible. I've touched on this a...
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Review of New Breathing Color Media (Podcast 380)
I recently took delivery of two new types of paper and a new canvas from Breathing Color, and having profiled and worked with them over the last few weeks, today I'm going to discuss some of the attributes of these new media types and how I'm going to be introducing...
Tripods – What, When and Why I Use Them (Podcast 379)
Once again I'm going to reply to a listener question this week, this time a question from listener Fred Kotler about when and how I use my tripods. I thought this would be a good chance to take a look at my current support line-up, and discuss a little about why I...
Namibia Preparation Follow-up (Podcast 378)
On May 4, before I left for Namibia, I released a quick video Podcast (episode 371) to walk you through my preparation for the trip. In that video I said that I'd let you know if anything didn't go according to plan, and in general everything went really well, but...
Google Plus 2nd Anniversary Photo Walk in Tokyo (Podcast 377)
It doesn't seem like two years since Google Plus was launched, but last Saturday, on June 29, we celebrated Google Plus' 2nd birthday with a photo walk here in Tokyo. I ended up with 21 photos from the day, and have select 10 to talk about with regards to my thinking...
Namibia 2013 Travelogue Part 5 (Podcast 376)
Today we conclude what turned out to be a five part travelogue style account of my recent trip to Namibia. I’ve selected my last ten favorites to take a look at, and I’ll include a little background about my thought process while shooting. We pick up the trail on the...
Namibia 2013 Travelogue Part 4 (Podcast 375)
Continuing our travelogue style account of my recent trip to Namibia, I’ve selected the next ten favorites to take a look at today, and I’ll include a little background and my thought process while shooting. We pick up the trail on the morning of May 17, at the Himba...
Namibia 2013 Travelogue Part 3 (Podcast 374)
Continuing our travelogue style account of my recent trip to Namibia, I’ve selected the next ten favorites to take a look at today, and I'll include a little background and my thought process while shooting. We pick up the trail on the morning of May 14, as we started...
Namibia 2013 Travelogue Part 2 (Podcast 373)
Today we continue a travelogue style account of my recent trip to Namibia, with my friend Jeremy Woodhouse and his group. Of my 145 final selects, I did get around to uploading a tighter 80 photo selection to my portfolios site (and I'll put a link into the show...
Namibia 2013 Travelogue Part 1 (Podcast 372)
From today, for a few weeks, I’m going to do a travelogue style account of my recent trip to Namibia. I have around 145 images in my final selection currently, so I’ll select up to 10 favorites each week, and talk you through them, including details of where we were,...
Namibia Preparation – What’s in the Bag? (Podcast 371)
I just finished packing for a Namibia Photography Tour with my friend Jeremy Woodhouse, so I figured I'd unpack again, to show you what's in my bags. There's an iPhone format video in the iTunes feed, but below is the full High Definition video. Note too that the...
Photography iPhone and iPad Apps Update (Podcast 370)
Today I'm going to update you on some of my current favorite photography related iPhone and iPad apps. Looking back, I've done two previous episodes on photography related iPad apps, starting with Episode 246 back in June 2010, and then again in October 2011 in...