I went to Lebanon during the busiest time of year for a very important reason. I was also able to get a few pics while there. Thank you for joining me, let's get right to it! Email me: brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/ ain Topic: Lebanon See all the pics on the shownotes website. https://brentbergherm.com/episode/159 Why I went My itinerary, in brief The photos A deeper dive into the reason behind my visit A new direction for the podcast and my work   ___ A dose of inspiration: Psalm 92:12 says: “But the Godly will flourish like palm trees and grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.” NLT Mark Twain: “Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it." ___ Find me on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@brentberghermphoto Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/brentbergherm Find my page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brentberghermphoto

I went to Lebanon during the busiest time of year for a very important reason. I was also able to get a few pics while there. Thank you for joining me, let's get right to it! Email me: brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/</a> ain Topic: Lebanon See all the pics on the shownotes website. <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/episode/159" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/episode/159</a> Why I went My itinerary, in brief The photos A deeper dive into the reason behind my visit A new direction for the podcast and my work   ___ A dose of inspiration: Psalm 92:12 says: “But the Godly will flourish like palm trees and grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.” NLT Mark Twain: “Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it." ___ Find me on YouTube: <a href="https://youtube.com/@brentberghermphoto" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/@brentberghermphoto</a> Follow me on Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/brentbergherm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/brentbergherm</a> Find my page on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brentberghermphoto" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/brentberghermphoto</a>

159 I went to Lebanon

Oman offers some landscapes that I just never expected. We'll learn all about it in this conversation with Nickolas Warner. Email me: brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/ Main Topic: OMAN See all the show notes on the shownotes website. https://brentbergherm.com/episode/158   Find Nickolas online: https://www.nickolaswarnerphotography.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickolasawarner/____ A dose of inspiration: Isaiah 43:19 says: “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” ESV Paul Theroux: “You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back." "Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going." "Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."

Oman offers some landscapes that I just never expected. We'll learn all about it in this conversation with Nickolas Warner. Email me: brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/</a> Main Topic: OMAN See all the show notes on the shownotes website. <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/episode/158" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/episode/158</a>   Find Nickolas online: <a href="https://www.nickolaswarnerphotography.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nickolaswarnerphotography.com</a> Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nickolasawarner/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/nickolasawarner/</a>____ A dose of inspiration: Isaiah 43:19 says: “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” ESV Paul Theroux: “You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back." "Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going." "Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."

158 OMAN with Nickolas Warner

Kirk Keyes

Photographing the moon is a bit of a challenge. With all the phases and opportunities available it can be a daunting task to break it all down. Kirk Keyes joins me in breaking it all down. Email me: brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/ Main Topic: Shooting the Moon See all the show notes on the shownotes website. https://brentbergherm.com/episode/157   Brian Chambers' Moon Photography Workshop Link:  https://www.brianchambersphotography.net Kirk Keys' Website: https://keyesphoto.com____ A dose of inspiration: Genesis 1:16 says: “God made two great lights–the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. He also made the stars.” NLT J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars."  

Photographing the moon is a bit of a challenge. With all the phases and opportunities available it can be a daunting task to break it all down. Kirk Keyes joins me in breaking it all down. Email me: brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/</a> Main Topic: Shooting the Moon See all the show notes on the shownotes website. <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/episode/157" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/episode/157</a>   Brian Chambers' Moon Photography Workshop Link:  <a href="https://www.brianchambersphotography.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.brianchambersphotography.net</a> Kirk Keys' Website: <a href="https://keyesphoto.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://keyesphoto.com</a>____ A dose of inspiration: Genesis 1:16 says: “God made two great lights–the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. He also made the stars.” NLT J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars."

157 Shooting the Moon with Kirk Keyes

Today we're talking about a major goal I have for 2023. A goal to blend my photography life with my farm life. This is episode 156 of The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast for January 1, 2023. Check out The Great Outdoors Photography School! https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/ brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/ Main Topic: Setting a Major Goal for 2023 See all the show notes and the pics on the shownotes website. https://brentbergherm.com/episode/156 Find Baker Creek seeds at: https://rareseeds.com____ A dose of inspiration: Luke 12:27 says: “Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” ESV Francis Hodgson Burnett: “Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow."

Today we're talking about a major goal I have for 2023. A goal to blend my photography life with my farm life. This is episode 156 of The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast for January 1, 2023. Check out The Great Outdoors Photography School! <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/</a> brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/</a> Main Topic: Setting a Major Goal for 2023 See all the show notes and the pics on the shownotes website. <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/episode/156" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/episode/156</a> Find Baker Creek seeds at: <a href="https://rareseeds.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://rareseeds.com</a>____ A dose of inspiration: Luke 12:27 says: “Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” ESV Francis Hodgson Burnett: “Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow."

156 Planning a Major Goal for 2023

Mike Poggioli

Today we're heading to the eastern side of the United States. Specifically the Blue Ridge Mountains. They are a mountain range that stretch form Georgia in the south to Maine in the north. And today's conversation is with a photographer that has recently published a book on the area. This is episode 155 of The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast for December 20, 2022. Check out The Great Outdoors Photography School! https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/ Get in touch by emailing me: brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/ Main Topic: Blue Ridge Dreaming See all the show notes and the pics on the shownotes website. https://brentbergherm.com/episode/155 Find Mike Online: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mpthecomebackid/ The Book on Amazon https://amzn.to/3YrEjLP Trope Publishing https://trope.com/products/blue-ridge-dreaming ____ A dose of inspiration: Proverbs 13:12 says: “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.” NLT William Durant: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."   ___ The amazon link above is an affiliate link

Today we're heading to the eastern side of the United States. Specifically the Blue Ridge Mountains. They are a mountain range that stretch form Georgia in the south to Maine in the north. And today's conversation is with a photographer that has recently published a book on the area. This is episode 155 of The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast for December 20, 2022. Check out The Great Outdoors Photography School! <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/</a> Get in touch by emailing me: brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/</a> Main Topic: Blue Ridge Dreaming See all the show notes and the pics on the shownotes website. <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/episode/155" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/episode/155</a> Find Mike Online: Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mpthecomebackid/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/mpthecomebackid/</a> The Book on Amazon <a href="https://amzn.to/3YrEjLP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3YrEjLP</a> Trope Publishing <a href="https://trope.com/products/blue-ridge-dreaming" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://trope.com/products/blue-ridge-dreaming</a> ____ A dose of inspiration: Proverbs 13:12 says: “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.” NLT William Durant: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."   ___ The amazon link above is an affiliate link

155 Blue Ridge Dreaming with Mike Poggioli

There are many options for hosting your photography gallery and doing print fulfillment. I’ve finally settled on the solutions I plan to use and I’m trilled to talk this through with you so you can decide which option would be best for you. This is episode 154 of The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast for November 23, 2022. Check out The Great Outdoors Photography School! https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/ Use coupon code BF2022 by Nov 28, 2022 for 33 days for just $1.000 Take a look at my FAQ video: https://brentbergherm.com/bf2022/bf2022-nov20/ brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/ Main Topic: Online Gallery and Print Sales See all the show notes and the pics on the shownotes website. https://brentbergherm.com/episode/154 The Great Outdoors Photography School Black Friday Special. For Black Friday 2022, I'm running a special. Get 33 days to test out the school for just $1.00 Use coupon code: BF2022 ____ A dose of inspiration: Philippians 4:8 says: “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.” ESV Mark Twain: “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/23/belittle-ambitions/

There are many options for hosting your photography gallery and doing print fulfillment. I’ve finally settled on the solutions I plan to use and I’m trilled to talk this through with you so you can decide which option would be best for you. This is episode 154 of The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast for November 23, 2022. Check out The Great Outdoors Photography School! <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/</a> Use coupon code BF2022 by Nov 28, 2022 for 33 days for just $1.000 Take a look at my FAQ video: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/bf2022/bf2022-nov20/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/bf2022/bf2022-nov20/</a> brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/</a> Main Topic: Online Gallery and Print Sales See all the show notes and the pics on the shownotes website. <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/episode/154" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/episode/154</a> The Great Outdoors Photography School Black Friday Special. For Black Friday 2022, I'm running a special. Get 33 days to test out the school for just $1.00 Use coupon code: BF2022 ____ A dose of inspiration: Philippians 4:8 says: “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.” ESV Mark Twain: “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." <a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/23/belittle-ambitions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/23/belittle-ambitions/</a>

154 Online Gallery and Print Sales

Focus stacking is not a new technique, but it is one that I recently took a deep-dive into as I try and find ways to keep the photography going while staying closer to home. This is episode 153 of The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast for October 30, 2022. I got another printer! I got a question about it too... "How much time do you think it took you to get running? I mean from delivery + any learning curve. Asking for a friend with big dreams and no money." I finally made a final decision, for about the third time, on what to do with my online photo gallery. It's go time... Join us over at The Great Outdoors Photography School.  Check out The Great Outdoors Photography School! https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/ Main Topic: Photographing and Processing Fog See all the show notes and the pics on the shownotes website. https://brentbergherm.com/episode/153 brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/ ____ A dose of inspiration: Luke 16:10 says, "If you are faithful in little things you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities." NLT Robert Capa: “If your pictures are not good enough then you're not close enough."

Focus stacking is not a new technique, but it is one that I recently took a deep-dive into as I try and find ways to keep the photography going while staying closer to home. This is episode 153 of The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast for October 30, 2022. I got another printer! I got a question about it too... "How much time do you think it took you to get running? I mean from delivery + any learning curve. Asking for a friend with big dreams and no money." I finally made a final decision, for about the third time, on what to do with my online photo gallery. It's go time... Join us over at The Great Outdoors Photography School.  Check out The Great Outdoors Photography School! <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/</a> Main Topic: Photographing and Processing Fog See all the show notes and the pics on the shownotes website. <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/episode/153" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/episode/153</a> brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/</a> ____ A dose of inspiration: Luke 16:10 says, "If you are faithful in little things you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities." NLT Robert Capa: “If your pictures are not good enough then you're not close enough."

153 Achieving TONS of Depth-of-Field

The main topic in this episode is all about processing images of fog. This is thanks to a listener request which I always appreciate. We'll also talk about what to do when the light is flat. This is episode 152 of The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast for September 16, 2022. Check out The Great Outdoors Photography School! https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/ brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/ Main Topic: Photographing and Processing Fog See all the show notes and the pics on the shownotes website. https://brentbergherm.com/episode/152____ A dose of inspiration: Proverbs 15:18 says: “A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.” ESV Henri Cartier-Bresson: “It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart, and head."

The main topic in this episode is all about processing images of fog. This is thanks to a listener request which I always appreciate. We'll also talk about what to do when the light is flat. This is episode 152 of The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast for September 16, 2022. Check out The Great Outdoors Photography School! <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/</a> brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/</a> Main Topic: Photographing and Processing Fog See all the show notes and the pics on the shownotes website. <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/episode/152" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/episode/152</a>____ A dose of inspiration: Proverbs 15:18 says: “A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.” ESV Henri Cartier-Bresson: “It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart, and head."

152 Processing Fog Photos

The Ketchikan, Alaska, area is loaded with many photography opportunities. Plus, I found the people to be VERY generous. This is episode 151 of The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast for September 2, 2022. Check out The Great Outdoors Photography School! https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/ brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/ Main Topic: Ketchikan Trip Report See all the show notes and the pics on the shownotes website. https://brentbergherm.com/episode/151____ A dose of inspiration: Ecclesiastes 10:10 says: “Using a dull ax requires great strength, so sharpen the blade. That's the value of wisdom; it helps you succeed.” NLT John Muir: “I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day."

The Ketchikan, Alaska, area is loaded with many photography opportunities. Plus, I found the people to be VERY generous. This is episode 151 of The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast for September 2, 2022. Check out The Great Outdoors Photography School! <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/photo-school/</a> brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/</a> Main Topic: Ketchikan Trip Report See all the show notes and the pics on the shownotes website. <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/episode/151" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/episode/151</a>____ A dose of inspiration: Ecclesiastes 10:10 says: “Using a dull ax requires great strength, so sharpen the blade. That's the value of wisdom; it helps you succeed.” NLT John Muir: “I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day."

151 Trip Report: Ketchikan, AK

Today we're talking about going back. Taking a look at photographs from weeks, months or years gone by and seeing them in a new light. This is The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast episode 150 for August 10, 2022. ____   Links to note brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Extended show notes for this episode: https://brentbergherm.com/episode/150 Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/ Get in touch with Brie: https://creativemindscoach.com ______   A dose of inspiration: Hebrews 11:1: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” ESV Jean Baudrillard: “Reality found a way to mutate into an image."

Today we're talking about going back. Taking a look at photographs from weeks, months or years gone by and seeing them in a new light. This is The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast episode 150 for August 10, 2022. ____ Links to note brent@thegreatoutdoorsphotographypodcast.com Extended show notes for this episode: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/episode/150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/episode/150</a> Join the email list for announcements, updates and sometimes new product announcements: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/notifications/</a> Get in touch with Brie: <a href="https://creativemindscoach.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://creativemindscoach.com</a> ______ A dose of inspiration: Hebrews 11:1: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” ESV Jean Baudrillard: “Reality found a way to mutate into an image."

150 Revisiting Past Work and the Genesis of New Ideas

Previously called "Latitude Photography Podcast" the new name reflects a refined vision for the show. Hosted by Brent Bergherm, TGOPP is here to inspire you to get outdoors more often and to pursue your purpose in photography.You are uniquely created and it's my goal to inspire you to reach your full potential to create the photographs only you can make.

This is a great podcast for learing about traveling with any photography gear.

Great travel advise

Love the first episode can&#39;t wait to listen many more.  Keep up the good work!

Awesome show from 2 great guys!!

Previously called "Latitude Photography Podcast" the new name reflects a refined vision for the show. Hosted by Brent Bergherm, TGOPP is here to inspire you to get outdoors more often and to pursue your purpose in photography. You are uniquely created and it's my goal to inspire you to reach your full potential to create the photographs only you can make.

The Great Outdoors Photography Podcast

Jeff Brown

There’s no better time than the present to reassess the approach you’re taking with your photography. Last week we talked about preparing for normal with creative ideas in mind, how to better ourselves as a photographer. This week it’s all about reassessing our business approach and making sure we’re properly connecting with our client base. Links Mentioned in today’s show: Website www.focusonmarketing.co.uk  Making a persona: https://youtu.be/tCAeHfvsjoM  Palouse Shoot-n-Print Photography and Printing Workshop Get on the list for updates on Latitude Photography School  Shop at  lensrentals.com with my affiliate link and I’ll get a small commission of the sale. Use the code "latitude15" at checkout and you'll get 15% off your order. I also have an affiliate link with ThinkTank Photo  Thank you for your support! Announcements http://www.latitudephotographypodcast.com/episode/75 Business tactics for photographers whilst in quarantine Jeff, welcome to the show! The last time we chatted I was interviewing you for the Master Photography Podcast and we talked about LinkedIn for photographers. Today we find ourselves in vastly different times and our presence on social media is possibly more important now more than ever. Let’s talk about some of these items, shall we?  Why now is a time to be working ON your Business and not IN it Time to look deeper into your brand and who your ideals clients really are, could they be changing How social media has changed over the past month and what you need to focus on Why you should still post posting to social media everyday Be ready to come back bigger and better with a regeneration offer  Reminders  Find us on the web at http://latitudephotographypodcast.com Find me on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/brentberghermphoto/ Find the podcast facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1892577214293688/ Find me on instagram @brentbergherm Find me on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/brentberghermphotography Find me online at https://brentbergherm.com And finally, my online learning platform for photographers is found at http://latitudephotographyschool.com  Find Jeff Brown  here:Website www.focusonmarketing.co.uk     Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffbrownphotographymarketing/ Free LinkedIn Training and Support Group www.22s.com/photographymentoring/118311 Facebook www.facebook.com/focusonmarketing

There’s no better time than the present to reassess the approach you’re taking with your photography. Last week we talked about preparing for normal with creative ideas in mind, how to better ourselves as a photographer. This week it’s all about reassessing our business approach and making sure we’re properly connecting with our client base. Links Mentioned in today’s show: Website <a href="http://www.focusonmarketing.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.focusonmarketing.co.uk</a> Making a persona: <a href="https://youtu.be/tCAeHfvsjoM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/tCAeHfvsjoM</a> <a href="https://latitudephotographyschool.com/workshops/palouse-shoot-n-print-workshop/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Palouse Shoot-n-Print Photography and Printing Workshop</a> Get on the list for updates on <a href="http://latitudephotographyschool.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Latitude Photography School</a> Shop at <a href="https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> lensrentals.com</a> with my affiliate link and I’ll get a small commission of the sale. Use the code "latitude15" at checkout and you'll get 15% off your order. I also have an affiliate link with <a href="http://bit.ly/2IMRhOT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ThinkTank Photo</a> Thank you for your support! Announcements <a href="http://www.latitudephotographypodcast.com/episode/75" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.latitudephotographypodcast.com/episode/75</a> Business tactics for photographers whilst in quarantine Jeff, welcome to the show! The last time we chatted I was interviewing you for the Master Photography Podcast and we talked about LinkedIn for photographers. Today we find ourselves in vastly different times and our presence on social media is possibly more important now more than ever. Let’s talk about some of these items, shall we? <ol> <li>Why now is a time to be working ON your Business and not IN it</li> <li>Time to look deeper into your brand and who your ideals clients really are, could they be changing</li> <li>How social media has changed over the past month and what you need to focus on</li> <li>Why you should still post posting to social media everyday</li> <li>Be ready to come back bigger and better with a regeneration offer</li> </ol> Reminders <ol> <li>Find us on the web at <a href="http://latitudephotographypodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://latitudephotographypodcast.com</a></li> <li>Find me on facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brentberghermphoto/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/brentberghermphoto/</a></li> <li>Find the podcast facebook group at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1892577214293688/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/1892577214293688/</a></li> <li>Find me on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/brentbergherm/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">instagram</a> @brentbergherm</li> <li>Find me on YouTube at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/brentberghermphotography" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/brentberghermphotography</a></li> <li>Find me online at <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com</a></li> <li>And finally, my online learning platform for photographers is found at <a href="http://latitudephotographyschool.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://latitudephotographyschool.com</a></li> </ol> Find Jeff Brown  here:Website <a href="http://www.focusonmarketing.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.focusonmarketing.co.uk</a>    Linkedin <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffbrownphotographymarketing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffbrownphotographymarketing/ </a>Free LinkedIn Training and Support Group <a href="http://www.22s.com/photographymentoring/118311" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.22s.com/photographymentoring/118311 </a>Facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/focusonmarketing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/focusonmarketing</a>

Business Tactics with Jeff Brown

Rick Sammon

Today's conversation takes us deep into personal territory, we seek to help you define and understand what will make you a better photographer, and maybe a bit more well rounded too. :) Links Mentioned in today’s show: Create Photography Retreat Rick’s Book Rick's Website: https://ricksammon.com Richard Bernabe Episode:  http://www.latitudephotographypodcast.com/episode/the-creative-principle/ Emotional Intelligence 2.0: https://amzn.to/2SxwioL Real Magic: https://amzn.to/2Swi1Zn The Artists Way: https://amzn.to/2OWsr26 Wildlife Photography by Richard Bernabe: https://amzn.to/37yVTl8 On Photography by Susan Songag: https://amzn.to/2Huf4SE __ Palouse Shoot-n-Print Photography and Printing Workshop:  https://latitudephotographyschool.com/workshops/palouse-shoot-n-print-workshop/ Sign up to be the first notified when the new Latitude Photography School is available and open for business: https://latitudephotographyschool.com __ Lensrentals.com affiliate link: https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg Use this link AND the code "latitude15" the next time you need to rent gear. I'll get a small percentage and you'll get 15% off. ThinkTank Photo affiliate link: http://bit.ly/2IMRhOT Need to carry your gear in style? Treat yourself to a ThinkTank Photo bag with the link and get a free gift at checkout Main Topic. Today I’m talking with Rick Sammon about some items found in his most recent book, Photo Therapy, Motivation and Wisdom. Rick, welcome to the show  Let’s start with this idea of “Emotional Intelligence.” What is that all about? In the book you cover some of the basics about your early career as a photographer. Let’s start there, you were working for an ad agency and… Chapter 3, Photography can improve your health and sense of well-being. You quote your friend Richard Bernabe, who was on the show back in late November, 2018. He says, “For me, the very act of walking through a forest, desert, or a beach with my camera, regardless if I take a photo or not, is a form of mindfulness. I’m not ruminating on the past or worried about what I need to do tomorrow or next week.” Let’s unpack that a little bit, the first time I “realized” this deeply was in shooting Tunnel Falls in the Columbia River Gorge…  Chapter 4, Getting in Touch with Nature. From the chapter, “Thinking about how fast time goes by is also an escape from our normal reality that gives us an appreciation for how fast time passes, which, I think, gives us a better appreciation for life, which in turn can make us better people. Again, photo therapy at work.” Chapter 6, Creating your Own Reality. From the chapter, “We need to envision how a three-dimensional scene will look as a two-dimensional image, how light will be captured by our cameras, which is different than how our eyes see light—highlights and shadows.” “I shoot with feeling, I shoot with passion. I show respect. Above all, I shoot for myself.” Chapter 7. Looking vs. Seeing. Let’s talk about your “One-Picture Promise.” Listener questions: Nick Dag asks, “What key changes/developments in technology have had the greatest impact on your journey through photography and how did these alter your path? Jeremy Lanthorn asks, “In a world where we’re told to specialize, how do you continue to be successful in ‘specializing in not specializing?’” If we haven’t covered it already, Kirk Keyes wants to hear more about what lead you to the decision to create a photography book without any photos between the covers. Kirk also wants to know if you plan to put more music lessons on your YouTube Channel. And what’s your take on music and photography, would learning music add to the photographic experience and creativity? Drake Dyck asks, “How did you decide to write your first book and has your process changed much over the course of writing 40 books now?” Tell me about your next book.  

Today's conversation takes us deep into personal territory, we seek to help you define and understand what will make you a better photographer, and maybe a bit more well rounded too. :) Links Mentioned in today’s show: <a href="https://transactions.sendowl.com/stores/12219/51272" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Create Photography Retreat</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/2RIYvau" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rick’s Book</a> Rick's Website: <a href="https://ricksammon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ricksammon.com</a> Richard Bernabe Episode: <a href="http://www.latitudephotographypodcast.com/episode/the-creative-principle/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> http://www.latitudephotographypodcast.com/episode/the-creative-principle/</a> Emotional Intelligence 2.0: <a href="https://amzn.to/2SxwioL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2SxwioL</a> Real Magic: <a href="https://amzn.to/2Swi1Zn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2Swi1Zn</a> The Artists Way: <a href="https://amzn.to/2OWsr26" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2OWsr26</a> Wildlife Photography by Richard Bernabe: <a href="https://amzn.to/37yVTl8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/37yVTl8</a> On Photography by Susan Songag: <a href="https://amzn.to/2Huf4SE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2Huf4SE</a> __ Palouse Shoot-n-Print Photography and Printing Workshop: <a href="https://latitudephotographyschool.com/workshops/palouse-shoot-n-print-workshop/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://latitudephotographyschool.com/workshops/palouse-shoot-n-print-workshop/</a> Sign up to be the first notified when the new Latitude Photography School is available and open for business: <a href="https://latitudephotographyschool.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://latitudephotographyschool.com</a> __ <a href="http://Lensrentals.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lensrentals.com</a> affiliate link: <a href="https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg</a> Use this link AND the code "latitude15" the next time you need to rent gear. I'll get a small percentage and you'll get 15% off. ThinkTank Photo affiliate link: <a href="http://bit.ly/2IMRhOT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2IMRhOT</a> Need to carry your gear in style? Treat yourself to a ThinkTank Photo bag with the link and get a free gift at checkout Main Topic. Today I’m talking with Rick Sammon about some items found in his most recent book, Photo Therapy, Motivation and Wisdom. Rick, welcome to the show <ol> <li>Let’s start with this idea of “Emotional Intelligence.” What is that all about?</li> <li>In the book you cover some of the basics about your early career as a photographer. Let’s start there, you were working for an ad agency and…</li> <li>Chapter 3, Photography can improve your health and sense of well-being. You quote your friend Richard Bernabe, who was on the show back in late November, 2018. He says, “For me, the very act of walking through a forest, desert, or a beach with my camera, regardless if I take a photo or not, is a form of mindfulness. I’m not ruminating on the past or worried about what I need to do tomorrow or next week.” Let’s unpack that a little bit, the first time I “realized” this deeply was in shooting Tunnel Falls in the Columbia River Gorge… </li> <li>Chapter 4, Getting in Touch with Nature. From the chapter, “Thinking about how fast time goes by is also an escape from our normal reality that gives us an appreciation for how fast time passes, which, I think, gives us a better appreciation for life, which in turn can make us better people. Again, photo therapy at work.”</li> <li>Chapter 6, Creating your Own Reality. From the chapter, “We need to envision how a three-dimensional scene will look as a two-dimensional image, how light will be captured by our cameras, which is different than how our eyes see light—highlights and shadows.” “I shoot with feeling, I shoot with passion. I show respect. Above all, I shoot for myself.”</li> <li>Chapter 7. Looking vs. Seeing. Let’s talk about your “One-Picture Promise.”</li> <li>Listener questions: Nick Dag asks, “What key changes/developments in technology have had the greatest impact on your journey through photography and how did these alter your path? Jeremy Lanthorn asks, “In a world where we’re told to specialize, how do you continue to be successful in ‘specializing in not specializing?’” If we haven’t covered it already, Kirk Keyes wants to hear more about what lead you to the decision to create a photography book without any photos between the covers. Kirk also wants to know if you plan to put more music lessons on your YouTube Channel. And what’s your take on music and photography, would learning music add to the photographic experience and creativity? Drake Dyck asks, “How did you decide to write your first book and has your process changed much over the course of writing 40 books now?”</li> <li>Tell me about your next book. </li> </ol>

Photo Therapy with Rick Sammon

New Workshop for December 2020 just announced. Check out the website for all the details.  https://brentbergherm.com There’s still spots left in my Denver one-day printing workshop. https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/denver/ And don’t forget my Oregon Coast Workshop! https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/oregon-coast-2019/ Guest Introduction. Today I have David Long once again joining me. David, welcome to the show. Listeners may remember you from a while back when we talked about winter photography in New England. That was from November 2018. Topic:  Today wanted to talk about Composition, and in reality, I maybe should call it “thought processes” on making images, or “thought processes on composition.” We’re also going to weave in some stories from the road. David, you’ve been a busy traveler lately. Tell us a bit about that first. St. Augustine, FL.  Beach photography, FL landscape, birds, moon rises, Milky Way items too. Holland, tulips, canals, windmills. There during third week of April. 10 days on CA coast.  Northern NH. Waterfalls and Wildflowers workshop. Going to Iceland soon. Going with 5 people. “Composition,” to me, almost seems like an overused word. Yet it’s so important to keep these things in mind as we head out to make great photographs. What compositional idea would you like to start us out with today? (David’s first item to talk about, does not have to be part of the list below) Focal point of the scene. Available elements found in the scene. Other compositional points to ponder in no particular order: (would love to weave in some of your recent images as examples of how you approach these following items, I’ll do the same where possible)  Emphasis of the idea you’re trying to convey, how does this idea inform your compositional decisions? Understanding visual weight Understanding balance, symmetrical and/or asymmetrical  Different ways to control eye movement of the viewer Seeing like the camera, reconciling the differences in the way a camera records a scene with how we experience it, and being able to convey that in the final image, screen or print. Telling the story, an image should tell a story and if it does, it will finish the goal. No tried and true tricks, just something to practice.  Where can they find you online: http://davelongphoto.com https://www.instagram.com/davidlong3653 https://www.bluehourboston.com

New Workshop for December 2020 just announced. Check out the website for all the details.  <a href="https://brentbergherm.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com</a> There’s still spots left in my Denver one-day printing workshop. <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/denver/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/denver/</a> And don’t forget my Oregon Coast Workshop! <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/oregon-coast-2019/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/oregon-coast-2019/</a> Guest Introduction. Today I have David Long once again joining me. David, welcome to the show. Listeners may remember you from a while back when we talked about winter photography in New England. That was from November 2018. Topic:  Today wanted to talk about Composition, and in reality, I maybe should call it “thought processes” on making images, or “thought processes on composition.” We’re also going to weave in some stories from the road. David, you’ve been a busy traveler lately. Tell us a bit about that first. St. Augustine, FL.  Beach photography, FL landscape, birds, moon rises, Milky Way items too. Holland, tulips, canals, windmills. There during third week of April. 10 days on CA coast.  Northern NH. Waterfalls and Wildflowers workshop. Going to Iceland soon. Going with 5 people. “Composition,” to me, almost seems like an overused word. Yet it’s so important to keep these things in mind as we head out to make great photographs. What compositional idea would you like to start us out with today? (David’s first item to talk about, does not have to be part of the list below) Focal point of the scene. Available elements found in the scene. Other compositional points to ponder in no particular order: (would love to weave in some of your recent images as examples of how you approach these following items, I’ll do the same where possible) <ol> <li>Emphasis of the idea you’re trying to convey, how does this idea inform your compositional decisions?</li> <li>Understanding visual weight</li> <li>Understanding balance, symmetrical and/or asymmetrical </li> <li>Different ways to control eye movement of the viewer</li> <li>Seeing like the camera, reconciling the differences in the way a camera records a scene with how we experience it, and being able to convey that in the final image, screen or print.</li> <li>Telling the story, an image should tell a story and if it does, it will finish the goal. No tried and true tricks, just something to practice.</li> </ol> Where can they find you online: <a href="http://davelongphoto.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://davelongphoto.com</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/davidlong3653" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/davidlong3653</a> <a href="https://www.bluehourboston.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bluehourboston.com</a>

Compositional Awareness

Links mentioned in this episode https://danbaileyphoto.com http://www.latitudephotographypodcast.com https://brentbergherm.com/course-info/ In this episode Dan Bailey and I talk at length about what we expect when we photograph and what’s important to us. I’ve recently tried to switch to the Fuji X-T3 and while the shooting experience is excellent, the post-production is giving me some challenges. I’m not ready to say all my questions have been answered, but at least I’m further along the line and I can better address these issues I’m facing. 

Links mentioned in this episode <a href="https://danbaileyphoto.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://danbaileyphoto.com</a> <a href="http://www.latitudephotographypodcast.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.latitudephotographypodcast.com</a> <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/course-info/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/course-info/</a> In this episode Dan Bailey and I talk at length about what we expect when we photograph and what’s important to us. I’ve recently tried to switch to the Fuji X-T3 and while the shooting experience is excellent, the post-production is giving me some challenges. I’m not ready to say all my questions have been answered, but at least I’m further along the line and I can better address these issues I’m facing.

My Fujifilm Conundrum

Todayâ€™s discussion takes us to Poland and Israel with photographer Randy Narkir. Itâ€™s a sobering discussion about the March of the Living. When reading from their website, itâ€™s “an annual educational program, bringing individuals from around the world to Poland and Israel to study the history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance and hatred.” Some of the discussion could be disturbing to some listeners. Randy Narkir Interview Questions  Randy, tell us a little bit about your background. Personally and then, of course, as a photographer You recently took a trip to Poland. Tell us about why you went, who you went with and certainly where you went. Youâ€™ve been posting some photos to your personal facebook feed. In particular Iâ€™m thinking about the following. Please tell us the stories behind these photos.  Plac Zgody in Krakow. Disinfection room in Majdanek Concentration Camp Block 27 Auschwitz with the book on names Auschwitz Reflection Birkenau guard March to Kotel and the celebration of Latrun (looks like this is in Israel?) Flag over Treblinka    Randy can be found here on Facebook.   Auschwitz   Treblinka   Latrun        Use  this link for excellent gear at the Peak Design website. It helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!  Use this link to get a free gift at checkout, plus it helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!

Todayâ€™s discussion takes us to Poland and Israel with photographer Randy Narkir. Itâ€™s a sobering discussion about the March of the Living. When reading from their website, itâ€™s “an annual educational program, bringing individuals from around the world to Poland and Israel to study the history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance and hatred.” Some of the discussion could be disturbing to some listeners. Randy Narkir Interview Questions <ol> <li>Randy, tell us a little bit about your background. Personally and then, of course, as a photographer</li> <li>You recently took a trip to Poland. Tell us about why you went, who you went with and certainly where you went.</li> <li>Youâ€™ve been posting some photos to your personal facebook feed. In particular Iâ€™m thinking about the following. Please tell us the stories behind these photos. <ol> <li>Plac Zgody in Krakow.</li> <li>Disinfection room in Majdanek Concentration Camp</li> <li>Block 27 Auschwitz with the book on names</li> <li>Auschwitz Reflection</li> <li>Birkenau guard</li> <li>March to Kotel and the celebration of Latrun (looks like this is in Israel?)</li> <li>Flag over Treblinka</li> </ol> </li> </ol> Randy can be found <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rnarkir" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> on Facebook. Auschwitz Treblinka Latrun <a href="https://www.peakdesign.com?rfsn=1826649.46fa86&amp;utm_source=refersion&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=1826649.46fa86" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> Use <a href="https://www.peakdesign.com?rfsn=1826649.46fa86&amp;utm_source=refersion&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=1826649.46fa86" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> this link</a> for excellent gear at the Peak Design website. It helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks! <a href="https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Use <a href="https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this link</a> to get a free gift at checkout, plus it helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!

March of the Living

The redwoods area that we’ll be looking at today is in CA, but just barely. It’s right on the border with Oregon and a great place to use as your base, if you’re not camping, is Crescent City. It’s about 12 miles south of the OR border. There’s plenty of hotel options. The weather is generally mild, if you’re used to OR coast weather then you know what to expect. In short, it’s somewhat mild in the summer topping out at about 80 degrees and generally windy. As I look at my “All Stays” app on my iPhone there’s plenty of campgrounds to consider staying at if you like that kind of thing. I like camping, but the time I went to the area I took two of my boys and elected to stay in a hotel. Airbnb would also be a good option. The places I want to focus on are: Jedediah Smith State Park | Stout Grove      When we pulled in to the area we came through this state park which is cooperatively managed by the CA parks system and the National Park System. It’s about 10,000 acres in size and it contains 7% of all the world’s old growth redwoods. Also, the Smith River runs through it. It’s the longest free flowing river in CA. The park is a magnificent place to shoot. One place I went to was Stout Grove. Check out their website here. Battery Point Lighthouse         The Battery Point Lighthouse is kind of cool. It’s right along the coast at Crescent City. And there’s a breakwater you can walk out on. At the end there’s some strangely shaped items that the boys and I loved walking out on. It made for some interesting shots. Find more info here. Mystery of Trees     Mystery of Trees is kind of a neat place. If you’re looking for purely awesome photography… maybe go elsewhere. But if you have kids in tow it’s a pretty cool place. They have an easy to walk trail that takes you to a sky tram gondola. You can then walk down the mountain or ride the gondola back down. My favorite spot in this area, though, was the trail that’s accessible right across the road from Mystery of Trees. Park in the hotel parking lot, far northern end, and there’s a trail that takes you out to the coast. It’s short, but a really great place to shoot. Check out the maps here at the NPS website. Fern Canyon       And finally there’s Fern Canyon. This is a rather easy to get to location that does not disappoint. I went in early summer and the river flowing through the canyon was already fairly low and easy to walk through. To get to the good stuff you should plan on getting your feet wet. But it was only about eight inches at the deepest part necessary to keep going. My only real problem here was my obsession with getting focus stacked panoramic images. I think I got some OK shots, but I neglected to get some with my wide angle. But the polarizer really helped here as well since the walls are coated with ferns and the polarizer blocks the glare off the moisture allowing the greenery to really come to life. But as an update here in early June 2018, there’s a logjam blocking the loop trail, a ¼ mile out and back is still possible and still quite worth it. Check out some trail information here.   Use  this link for excellent gear at the Peak Design website. It helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!  Use this link to get a free gift at checkout, plus it helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!

The redwoods area that we’ll be looking at today is in CA, but just barely. It’s right on the border with Oregon and a great place to use as your base, if you’re not camping, is Crescent City. It’s about 12 miles south of the OR border. There’s plenty of hotel options. The weather is generally mild, if you’re used to OR coast weather then you know what to expect. In short, it’s somewhat mild in the summer topping out at about 80 degrees and generally windy. As I look at my “All Stays” app on my iPhone there’s plenty of campgrounds to consider staying at if you like that kind of thing. I like camping, but the time I went to the area I took two of my boys and elected to stay in a hotel. Airbnb would also be a good option. The places I want to focus on are: Jedediah Smith State Park | Stout Grove <ul> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> </ul> When we pulled in to the area we came through this state park which is cooperatively managed by the CA parks system and the National Park System. It’s about 10,000 acres in size and it contains 7% of all the world’s old growth redwoods. Also, the Smith River runs through it. It’s the longest free flowing river in CA. The park is a magnificent place to shoot. One place I went to was Stout Grove. Check out <a href="http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=413" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">their website here</a>. Battery Point Lighthouse <ul> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> </ul> The Battery Point Lighthouse is kind of cool. It’s right along the coast at Crescent City. And there’s a breakwater you can walk out on. At the end there’s some strangely shaped items that the boys and I loved walking out on. It made for some interesting shots. Find <a href="http://www.delnortehistory.org/lighthouse/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">more info here</a>. Mystery of Trees <ul> <li></li> <li></li> </ul> <a href="https://www.treesofmystery.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mystery of Trees</a> is kind of a neat place. If you’re looking for purely awesome photography… maybe go elsewhere. But if you have kids in tow it’s a pretty cool place. They have an easy to walk trail that takes you to a sky tram gondola. You can then walk down the mountain or ride the gondola back down. My favorite spot in this area, though, was the trail that’s accessible right across the road from Mystery of Trees. Park in the hotel parking lot, far northern end, and there’s a trail that takes you out to the coast. It’s short, but a really great place to shoot. Check out the maps <a href="https://www.nps.gov/redw/planyourvisit/maps.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here at the NPS website</a>. Fern Canyon <ul> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> </ul> And finally there’s Fern Canyon. This is a rather easy to get to location that does not disappoint. I went in early summer and the river flowing through the canyon was already fairly low and easy to walk through. To get to the good stuff you should plan on getting your feet wet. But it was only about eight inches at the deepest part necessary to keep going. My only real problem here was my obsession with getting focus stacked panoramic images. I think I got some OK shots, but I neglected to get some with my wide angle. But the polarizer really helped here as well since the walls are coated with ferns and the polarizer blocks the glare off the moisture allowing the greenery to really come to life. But as an update here in early June 2018, there’s a logjam blocking the loop trail, a ¼ mile out and back is still possible and still quite worth it. Check out some <a href="https://www.nps.gov/redw/planyourvisit/hiking-trails-south.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">trail information here</a>. <a href="https://www.peakdesign.com?rfsn=1826649.46fa86&amp;utm_source=refersion&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=1826649.46fa86" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> Use <a href="https://www.peakdesign.com?rfsn=1826649.46fa86&amp;utm_source=refersion&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=1826649.46fa86" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> this link</a> for excellent gear at the Peak Design website. It helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks! <a href="https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Use <a href="https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this link</a> to get a free gift at checkout, plus it helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!

Photographing the Redwoods

I have two guests with me today. They are Mary Malinconico and George VanBuren. Mary, Welcome to the show.  George, Welcome to the show. Mary, you too are a teacher. When do you start up again, or is it too early to think about that? George, this is your first time on the show, tell us a bit about yourself. Topic:  Today’s topic is to have a different perspective of Ibarionex Perello’s book, Making Photographs. I say different because just today, as this is recorded, my interview with Ibarionex is released. That was episode 42, released on July 7, 2019. But I put a call out several months ago asking for volunteers to grab the book themselves and to then come on the show and talk about it. So here we are. I asked each of you to come up with some talking points and we’ll just go back and forth with those.  George, I thought we’d start with you today. The first item you wanted to talk about is the idea of “Making vs. Taking” photographs.  Mary: Book Assignments George and Mary: Being Patient Mary and George: Knowing your gear, ability to change settings without thinking. Mary: Journaling

I have two guests with me today. They are Mary Malinconico and George VanBuren. Mary, Welcome to the show.  George, Welcome to the show. Mary, you too are a teacher. When do you start up again, or is it too early to think about that? George, this is your first time on the show, tell us a bit about yourself. Topic:  Today’s topic is to have a different perspective of Ibarionex Perello’s book, Making Photographs. I say different because just today, as this is recorded, my interview with Ibarionex is released. That was episode 42, released on July 7, 2019. But I put a call out several months ago asking for volunteers to grab the book themselves and to then come on the show and talk about it. So here we are. I asked each of you to come up with some talking points and we’ll just go back and forth with those.  George, I thought we’d start with you today. The first item you wanted to talk about is the idea of “Making vs. Taking” photographs.  Mary: Book Assignments George and Mary: Being Patient Mary and George: Knowing your gear, ability to change settings without thinking. Mary: Journaling

Book Review: Making Photographs

In this interview Greg Benz and I nerd out on the meaning of Bit Depth and how it’s useful to all of us as travel and landscape photographers. The  Main Article here. Main Points of interest:  2:10, What is Bit Depth? 4:20, Starting the definition of the “steps” between values smaller. How “granular” it is. 5:40, Box of crayons analogy with relation to bits. 6:00, 8 bits really the minimum for photographers. Banding can be an issue. 6:40, Banding defined 7:00, High ISO, Texture, things that hide banding 8:05, Digital noise is good J 8:35, Dithering and Noise difference 10:10, Advice against having your working file in 8 bits 11:25, Brent describes dithering 12:25, What bits the cameras actually give us. 14:35, Description on camera vs. eye interpretation of light. Log vs. Linear 16:40, How higher bit-depth in the raw stage helps us in camera, especially with the shadows. 19:00, characteristics of pushing the limits of the sensor 21:10, discussion on other terminologies, monitor manufacturers etc. 23:25, adding Gamut to the discussion, sRGB, Adobe RGB, ProPhoto RGB 26:30, some specific thoughts on ProPhoto RGB 29:30, printing with the ProPhoto RGB gamut 33:50, banding with  luminosity masking, a fake issue 38:00, Photoshop is really only 15 bit?! What?! 40:40, How does this knowledge help us when shooting and processing? 48:35, Introducing Dynamic Range to the discussion. 52:38, Learning to shoot the right way, to maximize all these items. 55:10, Exposure Blending Master Course    Use  this link for excellent gear at the Peak Design website. It helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!  Use this link to get a free gift at checkout, plus it helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!

In this interview Greg Benz and I nerd out on the meaning of Bit Depth and how it’s useful to all of us as travel and landscape photographers. The <a href="https://gregbenzphotography.com/photography-tips/8-vs-16-bit-depth-photoshop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Main Article here</a>. Main Points of interest: <ul> <li>2:10, What is Bit Depth?</li> <li>4:20, Starting the definition of the “steps” between values smaller. How “granular” it is.</li> <li>5:40, Box of crayons analogy with relation to bits.</li> <li>6:00, 8 bits really the minimum for photographers. Banding can be an issue.</li> <li>6:40, Banding defined</li> <li>7:00, High ISO, Texture, things that hide banding</li> <li>8:05, Digital noise is good J</li> <li>8:35, Dithering and Noise difference</li> <li>10:10, Advice against having your working file in 8 bits</li> <li>11:25, Brent describes dithering</li> <li>12:25, What bits the cameras actually give us.</li> <li>14:35, Description on camera vs. eye interpretation of light. Log vs. Linear</li> <li>16:40, How higher bit-depth in the raw stage helps us in camera, especially with the shadows.</li> <li>19:00, characteristics of pushing the limits of the sensor</li> <li>21:10, discussion on other terminologies, monitor manufacturers etc.</li> <li>23:25, adding Gamut to the discussion, sRGB, Adobe RGB, ProPhoto RGB</li> <li>26:30, some specific thoughts on ProPhoto RGB</li> <li>29:30, printing with the ProPhoto RGB gamut</li> <li>33:50, banding with <a href="https://gregbenzphotography.com/luminosity-masking/8-vs-16-bit-luminosity-masks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> luminosity masking, a fake issue</a></li> <li>38:00, Photoshop is really only 15 bit?! What?!</li> <li>40:40, How does this knowledge help us when shooting and processing?</li> <li>48:35, Introducing Dynamic Range to the discussion.</li> <li>52:38, Learning to shoot the right way, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZzTpig07ws" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">to maximize all these items</a>.</li> <li>55:10, <a href="https://gregbenzphotography.com/exposure-blending-master-course" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Exposure Blending Master Course</a></li> </ul> <a href="https://www.peakdesign.com?rfsn=1826649.46fa86&amp;utm_source=refersion&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=1826649.46fa86" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> Use <a href="https://www.peakdesign.com?rfsn=1826649.46fa86&amp;utm_source=refersion&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=1826649.46fa86" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> this link</a> for excellent gear at the Peak Design website. It helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks! <a href="https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Use <a href="https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this link</a> to get a free gift at checkout, plus it helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!

All about Bit Depth

Links talked about in this episode: https://brentbergherm.com/course-info/ https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/ww-print/ Time to talk about two pieces of gear. The iPad Pro and a mobile workflow opportunity that it provides, and the Sony a6400. Let’s talk about the 6400 first. I took it with me to my conference in April 2019 to San Francisco. I was there for a web design conference, but I landed at about noon on Sunday and went straight for Cataract falls in the Marin Headlands area.  Took only this camera Was concerned about leaving the Canon kit behind. This is a very capable camera, but I’m just so used to my Canon and three lenses. Took a small bag that went into my computer bag. Took two batteries and my normal ThinkTank photo pixel pocket secure with my cards. It charges via USB plugged straight into the camera.  Let’s look at a few Specs of the camera.  Sony E mount, crop sensor  24MP ISO to 32,000, extendable to 102,400 Electronic Front Curtain Shutter to 1/4000thsec. Silent shutter, is completely silent Tons of video options, all the way up to 4K and full HD at 60fps I’ve yet to do any video with this camera. 425 Phase Detect AF sensors 425 Contrast Detection Areas Viewfinder resolution almost 2.4MP Monitor resolution 921,600 dot Tilting screen (up and down, flips up but not flippy screen. Rather annoying that it is hard to operate with an arca swiss plate attached) USB 2 micro b for charging L Weight: 14.22 oz, 403g (with battery and memory card)  All in all, not a bad camera for less than $900. Quite respectable in fact.  There’s a few things I couldn’t get used to, or couldn’t yet figure out.  Screen resolution is too low.  Hand keeps turning off screen when I reach toward the camera, the sensor for the viewfinder senses the hand, turns off screen. Kind of annoying. I know I can switch it to be only the rear screen or the viewfinder. I don’t want that. I want a sensor that actually senses it’s on a tripod and that when something approaches it it should leave the screen on. Then, when I have it in one hand or both hands, and that sensor is tripped, it should then go back and forth between EVF and the screen. But I like it when I want to use the viewfinder. Viewfinder is too low resolution as well. The AF system is good, but I couldn’t intuitively figure out how to change it so I can manually select which AF spot I want. I had to rely on the ability to touch the screen to override the camera’s auto selection of AF points. But when using the viewfinder, I was out of luck. Probably just my inexperience, and my being used to the Canon system. But it should be more intuitive to make that selection. On my 5D4, it’s a quick flick of the joystick item.  Comparisons to the Canon 5D4 In one sense it’s rather unfair to make a comparison because these are two totally different cameras. But that too is my point. I’ll be looking at image quality soon, so that ultimately tells the whole story, but for now, let’s look at the physical differences.  I use a Pro Media Gear L bracket with my 5D4, it makes this package a massive beast to behold. But I do like it and it has worked well for me. But I’m very much interested in a smaller kit. I want to travel more and take more pictures, and I do know that the girth of the camera does cause me to not get it out sometimes. I bought the Sony with the 18-135 lens. Together they weigh 25.72 oz or 1.6 pounds. Not bad. The Canon with the 24-70 I shoot weighs in at about 48 oz. or 3 pounds. That’s nearly twice the weight. The Sony is rated with the battery, the Canon is not. Add the battery and my L bracket and I’m saving half the weight when going with the Sony. Image Quality: I just completed working on several images in LR. Before I get too far into this I gotta say one thing, This is not a direct comparison of the same exact scenes between the Canon and the Sony.  I did not take my Canon so I only had the Sony to shoot and think about on this trip. Thoughts:  Golden Gate Bridge at night: Came out very well. I shot mostly in the 100, 200 and 400 ISO range and I let the shutter speed go on up to 10 seconds or so. I did a lot of experimenting so I’m just going off of the two that made it to my keepers file thus far.  I’m really impressed with the flexibility of these files. I can push them up in LR easily about ½ stop more than my Canon with the same amount of noise build up. Past 400 though and it starts to fall apart in my opinion. And by “fall apart” I really mean that you can see the noise, it’s still very well controlled, but it’s certainly there. Pretty much on par with the Canon. This is impressive given that the Pixel area of the Sony is 15.13 µm²and the Canon is 28.73 µm²  Story behind shooting these images  Woke up at about 4:30 a.m. Drove to the Marin Headlands area, specifically, to the Battery Spencer overlook. Arrived way before sunrise. Had the place to myself.  Looked at a few options for framing. Decided to largely hang out a bit to the left of the battery area so I could have a slightly better angle on the bridge and the city behind it. Got plenty of shots with it pitch black. However,  my favorite shot is the ones where just a bit of blue is starting to come through.  Reds of the bridge are not feeling all that “original” or natural. Not sure if this is a lighting issue, a Sony issue or something else. I was able to manipulate the colors in post to get them pretty good, but to begin with they were awful. I’ve never had this problem with my Canon. Initially, however, I’ll chalk this up to just loads of experience with the Canon, and preconceived expectations. As the sun continued to rise it looked promising. I wanted to catch the harsh light on the bridge with the city behind. But the fog rolled in on the horizon. It remained mostly clear where I was, but over the main land area it got a bit thick.  So I went over to the edge of the ridge and shot the sun coming through the clouds. It was quite good actually. Very pleased with how those came out. I was able to frame up Alcatraz with a large ship, and with the sun poking through the clouds and reflecting off the water, it was rather sweet. I then got back on the main road and headed down towards Point Bonita Lighthouse. There were signs posted saying it’s only open for a few hours on Sunday afternoon, but I had no idea they’d close a tunnel that is the only access to the area and you can’t even see it from the trail. I was a bit disappointed.  I then drove to the Battery Alexander Parking lot and walked to the beach that leads to Bird Island. It was all right, but nothing too exciting. I just shot a few wet sand texture and pattern studies.  One afternoon I walked downtown after the conference and I got on top of a parking garage and shot an old fashioned street car. I zoomed in and framed it up tight, the curvy lines, windows and the pattern of the road made for a striking composition. I really like the guy in the back window. You can see his face and that’s the only major human element in the shot. And then finally, I got the sailboat with the ridge behind it. I like the simplicity of this shot.  Waterfall shots.  Actually, before I shot the bridge and downtown I went to Cataract falls a bit further north. It was an excellent hike. But it was also the first time shooting with this camera in CA. I had shot it a bit before with two listeners who met me in Clarkston, WA, and we went to Hell’s canyon and did a bit in the Palouse area. Anyway, I got a few images that worked, but I was really spending too much time getting used to the camera, most of what I got wasn’t worth much. But it was still a valuable experience. Really the only true keeper is a B&amp;W vertical panoramic with a log crossing over the top portion of the frame and the water flowing into a small pool area with rocks surrounding it. The files held up really well to how far I have to push them when doing a shot like this. B&amp;W helps too, but still, it’s a good quality image.  Lens quality  The 18-135 is a quality lens. I was almost surprised at how good it is. I could easily trust most of my shots to this lens. I tried it with severe backlighting, side lighting and some of my favorite types of subjects, and they were rendered quite well.  I’m not done testing, and my opinion may change, but so far so good. I did not do quality tests at various focal lengths, I’m just speaking candidly from what I was able to see from these initial images.  Can I actually do it, make the switch?  It’s hard to make the switch just now. I think the lower res screens and EVF bothered me too much. I need something like the EOS-R with a higher resolution viewfinder and flippy screen. The FujiFilm X-T3 has a much higher resolution EVF at 3.69mp, but the rear screen is only barely a few more pixels at 1.04mp. The canon EOS R has the same resolution EVF as the FujiFilm but it has a 2.1MP rear flippy screen. So if I’m looking for the best experience in shooting, and I did notice the lower res rear screen was annoying, then the Canon EOS R still has a bit of a nod.  The Panasonic has a whopping 5.7MP EVF and the same 2.1MP rear screen as the EOS R.  This is why I’m still officially waiting to declare which direction I’ll be going with my shooting. Canon has predicted a drop in camera sales and we’re seeing that now with the latest reports coming out in the last couple months. Is it any wonder? There’s lots of good equipment out there, but when you have a 5D4 already, not much is really pulling me one way or the other. Things are to incremental at this point to make me want to pull out the plastic an make it happen with a new body.  Video capabilities.  I’ve yet to shoot video on the Sony. Though I just got the ThinkTank Photo PhotoCross 15 in the mail today. I’ll be doing a YouTube video on that soon and then I’ll be able to talk about this camera and it’s video capabilities.  iPad Use  I’d love to be able to use my iPad Pro 2 as an exclusive platform for when out on a trip and I think I’m getting close to saying that is becoming more and more feasible for me. Download images to camera roll. Then import into LR mobile. Rather annoying. iOS 13 supposed to fix this issue, allowing us to import directly into 3rdparty apps such as LR mobile. I look forward to that.  Then I have to wait for LR to upload the images to the cloud and then wait for LR on the computer to download them. If you thought importing images into LR was slow, just do this. However, it would be rather worth it for me if I can do this because I’d be able to leave the computer at home if I needed or wanted to.  Still waiting for full PS on the iPad. Once that happens things are going to get very interesting.  However, with the changes in pricing Adobe has started “testing” even I’m tempted to find another solution even though I get the creative cloud through work. And the price they give educational institutions… it’ll be hard for us to justify moving away from adobe anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean I can’t personally make a switch. Time will tell. The Jury is still out on that one.  Closing Remarks Finally, some information you’ve been waiting for on Denver. I’m going to do a one-day print workshop on July 28. I’m working with a local camera club for hosting it but the best part is that they said that I can easily invite my listeners to join in on the fun as well. We don’t need to keep it exclusive. Club members will get a small discount but otherwise it’ll be open to you folks as well.  I don’t have everything figured out just yet, but you can check out the FB group for an announcement and those of you who have contacted me personally, I’ll be reaching out to you once I have the details all worked out. I have another workshop for you as well. It’s based here in Walla Walla. We’ll plan to get up to the Palouse as well, but it’s all about shooting, processing and printing. We’ll spend five days going through the whole process from start to finish. And you’ll return home with some great images and new skills. If you’re interested in pushing your image making to new heights this workshop is for you. It happens June 17-21 of this year. Check out all the details on the website, https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/ww-print The Walla Walla workshop does include access to the online course as well. So you’ll get access to over 8 hours of learning and inspiration for taking your images off the screen and into the real world. We’ll talk about working with labs too, so you don’t need your own printer to make this a valuable experience. And quickly, a quick shout out to all those who have purchased the online course. It’s been out almost a month now and I’m thrilled to see the progress many folks are making. I get the stats of video downloads and such and I’m loving the opportunity to help so many folks who have decided to take the plunge. I’m about to announce my first group session that’s associated with the course, so those of you enrolled, watch for that in your email. I’m talking to David, Bill, Steven, Hank, Dino, Gary, Jeremy, Brian, Steve and the others. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. So if you’re ready to take that next step head on over to the website and sign up today! In the next few episodes I’ll be talking with the host of the longest running photography podcast, Chris Marquardt. I’m also bringing on Mary Malinconico to talk about selecting workshops and participating in other photo outings. Jeff and I recently talked a bit about workshops and how to select them on the Master Photography Podcast, but with Mary we’ll go quite a bit deeper. I’ve also got three people interested in talking with me about the book Making Photographs by Ibarionex Perello. So that episode will be exciting and it’ll happen in early July. Thank you so much for listening. I hope you have a fantastic day, whatever you’re doing and until next time, happy shooting!

Links talked about in this episode: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/course-info/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/course-info/</a> <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/ww-print/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/ww-print/</a> Time to talk about two pieces of gear. The iPad Pro and a mobile workflow opportunity that it provides, and the Sony a6400. Let’s talk about the 6400 first. I took it with me to my conference in April 2019 to San Francisco. I was there for a web design conference, but I landed at about noon on Sunday and went straight for Cataract falls in the Marin Headlands area. <ul> <li>Took only this camera</li> <li>Was concerned about leaving the Canon kit behind.</li> <li>This is a very capable camera, but I’m just so used to my Canon and three lenses.</li> <li>Took a small bag that went into my computer bag.</li> <li>Took two batteries and my normal ThinkTank photo pixel pocket secure with my cards.</li> <li>It charges via USB plugged straight into the camera.</li> </ul> Let’s look at a few Specs of the camera. <ul> <li>Sony E mount, crop sensor </li> <li>24MP</li> <li>ISO to 32,000, extendable to 102,400</li> <li>Electronic Front Curtain Shutter to 1/4000thsec.</li> <li>Silent shutter, is completely silent</li> <li>Tons of video options, all the way up to 4K and full HD at 60fps</li> <li>I’ve yet to do any video with this camera.</li> <li>425 Phase Detect AF sensors</li> <li>425 Contrast Detection Areas</li> <li>Viewfinder resolution almost 2.4MP</li> <li>Monitor resolution 921,600 dot</li> <li>Tilting screen (up and down, flips up but not flippy screen. Rather annoying that it is hard to operate with an arca swiss plate attached)</li> <li>USB 2 micro b for charging L</li> <li>Weight: 14.22 oz, 403g (with battery and memory card)</li> </ul> All in all, not a bad camera for less than $900. Quite respectable in fact.  There’s a few things I couldn’t get used to, or couldn’t yet figure out. <ul> <li>Screen resolution is too low. </li> <li>Hand keeps turning off screen when I reach toward the camera, the sensor for the viewfinder senses the hand, turns off screen. Kind of annoying. I know I can switch it to be only the rear screen or the viewfinder. I don’t want that. I want a sensor that actually senses it’s on a tripod and that when something approaches it it should leave the screen on. Then, when I have it in one hand or both hands, and that sensor is tripped, it should then go back and forth between EVF and the screen.</li> <li>But I like it when I want to use the viewfinder.</li> <li>Viewfinder is too low resolution as well.</li> <li>The AF system is good, but I couldn’t intuitively figure out how to change it so I can manually select which AF spot I want. I had to rely on the ability to touch the screen to override the camera’s auto selection of AF points. But when using the viewfinder, I was out of luck. Probably just my inexperience, and my being used to the Canon system. But it should be more intuitive to make that selection. On my 5D4, it’s a quick flick of the joystick item.</li> </ul> Comparisons to the Canon 5D4 In one sense it’s rather unfair to make a comparison because these are two totally different cameras. But that too is my point. I’ll be looking at image quality soon, so that ultimately tells the whole story, but for now, let’s look at the physical differences.  I use a Pro Media Gear L bracket with my 5D4, it makes this package a massive beast to behold. But I do like it and it has worked well for me. But I’m very much interested in a smaller kit. I want to travel more and take more pictures, and I do know that the girth of the camera does cause me to not get it out sometimes. I bought the Sony with the 18-135 lens. Together they weigh 25.72 oz or 1.6 pounds. Not bad. The Canon with the 24-70 I shoot weighs in at about 48 oz. or 3 pounds. That’s nearly twice the weight. The Sony is rated with the battery, the Canon is not. Add the battery and my L bracket and I’m saving half the weight when going with the Sony. Image Quality: I just completed working on several images in LR. Before I get too far into this I gotta say one thing, This is not a direct comparison of the same exact scenes between the Canon and the Sony.  I did not take my Canon so I only had the Sony to shoot and think about on this trip. Thoughts: <ul> <li>Golden Gate Bridge at night: Came out very well. I shot mostly in the 100, 200 and 400 ISO range and I let the shutter speed go on up to 10 seconds or so. I did a lot of experimenting so I’m just going off of the two that made it to my keepers file thus far. </li> <li>I’m really impressed with the flexibility of these files. I can push them up in LR easily about ½ stop more than my Canon with the same amount of noise build up. Past 400 though and it starts to fall apart in my opinion. And by “fall apart” I really mean that you can see the noise, it’s still very well controlled, but it’s certainly there. Pretty much on par with the Canon.</li> <li>This is impressive given that the Pixel area of the Sony is 15.13 µm²and the Canon is 28.73 µm²</li> </ul> Story behind shooting these images <ul> <li>Woke up at about 4:30 a.m. Drove to the Marin Headlands area, specifically, to the Battery Spencer overlook.</li> <li>Arrived way before sunrise. Had the place to myself. </li> <li>Looked at a few options for framing. Decided to largely hang out a bit to the left of the battery area so I could have a slightly better angle on the bridge and the city behind it.</li> <li>Got plenty of shots with it pitch black. However,  my favorite shot is the ones where just a bit of blue is starting to come through. </li> <li>Reds of the bridge are not feeling all that “original” or natural. Not sure if this is a lighting issue, a Sony issue or something else. I was able to manipulate the colors in post to get them pretty good, but to begin with they were awful. I’ve never had this problem with my Canon. Initially, however, I’ll chalk this up to just loads of experience with the Canon, and preconceived expectations.</li> <li>As the sun continued to rise it looked promising. I wanted to catch the harsh light on the bridge with the city behind. But the fog rolled in on the horizon. It remained mostly clear where I was, but over the main land area it got a bit thick. </li> <li>So I went over to the edge of the ridge and shot the sun coming through the clouds. It was quite good actually. Very pleased with how those came out.</li> <li>I was able to frame up Alcatraz with a large ship, and with the sun poking through the clouds and reflecting off the water, it was rather sweet.</li> <li>I then got back on the main road and headed down towards Point Bonita Lighthouse. There were signs posted saying it’s only open for a few hours on Sunday afternoon, but I had no idea they’d close a tunnel that is the only access to the area and you can’t even see it from the trail. I was a bit disappointed. </li> <li>I then drove to the Battery Alexander Parking lot and walked to the beach that leads to Bird Island. It was all right, but nothing too exciting. I just shot a few wet sand texture and pattern studies. </li> <li>One afternoon I walked downtown after the conference and I got on top of a parking garage and shot an old fashioned street car. I zoomed in and framed it up tight, the curvy lines, windows and the pattern of the road made for a striking composition. I really like the guy in the back window. You can see his face and that’s the only major human element in the shot.</li> <li>And then finally, I got the sailboat with the ridge behind it. I like the simplicity of this shot.</li> </ul> Waterfall shots. <ul> <li>Actually, before I shot the bridge and downtown I went to Cataract falls a bit further north. It was an excellent hike. But it was also the first time shooting with this camera in CA. I had shot it a bit before with two listeners who met me in Clarkston, WA, and we went to Hell’s canyon and did a bit in the Palouse area. Anyway, I got a few images that worked, but I was really spending too much time getting used to the camera, most of what I got wasn’t worth much. But it was still a valuable experience.</li> <li>Really the only true keeper is a B&amp;W vertical panoramic with a log crossing over the top portion of the frame and the water flowing into a small pool area with rocks surrounding it. The files held up really well to how far I have to push them when doing a shot like this. B&amp;W helps too, but still, it’s a good quality image.</li> </ul> Lens quality <ul> <li>The 18-135 is a quality lens. I was almost surprised at how good it is. I could easily trust most of my shots to this lens. I tried it with severe backlighting, side lighting and some of my favorite types of subjects, and they were rendered quite well. </li> <li>I’m not done testing, and my opinion may change, but so far so good.</li> <li>I did not do quality tests at various focal lengths, I’m just speaking candidly from what I was able to see from these initial images.</li> </ul> Can I actually do it, make the switch? <ul> <li>It’s hard to make the switch just now. I think the lower res screens and EVF bothered me too much. I need something like the EOS-R with a higher resolution viewfinder and flippy screen.</li> <li>The FujiFilm X-T3 has a much higher resolution EVF at 3.69mp, but the rear screen is only barely a few more pixels at 1.04mp. The canon EOS R has the same resolution EVF as the FujiFilm but it has a 2.1MP rear flippy screen. So if I’m looking for the best experience in shooting, and I did notice the lower res rear screen was annoying, then the Canon EOS R still has a bit of a nod. </li> <li>The Panasonic has a whopping 5.7MP EVF and the same 2.1MP rear screen as the EOS R. </li> <li>This is why I’m still officially waiting to declare which direction I’ll be going with my shooting. Canon has predicted a drop in camera sales and we’re seeing that now with the latest reports coming out in the last couple months. Is it any wonder? There’s lots of good equipment out there, but when you have a 5D4 already, not much is really pulling me one way or the other. Things are to incremental at this point to make me want to pull out the plastic an make it happen with a new body.</li> </ul> Video capabilities. <ul> <li>I’ve yet to shoot video on the Sony. Though I just got the ThinkTank Photo PhotoCross 15 in the mail today. I’ll be doing a YouTube video on that soon and then I’ll be able to talk about this camera and it’s video capabilities.</li> </ul> iPad Use <ul> <li>I’d love to be able to use my iPad Pro 2 as an exclusive platform for when out on a trip and I think I’m getting close to saying that is becoming more and more feasible for me.</li> <li>Download images to camera roll.</li> <li>Then import into LR mobile. Rather annoying.</li> <li>iOS 13 supposed to fix this issue, allowing us to import directly into 3rdparty apps such as LR mobile. I look forward to that. </li> <li>Then I have to wait for LR to upload the images to the cloud and then wait for LR on the computer to download them. If you thought importing images into LR was slow, just do this. However, it would be rather worth it for me if I can do this because I’d be able to leave the computer at home if I needed or wanted to. </li> <li>Still waiting for full PS on the iPad. Once that happens things are going to get very interesting. </li> <li>However, with the changes in pricing Adobe has started “testing” even I’m tempted to find another solution even though I get the creative cloud through work. And the price they give educational institutions… it’ll be hard for us to justify moving away from adobe anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean I can’t personally make a switch. Time will tell. The Jury is still out on that one.</li> </ul> Closing Remarks Finally, some information you’ve been waiting for on Denver. I’m going to do a one-day print workshop on July 28. I’m working with a local camera club for hosting it but the best part is that they said that I can easily invite my listeners to join in on the fun as well. We don’t need to keep it exclusive. Club members will get a small discount but otherwise it’ll be open to you folks as well.  I don’t have everything figured out just yet, but you can check out the FB group for an announcement and those of you who have contacted me personally, I’ll be reaching out to you once I have the details all worked out. I have another workshop for you as well. It’s based here in Walla Walla. We’ll plan to get up to the Palouse as well, but it’s all about shooting, processing and printing. We’ll spend five days going through the whole process from start to finish. And you’ll return home with some great images and new skills. If you’re interested in pushing your image making to new heights this workshop is for you. It happens June 17-21 of this year. Check out all the details on the website, <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/ww-print" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/ww-print</a> The Walla Walla workshop does include access to the online course as well. So you’ll get access to over 8 hours of learning and inspiration for taking your images off the screen and into the real world. We’ll talk about working with labs too, so you don’t need your own printer to make this a valuable experience. And quickly, a quick shout out to all those who have purchased the online course. It’s been out almost a month now and I’m thrilled to see the progress many folks are making. I get the stats of video downloads and such and I’m loving the opportunity to help so many folks who have decided to take the plunge. I’m about to announce my first group session that’s associated with the course, so those of you enrolled, watch for that in your email. I’m talking to David, Bill, Steven, Hank, Dino, Gary, Jeremy, Brian, Steve and the others. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. So if you’re ready to take that next step head on over to the website and sign up today! In the next few episodes I’ll be talking with the host of the longest running photography podcast, Chris Marquardt. I’m also bringing on Mary Malinconico to talk about selecting workshops and participating in other photo outings. Jeff and I recently talked a bit about workshops and how to select them on the Master Photography Podcast, but with Mary we’ll go quite a bit deeper. I’ve also got three people interested in talking with me about the book Making Photographs by Ibarionex Perello. So that episode will be exciting and it’ll happen in early July. Thank you so much for listening. I hope you have a fantastic day, whatever you’re doing and until next time, happy shooting!

First thoughts on the a6400 and iPad Pro

There’s so much to talk about and so little time to do it, so, where to start. First off I’d like to talk about the show in general. Not publishing as often as I’d like. (end of the quarter and all that) Working very hard on my print course and coming up with ideas for future courses. Very busy quarter ahead. 48 in my intro to digital imaging course, 32 in my principles of photography course. Plus putting my dossier together. This quarter will be busy. Going to try out a shorter show format for a while. It will be hard because I love talking photography. But with a shorter show to get out it may not seem so daunting of a task and I might be able to keep at it on a more regular basis. My goal is still twice per month. I do have my workshops that still have several spots left. If shooting the total solar eclipse and other great spots in Chile interests you, please consider signing up. I’ve reserved a large apartment that has flexible sleeping arrangements, but I also have an option about doing your own lodging if you’d prefer. Check out the listing on my site and see if that would work for you. It’ll be so much fun and quite the adventure. We’ll learn some photography along the way too of course. And my Croatia workshop too. If you love waterfalls and historic city centers then this trip is for you. Something I’d like to really stress is that we have some flexibility on the dates. If the first part of the trip can’t work for you please consider the second part. It’s only a half-week but I can easily extend that to a full week if that would be a better fit for your schedule.  The problem is we’re coming up on the cancellation deadline which is March 31, 2019. If I don’t have the minimum signed up I’ll have to cancel. So please check it out and reach out to me if you have any questions. My website is experiencing some changes lately. I’m preparing for publishing my course and it will be right there in my main site, http://brentbergherm.com I’ve got the videos edited, I just need to polish them off and get them organized on the site. When I publish the course I’ll do another episode that will walk you through everything in basic detail so you know what’s what and what to expect. I’m so excited to be so close to being finished. I’m spending my spring break getting this thing online and ready to go.  It will be way more than just a set of videos to download.  I will make the first announcements about the course release to my email list and my Workshops group on facebook. Just search for Brent Bergherm Photo Workshops on facebook and ask to join, or find the link at the bottom of every page on my site and join the email list. I email out my most recent blog posts and other pertinent stuff.  I’ll be missing so many of you at the Create Photography Retreat later this week, but please know I’m working super hard to get this wonderful course out to you. Of course, I also have the Walla Walla Print-n-Shoot workshop as well. With this workshop you’ll get access to the print course online when it’s published, but you’ll also have time with me here in the beautiful Walla Walla Valley where we’ll spend a week going out and shooting great images and then you’ll learn tons of post-production and print process techniques to create fine art prints from your photographs. The cost of the workshop includes all the ink and paper you’ll need to print several fine enlargements. I’m still looking for submissions for my next theme where I talk about listener submitted images. For now I’m still hosting that on the facebook group. It should be the first thing you see and the theme this month is RED. I’ll record an episode in late March or early April 2019 and review and comment on three listener submitted images and then we’ll also talk about what red means in an image. Also, I picked up a book by Ibarionex Perello titled “Making Photographs” and so far I recommend it. I’d love to chat with someone about this book. So if you want to get yourself a copy and read it by this summer please do so. We’ll then do an episode that’s a book review of sorts. I think it’ll be fun, check out the link in the show notes or just search for “Making Photographs” at your favorite bookseller. https://www.amazon.com/Making-Photographs-Developing-Personal-Workflow/dp/1681983990/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?keywords=ibonarex+perello&amp;qid=1553205526&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-2-fkmr0 Shooting Macro. Spring is here and I love to shoot macro images of all sorts of subjects. Flowers, bugs and other details. It’s so fun to look at the amazing detail in God’s beautiful creation. So often we just miss out on the details, but when we take a macro lens and inspect it for all it’s worth, I don’t know, for me it’s just absolutely amazing. I wrote a blog post on this and I’ll link it in the show notes as well: https://brentbergherm.com/shooting-macro/ Other links mentioned: Chile Total Solar Eclipse Workshop: https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/chile-2019/ Croatia Creative Composition Workshop: https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/croatia-2019/ Walla Walla Shoot-n-Print Workshop: https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/ww-print/

There’s so much to talk about and so little time to do it, so, where to start. First off I’d like to talk about the show in general. Not publishing as often as I’d like. (end of the quarter and all that) Working very hard on my print course and coming up with ideas for future courses. Very busy quarter ahead. 48 in my intro to digital imaging course, 32 in my principles of photography course. Plus putting my dossier together. This quarter will be busy. Going to try out a shorter show format for a while. It will be hard because I love talking photography. But with a shorter show to get out it may not seem so daunting of a task and I might be able to keep at it on a more regular basis. My goal is still twice per month. I do have my workshops that still have several spots left. If shooting the total solar eclipse and other great spots in Chile interests you, please consider signing up. I’ve reserved a large apartment that has flexible sleeping arrangements, but I also have an option about doing your own lodging if you’d prefer. Check out the listing on my site and see if that would work for you. It’ll be so much fun and quite the adventure. We’ll learn some photography along the way too of course. And my Croatia workshop too. If you love waterfalls and historic city centers then this trip is for you. Something I’d like to really stress is that we have some flexibility on the dates. If the first part of the trip can’t work for you please consider the second part. It’s only a half-week but I can easily extend that to a full week if that would be a better fit for your schedule.  The problem is we’re coming up on the cancellation deadline which is March 31, 2019. If I don’t have the minimum signed up I’ll have to cancel. So please check it out and reach out to me if you have any questions. My website is experiencing some changes lately. I’m preparing for publishing my course and it will be right there in my main site, <a href="http://brentbergherm.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://brentbergherm.com</a> I’ve got the videos edited, I just need to polish them off and get them organized on the site. When I publish the course I’ll do another episode that will walk you through everything in basic detail so you know what’s what and what to expect. I’m so excited to be so close to being finished. I’m spending my spring break getting this thing online and ready to go.  It will be way more than just a set of videos to download.  I will make the first announcements about the course release to my email list and my Workshops group on facebook. Just search for Brent Bergherm Photo Workshops on facebook and ask to join, or find the link at the bottom of every page on my site and join the email list. I email out my most recent blog posts and other pertinent stuff.  I’ll be missing so many of you at the Create Photography Retreat later this week, but please know I’m working super hard to get this wonderful course out to you. Of course, I also have the Walla Walla Print-n-Shoot workshop as well. With this workshop you’ll get access to the print course online when it’s published, but you’ll also have time with me here in the beautiful Walla Walla Valley where we’ll spend a week going out and shooting great images and then you’ll learn tons of post-production and print process techniques to create fine art prints from your photographs. The cost of the workshop includes all the ink and paper you’ll need to print several fine enlargements. I’m still looking for submissions for my next theme where I talk about listener submitted images. For now I’m still hosting that on the facebook group. It should be the first thing you see and the theme this month is RED. I’ll record an episode in late March or early April 2019 and review and comment on three listener submitted images and then we’ll also talk about what red means in an image. Also, I picked up a book by Ibarionex Perello titled “Making Photographs” and so far I recommend it. I’d love to chat with someone about this book. So if you want to get yourself a copy and read it by this summer please do so. We’ll then do an episode that’s a book review of sorts. I think it’ll be fun, check out the link in the show notes or just search for “Making Photographs” at your favorite bookseller. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Making-Photographs-Developing-Personal-Workflow/dp/1681983990/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?keywords=ibonarex+perello&amp;qid=1553205526&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-2-fkmr0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Making-Photographs-Developing-Personal-Workflow/dp/1681983990/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?keywords=ibonarex+perello&amp;qid=1553205526&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-2-fkmr0</a> Shooting Macro. Spring is here and I love to shoot macro images of all sorts of subjects. Flowers, bugs and other details. It’s so fun to look at the amazing detail in God’s beautiful creation. So often we just miss out on the details, but when we take a macro lens and inspect it for all it’s worth, I don’t know, for me it’s just absolutely amazing. I wrote a blog post on this and I’ll link it in the show notes as well: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/shooting-macro/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/shooting-macro/</a> Other links mentioned: Chile Total Solar Eclipse Workshop: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/chile-2019/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/chile-2019/</a> Croatia Creative Composition Workshop: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/croatia-2019/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/croatia-2019/</a> Walla Walla Shoot-n-Print Workshop: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/ww-print/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/ww-print/</a>

Recent happenings and Macro Photography

Color

Today we are talking about color. I wrote a blog post over on my main site about this whole idea of color. Head on over there to read it but, of course, we’ll talk about it here. It’s about the basics of color, a bit of how the eye works and I try to put that into perspective with how it relates to photography. Link to blog post: https://brentbergherm.com/what-is-color/ Listener submitted images.  We also have some listener submitted images that we’ll also talk about. Today I chose images from Gary Aidekman, Chris Bartell and Benjamin Stuben Farrar.  Gary’s Image is of a red truck with a bunch of various growth around it, be it grasses, bushes, trees and the like. It’s an older pickup truck with a wooden box on the back. The beauty of this image is in the contrasts we find here. The truck is decaying, a bit of rust is seen around the edges of the truck body panels, some dents are visible. The glass is rather clean so it’s not too old and decrepit. The box is showing some age and across the top we see some damage from hauling various objects. However, the contrasts I’m talking about are both the contrasts of color, but also the contrasts of the new fresh growth and the decaying truck. There’s also a contrast of textures, the truck body panels are quite smooth as compared to the grasses, bushes, trees and the wooden box on the back of the truck.  The cab is painted red. And what does red have to do with this image? Or better yet, how does it influence our interpretation of the image?  Certainly, it pops out from the greenery that surrounds it. In this case, I think it enhances the feeling that this object simply doesn’t belong here. Or, at least it’s not “natural” in a manner of speaking. When I think over the key words that usually get associated with red, either positive or negative, I’m actually coming up a bit dry. I don’t see any of them strongly applying here. It does ad a slight dynamic sense to the image in that the colors do complement each other quite well. It’s almost Christmas like in nature, we just need a little snow! It may suggest danger to some people, but not really. The truck is resting there and it will continue to do so, and has done so for a long time which is evident by the grasses growing around it. I do get a subtle sense of power in this image. But again, it’s subtle. The power of the truck to drive here, park here and be left here by its owner. The potential power to break down the grasses and such in front of it to move on out and get things underway. While it’s decaying, it’s not that far gone. It does look like it still has some life in it, and that could suggest as subtle sense of vitality as well. Compositionally, I would like to see one of two things done to this image. Either zoom in slightly tighter to get rid of a few patches of sky that are showing up, allowing us to more fully concentrate on the truck in its environment, or zoom out a bit and allow us to see more of the environment which surrounds this truck. Zooming in will magnify the power of the truck, zooming out will diminish it. I’d also suggest a vignette to darken the greenery in the foreground. Just slightly. Nothing too drastic so that it still feels natural. Doing so will keep the eye interested in the truck only. There’s lots of detail in those areas and green, as we learned from the previous discussion, is naturally brighter than red, and so by changing the relationship between these two primary colors in the scene we’ll rebalance it to give more attention to the subject. Of course, it all depends on the intent you have for this image. The second image is from Chris Bartell. She has been with me on a workshop last year in Charleston at the Create Photography Retreat. She’s a talented photographer and is definitely showing some good work here as well. This image is of a Japanese Maple at the Japanese Gardens in Portland, OR. These are some beautiful gardens. If you get a chance to shoot there, especially in the fall, I highly recommend it. Go on a weekday if you can to avoid the crowds. The image is filled with lots of reds and oranges in the leaves, with some vibrant greenery in the grasses and mosses in the foreground. This is one of the exciting things about nature photography, we almost always have some greenery in the image (not so in the next image, but anyway). Chris has used a small aperture, a big number, and a wide-angle lens to really extend that depth of field. Almost everything is in focus. It feels that there’s a subtle vignette being applied, but it could be a natural vignette from the lens. Though when a lens is stopped down this far the vignetting is usually eliminated. This particular tree is quite possibly the most popular tree in the entire garden, at least for photographers. I’ve seen many images like it before and this is a really good example of what can be done here at this tree. So how does the color red influence our interpretation of this scene? To me, it also has a lot to do with the branches. Those branches start out in the thick trunk and they squiggle out to the outlying areas of the image. They provide a connection and a visual highway for the eye to travel through, many visual highways. To me, I’m made more alert by this image. The color is commanding my attention as it’s very visible. The inclusion of yellow hues also helps a lot with keeping things alive. Given that this is fall colors, the notion of transition and the coming winter is also suggested to me. And I am thankful for being able to see the colors as they are here because I know they will be gone soon. So, in this image, I get a sense of decay and transition quite strongly. But as I’m well aware, the cycle will continue, and this will deliver its beauty once again next year. So the promise it provides is also strong for me. Compositionally, I don’t think there’s much I’d change in this image. If I were there and no others were trying to get this shot, I know I’d try and get some unique compositions. I might try my segmentation series on this subject. Or otherwise isolate individual branches of segments of the tree. There’s not a lot of wiggle room as the keepers of the garden disallow photographers to walk around and set up various angles. One thing that is wonderful is the lone leaf on the rock in the lower left corner. I can see myself placing more leaves there to make a more prominent feature of that rock. And then put them back so my idea is hopefully unique. Benjamin’s image is another leaf. But this one has fallen to the ground. The icy ground. This provides some great contrasts once again in the image. We have the little crystals of the ice droplets that have formed and the soft smooth leaf. There’s only reds, oranges and blue hues available in this image. Along with some whites and blacks too, of course. The depth-of-field is very shallow which can really work for this type of shot, though I might have applied it slightly differently. The leaf almost fills the frame from edge to edge and is placed in the upper third of the image. So how does red influence our interpretation of this scene? The leaf is made to feel very important. It is the central object not only because the red advances so much as compared to the softer blues, but also it’s the subject that is in focus. It’s punchy and the eye is drawn so much you can’t go anywhere else. As for the composition, I think I would do one major change. That is to lift the camera up just a little. This will change the plane of focus slightly and allow for more background to show. I’d still keep the leaf towards the top of the frame but I’d change the focus to be the ridge of the leaf edge. Right now the eye gets trapped in the central part of the frame and can’t escape. If the leaf’s ridge were in focus the eye would have a line to follow, a very interesting line at that. It could travel back and forth and then it could take a few side tracked tangents based on the receding veins. Doing this would also bring different ice globules into focus and that would provide a circle for the eye to travel around, from the edge of the leaf to the in focus ice globs, back to the leaf. Controlling Red in Camera What if your reds, or other colors, are off in camera? There’s a few things we can do to correct for this. I really only have in-depth experience with Canon cameras, but all cameras will have a characteristic about it that may need correction from time to time. So often we want to make color corrections using the white balance. And that can help, but what if your colors are consistently off? In Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw, head to the last tab in the develop module called Calibration. The first thing to select is the Process Version. Usually, I’d say go with the most recent version. That’s going to be the most updated process Adobe knows to do to your photos. However, the sliders there will give you the opportunity to shift the hues around from one influence to the next. And things are limited to the Reds, Greens and Blues only. You also have a shadows tint slider which can help too, but that’s limited to greens and magentas. I say focus your attention on the primaries and shift those sliders around until you have something that works across a multitude of files. Technically speaking, if you were to calibrate your camera it would only be applicable to the lighting scenario and lens choice that’s currently mounted to your camera. You’d have to recalibrate for each different scenario. However, going about it in an easier fashion makes a lot more sense, especially if you notice that things are consistently off base. You can come in here and make the changes. Then you can make a preset that has those changes and upon import you can apply those changes automatically. Doing so may be just what you need to get those reds knocked into shape. Also, it’s been my experience that reds are the toughest for cameras to accurately render, but again, my experience is largely limited to Canon cameras and the troubled cameras are the older Rebel models, the current models have been excellent. Take a look in that calibration panel and see if something works in the right direction for you! Additionally, you can take a look in the HSL area and modify the hues there as well. The calibration panel is designed more for wholistic changes that are applied across the board. Listener Wisdom I’ve announced that my print course is finished. And I’m so glad it’s largely done! However, I figured I should address something here. That is I’m going to actually rename the course. Not even a week out and I’m already making changes. I know, kind of strange. However, this comes about from you guys, and a few others. By calling it a fine art printing course I made some feel this course wasn’t for them, where after talking to them I was like “yes, this is totally for you!” So I’m retitling the course to “Master Photo Printing” with Brent Bergherm. Nothing else has changed about the course. You still get 8+ hours of in-depth training in a format that is easy to digest and pickup where you left off. My online delivery system tracks your progress and you’ll easily be able to watch the videos that pertain to your interests and you’ll be able to go back over an over again. Also, for a few more days, I’m able to give away a backpack bag if you enroll soon. See the website for details, but I’ve got an UltraLight 36L by ThinkTank Photo that will go to one lucky person who signs up before Wednesday, April 10, 2019.  If you’ve been shooting a couple years and you want to take your photography to a different level with some color management, post-processing and creative sharpening techniques then this course is for you. I will do the bonus materials by Summer 2019 which will include walkthroughs on popular print lab websites and an analysis of their prints. So you don’t need your own printer to get something out of this course. Summer plans My summer plans have been effectively put into a blender. I had to cancel my workshops to Chile and Croatia due to low enrollment which is too bad. And I thought that would mean I’m able to go to Cuba then with the school I work at. We’re doing a mission trip there in early July. And that may will work out, but otherwise, the only thing I have solid for my summer is to head to Boise in late July and deliver a mini printing workshop and lecture there to a group there. If you have a group of photographers that want to learn one-on-one printing this summer let me know and we probably can work something out.I also have my shoot-n-print workshop happening in mid-June this year in Walla Walla. The valley is gorgeous and we’ll have so much fun shooting in the early morning and evenings, and spending the heat of the day demystifying the print process and coming away with some awesome prints of your photography.    Use  this link for excellent gear at the Peak Design website. It helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!  Use this link to get a free gift at checkout, plus it helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!

Today we are talking about color. I wrote a blog post over on my main site about this whole idea of color. Head on over there to read it but, of course, we’ll talk about it here. It’s about the basics of color, a bit of how the eye works and I try to put that into perspective with how it relates to photography. Link to blog post: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/what-is-color/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/what-is-color/</a> Listener submitted images.  We also have some listener submitted images that we’ll also talk about. Today I chose images from Gary Aidekman, Chris Bartell and Benjamin Stuben Farrar.  Gary’s Image is of a red truck with a bunch of various growth around it, be it grasses, bushes, trees and the like. It’s an older pickup truck with a wooden box on the back. The beauty of this image is in the contrasts we find here. The truck is decaying, a bit of rust is seen around the edges of the truck body panels, some dents are visible. The glass is rather clean so it’s not too old and decrepit. The box is showing some age and across the top we see some damage from hauling various objects. However, the contrasts I’m talking about are both the contrasts of color, but also the contrasts of the new fresh growth and the decaying truck. There’s also a contrast of textures, the truck body panels are quite smooth as compared to the grasses, bushes, trees and the wooden box on the back of the truck.  The cab is painted red. And what does red have to do with this image? Or better yet, how does it influence our interpretation of the image?  Certainly, it pops out from the greenery that surrounds it. In this case, I think it enhances the feeling that this object simply doesn’t belong here. Or, at least it’s not “natural” in a manner of speaking. When I think over the key words that usually get associated with red, either positive or negative, I’m actually coming up a bit dry. I don’t see any of them strongly applying here. It does ad a slight dynamic sense to the image in that the colors do complement each other quite well. It’s almost Christmas like in nature, we just need a little snow! It may suggest danger to some people, but not really. The truck is resting there and it will continue to do so, and has done so for a long time which is evident by the grasses growing around it. I do get a subtle sense of power in this image. But again, it’s subtle. The power of the truck to drive here, park here and be left here by its owner. The potential power to break down the grasses and such in front of it to move on out and get things underway. While it’s decaying, it’s not that far gone. It does look like it still has some life in it, and that could suggest as subtle sense of vitality as well. Compositionally, I would like to see one of two things done to this image. Either zoom in slightly tighter to get rid of a few patches of sky that are showing up, allowing us to more fully concentrate on the truck in its environment, or zoom out a bit and allow us to see more of the environment which surrounds this truck. Zooming in will magnify the power of the truck, zooming out will diminish it. I’d also suggest a vignette to darken the greenery in the foreground. Just slightly. Nothing too drastic so that it still feels natural. Doing so will keep the eye interested in the truck only. There’s lots of detail in those areas and green, as we learned from the previous discussion, is naturally brighter than red, and so by changing the relationship between these two primary colors in the scene we’ll rebalance it to give more attention to the subject. Of course, it all depends on the intent you have for this image. The second image is from Chris Bartell. She has been with me on a workshop last year in Charleston at the Create Photography Retreat. She’s a talented photographer and is definitely showing some good work here as well. This image is of a Japanese Maple at the Japanese Gardens in Portland, OR. These are some beautiful gardens. If you get a chance to shoot there, especially in the fall, I highly recommend it. Go on a weekday if you can to avoid the crowds. The image is filled with lots of reds and oranges in the leaves, with some vibrant greenery in the grasses and mosses in the foreground. This is one of the exciting things about nature photography, we almost always have some greenery in the image (not so in the next image, but anyway). Chris has used a small aperture, a big number, and a wide-angle lens to really extend that depth of field. Almost everything is in focus. It feels that there’s a subtle vignette being applied, but it could be a natural vignette from the lens. Though when a lens is stopped down this far the vignetting is usually eliminated. This particular tree is quite possibly the most popular tree in the entire garden, at least for photographers. I’ve seen many images like it before and this is a really good example of what can be done here at this tree. So how does the color red influence our interpretation of this scene? To me, it also has a lot to do with the branches. Those branches start out in the thick trunk and they squiggle out to the outlying areas of the image. They provide a connection and a visual highway for the eye to travel through, many visual highways. To me, I’m made more alert by this image. The color is commanding my attention as it’s very visible. The inclusion of yellow hues also helps a lot with keeping things alive. Given that this is fall colors, the notion of transition and the coming winter is also suggested to me. And I am thankful for being able to see the colors as they are here because I know they will be gone soon. So, in this image, I get a sense of decay and transition quite strongly. But as I’m well aware, the cycle will continue, and this will deliver its beauty once again next year. So the promise it provides is also strong for me. Compositionally, I don’t think there’s much I’d change in this image. If I were there and no others were trying to get this shot, I know I’d try and get some unique compositions. I might try my segmentation series on this subject. Or otherwise isolate individual branches of segments of the tree. There’s not a lot of wiggle room as the keepers of the garden disallow photographers to walk around and set up various angles. One thing that is wonderful is the lone leaf on the rock in the lower left corner. I can see myself placing more leaves there to make a more prominent feature of that rock. And then put them back so my idea is hopefully unique. Benjamin’s image is another leaf. But this one has fallen to the ground. The icy ground. This provides some great contrasts once again in the image. We have the little crystals of the ice droplets that have formed and the soft smooth leaf. There’s only reds, oranges and blue hues available in this image. Along with some whites and blacks too, of course. The depth-of-field is very shallow which can really work for this type of shot, though I might have applied it slightly differently. The leaf almost fills the frame from edge to edge and is placed in the upper third of the image. So how does red influence our interpretation of this scene? The leaf is made to feel very important. It is the central object not only because the red advances so much as compared to the softer blues, but also it’s the subject that is in focus. It’s punchy and the eye is drawn so much you can’t go anywhere else. As for the composition, I think I would do one major change. That is to lift the camera up just a little. This will change the plane of focus slightly and allow for more background to show. I’d still keep the leaf towards the top of the frame but I’d change the focus to be the ridge of the leaf edge. Right now the eye gets trapped in the central part of the frame and can’t escape. If the leaf’s ridge were in focus the eye would have a line to follow, a very interesting line at that. It could travel back and forth and then it could take a few side tracked tangents based on the receding veins. Doing this would also bring different ice globules into focus and that would provide a circle for the eye to travel around, from the edge of the leaf to the in focus ice globs, back to the leaf. Controlling Red in Camera What if your reds, or other colors, are off in camera? There’s a few things we can do to correct for this. I really only have in-depth experience with Canon cameras, but all cameras will have a characteristic about it that may need correction from time to time. So often we want to make color corrections using the white balance. And that can help, but what if your colors are consistently off? In Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw, head to the last tab in the develop module called Calibration. The first thing to select is the Process Version. Usually, I’d say go with the most recent version. That’s going to be the most updated process Adobe knows to do to your photos. However, the sliders there will give you the opportunity to shift the hues around from one influence to the next. And things are limited to the Reds, Greens and Blues only. You also have a shadows tint slider which can help too, but that’s limited to greens and magentas. I say focus your attention on the primaries and shift those sliders around until you have something that works across a multitude of files. Technically speaking, if you were to calibrate your camera it would only be applicable to the lighting scenario and lens choice that’s currently mounted to your camera. You’d have to recalibrate for each different scenario. However, going about it in an easier fashion makes a lot more sense, especially if you notice that things are consistently off base. You can come in here and make the changes. Then you can make a preset that has those changes and upon import you can apply those changes automatically. Doing so may be just what you need to get those reds knocked into shape. Also, it’s been my experience that reds are the toughest for cameras to accurately render, but again, my experience is largely limited to Canon cameras and the troubled cameras are the older Rebel models, the current models have been excellent. Take a look in that calibration panel and see if something works in the right direction for you! Additionally, you can take a look in the HSL area and modify the hues there as well. The calibration panel is designed more for wholistic changes that are applied across the board. Listener Wisdom I’ve announced that my print course is finished. And I’m so glad it’s largely done! However, I figured I should address something here. That is I’m going to actually rename the course. Not even a week out and I’m already making changes. I know, kind of strange. However, this comes about from you guys, and a few others. By calling it a fine art printing course I made some feel this course wasn’t for them, where after talking to them I was like “yes, this is totally for you!” So I’m retitling the course to “Master Photo Printing” with Brent Bergherm. Nothing else has changed about the course. You still get 8+ hours of in-depth training in a format that is easy to digest and pickup where you left off. My online delivery system tracks your progress and you’ll easily be able to watch the videos that pertain to your interests and you’ll be able to go back over an over again. Also, for a few more days, I’m able to give away a backpack bag if you enroll soon. See the website for details, but I’ve got an UltraLight 36L by ThinkTank Photo that will go to one lucky person who signs up before Wednesday, April 10, 2019.  If you’ve been shooting a couple years and you want to take your photography to a different level with some color management, post-processing and creative sharpening techniques then this course is for you. I will do the bonus materials by Summer 2019 which will include walkthroughs on popular print lab websites and an analysis of their prints. So you don’t need your own printer to get something out of this course. Summer plans My summer plans have been effectively put into a blender. I had to cancel my workshops to Chile and Croatia due to low enrollment which is too bad. And I thought that would mean I’m able to go to Cuba then with the school I work at. We’re doing a mission trip there in early July. And that may will work out, but otherwise, the only thing I have solid for my summer is to head to Boise in late July and deliver a mini printing workshop and lecture there to a group there. If you have a group of photographers that want to learn one-on-one printing this summer let me know and we probably can work something out.I also have my shoot-n-print workshop happening in mid-June this year in Walla Walla. 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Understanding Color and Listener Wisdom

The imaging sensor size in your camera does affect how you make your photography and some make a huge deal out of it. It’s my goal today to make a big deal out of nothing, or at least to help you understand my approach to it all.     This is Latitude Photography Podcast, Episode 61 for December 15, 2019!   Links Mentioned in today’s show:   Show Sponsor: Golden Hour Podcast by Polar Pro Filters   https://www.polarprofilters.com/pages/golden-hour   Neil Van Niekerk blog post on Depth-of-field comparison between sensor sizes:     https://neilvn.com/tangents/full-frame-vs-crop-sensor-cameras-comparison-depth-of-field/?fbclid=IwAR3dtWwVErLMagKNckknaNwo2xetoSXpfHCtKTkeYnmf2dZ5D8zdhpDo9pc   The BEST DOF calculator out there by Cambridge in Colour   https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/dof-calculator.htm   Fstoppers article    https://fstoppers.com/education/which-sensor-size-suits-your-type-photography-best-436071#comment-thread   LatitudePhotographySchool Mentorship    https://latitudephotographyschool.com/training-center/mentorship/   Use this link AND the code "latitude15" the next time you need to rent gear. I'll get a small percentage and you'll get 15% off.   Lensrentals.com affiliate link: https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg   Need to carry your gear in style? Treat yourself to a ThinkTank Photo bag with this link and get a free gift at checkout: http://bit.ly/2IMRhOT   Sign up to be the first notified when the new Latitude Photography School is available and open for business: https://latitudephotographyschool.com   Main Topic.   Today, we are talking about the effect that sensor size has on our image making. I’ve come across a few articles recently and have had some conversations about this with a few photographers, so it’s really fresh on my mind.    I had planned on doing a gift guide, but I then decided that really just adds to the commercialism of Christmas and we have enough of that already, it seems that everyone and their brother is publishing a gift guide of some sort, so I decided to do something that’s a bit more in tune with what I’ve been thinking about these past few days.   The first article I want to bring your attention to was written over 5 years ago by Neil van Niekerk. It’s a good rundown of what happens to your image when you shoot with a full-frame vs. a crop sensor. The second article is one that was published recently by Nando Harmsen on the fstoppers.com website.    This article is less technical and simply draws attention the the many different sizes of sensors and things like different lenses needed to achieve the same field of view are discussed.    But the final link I want to bring your attention to is the best Depth-Of-Field Calculator I’ve yet found which demystifies this whole thing. It gets rather technical so I’ll do my best to break it all down here for you, so let’s get started.   (review of crop factor etc)   To sum up the first article, the author goes through a very detailed step by step guide as to why we have shallower Depth of field on a crop sensor camera. What he fails to explicitly articulate is that by doing this comparison the way he’s doing it, we absolutely will get longer DOF simply because you need a shorter lens to get the same field of view. He referenced this article on Depth of Field by Cambridge in Colour but missed out one very key element. That is when we calculate DOF, we have to have a standard for interpretation. Since DOF is a sliding scale of sorts, who’s to say what’s in focus for me is also in focus for you?   That’s why we call DOF to be the items that are in acceptably sharp focus.   If you used a standard DOF calculator such as Photo Pills, and you were to put in the parameters of a Sony crop sensor camera, 28mm lens, f/8 and subject distance of 2 ft your calculated DOF is 5 and 21/32 of an inch. Switch that to a Sony full frame with the same paramaters, and your calculated DOF is 8 and 25/32 of an inch.    Wait a minute. This means that the smaller sensor is shallower DOF? How can this be?   This is where most folks usually, including me, just give up.    I used to like to say this is all bunk because what if you have that full-frame Sony, and you shoot an image in crop mode and one in full-frame mode. You’ve done nothing else yet the DOF still changes!? How can this be. It’s stupid right? Yet it does change, even if you’re on the same exact camera.   Further explanation   This is where we bring in this idea of the circle of confusion. In short, the COC is simply the smallest perceivable detail for what you’re looking at. So a standard must be set for calculating DOF. You probably didn’t realize it but in general, all your DOF calculations have been based on your photo being translated to an 8x10 print and being viewed the distance of 1 foot. It’s important to know the physical size of the image because that means that the physical size of the sensor is also important in determining DOF.    Since the physically larger full-frame sensor doesn’t have to be enlarged nearly as much, it has LONGER DOF all things being equal. Please notice, if you leave all things equal you will have a different field of view between the full-frame and crop sensor cameras. If your goal is to have the same perspective between the two systems (FF and crop sensor) then you will alter your DOF because you’re using a physically shorter lens.    Let’s examine this one more time using the DOF calculator on the Cambridge In Colour website. Here’s my parameters:   Max Print dimension: 10 inches   Viewing Distance: 25cm (almost one foot)   Eyesight: standard   Camera Type: 1.5 crop factor   Aperture: f/8   Focal Length: 28mm   Focus Distance: 2 ft.   Total DOF: .51 ft.   Those of you with magnificent memories will remember that my previous calculations were just under (barely) six inches. That was also based on a slightly longer viewing distance of 12 inches, not the slightly less 25cm as this one is. So we’ll go with this calculator from here on out.   Let’s change it to a full frame, that’s the only change.   Calculated DOF goes from .51 ft to .79 ft. That’s the same type of adjustment we saw in the previous example where I was using the Photo Pills App.   Now let’s leave it full-frame from here on out. And let’s leave the camera settings alone. Let’s change the print size to 14 inches and see what happens to our DOF.   The DOF goes from .79 ft. to .55 ft. WOW. So when you make the print larger, the DOF gets shallower! Nothing else changed! I don’t know about you, but this is blowing my mind. Let’s now change the viewing distance to 50cm.   We’ve about doubled the DOF just by increasing our print viewing distance. It’s now 1.17 ft.    So what does this really say about DOF and all that?   It means that DOF is truly subjective based on many different parameters beyond your camera, lens and distance to subject. It’s based on the perception of acceptably sharp focus. As you move that print further and further away you’re less and less able to see the fact that something is literally out of focus. Therefore we define acceptably sharp focus to be a greater depth within the frame.   One more calculation, changing it to 1 meter print viewing distance increases the total DOF to 3.08 ft.    So in review, just by changing our print size from 10 inches to 14 inches we decreased the DOF. But by increasing our viewing distance on that 14 inch print we then increased the calculated DOF. This, of course, assume you have standard vision. If you have 20/20 vision the DOF on that large print at 1 meter in distance goes from 3.08 ft to .75 ft again. So if you have good eyesight calculated DOF is different for you too. Makes sense, with out glasses calculated DOF is terrible for me because everything is a blur. With my glasses I have near 20/20 vision so that’s where I would want to look for calculations that have meaning for me.   Your takeaway   It’s easy for us to get bent out of shape over sensor size and how the DOF is a reason for one way or the other as you argue the benefits of one sensor size over the other.    In reality, we’re usually way more concerned with the perspective and field of view of the scene first, and in that case, yes, a smaller sensor will need a shorter lens to render the scene before you the same as a larger sensor camera, therefore giving you much more DOF. But the primary reason that’s changing is that the lens itself has changed.    that’s something that’s easy to see and understand. But it goes so much deeper than that. There’s perception and viewing that’s part of it too. And understanding DOF and how it really works in camera may help explain why your focus stacked image didn’t work out the way you thought it would. It might explain why f/4 on that shot really isn’t working the way you envisioned it. Are you viewing it on your phone or a large print? The calculated DOF will be different for those two very different viewing experiences.    Assignment for January   In keeping with this theme I have an assignment for you. I want you to go out and shoot something with a long and shallow DOF. Same subject, same framing as much as possible anyway. And then post them to the FB group with your commentary on why you like one over the other. Have something distinctly present in your foreground and have a reasonable background. Do this by January 3, 2020 and I’ll talk about the results in a future episode in January. You can also email them to me at brent@latitudephotographypodcast.com if you’d rather not email. I will plan to put these into the show notes and a new fb group post for the show. Please give me a link you’d like to send folks too as well and we’ll be sure to link that in the show notes.   Tip of the week   Today’s tip of the week has nothing to do with DOF, lenses or anything like that. That would be too easy. Today’s tip is to shoot without actually looking through the viewfinder or the LCD screen. It can be from your hip or hold the camera high. You should look at something, concentrate on it, zoom your lens or walk closer or further away to frame your subject in a way that you envision. Once you’re done go ahead and check your results. Do this over and over with different subjects until you get “good” at it.   Reminders    I’m always looking for feedback and ideas so please reach out if you’ve got a show idea or someone you’d like me to interview. Send me an email at brent@latitudephotographypodcast.com  Also, would you mind leaving a review of the show whether in Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen?  I’ve announced my next big project and that is https://latitudephotographyschool.com I’ll have tutorials, deep-dive courses and my workshops listed there. Over my Christmas break I’ll be working like mad to get that moving and I’ll also bring back my personal website at brentbergherm.com where I’ll showcase galleries of my photography. Sign up today to be the first notified of when the school is open. Photography, travel and education is where my heart is and I can’t wait to get this thing fully launched. If there’s anything you’re just itching to learn more about, please reach out and let me know. Along with the school I’m also starting longer-term deep-dive mentorships. I have my first client I’m starting with this week as this episode is released. If you have a project you want guidance and advice on, or if you want to really do some soul searching about your voice as a photographer, maybe I can help. I invite you to reach out and if I think I can help then we’ll get something set up. Presently, I can only help three at a time so that means there’s two spots left for the first half of 2020. Mentorships will last about six months and we’ll have a couple of weekly meetings to start out with and we’ll go with monthly meetings after that. All the while you’ll get email support too. So if you need a kick in the pants to kickstart your next big project or to fine tune your creative process and outcomes drop me a line and let’s chat about it. A HUGE thank you to all who have used my lensrentals.com affiliate link. I’m so grateful for the support you’ve shown me by using it and if you use the offer code latitude15 you’ll save 15% off your order as well. 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The imaging sensor size in your camera does affect how you make your photography and some make a huge deal out of it. It’s my goal today to make a big deal out of nothing, or at least to help you understand my approach to it all. This is Latitude Photography Podcast, Episode 61 for December 15, 2019! Links Mentioned in today’s show: Show Sponsor: Golden Hour Podcast by Polar Pro Filters <a href="https://www.polarprofilters.com/pages/golden-hour" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.polarprofilters.com/pages/golden-hour</a> Neil Van Niekerk blog post on Depth-of-field comparison between sensor sizes:  <a href="https://neilvn.com/tangents/full-frame-vs-crop-sensor-cameras-comparison-depth-of-field/?fbclid=IwAR3dtWwVErLMagKNckknaNwo2xetoSXpfHCtKTkeYnmf2dZ5D8zdhpDo9pc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://neilvn.com/tangents/full-frame-vs-crop-sensor-cameras-comparison-depth-of-field/?fbclid=IwAR3dtWwVErLMagKNckknaNwo2xetoSXpfHCtKTkeYnmf2dZ5D8zdhpDo9pc</a> The BEST DOF calculator out there by Cambridge in Colour <a href="https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/dof-calculator.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/dof-calculator.htm</a> Fstoppers article <a href="https://fstoppers.com/education/which-sensor-size-suits-your-type-photography-best-436071#comment-thread" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://fstoppers.com/education/which-sensor-size-suits-your-type-photography-best-436071#comment-thread</a> LatitudePhotographySchool Mentorship <a href="https://latitudephotographyschool.com/training-center/mentorship/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://latitudephotographyschool.com/training-center/mentorship/</a> Use this link AND the code "latitude15" the next time you need to rent gear. I'll get a small percentage and you'll get 15% off. <a href="http://Lensrentals.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lensrentals.com</a> affiliate link: <a href="https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg</a> Need to carry your gear in style? Treat yourself to a ThinkTank Photo bag with this link and get a free gift at checkout: <a href="http://bit.ly/2IMRhOT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2IMRhOT</a> Sign up to be the first notified when the new Latitude Photography School is available and open for business: <a href="https://latitudephotographyschool.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://latitudephotographyschool.com</a> Main Topic. Today, we are talking about the effect that sensor size has on our image making. I’ve come across a few articles recently and have had some conversations about this with a few photographers, so it’s really fresh on my mind.  I had planned on doing a gift guide, but I then decided that really just adds to the commercialism of Christmas and we have enough of that already, it seems that everyone and their brother is publishing a gift guide of some sort, so I decided to do something that’s a bit more in tune with what I’ve been thinking about these past few days. The first article I want to bring your attention to was written over 5 years ago by Neil van Niekerk. It’s a good rundown of what happens to your image when you shoot with a full-frame vs. a crop sensor. The second article is one that was published recently by Nando Harmsen on the <a href="http://fstoppers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fstoppers.com</a> website.  This article is less technical and simply draws attention the the many different sizes of sensors and things like different lenses needed to achieve the same field of view are discussed.  But the final link I want to bring your attention to is the best Depth-Of-Field Calculator I’ve yet found which demystifies this whole thing. It gets rather technical so I’ll do my best to break it all down here for you, so let’s get started. (review of crop factor etc) To sum up the first article, the author goes through a very detailed step by step guide as to why we have shallower Depth of field on a crop sensor camera. What he fails to explicitly articulate is that by doing this comparison the way he’s doing it, we absolutely will get longer DOF simply because you need a shorter lens to get the same field of view. He referenced this article on Depth of Field by Cambridge in Colour but missed out one very key element. That is when we calculate DOF, we have to have a standard for interpretation. Since DOF is a sliding scale of sorts, who’s to say what’s in focus for me is also in focus for you? That’s why we call DOF to be the items that are in acceptably sharp focus. If you used a standard DOF calculator such as Photo Pills, and you were to put in the parameters of a Sony crop sensor camera, 28mm lens, f/8 and subject distance of 2 ft your calculated DOF is 5 and 21/32 of an inch. Switch that to a Sony full frame with the same paramaters, and your calculated DOF is 8 and 25/32 of an inch.  Wait a minute. This means that the smaller sensor is shallower DOF? How can this be? This is where most folks usually, including me, just give up.  I used to like to say this is all bunk because what if you have that full-frame Sony, and you shoot an image in crop mode and one in full-frame mode. You’ve done nothing else yet the DOF still changes!? How can this be. It’s stupid right? Yet it does change, even if you’re on the same exact camera. Further explanation This is where we bring in this idea of the circle of confusion. In short, the COC is simply the smallest perceivable detail for what you’re looking at. So a standard must be set for calculating DOF. You probably didn’t realize it but in general, all your DOF calculations have been based on your photo being translated to an 8x10 print and being viewed the distance of 1 foot. It’s important to know the physical size of the image because that means that the physical size of the sensor is also important in determining DOF.  Since the physically larger full-frame sensor doesn’t have to be enlarged nearly as much, it has LONGER DOF all things being equal. Please notice, if you leave all things equal you will have a different field of view between the full-frame and crop sensor cameras. If your goal is to have the same perspective between the two systems (FF and crop sensor) then you will alter your DOF because you’re using a physically shorter lens.  Let’s examine this one more time using the DOF calculator on the Cambridge In Colour website. Here’s my parameters: Max Print dimension: 10 inches Viewing Distance: 25cm (almost one foot) Eyesight: standard Camera Type: 1.5 crop factor Aperture: f/8 Focal Length: 28mm Focus Distance: 2 ft. Total DOF: .51 ft. Those of you with magnificent memories will remember that my previous calculations were just under (barely) six inches. That was also based on a slightly longer viewing distance of 12 inches, not the slightly less 25cm as this one is. So we’ll go with this calculator from here on out. Let’s change it to a full frame, that’s the only change. Calculated DOF goes from .51 ft to .79 ft. That’s the same type of adjustment we saw in the previous example where I was using the Photo Pills App. Now let’s leave it full-frame from here on out. And let’s leave the camera settings alone. Let’s change the print size to 14 inches and see what happens to our DOF. The DOF goes from .79 ft. to .55 ft. WOW. So when you make the print larger, the DOF gets shallower! Nothing else changed! I don’t know about you, but this is blowing my mind. Let’s now change the viewing distance to 50cm. We’ve about doubled the DOF just by increasing our print viewing distance. It’s now 1.17 ft.  So what does this really say about DOF and all that? It means that DOF is truly subjective based on many different parameters beyond your camera, lens and distance to subject. It’s based on the perception of acceptably sharp focus. As you move that print further and further away you’re less and less able to see the fact that something is literally out of focus. Therefore we define acceptably sharp focus to be a greater depth within the frame. One more calculation, changing it to 1 meter print viewing distance increases the total DOF to 3.08 ft.  So in review, just by changing our print size from 10 inches to 14 inches we decreased the DOF. But by increasing our viewing distance on that 14 inch print we then increased the calculated DOF. This, of course, assume you have standard vision. If you have 20/20 vision the DOF on that large print at 1 meter in distance goes from 3.08 ft to .75 ft again. So if you have good eyesight calculated DOF is different for you too. Makes sense, with out glasses calculated DOF is terrible for me because everything is a blur. With my glasses I have near 20/20 vision so that’s where I would want to look for calculations that have meaning for me. Your takeaway It’s easy for us to get bent out of shape over sensor size and how the DOF is a reason for one way or the other as you argue the benefits of one sensor size over the other.  In reality, we’re usually way more concerned with the perspective and field of view of the scene first, and in that case, yes, a smaller sensor will need a shorter lens to render the scene before you the same as a larger sensor camera, therefore giving you much more DOF. But the primary reason that’s changing is that the lens itself has changed.  that’s something that’s easy to see and understand. But it goes so much deeper than that. There’s perception and viewing that’s part of it too. And understanding DOF and how it really works in camera may help explain why your focus stacked image didn’t work out the way you thought it would. It might explain why f/4 on that shot really isn’t working the way you envisioned it. Are you viewing it on your phone or a large print? The calculated DOF will be different for those two very different viewing experiences.  Assignment for January In keeping with this theme I have an assignment for you. I want you to go out and shoot something with a long and shallow DOF. Same subject, same framing as much as possible anyway. And then post them to the FB group with your commentary on why you like one over the other. Have something distinctly present in your foreground and have a reasonable background. Do this by January 3, 2020 and I’ll talk about the results in a future episode in January. You can also email them to me at <a href="mailto:brent@latitudephotographypodcast.com">brent@latitudephotographypodcast.com</a> if you’d rather not email. I will plan to put these into the show notes and a new fb group post for the show. Please give me a link you’d like to send folks too as well and we’ll be sure to link that in the show notes. Tip of the week Today’s tip of the week has nothing to do with DOF, lenses or anything like that. That would be too easy. Today’s tip is to shoot without actually looking through the viewfinder or the LCD screen. It can be from your hip or hold the camera high. You should look at something, concentrate on it, zoom your lens or walk closer or further away to frame your subject in a way that you envision. Once you’re done go ahead and check your results. Do this over and over with different subjects until you get “good” at it. Reminders <ol> <li>I’m always looking for feedback and ideas so please reach out if you’ve got a show idea or someone you’d like me to interview. Send me an email at brent@latitudephotographypodcast.com </li> <li>Also, would you mind leaving a review of the show whether in Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen? </li> <li>I’ve announced my next big project and that is <a href="https://latitudephotographyschool.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://latitudephotographyschool.com</a> I’ll have tutorials, deep-dive courses and my workshops listed there. Over my Christmas break I’ll be working like mad to get that moving and I’ll also bring back my personal website at <a href="http://brentbergherm.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">brentbergherm.com</a> where I’ll showcase galleries of my photography. Sign up today to be the first notified of when the school is open. Photography, travel and education is where my heart is and I can’t wait to get this thing fully launched. If there’s anything you’re just itching to learn more about, please reach out and let me know.</li> <li>Along with the school I’m also starting longer-term deep-dive mentorships. I have my first client I’m starting with this week as this episode is released. If you have a project you want guidance and advice on, or if you want to really do some soul searching about your voice as a photographer, maybe I can help. I invite you to reach out and if I think I can help then we’ll get something set up. Presently, I can only help three at a time so that means there’s two spots left for the first half of 2020. Mentorships will last about six months and we’ll have a couple of weekly meetings to start out with and we’ll go with monthly meetings after that. All the while you’ll get email support too. So if you need a kick in the pants to kickstart your next big project or to fine tune your creative process and outcomes drop me a line and let’s chat about it.</li> <li>A HUGE thank you to all who have used my <a href="https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lensrentals.com</a> affiliate link. I’m so grateful for the support you’ve shown me by using it and if you use the offer code latitude15 you’ll save 15% off your order as well. At the very least, save yourself the 15% and if you can use that link in the show notes then I’ll grab a few % as well and it won’t cost you a dime more.</li> <li>And one last thing, a big thank you to <a href="http://PolarProFilters.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PolarProFilters.com</a> for sponsoring this episode.</li> </ol>

Sensor Size Confusion

David Long

Today my guest is David Long, a photographer from New England. David, Welcome to the show…. David, start out by telling us a bit about you and your photography. http://davelongphoto.com https://www.instagram.com/davidlong3653/ https://www.bluehourboston.com “I do most of their workshops in the NE area” You just published an e-book on photographing NE Vermont. Tell us about this special region. The types of subjects we’ll find and the like. Started as part of my workshops. Getting more locations than was possible to take people on a one or two-day workshop. Includes trail info, GPS info for parking and trailhead info. Also include thoughts on best time of year to visit, optimal weather conditions. And recommended photography gear. I try to cover 8-12 locations in a small geographical location. So if you’re not from NE and you want to head to a place to shoot, this is a great starting guide to get out to some great locations. Started with Cape Cod. Broke the areas into three sections. I have one in the White Mountains, Central VT, and now NE Vermont. Each participant gets a book that helps them navigate during the workshop but also helps them explore on their own when the workshop is done. Talk to us about Nichols Ledge: It’s one of about a dozen or so overview locations that are quite popular. This one is only about 5×20 feet or so and I don’t take tours there as it’s a small location and there’s a significant cliff so photographers want to be careful. It’s not a well-used trail so you can potentially get lost which could be problematic. Also, fall color, at the time of this recording and by the time this gets published, will be all but over. How do you recommend folks approach the region for winter photography? Winter thoughts: A going into winter look is great with desolate landscapes, churches, with a bit of snow coming in. A light snowfall can be gorgeous. It’s a tremendously different shot than what we can get now with the fall colors. Cape cod gives us the desolate beach image, with no one there, they’re so populated in the summer and fall, and now it’s empty. And the sea grass turns a golden wheat colored hue, the shrubs turn a brilliant rust color as well. Lighthouses can look great too, and it’s totally different than what you’d think of with fall colors. How is the Atlantic coast in the winter time? When I think of winter, I love to think about heading out to the Oregon coast due to the excellent chance you’ll get a storm and very interesting images because of the varied weather. Any chance it’s similar over there? And if it gets cold enough you get a blast cold air you get sea smoke where the warm ocean water is reacting with the cold air and causes this layer of fog to linger around in the immediate area around the coastal regions. There’s a lot of locations because of the population base where you can access it easily. I tend to wear the slip-on cleats and stuff. Helps grip the ice and snow. There’s lighthouses, fishing villages, and large cities like Portland and Boston, we were down to below zero last year. The sea smoke drapes the boats, lighthouses along the shoreline, and it’s clear 15-20 feet above the sea smoke, so you can have a great layered effect going on, creating a rather mythical NE lobster boat, that type of thing. Do you do an exposure blend? A neutral density filter? I’ll do both. I’ll shoot with a 3-stop ND grad filter. I do a 3-stop exposure blend many times as well. Sometimes I’ll do a blend, sometimes I’ll just stick with one exposure and simply process it how it is needed. I do a lot of high-key stuff where the sky is basically white. Let’s talk about staying safe and warm this winter. In particular I’m thinking keeping the feet and hands happy. Certainly, a lot of layers. You can start out very cold in the morning, but on the Cape, I can go down to just a wind shirt and a thermal in January. I have extreme sensitivity to cold, so I use the hand warmers and the feet warmers in a waterproof boot. And I start out with those and I carry extras. I use oversized mittens and stuff the hand warmers in those. I’ll take the off to do the settings I need, and then put the hands right back in. And I don’t stay out very long. Not going to be 2-3 hour hikes, some great friends do some great photography in doing those types of treks but that’s not for me. Any final thoughts on those of us that have a few extra days this Thanksgiving week that’s coming up. Where would you suggest we go? It’s an area where you look for some early show in the White or Green Mountains. There’s a lot of festivals for the holidays. Really, just a couple hours outside of Boston and there’s a lot of latitude for various options. Do some holiday shooting in Boston. They are one of the most photogenic cities from my stand point. They’ll decorate parts of the Boston Common, Beacon Hill, the coast and many other places. You can shoot iconic Boston landscapes beautifully decorated for Christmas. And where are you heading to next? I’ll be headed off to Ricketts Glenn for some waterfalls. I’m looking at the weather so I’m looking to go there when the weather is right. And then I’ll be shooting in Yosemite for a week next year, Iceland, and planning on a trip to Peru for next September. And I also kinda get tired of winter, so about mid-February I go to St. Augustine FL from mid-February to April. Great sea coast, bird and historical photography options there. Thanks so much for being here and sharing your expertise on this fantastic region that is New England.   Use  this link for excellent gear at the Peak Design website. It helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!  Use this link to get a free gift at checkout, plus it helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!

Today my guest is David Long, a photographer from New England. David, Welcome to the show…. David, start out by telling us a bit about you and your photography. <a href="http://davelongphoto.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://davelongphoto.com</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/davidlong3653/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/davidlong3653/</a> <a href="https://www.bluehourboston.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bluehourboston.com</a> “I do most of their workshops in the NE area” You just published an e-book on photographing NE Vermont. Tell us about this special region. The types of subjects we’ll find and the like. Started as part of my workshops. Getting more locations than was possible to take people on a one or two-day workshop. Includes trail info, GPS info for parking and trailhead info. Also include thoughts on best time of year to visit, optimal weather conditions. And recommended photography gear. I try to cover 8-12 locations in a small geographical location. So if you’re not from NE and you want to head to a place to shoot, this is a great starting guide to get out to some great locations. Started with Cape Cod. Broke the areas into three sections. I have one in the White Mountains, Central VT, and now NE Vermont. Each participant gets a book that helps them navigate during the workshop but also helps them explore on their own when the workshop is done. Talk to us about Nichols Ledge: It’s one of about a dozen or so overview locations that are quite popular. This one is only about 5×20 feet or so and I don’t take tours there as it’s a small location and there’s a significant cliff so photographers want to be careful. It’s not a well-used trail so you can potentially get lost which could be problematic. Also, fall color, at the time of this recording and by the time this gets published, will be all but over. How do you recommend folks approach the region for winter photography? Winter thoughts: A going into winter look is great with desolate landscapes, churches, with a bit of snow coming in. A light snowfall can be gorgeous. It’s a tremendously different shot than what we can get now with the fall colors. Cape cod gives us the desolate beach image, with no one there, they’re so populated in the summer and fall, and now it’s empty. And the sea grass turns a golden wheat colored hue, the shrubs turn a brilliant rust color as well. Lighthouses can look great too, and it’s totally different than what you’d think of with fall colors. How is the Atlantic coast in the winter time? When I think of winter, I love to think about heading out to the Oregon coast due to the excellent chance you’ll get a storm and very interesting images because of the varied weather. Any chance it’s similar over there? And if it gets cold enough you get a blast cold air you get sea smoke where the warm ocean water is reacting with the cold air and causes this layer of fog to linger around in the immediate area around the coastal regions. There’s a lot of locations because of the population base where you can access it easily. I tend to wear the slip-on cleats and stuff. Helps grip the ice and snow. There’s lighthouses, fishing villages, and large cities like Portland and Boston, we were down to below zero last year. The sea smoke drapes the boats, lighthouses along the shoreline, and it’s clear 15-20 feet above the sea smoke, so you can have a great layered effect going on, creating a rather mythical NE lobster boat, that type of thing. Do you do an exposure blend? A neutral density filter? I’ll do both. I’ll shoot with a 3-stop ND grad filter. I do a 3-stop exposure blend many times as well. Sometimes I’ll do a blend, sometimes I’ll just stick with one exposure and simply process it how it is needed. I do a lot of high-key stuff where the sky is basically white. Let’s talk about staying safe and warm this winter. In particular I’m thinking keeping the feet and hands happy. Certainly, a lot of layers. You can start out very cold in the morning, but on the Cape, I can go down to just a wind shirt and a thermal in January. I have extreme sensitivity to cold, so I use the hand warmers and the feet warmers in a waterproof boot. And I start out with those and I carry extras. I use oversized mittens and stuff the hand warmers in those. I’ll take the off to do the settings I need, and then put the hands right back in. And I don’t stay out very long. Not going to be 2-3 hour hikes, some great friends do some great photography in doing those types of treks but that’s not for me. Any final thoughts on those of us that have a few extra days this Thanksgiving week that’s coming up. Where would you suggest we go? It’s an area where you look for some early show in the White or Green Mountains. There’s a lot of festivals for the holidays. Really, just a couple hours outside of Boston and there’s a lot of latitude for various options. Do some holiday shooting in Boston. They are one of the most photogenic cities from my stand point. They’ll decorate parts of the Boston Common, Beacon Hill, the coast and many other places. You can shoot iconic Boston landscapes beautifully decorated for Christmas. And where are you heading to next? I’ll be headed off to Ricketts Glenn for some waterfalls. I’m looking at the weather so I’m looking to go there when the weather is right. And then I’ll be shooting in Yosemite for a week next year, Iceland, and planning on a trip to Peru for next September. And I also kinda get tired of winter, so about mid-February I go to St. Augustine FL from mid-February to April. Great sea coast, bird and historical photography options there. Thanks so much for being here and sharing your expertise on this fantastic region that is New England. <a href="https://www.peakdesign.com?rfsn=1826649.46fa86&amp;utm_source=refersion&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=1826649.46fa86" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> Use <a href="https://www.peakdesign.com?rfsn=1826649.46fa86&amp;utm_source=refersion&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=1826649.46fa86" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> this link</a> for excellent gear at the Peak Design website. It helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks! <a href="https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Use <a href="https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this link</a> to get a free gift at checkout, plus it helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!

New England with David Long

Ibarionex Perello

Links mentioned in this episode: http://ibarionexperello.squarespace.com http://thecandidframe.com https://www.youtube.com/user/lafotoboy https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/oregon-coast-2019/ https://brentbergherm.com/course-info/ The Interview Please tell us a brief history of yourself, your background, interests, hobbies, photography, anything you want to share. You’re known for your “street photography.” That’s pretty much all that’s in the book. And also one reason I really wanted you on the show, I like to think of street photography as a “secret passion” of mine. Secret because I hardly do any of it, but I’ve had this incredible desire to do more of it. I’m sure there’s some listeners out there that are interested but are timid, afraid, or just plain shy. What can you tell us to help us get over that hump and get out there and do it? Let’s go to the very beginning of the book. In the introduction of the book you write, “I believe the thing that makes it difficult to improve your photography is the ease with which you are able to make photographs. Raise the camera to your eye, press the button, and there you have it: a photograph.” How does this make the improvement of our photography more difficult? Creativity and perfectionism. In the first chapter you talk about unreasonable expectations. How you’d consider yourself “all that” if you came back with some amazing photographs and if you didn’t, you were a hack. I can certainly identify with that. I distinctly remember when I had this revelation of sorts. I was planning another shoot in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic area, more waterfalls. It was after a string of failures. I was kinda down and I just got to thinking, my priorities are all wrong. My plan was tunnel falls. It’s seven miles up Eagle Creek and there’s a few falls along the way. When I finally got there I just sat there for about 30 minutes, not only recovering from the hike, but also enjoying this amazingly beautiful nature all about me. I didn’t create any good photos that day, but from then on my perspective changed. Do you happen to remember your “aha!” moment, when your perspective changed, or was it more of a gradual thing? Let’s talk about journaling. That’s something I’ve never done but I do require various journaling exercises from my students. Take us through your process and what the journaling exercise does for you and your creativity. Software: Day One If we may, I want to talk gear for a moment. You shoot Fujifilm cameras. And towards the end of the book you talk about the importance of always having a camera with you. A camera that’s not your phone anyway. I’ve long considered a move to Fujifilm from my Canon 5dMk4, which is a fine camera. While I like to get on the bandwagon of saying “gear doesn’t matter” in this case, I think for me it might. The canon is huge, heavy and I never take it with me unless I’m going on a shoot. I think the Fujifilm system would also change my mindset a bit because I’m looking to get only primes, at least to begin with. I’ve almost exclusively shot zooms for the last 20 years, and I think the gear restrictions might help ignite something in me and my photography. Am I crazy in thinking that? At the end of each chapter you have an assignment. Let’s talk about one of those assignments from Chapter 8.

Links mentioned in this episode: <a href="http://ibarionexperello.squarespace.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ibarionexperello.squarespace.com</a> <a href="http://thecandidframe.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://thecandidframe.com</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/lafotoboy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/user/lafotoboy</a> <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/oregon-coast-2019/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/oregon-coast-2019/</a> <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/course-info/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/course-info/</a> The Interview Please tell us a brief history of yourself, your background, interests, hobbies, photography, anything you want to share. You’re known for your “street photography.” That’s pretty much all that’s in the book. And also one reason I really wanted you on the show, I like to think of street photography as a “secret passion” of mine. Secret because I hardly do any of it, but I’ve had this incredible desire to do more of it. I’m sure there’s some listeners out there that are interested but are timid, afraid, or just plain shy. What can you tell us to help us get over that hump and get out there and do it? Let’s go to the very beginning of the book. In the introduction of the book you write, “I believe the thing that makes it difficult to improve your photography is the ease with which you are able to make photographs. Raise the camera to your eye, press the button, and there you have it: a photograph.” How does this make the improvement of our photography more difficult? Creativity and perfectionism. In the first chapter you talk about unreasonable expectations. How you’d consider yourself “all that” if you came back with some amazing photographs and if you didn’t, you were a hack. I can certainly identify with that. I distinctly remember when I had this revelation of sorts. I was planning another shoot in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic area, more waterfalls. It was after a string of failures. I was kinda down and I just got to thinking, my priorities are all wrong. My plan was tunnel falls. It’s seven miles up Eagle Creek and there’s a few falls along the way. When I finally got there I just sat there for about 30 minutes, not only recovering from the hike, but also enjoying this amazingly beautiful nature all about me. I didn’t create any good photos that day, but from then on my perspective changed. Do you happen to remember your “aha!” moment, when your perspective changed, or was it more of a gradual thing? Let’s talk about journaling. That’s something I’ve never done but I do require various journaling exercises from my students. Take us through your process and what the journaling exercise does for you and your creativity. Software: Day One If we may, I want to talk gear for a moment. You shoot Fujifilm cameras. And towards the end of the book you talk about the importance of always having a camera with you. A camera that’s not your phone anyway. I’ve long considered a move to Fujifilm from my Canon 5dMk4, which is a fine camera. While I like to get on the bandwagon of saying “gear doesn’t matter” in this case, I think for me it might. The canon is huge, heavy and I never take it with me unless I’m going on a shoot. I think the Fujifilm system would also change my mindset a bit because I’m looking to get only primes, at least to begin with. I’ve almost exclusively shot zooms for the last 20 years, and I think the gear restrictions might help ignite something in me and my photography. Am I crazy in thinking that? At the end of each chapter you have an assignment. Let’s talk about one of those assignments from Chapter 8.

Making Photographs with Ibarionex Perello

For all the photos, please check out the Latitude Photography Facebook group, or my website here: https://brentbergherm.com/all-about-clouds/ Links Mentioned in today’s show: Fine Art Cloud Photography link: https://www.thomasfinkler.com/gallery-color/dramatic-skies/ Bag Review on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZWOfVT-2TaQ Lensrentals.com affiliate link: https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg ThinkTankPhoto affiliate link: https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb My Online Course: https://brentbergherm.com/course-info/ Cloud Illustration: Valentin de Bruyn for Coton:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cloud_types#/media/File:Cloud_types_en.svg Coton Cloud App: https://cotonapp.com Topic:  Clouds, possibly a strange topic, but let’s face it. When I’m shooting images that include the sky, or anything significant that’s sky related, I usually like some good clouds to add interest. Of course, there’s some types of clouds that totally get socked in and that just stinks when you want that overview, the vista or what-not. When that happens I know I have to shift my expectations and what I’m looking for in order to get good images. For all the photos, please check out the Latitude Photography Facebook group, or my website here: https://brentbergherm.com/all-about-clouds/

For all the photos, please check out the Latitude Photography Facebook group, or my website here: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/all-about-clouds/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/all-about-clouds/</a> Links Mentioned in today’s show: Fine Art Cloud Photography link: <a href="https://www.thomasfinkler.com/gallery-color/dramatic-skies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thomasfinkler.com/gallery-color/dramatic-skies/</a> Bag Review on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/ZWOfVT-2TaQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/ZWOfVT-2TaQ</a> <a href="http://Lensrentals.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lensrentals.com</a> affiliate link: <a href="https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg</a> ThinkTankPhoto affiliate link: <a href="https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb</a> My Online Course: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/course-info/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/course-info/</a> Cloud Illustration: Valentin de Bruyn for Coton: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cloud_types#/media/File:Cloud_types_en.svg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cloud_types#/media/File:Cloud_types_en.svg</a> Coton Cloud App: <a href="https://cotonapp.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cotonapp.com</a> Topic:  Clouds, possibly a strange topic, but let’s face it. When I’m shooting images that include the sky, or anything significant that’s sky related, I usually like some good clouds to add interest. Of course, there’s some types of clouds that totally get socked in and that just stinks when you want that overview, the vista or what-not. When that happens I know I have to shift my expectations and what I’m looking for in order to get good images. For all the photos, please check out the Latitude Photography Facebook group, or my website here: <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/all-about-clouds/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/all-about-clouds/</a>

All About Clouds and a New Bag I Like

Bob Coats

Using photographic techniques to create his art, Bob Coates considers himself a “Lens Based Artist.” We talk about his work and and his approach. You’ll be inspired and motivated to get out there and make some of your own masterpieces. Coates Fine Art: https://coatesart.net Bob Coates Photography: https://www.bcphotography.com/index https://successful-photographer.com Instagram: Bob_Coates or bcoatesart Check out thePalouse Shoot-n-Print workshopcoming this spring!  https://latitudephotographyschool.com/workshops/palouse-shoot-n-print-workshop/ Use this link AND the code "latitude15" the next time you need to rent gear. I'll get a small percentage and you'll get 15% off. Lensrentals.com affiliate link: https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg Need to carry your gear in style? Treat yourself to a ThinkTank Photo bag with this link and get a free gift at checkout: http://bit.ly/2IMRhOT Sign up to be the first notified when the new Latitude Photography School is available and open for business: https://latitudephotographyschool.com Main Topic Today I have a special guest, Bob Coates, and we’re talking about:  Bosque del Apache Landscape Prints Flora Prints  Photo Tip of the Week. Brent: Lens limitations, use a single lens, or if a zoom, a single setting on your lens and go out and shoot. Bob: If you have a good B&amp;W photo, you often have the good bones for a good color photo. Set your camera view to Monochrome, and make sure you shoot in raw so you still get color. If you shoot in JPG you’re stuck in B&amp;W. 

Using photographic techniques to create his art, Bob Coates considers himself a “Lens Based Artist.” We talk about his work and and his approach. You’ll be inspired and motivated to get out there and make some of your own masterpieces. Coates Fine Art: <a href="https://coatesart.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://coatesart.net</a> Bob Coates Photography: <a href="https://www.bcphotography.com/index" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bcphotography.com/index</a> <a href="https://successful-photographer.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://successful-photographer.com</a> Instagram: Bob_Coates or bcoatesart Check out thePalouse Shoot-n-Print workshopcoming this spring! <a href="https://latitudephotographyschool.com/workshops/palouse-shoot-n-print-workshop/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://latitudephotographyschool.com/workshops/palouse-shoot-n-print-workshop/</a> Use this link AND the code "latitude15" the next time you need to rent gear. I'll get a small percentage and you'll get 15% off. <a href="http://Lensrentals.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lensrentals.com</a> affiliate link: <a href="https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg</a> Need to carry your gear in style? Treat yourself to a ThinkTank Photo bag with this link and get a free gift at checkout: <a href="http://bit.ly/2IMRhOT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2IMRhOT</a> Sign up to be the first notified when the new Latitude Photography School is available and open for business: <a href="https://latitudephotographyschool.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://latitudephotographyschool.com</a> Main Topic Today I have a special guest, Bob Coates, and we’re talking about: <ol> <li>Bosque del Apache</li> <li>Landscape Prints</li> <li>Flora Prints</li> </ol> Photo Tip of the Week. Brent: Lens limitations, use a single lens, or if a zoom, a single setting on your lens and go out and shoot. Bob: If you have a good B&amp;W photo, you often have the good bones for a good color photo. Set your camera view to Monochrome, and make sure you shoot in raw so you still get color. If you shoot in JPG you’re stuck in B&amp;W.

Creating Lens Based Art with Bob Coats

Brian Pex

The Palouse region is simply amazing, and very popular. In this episode Brian Pex joins me to talk about the beautiful rolling hills, using a polarizer to emphasize the landscape and capturing the vibrant canola fields. Oh, and don’t forget the strip farming and crop dusters! ðŸ™‚ Thanks, Brian, for sharing your experience and photos with us! Pexphoto.com Steptoe Butte State Park Map

The Palouse region is simply amazing, and very popular. In this episode Brian Pex joins me to talk about the beautiful rolling hills, using a polarizer to emphasize the landscape and capturing the vibrant canola fields. Oh, and don’t forget the strip farming and crop dusters! ðŸ™‚ Thanks, Brian, for sharing your experience and photos with us! <a href="http://pexphoto.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pexphoto.com</a> Steptoe Butte State Park Map

Palouse with Brian Pex

Tim Lawson

Links mentioned in this episode. https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/ww-print/ https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/oregon-coast-2019/ https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/denver/ http://www.susanburnstine.com Announcements. Today’s show is an interview with a listener, Tim Lawson, and we’re talking about Vision and working to execute that vision. But there’s a few other announcements I want to take care of before we get on with the interview. Denver meetup. Denver one-day workshop. Oregon Coast. Walla Walla and Palouse Workshop. Final call for Blue images via the facebook group. That wraps up the announcements, let’s hop on over to my conversation with Tim Lawson and this idea of vision. This is an enhanced episode, so if you have the ability to see the photo on your device, and if you’re not driving, go ahead and take a peek now so you know what we’re talking about, it’ll also have been posted to the facebook group a few days ago so you can also find it there. Topic: Tim Lawson, welcome to the show… Tell me about your image. Let me describe it first for the listeners, but then I just want to know how to came about this image. It’s a young woman in a cape and mask standing on a rock hill holding a large branch with a lantern over her shoulder. The stars are behind her with a significant swirl going on. Tell me about how this image came together and how you also worked in Photoshop to make this all happen.

Links mentioned in this episode. <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/ww-print/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/ww-print/</a> <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/oregon-coast-2019/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/oregon-coast-2019/</a> <a href="https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/denver/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://brentbergherm.com/workshops/denver/</a> <a href="http://www.susanburnstine.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.susanburnstine.com</a> Announcements. Today’s show is an interview with a listener, Tim Lawson, and we’re talking about Vision and working to execute that vision. But there’s a few other announcements I want to take care of before we get on with the interview. Denver meetup. Denver one-day workshop. Oregon Coast. Walla Walla and Palouse Workshop. Final call for Blue images via the facebook group. That wraps up the announcements, let’s hop on over to my conversation with Tim Lawson and this idea of vision. This is an enhanced episode, so if you have the ability to see the photo on your device, and if you’re not driving, go ahead and take a peek now so you know what we’re talking about, it’ll also have been posted to the facebook group a few days ago so you can also find it there. Topic: Tim Lawson, welcome to the show… Tell me about your image. Let me describe it first for the listeners, but then I just want to know how to came about this image. It’s a young woman in a cape and mask standing on a rock hill holding a large branch with a lantern over her shoulder. The stars are behind her with a significant swirl going on. Tell me about how this image came together and how you also worked in Photoshop to make this all happen.

Photography and Vision with Tim Lawson

Welcome to Latitude Photography Podcast. The show where we talk about all things related to landscape and travel photography. I’ve got a new bag giveaway. Email me (brent (at) latitudephotographypodcast.com) proof of sharing out the show via your social media channels, emailing friends, anything of the sort, and you’ll be entered to win an Exposure 13 black from ThinkTank Photo or a FirstLight 20 also by ThinkTank Photo. Get it emailed by December 1, 2018 and the first winner will be able to choose which bag, the second winner will get the other bag. Must be living within the US and 18 or older. Topic 1:          Interview with Aaron King and Brenden Porter from Photog Adventures. In this interview we talk about several topics, including:  PhotogAdventures in the Faroe Islands Chile Total Solar Eclipse And SO MUCH MORE  https://photogadventures.com https://www.facebook.com/photogadventures https://www.instagram.com/photogadventures/   Use  this link for excellent gear at the Peak Design website. It helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!  Use this link to get a free gift at checkout, plus it helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!

Welcome to Latitude Photography Podcast. The show where we talk about all things related to landscape and travel photography. I’ve got a new bag giveaway. Email me (brent (at) <a href="http://latitudephotographypodcast.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">latitudephotographypodcast.com</a>) proof of sharing out the show via your social media channels, emailing friends, anything of the sort, and you’ll be entered to win an Exposure 13 black from ThinkTank Photo or a FirstLight 20 also by ThinkTank Photo. Get it emailed by December 1, 2018 and the first winner will be able to choose which bag, the second winner will get the other bag. Must be living within the US and 18 or older. Topic 1:          Interview with Aaron King and Brenden Porter from Photog Adventures. In this interview we talk about several topics, including: <ol> <li>PhotogAdventures in the Faroe Islands</li> <li>Chile Total Solar Eclipse</li> <li>And SO MUCH MORE</li> </ol> <a href="https://photogadventures.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://photogadventures.com</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photogadventures" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/photogadventures</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/photogadventures/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/photogadventures/</a> <a href="https://www.peakdesign.com?rfsn=1826649.46fa86&amp;utm_source=refersion&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=1826649.46fa86" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> Use <a href="https://www.peakdesign.com?rfsn=1826649.46fa86&amp;utm_source=refersion&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=1826649.46fa86" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> this link</a> for excellent gear at the Peak Design website. It helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks! <a href="https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Use <a href="https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this link</a> to get a free gift at checkout, plus it helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!

Adventures with the PhotogAdventures guys

Levi Sim

A few quick announcements to consider. I’ll be offering portfolio reviews as we start the new year. All the info will be found on my website and it’ll all be up and running by January 2019. So if you’re interested in that just stay tuned and the details will be available most likely in the next episode. Don’t forget my workshops either. I’m also going to give you an extra incentive for either joining my email list or the Brent Bergherm Photo Workshops group on facebook. I’ll be releasing a code for the holidays that will be good for $100 off any international workshop. I’ve got a great workshop planned for the Total Solar Eclipse in Chile this July and another in Croatia at the tail end of August. Head on over to my website brentbergherm.com for all the details, and as you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. Links Mentioned: Levi’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/photolevi/ His Bio at PhotoFocus: https://photofocus.com/author/levicsim/ His personal website: https://levisim.com Thanks so much for being here, let’s now get to the conversation with Levi Sim… Topic 1: Interview with Levi Sim Today I’m joined by Levi Sim. Levi, welcome to the show… Tell us a bit about yourself. And you as a photographer. … and when are you going to return Sharky James’ camera? Main Points of interest about winter photography.  Dealing with condensation Type of bag? Batteries Anything about hunting that can be translated into photography? Clothes, like gloves, boots, Winter camping? Do you do it at all? Lens hood to protect against elements? Camera settings? Exposure challenges? Favorite locations or types of subjects?    Use  this link for excellent gear at the Peak Design website. It helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!  Use this link to get a free gift at checkout, plus it helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!

A few quick announcements to consider. I’ll be offering portfolio reviews as we start the new year. All the info will be found on my website and it’ll all be up and running by January 2019. So if you’re interested in that just stay tuned and the details will be available most likely in the next episode. Don’t forget my workshops either. I’m also going to give you an extra incentive for either joining my email list or the Brent Bergherm Photo Workshops group on facebook. I’ll be releasing a code for the holidays that will be good for $100 off any international workshop. I’ve got a great workshop planned for the Total Solar Eclipse in Chile this July and another in Croatia at the tail end of August. Head on over to my website <a href="http://brentbergherm.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">brentbergherm.com</a> for all the details, and as you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. Links Mentioned: Levi’s Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/photolevi/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/photolevi/</a> His Bio at PhotoFocus: <a href="https://photofocus.com/author/levicsim/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://photofocus.com/author/levicsim/</a> His personal website: <a href="https://levisim.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://levisim.com</a> Thanks so much for being here, let’s now get to the conversation with Levi Sim… Topic 1: Interview with Levi Sim Today I’m joined by Levi Sim. Levi, welcome to the show… Tell us a bit about yourself. And you as a photographer. … and when are you going to return Sharky James’ camera? Main Points of interest about winter photography. <ol> <li>Dealing with condensation</li> <li>Type of bag?</li> <li>Batteries</li> <li>Anything about hunting that can be translated into photography?</li> <li>Clothes, like gloves, boots,</li> <li>Winter camping? Do you do it at all?</li> <li>Lens hood to protect against elements?</li> <li>Camera settings?</li> <li>Exposure challenges?</li> <li>Favorite locations or types of subjects?</li> </ol> <a href="https://www.peakdesign.com?rfsn=1826649.46fa86&amp;utm_source=refersion&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=1826649.46fa86" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> Use <a href="https://www.peakdesign.com?rfsn=1826649.46fa86&amp;utm_source=refersion&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=1826649.46fa86" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> this link</a> for excellent gear at the Peak Design website. It helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks! <a href="https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Use <a href="https://www.thinktankphoto.com/pages/workshop?rfsn=953619.2a0eb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this link</a> to get a free gift at checkout, plus it helps support my podcasting efforts. Thanks!

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