For historic Episode 60, we’re joined by returning guest Gregg Cooper, who has a new HDR technique that he’s excited to share. Gregg discusses the Merge to 32-Bit HDR plugin for Lightroom by HDRSoft (the folks who make Photomatix). He explains how it’s a great way to fuse exposures and produce realistic HDR images right in Lightroom! We also discuss the new Flickr, and why we think now is the perfect time to reinvigorate the Disney photography community on...
read moreThis week, the guys answered listener questions that were sent in from Twitter. Nothing all that exciting for show notes this time, but if you have any questions, please post them in the comments!
read moreIn this episode, we discuss the best settings, lenses, and focal lengths for the various daytime and nighttime parades at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. If you have any questions about any of these lenses, please post them in the comments! We also go off on a variety of tangents having absolutely nothing to do with photography. Surprise, surprise.
read moreIn this episode, we discuss the different ways to compose your photos. Questions? Post them below!
read moreThe 2013 Flower and Garden Festival just started at Epcot. This week Tom, Ryan and Cory discuss why this is one of the best times of year for photography at Epcot. The gang is joined by the world famous “Mearn” of the Duffyngton Post to discuss the inspirational and legendary Mater Topiary, and what you should expect when photographing this year’s Flower & Garden Festival.
read moreHere are the awesome show notes for Episode 55, covering nighttime shooting. We start out by covering the essential gear for nighttime photography, which is basically a remote and a tripod. For remotes, we use cheap wired remotes from Hong Kong–not the ridiculously overpriced first party ones. If the one at that link isn’t compatible with your camera, keep searching Amazon; you should be able to find one for <$15. You’ll want a wired remote for bulb mode shooting so you can “ghost” people out of your...
read moreIn this episode we talk about the various types of Nik Software. You can read more about these programs on Nik’s website. Very little on Disney in this episode, although we do discuss how the various software might work well for Disney photos. At the end of the episode, Tom goes on a tangent about murder-kittens. You can read more about this in the Washington Post, or in this hilarious...
read moreOn this episode, we talk post processing. Pretty pedestrian stuff at first: we all just discuss how we import images into Lightroom (Cory and Ryan) or Bridge/Adobe Camera Raw (Tom). Tom starts rambling on about how he uses presets in Adobe Camera Raw. Nothing important here. Cory mentions Matt Kloskowski, who has a lot of Lightroom presets. Cory then asks about editing night images. Ryan discusses editing photos together to adjust white balance and saving photos as TIFFs before bringing them into Photoshop or Photomatix. From there, we warned...
read moreOn this episode, we basically just plugged a lot of Rokinon lenses. Someone from Rokinon, if you’re reading this, you owe us $6.73 for that. Our advertising doesn’t come cheap! We primarily focused on the Rokinon 8mm fisheye lens, which is highly recommended by all. Tom reviewed that lens here. We also discussed a full frame alternative to this lens, the Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 fisheye, although Tom remarked that the Rokinon 8mm will still work on full frame–you’ll just have to crop. Corey mentioned the Rokinon 14mm f/2.8...
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