You all have been so good that we released Episode 20 early. Plus, with Star Wars Weekends starting on Friday 5/18 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, we felt this episode should be available in time for that.

This week Tom, Ryan and Cory discuss Star Wars Weekends and how they plan on photographing it.

Live coverage of Star Wars Weekends

• Ryan and Cory will be at the opening day of Star Wars Weekends on Friday 5/18. They will be providing live coverage on Disney Photography Blog and on Twitter @disphotoblog.
• Tom will be at Star Wars Weekends on Saturday 5/19. He will be providing coverage on Disney Tourist Blog and on his Twitter account @distouristblog.

For our nineteenth episode we have some very specials guests, our friends at Tours Departing Daily.  Matthew Hansen, Michaela Hansen and Kevin Crone are three incredibly talented photographers who excell in the style of Disney “fine art” HDR photography at Disneyland.  Seriously, if you are not familier with their work, please check them out right now by clicking here!

We discuss the concept of “fine art” HDR photography, some of their methods and processing, their equipment of choice (Nikon, unfortunately ) and various topics regarding upcoming events this summer at the Disneyland Resort.

We should be back up and running with weekly show notes and we will also gradually update them for past episodes as well.

Copyright Trey Ratcliff, www.StuckinCustoms.com

Trey Ratcliff has generously offered to giveaway his HDR Video Tutorial to one lucky listener of ISO 5571 – Disney Photography Podcast. For those unfamiliar with Trey Ratcliff, he’s the master HDR photographer behind StuckinCustoms.com, and is a fan of Disney (he was actually just in the parks last Friday and shot this beautiful image of Cinderella Castle). We’ve long been a fan of Trey’s HDR techniques, and are very excited to be giving away his tutorial.

For more information about, or to purchase, this featured-packed video tutorial, visit Trey’s tutorial page on Stuck in Customs. There are over 11 hours of video instruction across 9 classes covering topics for beginners and moving into intermediate and advanced topics. The complete page details can be found at the link above, but suffice to say, Trey is REALLY thorough with his tutorials.

You can download and listen to episode 13 for more details about this exciting giveaway.

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Our first foolish mortal–err, guest host–joins us for the fifth episode as we discuss High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography with Gregg Cooper. Gregg is a member of the Disneyland Photography Mafia, so we’re glad he joined us via the phone instead of in studio. We’ve heard he’s busted a knee or two with a tripod in his day…

Take a look at Gregg’s amazing Disneyland photos on Flickr.

We discuss a few different types of software during the show, including Photomatix Pro and Adobe Photoshop Extended CS5 Student and Teacher Edition.

All in all, it was a great episode with one of the masters of Disney HDR photography. What did you think of the episode?

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The fourth episode is an exciting adventure involving discussions of the various ways that you can “keep the magic alive” after you return from a trip to Walt Disney World or Disneyland. These ways to keep the Disney withdrawals at bay are certified as heart-healthy by some organization…probably.

One thing we discuss is social media. We talk about Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ during this segment. Our preferred form of social media is MySpace (jokes concerning this dinosaur never get old, do they?!). Actually, we like Twitter and Google+. You can find us on Twitter here. On Google+ here.

We further discuss editing photos and posting them to Flickr or 500px. There is no ISO 5571 Flickr or 500px group, but you can find each of us on both sites.

Finally, Tom discusses trip reports, scrapbooking, and making countdown calendars. (Click each of the linked-to words there to see some samples.)

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YEAR OF THE DRAGON!!!!!!!!!!

On the third episode, we discuss the Detroit Lions. We also discuss buying your first DSLR, including the following cameras:

Nikon D3100 DSLR w/ 18-55mm Lens – Nikon’s entry level camera.

Canon EOS Rebel T3 DSLR Camera w/ 18-55mm Lens – Canon’s entry level camera.

Canon EOS 7D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera with 3-inch LCD and 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Standard Zoom Lens – Canon’s semi-pro crop sensor camera (Ryan’s current camera).

Canon 5D mkII – Canon’s full frame camera (Cory’s camera)

Nikon D7000 16.2MP DX-Format CMOS Digital SLR with 3.0-Inch LCD (Body Only) – Nikon’s semi-pro crop sensor camera (Tom’s camera)

Tamron AF 17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di-II LD SP Aspherical (IF) Zoom Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras – Recommended first “step-up” lens.

50mm f/1.8 – Recommended starter lens.

We also discussed a few older cameras, like the Nikon D40, Nikon D90, and Canon XTi. If you’re going to buy one of these, you’re much better off looking on Craigslist or eBay than browsing Amazon or another online retailer.

At one point during the show, we offered a poor explanation of crop sensor cameras as compared to full frame cameras. Here is a much better explanation than the one we offered. While we love our toys, please note that we’re photographers, not photographists. From time to time, our technical explanations won’t be the greatest. We still think we have a decent idea of how to use cameras.

We hope you enjoyed these first two episodes. If you need to purchase any photography equipment, or anything from Amazon in general, we’d appreciate it if you’d get to Amazon by clicking the banner below. It doesn’t cost you anything, and it helps support our show!

ISO 5571 – Disney Photography Podcast’s first two episodes are now available on iTunes. To listen to them now, click the “Listen on iTunes” button on the top right part of the screen. If you morally oppose the Apple empire (and that’s okay here…this isn’t Betamouse!), you can also listen via RSS. We highly recommend that you subscribe to the show, as that way you’ll autoMAGICally (reminds me of PhilharMagic’s doors every time I see that) receive updates. Trust us, you don’t want to miss a single episode of the runaway freight train of awesome that is ISO 5571 – Disney Photography Podcast!

Our goal after this week is to release one episode per week, but we decided to release two episodes at launch to give people a better idea of what this podcast is all about. Plus, since we’re still finding our “podcast-legs,” we figured releasing a second episode might give listeners an idea of the type of exponential quality improvements to expect from one episode to the next at the beginning of the podcast’s run.

If you take the time to listen to ISO 5571, we’d appreciate it if you’d head over to iTunes to leave us a wicked-awesome…or mediocre…or heck, even wholly negative…review. iTunes reviews are the currency of the podcast world, and at this point, WE’RE FLAT BROKE! So, if you want to see this podcast’s momentum increase towards our ultimate goal of dominating the podcast universe, help us out by leaving a review. Consider it your public service for the day, because it’s basically equivalent to saving a kitten from a burning building. You’ll be a national hero.

Thanks, and enjoy the show!

-Cory Disbrow, Ryan Pastorino, & Tom Bricker

Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition – this book each of the three of us used when we first started down this treacherous path of Disney photography. It’s a great book for learning the basics, and we all highly recommend buying (or renting a copy from your local library) and isolating yourself with your camera and it for a long weekend. Seriously, it’s that good.

Nikon D3100 DSLR w/ 18-55mm Lens – This is the NextGen version of the DSLR camera Tom Bricker used during his first year taking photos of Disney.

Canon EOS Rebel T3 DSLR Camera w/ 18-55mm Lens – This is the NextGen version of the DSLR camera Cory Disbrow used during his beginnings as a Disney-photographer.

We also mention this enigmatic “Jeff B” character a lot. Here are his Disney photos.

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The second episode of ISO 5571 – Disney Photography Podcast was wrought with peril. We discussed our favorite locations within each of the United States Disney theme parks (so, at Disneyland Resort: Disneyland & Disney California Adventure; at Walt Disney World Resort: Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom).

Most of these locations are somewhat well-known among Disney fans. One that may not be so well-known is Le Court de Anges. For our Walt Disney World fans who are unfamiliar with Disneyland, this is the beautiful Tomorrowland submarine lagoon of which Ryan spoke fondly. Another less-known spot we discussed is the seating area of the delicious Flame Tree BBQ. Look at this incredible view of Expedition Everest! We also discussed a photographer-favorite, Dinosaur Gertie at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

At one point, Tom went on a rambling tangent about one of his favorite books, Gardens of the Walt Disney World Resort: A photographic tour of the themed gardens of the Magic Kingdom, Epcot Center and other resort areas (To read Tom Bricker’s review, click here).

Finally, that new statue that Tom blanked on? It’s called “Storytellers.” We all cannot wait to photograph the real thing in person!

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