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This week, we revisit the conundrum of RAW file sizes at different ISO ratings, Oppo’s Selfie Expert phone, Can’t or don’t want to fork out $300 for Plotograph? Never mind. There’s a Photoshop Action that gets close to the same result. Those photos from the Olympics? They go from “click” to “publish” in just 2 […]

This week, Laowa launches a suspicious kickstarter campaign ahead of the release of their rectilinear 12mm f2 wide angle lens. Carl told us about Lightroom being available for Apple TV, and about Plotagraph, which will allow you to create an animated GIF from a single still image. This story was also supplied by Adam. Steve […]

This week, Glynn’s shot-by-shot analysis of Bruce’s latest shoot, This week’s phishing attack on a bunch of FB pages (including the Shutters Inc page), Fuji’s “People With Cameras” events continue with Melbourne, Sept 3, 4:00 – 7:30. An interesting portfolio of portraits of women living as men, Verizon buys Yahoo. What this means for Flickr […]

This week, I thought I should share the Youtube channel of the slo-mo guys; a couple of fellas with a decidedly destructive bent who like to film their shenanigans at stupidly high video frame rates. Through the week, I tried Glynn’s suggestion of inverting the pixel data on a layer of a manually-stitched panorama. I […]

This week, Glynn is just loving these awesome new Fibonacci-inspired photographic aids! No really, he IS! An interesting BTS look into a Barbie doll photoshoot. A new Instagram user’s best friend….DeHaze will help you with your tags. A few videos to pass the time: This one on Ansel Adams (not sure if it’s the same […]

This week, Google rolls out updated Maps imagery for the first time since 2013. Forget mirrorless; here is a REALLY small camera! the faceless imagery of Follow Me Away (the blog is here, for those who are interested in the images), Plus Glynn dug up a heap of docos on youtube. There’s a 1hr plus […]

This week, David Marland steps back in for the temporally-challenged Glynn Lavender. We open with a link courtesy of ProCounter about intellectual property rights in Australia. Apple is about to introduce RAW capture and edit to iOS 10 devices. Keith Loutit spent 3 years putting together this amazing timelapse of Singapore. Carl sent us a […]

This week, David Marland pop s back in to co-host in Glynn’s absense. Ian Reid chimes in with his anticipation of the forthcoming On1 RAW software, and his disdain for Adobe, Rakesh sent us this link to events happening in conjunction with the Vivid Festival in Sydney. Carl reminds us that it’s been 5 years […]

This week, Glynn rips into my Little Red Riding Hood images (facebook) – (my photography website). Then, we had 3 listeners who were brave (or is that ‘stupid’?) enough to submit their images for critique. First up, Rob “Johnny-on-the-spot” Coates… Then, Alexander Kozhekin… David Kembrey… and finally, a couple from Glynn. Comments will be closed […]

The final episode for 2015! First up, a massive thank you to all those who made donations via PayPal. I’m not naming names or citing amounts. You know who you are. Thanks heaps! A small collection of user-submitted stories this week, including the announcement that the U.S. FAA is now requiring UAV* owners to register […]

This week, Glynn found this pinhole alarm clock, which takes a photo on the hour, and this gorgeous camera lens calendar. NASA releases pics of Jupiter like you’ve never seen it before. There’s this UAV video of salmon swimming upstream, the company who guarantees to deliver you a cloud-free wedding, the Flipbac attachment for your […]

This week, speculation that Nikon may have bought Samsung’s IP? (also sent in by Adam) Carl pointed us toward another music doco; this one titled “You See Me Laughin“. Adam told us about how some parents are naming their babies after Instagram filters. Also, some new hope for finding and shooting the perfect sunset and/or sunrise, […]

This week, Canon is going after grey market sellers in the U.S.. Remember the guy last week who shot his Vegas Vacation witht he Go-Pro facing the wrong way? Well, Zappos (a Las Vegas-based shoe retailer, decided to walk the same path and shoot the video the way it was intended. After some lens flare in your DSLR images? Have we got the product for you! Cutting edge technology this week includes Panasonic's forthcoming 'Post Focus' feature, and Lytro give us 'Depth Editing'. For the travelling photographer looking for backup storage options, how about a 1TB SSD which can withstand 1500G's? And some downloadable maps might be helpful whilst you're travelling, too! Glynn also came across this great app called Solocator (available on both Android and iOS) which will allow you to take photos of land and/or buildings and know exactly which way the camera was facing at the time of capture. Luminous Landscape is changing to a subscriber model, for the quite reasonable price of $1/month. And it turns out, Canon tried to buy Sigma, but Sigma weren't interested. We chatted about meetup #30 for the Sydney Photographer's Meetup group, and one of my Facebook friends, David Taylor, had these wise words to share: Recommendation to photographers: Don't ask people if they like a black & white version or a color version of the same photograph. Whose vision are you trying to fulfill? It isn't your art, if you expect it to be vetted by someone else. The choices you make - exposure, depth-of-field, lens selection, filter use, "post production", etc. - these are your creative choices, and they determine how others view & receive your work. Decide for yourself, share, and let go. But share YOUR vision. Don't cater to someone else's. Be an artist. I received an e-mail through the week from the guys creating Stand-in baby; a lifesize, posable mannequin for helping photographers learn abouth what poses work for newborn and infant photography. They have a Facebook page and a group, and promise a kickstarter project in December 2015. Somehow, I don't think Glynn's irreverence was the kind of 'exposure' they were hoping for! Adam sent us the story about the guy who built the

This week, Nikon breaks the "rules" by announcing that they're working on a D4 replacement. You'll NEVER guess what they're going to call it! A Pulitzer Award-winning photographer gets fired for cloning out another photographer's camera, while Reuters issues a worldwide ban on photographer's submitting images processed from RAW files. Glynn came across this video which fools the eye into seeing colour from b+w images. Beating sadness and depression with photography. It HAD to happen. We now have ways to tame those pesky drones. The augmented reality printer for iOS, and some guy reckons that Lightroom is not up to snuff for handling RAW files. Whatevs. Adam sent us a bunch of stuff, including this collection of youtube videos on portrait retouching in Photoshop, Pentax looking to please the astrophotography crowd, the horrible story of an innocent Sikh man whose bathroom selfie got manipulated (to include him holding a Quran, and wearing an explosive device), Cold War shenanigans with weather balloons, weird 'rolling shutter' artefacts, and becoming a selfie-stick-ninja. Reg alerted us to the fact that Adobe, having seen the error of their ways, has reintroduced the useful import dialogue box into Lightroom, the hilarious story of the "reverse GoPro", and Canon records people's eye movements as they view a portrait. And Carl sent us the story of why Brian Smith believes the mirrorless system will become universal. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running? Feel free to make a small donation through PayPal. All contributions gratefully received!

This week, Glynn likes the new Moo cards with their built-in NFC capability, plus there's the Quantum ‘film’ sensor, which promises a move away from silicon (sounds like the digital imaging equivalent of a crystal radio set!), Breakthrough Photography's ,X3 circular polariser. Thinking of going mirrorless? This guy thinks every single mirrorless camera is missing something (but it's a different 'something' between each one). Glynn also dug out a couple of Joe McNally videos you might like... (01|02). There's the story of the photojournalist who voluntarily removed himself from the Walkley Awards, after being shortlisted for an image that he'd done some minor touchup work on. Retrofitting lenses to fit on your dslr, and look how far we've come. This blog post compares Canon's D2000 (a $30,000 camera when it was released) with today's current 5Ds. Rupert axed 500 jobs at NatGeo the day he took the reigns. Pass the camera project #2 is almost ready for take-off. If you'd like to get on board, join the Facebook group pronto! Carl sent us a link to a great article about how to improve the responsiveness of Lightroom. the story of the photographer travels across the US with his camera, his girlfriend, and an LED Hula Hoop, and this portfolio of selfies from Mark Rodriguez. He (and Adam) also sent us the video about the decoy portrait session. Adam found some stupidly overpriced trinkets from Leica, a video shot ON the moon at the time of the first landing, tips for travel backup plans (which thankfully DON'T include a certain optical drive!), the photograher trying to sue Universal Pictures for unlawful use of his image, and a lengthy video on how the US military trained its photographers in 1965. Comments will be closed after 30 days. Love the podcast? Want to share the love... and keep the servers running?