Master Photography

Answers to listener questions about sharing images on social media, how to get vibrant sunset colors, and choosing a laptop screen for photo editing.

Tips on how photographers can attach and use their camera with a telescope as their lens and the settings to use for great photos.

An explanation of what the image.canon service is, how to set it up, and how photographers can use it to send images to other cloud services.

Learn how to add the 5 fields Google requires for new licensing information to be shown in their Google Images Search engine to your photos using Lightroom Classic

Listener suggested topic of what is the most fun thing I have done with photography

Details about what went into the creation of 5 landscape photos to help listeners learn and/or be inspired to get out and create some of their own!

Introduction Welcome to the Master Photography Roundtable part of the Master Photography Podcast Network!  You are joined by thousands of photographers listening to this show who are all on the same journey to master their photography.  I am Brent Bergherm, the host for this episode, and I am joined by Juan Pons! Juan, thank you for joining us, I’m very much looking forward to talking about the new Sony A7s3 that was just announced a couple days ago.  SONY A7s3 Camera and other Sony stuffs Sony recently announced a new camera and I wanted to use this to talk a bit about the Sony system. Here at Master Photo Podcast, I think all of us are Canon shooters. So when Canon releases something we naturally get excited. However, there’s certainly so many others out there and I wanted to bring some attention to the new Sony announcement. And I needed to do it justice, so I figured I’d bring a Sony shooter on and that’s why Juan is here. Juan, let’s take a look at a few specs, and then we can talk about them and think about how practical it is for photographers, and videographers. Main Specs list. This is largely copied from their website here: https://alphauniverse.com/stories/sony-announces-the-a7s-iii-redefining-the-possibilities-for-creatives/ And other info coming from DP Review: https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-a7s-iii-initial-review * Newly developed BIONZ XR™ image processing engine with eight times more processing power and a brand new 12.1-megapixel (approx., effective) back-illuminated full-frame Exmor R™ CMOS image sensor, significantly reduced rolling shutter effectRolling shutter explained beautifully in this video: https://youtu.be/dNVtMmLlnoE* Ultra-high sensitivity with ISO range expandable from 40 – 409,600, and improved image quality by approximately 1 stop noise reduction(4) in the middle and high sensitivity ranges – super clean at 16000* Video recording capabilities include 4K 120pi, 10 bit 4:2:2 color depth, All-Intra recording, XAVC HS format with H.265 codec and more* 15+ stop dynamic range for movies(2)* 4K 60p 16-bit RAW video HDMI output for the first time in the Alpha™ series* Fast Hybrid AF system with 759 point phase-detection AF sensors covering 92% of image sensor* Enhanced Real-time Eye AF for movie recording and still image recording* New heat dissipating mechanism and dual slot relay recording enables over one-hour long 4K 60p 10-bit 4:2:2 movie shooting　　* 5-axis optical in-body image stabilization supports handheld movie shooting, with added Active Mode  to support especially difficult handheld movie shooting* World’s brightest and largest(10) new 0.64-type 9.44 million-dot (approx.) OLED electronic viewfinder* Side Opening variable angle LCD screen enhances shooting flexibility* Completely redesigned menu system with touch screen interface and touch operation* High-speed continuous still image shooting at up to 10fps for more than 1,000 consecutive uncompressed RAW images with full AF / AE tracking* Dual CFexpress Type A card slots that enable high speed data processing while keeping the compact size (also fits SD cards in the same slot) Other things I noted that aren’t in the quick rundown. Dedicated external White Balance Sensor Base ISO of 80 Full size HDMI port Select which settings carry over between stills and video, Aperture, Shutter, ISO,

We got a email from a 10 year old getting into photography. Here are the 9 tips we thought of to help her as a young beginning photographer.

Tips on how a photographer who has never shot astrophotography can shoot the Neowise comet.

A discussion about the Canon R5 and R6 camera bodies coming in the second half of 2020.

Matt Bishop shares why some of the worst advice he was given was that he needed a graduated ND lens filter for shooting landscapes

The investigation and troubleshooting of a listener problem where photos on an external hard drive seemed to "decay" over time.

A few ideas of some things that might help photographers shake off the rust and get back to shooting this summer.

A guide for photographers to do their first screen calibration using a colorimeter and DisplayCal without having to be an expert in color management!

How I failed at a recent client shoot and what I did to overcome the failure to save the shoot!