Back from Morocco, we continue our travelogue series today to walk you through the trip, picking up the trail in Erfoud, a beautiful little town on the edge of the Sahara. Erfoud Musician We'd spent the morning in a local market photographing the people there, like...
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Morocco 2017 Tour Travelogue Part 2 (Podcast 596)
Just back from my first tour of Morocco, this week we continue our series of travelogues to walk you through our antics in this majestic north-western corner of Africa. Having just about finished my edit of my photos, I now have around fifty in a collection, so...
Morocco 2017 Tour Travelogue Part 1 (Podcast 595)
Having just completed my first tour of Morocco, today we start a short series of travelogues to walk you through our antics in this wonderful land. I have to tell you, before visiting Morocco for the first time this year, I wasn't sure what I'd make of it, but right...
Circle of Confusion, the Airy Disk and Diffraction (Podcast 594)
Today I'm going to explain what causes diffraction as we stop down the aperture in our lenses past a certain point, and how this may affect our photographs. I've been working on an update to our iOS app Photographer's Friend so that you'll be able to do two new...
Updating Some of My Photography Mantras (Podcast 593)
Over the years, I developed a number of photography related mantras that seemed like a good idea at the time, but have since changed my thinking as my understanding gets better, the technology improves, and as the times change. Today I'm going to update a few of these...
Introducing Photographer’s Friend for iPhone and iPad (Podcast 592)
It gives me great pleasure to tell you that I have now released the update to our iPhone app, Photographer's Friend. We now support iPad in addition to iPhone and iPod touch, as well as landscape and portrait orientations. As I mentioned in an update a few weeks ago,...
What Makes a Photograph or Print Fine Art? (Podcast 589)
Today I'm going to share my thoughts on what makes a photograph or a print "fine art". This is something that I've seen various takes on, and frankly, nothing I've read over the years really resonates with me personally, for reasons that I'll explain. The impetus for...
Be Ready with Custom Shooting Modes (Podcast 588)
Today we're going to look at a feature that is on most cameras but often overlooked, and that is the Custom Shooting Modes, which enable you to quickly change many of the settings of your camera with the flick of a switch. In last week's episode, I touched on the...
The Balance Between Healthy Learning and Analysis Paralysis (Podcast 587)
As creative artists and sometimes small business owners, it's vitally important to continue to learn and grow on many levels, but I urge you to not get so caught up in technical details that you become paralyzed in the field through overthinking every...
Complete Namibia Tour 2017 Travelogue 4 (Podcast 581)
This week I'm going to share twelve wildlife images from the Etosha National Park with you, as we near the end of our Complete Namibia Tour Travelogue series. [smart_track_player url="https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/mbppodcast/mbpp_ep581"...
Complete Namibia Tour 2017 Travelogue 3 (Podcast 580)
This week we continue our travelogue series recounting my recent Complete Namibia Tour, as we move to our second day in Sossusvlei and Deadvlei, then move on to photograph the beautiful Himba people. [smart_track_player...
Complete Namibia Tour 2017 Travelogue 1 (Podcast 578)
Having just completed my Namibia tour, today we start a series of travelogue style podcasts to walk you through our adventures as we circumnavigated this beautiful country. The Complete Namibia Tour starts with landscape photography, then we do a bit of cultural...