Recorded in Austria, Tim and Renee open Episode 23 with a chat about the new GreyLearning website, where photographers can find all of the video courses from Tim's Lightroom 5 Video Training Bundle available for streaming or download, with new courses being added soon. Tim and Renee then discuss the questions and answers from the Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter for the week of January 20-24, 2014. This includes questions about creating captures of what is currently displayed on the monitor, history support when using an external editor from Lightroom, focus stacking, new features for JPEG images, and the potential for using a mobile device such as an Apple iPad as the foundation of a photography workflow when traveling.

Links from this Episode:

GreyLearning:
http://www.greylearning.com

Macintosh Screen Capture Keyboard Shortcuts:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11229

HeliconSoft:
http://www.heliconsoft.com

PetaPixel Article on JPEG Updates:
http://petapixel.com/2014/01/22/jpeg-standard-gets-boost-will-support-12-bit-color-depth-lossless-compression/

 

Recorded in Austria, Episode 22 begins with Tim and Renee having a discussion about packing for a photo trip. They then discuss the topics covered in the Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter for the week of January 13-17, 2014, which includes questions on color gamut and monitor selection, whether x-rays damage photographic equipment, extracting previews from the Lightroom catalog for images that have been lost, a workflow for derivative images, and whether or not to buy Photoshop.

Links from this Episode:

Lightroom Preview Extraction Plug-In:
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/preview-extraction

Lightroom Video Training Bundle:
http://timgrey.com/lightroom/

Pixology Magazine Sample Issue:
http://pixologymag.com/special/

Lightroom Video Training Bundle:
http://timgrey.com/lightroom/

Tim and Renee open this episode chatting about the notion that we’ve reached a point where displays have exceeded the capabilities of human vision, and what that means for photographers. They then discuss the topics covered in the Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter for the week of January 6-10, 2014, which includes questions related to color values for sepia, renaming after import, accessing plug-ins in a new version of a host application, monitor calibration tools, and missing thumbnails and previews in Lightroom.

Links from this episode:

Pixology Magazine:
http://pixologymag.com/

Nik Collection from Google:
http://www.google.com/nikcollection/

X-Rite i1 Display Pro:
http://amzn.to/O3nbUs

ColorMunki Display:
http://amzn.to/LxV4Zl

Datacolor Spyder4Pro:
http://amzn.to/XWaiPW

Tim and Renee chat about plug-ins aimed at re-creating analog film effects, and ponder whether these are “good” or “bad”, and what leads to their appeal (among some photographers, at least). They then discuss the topics covered in the Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter for the week of December 30, 2013, through January 3, 2014, which includes questions relate to adjusting capture time for a series of images, organizing photos while traveling, setting the order of images in a slideshow in Lightroom, getting town lines to display on the map in Lightroom, and getting good prints from exported images.

Links from this episode:

Analog Efex Pro:
http://www.google.com/nikcollection/products/analog-efex-pro/

Exposure from Alien Skin Software:
http://www.alienskin.com/exposure/

Pixology Magazine at 20% Discount:
http://www.pixologymag.com/special/

Google Maps:
https://maps.google.com

Tim and Renee chat about the "Never Ending Image Learner" at Carnegie Mellon University, which offers the potential to eliminate the need to keyword or otherwise categorize the content of your photos. Then Tim and Renee discuss the topics covered in the Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter for the week of December 23-27, 2013, which was a short week due to the Christmas holiday. The questions relate to changing the process version in Lightroom, and file systems to enable reading and writing drives on both Windows and Macintosh computers.

Links from this episode:

Never Ending Image Learner at Carnegie Mellon:
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2013/november/nov20_webcommonsense.html

MacDrive from Mediafour:
http://amzn.to/19rQKgg

Boston-Area Seminar:
https://timgreyinbedfordma.eventbrite.com/

Tim and Renee chat about LensTag, a free service that enables you to register your camera equipment, and which provides a method for checking whether the gear you’re about to buy might be stolen.  Then Tim and Renee discuss the topics covered in the Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter for the week of December 16-20, 2013. This includes questions about sensor cleaning, using Lightroom across two computers, Live View mode for video, previews in Lightroom, and noise reduction.

Links from this episode:

LensTag:
https://www.lenstag.com/

PEC*PAD from Photographic Solutions:
http://amzn.to/1d8INsP

Eclipse Cleaning Solution from Photographic Solutions:
http://amzn.to/1drCqRP

Sensor Swabs from Photographic Solutions:
http://amzn.to/IGwuLv

Pixology Magazine:
http://pixologymag.com/

Tim interviews Peter Essick about his new book, “Our Beautiful, Fragile Planet”, his work over the past 25 years at National Geographic magazine, and more. Then Tim and Renee discuss the topics covered in the Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter for the week of December 9-13, 2013. This includes questions about memory card lifespan, copyright status, shutter damage from Live View, mirroring a projector display, and matting recommendations.

Links from this episode:

“Our Beautiful, Fragile World” by Peter Essick:
http://amzn.to/18rTHMT

US Copyright Office:
http://www.copyright.gov/

Pantone names the “official” color for 2014, and Tim and Renee have a bit of fun talking about this color. Then they address the topics covered in the Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter for the week of December 2-6, 2013. This includes questions about aspect ratio for video versus still images, cropping a horizontal image to vertical in Lightroom, adding a catch light after the capture, star ratings versus pick flags, and whether a sensor loupe is a worthwhile accessory.

Links from this episode:

Pantone Color of the Year 2014:
http://pantone.com/pages/pantone/pantone.aspx?pg=21128&ca=10

Delkin SensorScope ($59.99 List Price):
http://amzn.to/IhQxj1

Visible Dust BriteVue Sensor Loupe ($98.99 List Price):
http://amzn.to/1b5uceO

Pixology Magazine Discount:
http://www.pixologymag.com/special/

A photographer has won $1.2 million in a case related to images that had been taken without permission from a Twitter feed, and Tim and Renee open the podcast talking about this case. Then they address the topics covered in the Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter for the week of November 25-29, 2013 (though there was a break for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday and Friday). This includes questions about the Content-Aware Move tool in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, how Adobe Bridge stacks up to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, and the limitations of megapixel counts for digital cameras.

Links from this episode:

Tim Grey Seminar in Bedford, MA:
http://timgreyinbedfordma.eventbrite.com

Photographer wins $1.2 million:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/22/us-media-copyright-twitter-idUSBRE9AL16F20131122

Elements Weekly eNewsletter:
http://timgrey.com/elements/

Lightroom 5 Video Training Bundle
http://timgrey.com/lightroom/

Tim and Renee discuss Adobe’s “Black Friday” sale for the Photography Program bundle of Photoshop and Lightroom for $9.99 per month, as well as strategies for getting the most out of a seminar. Then they address the topics covered in the Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter for the week of November 18-22, 2013. This includes inverting an image in Lightroom, previews that aren’t updating, 32-bit processing for HDR images, metadata compatibility, and overall workflow with image management software.

Links from this episode:

Nik Collection from Google:
http://www.google.com/nikcollection/

Lightroom 5 Video Training Bundle:
www.timgrey.com/lightroom