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May 17, 2018 Catching Up With THE Nick Page!
Erica hosts with Connor and THE Nick Page joining her at the roundtable to talk about the current status of the rebranding changes going from the Improve Photography Network to the Master Photography Podcast Network and the latest is with Nick. Doodads of the week as well of course. Topic 1: Master Photography Podcast Network https://masterphotographypodcast.com/faq Facebook group The group ...
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42 min
May 17, 2018 Catching up with THE Nick Page
Erica hosts with Connor and THE Nick Page joining her at the roundtable to talk about the current status of the rebranding changes going from the Improve Photography Network to the Master Photography Podcast Network and the latest is with Nick. Doodads of the week as well of course.

Topic 1: Master Photography Podcast Network

1) https://masterphotographypodcast.com/faq
2) Facebook group
The group is the first visible step in the rebranding process. The name is changing to Master Photography Podcast Listeners, so if you haven’t already joined, be sure to find us!
To keep the bots and spammers out of the group you have to answer a question about naming a host on the podcast. Any of our names will work (Erica, Connor, Jeff, Brian, Brent), but if you don’t answer we won’t accept you to join the group.
3) Remind you that we are returning to the separate feeds for the podcasts on the network. Photo Taco is out there already and Portrait Session and the other shows are in the works, as well.
4) The rebranding from IP Podcast to MP Podcast is happening! So don’t worry when the album art and the name changes. Same show, same format, same everything. Just being rebranded.

Topic 2: What’s up with Nick Page?

Current projects
1) Tutorial collabs with Visual Wilderness and creative highway
2) More tutorials
3) Upcoming workshops
Palouse
Ireland
Chicago
Moab
Iceland
Oregon coast
Kauai
4) 2019 collabs in Faroe and southwest
5) Landscape Photography Podcast

Since you haven’t been around for awhile, I’m sure the listeners are dying to hear a few pieces of Nick Page advice. What 2 pieces of advice would you like to share with us?
It’s one thing to emulate, its another thing to never stretch yourself
Hobbies are important mmmkay

Doodads:

Nick: Shimoda 40L bag
Erica: RescueTime - a program that runs in the background of your computer and keeps track of how you use your time; sends weekly reports via email with a breakdown of your computer use (social media, email, online, editing, etc.); useful for analyzing how you spend your business time, where you’re spending too much time, etc.
Connor: Backblaze
Final reminders:

New website - https://masterphotographypodcast.com
Please continue supporting improvephotography.com
Join our Facebook groups at Master Photography Podcast Listeners and Portrait Session Podcast
Visit us at:
Erica: ericakayphotography and uacreativestudios online and on social
Connor: www.connorhibbs.photography Portraitsessionpodcast.com
Nick: www.nickpagephotography.com and www.landscapephotographypodcast.com
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May 14, 2018 ULTIMATE Guide to Backup [Photo Taco]
Jeff refreshes information from his 2015 article, the ULTIMATE Backup Workflow for Photographers, with information from 2018 including the two "storage walls" photographers slam into in their photographic journey and how to recover from hitting both of them.

Photoshop Feedback forum post on the Wacom tablet drive problem: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/wacom-touch-ring-for-zoom-in-out-closes-select-and-mask-workspace

The ULTIMATE Backup Workflow for Photographers Improve Photography article: https://improvephotography.com/33562/how-to-manage-storage-storage-workflow/

Photo Taco Lightroom Organization episode: https://phototacopodcast.com/2017/02/11/lightroom-organization/

Photo Taco Cloud Backup (BackBlaze) episode: https://improvephotography.com/49132/cloud-backup-photo-taco/
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May 10, 2018 Paid Photography Is Dead
Jeff hosts with Connor joining him at the roundtable to discuss the state of the photography industry from a career perspective. With smartphones, inexpensive but very good camera equipment, and computers automating post processing how is a young person with a dream to be a professional photography supposed to make it? Topic 1: Master Photography Podcast Network https://masterphotographypodcast.com/faq Facebook group ...
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50 min
May 07, 2018 Latitude: Whitman – Incredible, Never Tiring Landscape Subject
Brent talks about the Whitman Mission, a great place to go and shoot and the different parts of the park, the seasons and how he keeps going back for more and more. This is one of the great places that he just never seem to tire of.
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25 min
May 07, 2018 Whiteman [Latitude Podcast]
Whitman Mission is a great place to go and shoot. In this episode I talk about the different parts of the park, the seasons and how I keep going back for more and more. This is one of the great places that I just never seem to tire of.
25 min
May 03, 2018 Saving Astrophotography in National Parks
Brent Bergherm sits at the roundtable with Jeff hosting an episode where the two discuss the story of some passionate photographers saving the right to do astrophotography in two National Parks in the Unites States. They also talk about about the progress of rebranding the Improve Photography Podcast Network. Topic 1: IP Network Rebranding Progress https://masterphotographypodcast.com/faq The Photo Taco feed ...
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May 01, 2018 Lightroom 7.3 Profiles Explained!
Jeff walks through a revamp of the profiles feature in the release of Lightroom Classic CC 7.3 and Camera Raw 10.3. Even though profiles have been around for nearly 20 years, Adobe made a lot of changes to them in this release. Jeff walks through:

There are now two types of profiles. Camera-specific and creative. Let’s dig into each type a little more.
Camera-specific:

Adobe will continue to provide camera-specific profiles like they have to this point in the life of the camera raw engine. Our old friend Adobe Standard is still there, as are the profiles specific to the make and model of your camera – though they are now called “camera matching” profiles. There are also 6 other raw profiles provided by Adobe called Adobe Color, Adobe Monochrome, Adobe Landscape, Adobe Neutral, Adobe Portrait, and Adobe Vivid. The name gives you a pretty good idea about when Adobe recommends you use each but check the show notes for a link to the Adobe blog post that spells out a little more what each is doing.
Just like they were before this release, Adobe still intends for these profiles to be applied at the very beginning of processing a raw file and these camera-specific profiles can only be applied to raw files, not to JPEG/TIFF/PNG/PSD.
When you apply one of these camera-specific profiles it is an all or none kind of application. If the profile takes something over the top you can’t dial it back so that it is applied at like 50%.

Creative profiles:

Adobe provides 45 creative profiles with the release of this update to profiles, but even better is that creative profiles can be created by 3rd parties! Similar to how 3rd parties have for many years been able to provide presets that you could add to Lightroom, 3rd parties can now create profiles. You could create your own profiles. It isn’t quite as easy to do so as it is to create presets, you have to use a special tool Adobe has provided, so you aren’t likely to create one yourself but there are already a number of profiles available from 3rd parties who worked with Adobe before this release. You can find links to profiles created by 3rd parties in the Adobe blog post link in the show notes for this episode if you are interested in them.
Unlike the camera-specific profiles, creative profiles can be applied to raw, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and PSD files. These profiles aren’t trying to make sense of a raw file here, those will still come from Adobe. Instead, these are much closer to how photographers have used 3rd party presets for many years with the added advantage of not impacting the sliders or adjustments you may have already made and being able to go a little deeper than what the sliders alone can do.
When you apply a creative profile you can also control the amount the profile is applied. By default the amount is set to 100%, but if you apply the profile it is feels too strong you can reduce the amount through a slider that appears in the profile browser after choosing a creative profile. You can also ramp up the effect of the profile to over 100%.
Creative profiles aren’t intended to be solely used at the very first of processing a photo. The intention is that creative profiles will help you to explore more creative ways to process your images. You can start there and then add more adjustments, or you can end there as kind of a way to top off your adjustments. There isn’t anything limiting the camera-specific profiles from being used this same way, but their purposes are different enough I recommend using the camera-specific profiles at the beginning of your processing.

As we have already talked about on the Improve Photography podcast, adobe has made it so that you don’t have to see the effect of any kind of profile through a tiny thumbnail or by trial and error of picking a profile. When you float over a profile a preview of how your photo will work is...
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April 27, 2018 IP Roundtable – Big Announcement
Topic 1: BIG announcement about the network transforming to become the Master Photography Podcast network.

Not happening because of a fight, or we hate each other
Based on listener feedback, splitting the shows out to their own feeds again. Can’t make everyone happy

Master Photography Roundtable (take turns being at the round table)
Photo Taco (Jeff)
Portrait Session (Erica and Connor)
Latitude (Brent)
Thoughts on Photography (Brian)

Topic 2:

Not a super simple thing to do technically, going to take a little bit of time and we are doing everything we can to make the transition smooth but there may be bumps. 3 goals with the transition

Don’t make anyone have to re-subscribe (though will need to subscribe if you already unsubscribed from the other shows)
Don’t have whichever podcatcher think there are suddenly a bunch of new shows to download

New websites

masterphotographypodcast.com
Phototacopodcast.com
Portraitsessionpodcast.com

Where each host is going

Brian
Erica
Brent
Connor
Jeff

49 min
April 26, 2018 BIG Podcast Network Announcement and What the Hosts Are Doing!
Topic 1: BIG announcement about the network transforming to become the Master Photography Podcast network. Not happening because of a fight, or we hate each other. Jim Harmer is making a career pivot and is very generously giving the Improve Photography Podcast Network over to the hosts of the podcasts! The network is being re-branded as the Master Photography Podcast ...
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