Shooting Family Portraits We have a studio space in our house where we can do some portrait shooting, but our clients far and away prefer to be outdoors for their family portraits.  Not sure that is true everywhere, and maybe it has to do with the beautiful mountains and canyons available to us within a very short time here in ...

The post HIGTS – Fall Family Portrait appeared first on Master Photography Podcast.

Why Should Photographers Care About Shutter Count? Shutter count, more specifically the shutter actuation count, is something that I think every photographer should know about.  Now this isn’t something that will make you a better photographer.  It won’t improve your image quality.  So maybe some of you won’t find this episode very interesting, but I hope you will hear me ...

The post Shutter Actuation Count appeared first on Master Photography Podcast.

$200 Isn’t Much For a Photographer, Right? I am betting your reaction is similar to what mine was and many others had to the post.  $200 just isn’t a lot for a photographer.  However, the more I thought about it, and saw comments on the post from other listeners, the more I liked the topic and the suggestions. I think ...

The post What Can a Photographer Do With $200? appeared first on Master Photography Podcast.

This topic has really been on my mind recently as I’m in the final stages of building my home office from scratch. I literally mean, there was nothing, but a garage shell. I put up three walls, a raised subfloor on the concrete floor, the ceiling and then ran all the electrical etc. It’s small, but it’s a beautiful space ...

The post Our Creative Spaces appeared first on Master Photography Podcast.

The Master Photography Facebook group has had a lot of questions posted recently about how photographers go about pricing and licensing their photos.  Most have never done this before. Here is the advice from an expert, Jim Harmer, a trained but non-practicing attorney who also spent over 10 years as a professional photographer. Photographers should provide single-use, limited printing size ...

The post How To Price and License Your Photos appeared first on Master Photography Podcast.

Sharing Images On Social Media Matthew Wells posted this question on the Master Photography Facebook Group “I am not sure what is happening with Instagram.   I have noticed that with some pictures when I start to post them, it strips out some of the editing.  But only with the jpegs I have saved out of Photoshop.  Lightroom exports post ...

The post Sharing On Social Media, Vibrant Sunset Colors, and Choosing a Laptop Screen appeared first on Master Photography Podcast.

I have tried creating photos using a telescope and my camera.  It didn’t go well.  I asked my friend Steve Brazill, who has used a telescope to create some incredible photos of the moon, in hopes that I could figure out what I have been doing wrong. I am thinking/hoping that most of the problem was the crummy telescope I ...

The post How To Take Photos Using a Telescope appeared first on Master Photography Podcast.

In August of 2020 the news hit that Canon had become an official third-party integration partner to Google by enabling their new image.canon service to send photos to Google Photos. What does that mean for photographers? Is this the wireless workflow photographers are dreaming about? What Is The image.canon Service? Canon released a new cloud service they called image.canon back ...

The post What Does image.canon Mean For Photographers? appeared first on Master Photography Podcast.

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 Some big changes are coming in 2020 to Google Images Search. If photographer provide the right information to Google’s bots constantly indexing the Internet, image results in Google Images Search will show ...

The post Get Ready For 2020 Changes to Google Images Search appeared first on Master Photography Podcast.

In this solo episode of the podcast I decided to ask listeners what they would like the topic to be this week. I gave them one hour to offer suggestions and then went through most of them. How To Deal With Ugly Greens In Photos First up as a suggested topic came from Breanna Miller who asked: “I struggle a ...

The post Most Fun With Photography appeared first on Master Photography Podcast.