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August 28, 2017 IP Roundtable EP-240
The DooDON’Ts!
What is one (or more) photography product that you bought excited about but have never used?

Brent: Collapsible gray card focus target – $25
Jim: Studio strobes – $2,000
Jim: C-stand (Bought an awesome Avenger in 2012. Used 5 times) – $150
Jim: Gaffer tape
Brent: Software: OnOne and PTGui – $400
Jim: DJI Phantom 1 and 2 – $3,000
Jim: Glidecam – $200
Brent: Gura Gear Betaflae Backpack. Very large, but that’s about it. – $500
Jim: TTL and HSS YN flashes
Jim: Pelican case – $200
Jim: Focusing rail – $50
Brent: Gigapan Epic Pro, automated large pano shooting – $850
Jim: Wireless camera remote – $20
Jim: Nikon D4s – $6,000
Jim: Samsung mirrorless smart camera (2014) NX1100 – $1100
Jim: Lots of camera straps – $75
Brent: How about a few things we used to use, but no longer do?

FlashTrax XT, a portable 40GB HD with flip up screen viewer
160 GB Portable HD with SD and CF card slots

Jim: Cheap softboxes – $75
Jim: Prime lenses – $600
Jim: The GoPro (but now I’m wanting another one) – $400
Yellow sandbag for tripod – $25
La Crosse Technology BC-700 Alpha Power Battery Charger $60
ProPole Painters Pole and Adapter – $40
Two Prism 10×20′, 100% Cotton Muslin Backdrops and The Ravelli Full Size 10×12′ Background Stand Set $100
Aquatech Sensory Gloves, Size: Large, 8-8.5″ – Black/Moss
Demb Classic Flip-it! Bounce reflector $37.95
Kotap BB-9B Ball Bungee, 9-Inch, Black, 25-Piece
2 of Fstoppers Flash Disc (FS FlashDisc) Portable Speedlight Softbox
Manfrotto 175F-1 Spring Clamp with Flash Shoe – Black

Midroll: IP+

Brent Bergherm’s Camera/lens/tripod cleaning class is on IP+

The Do’s
What photography accessories have you used over and over again and were your best purchases?

Jim: Feisol CT3442
Jim: RRS BH40 ballhead
Brent: Acratech GP ballhead with lever release. Just make sure you really tighten that opposing side on the QR mount.
Jim: Breakthrough photography filters (Brent concurs
57 min
August 26, 2017 Photo Gear Do’s and Dont’s
Jim talks with Brian and Brent about several photography products to avoid or they have never used, then those that they use a lotThe Doo-DON’Ts! What is one (or more) photography product that you bought excited about but have never used? Brent: Collapsible gray card focus target – $25 Jim: Studio strobes – $2,000 Jim: C-stand (Bought an awesome Avenger ...
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57 min
August 21, 2017 Latitude (EP-11)
Topic 1: Photo Releases, both abroad and domestically

* I’m not a lawyer, so my info here is comes from what I’ve read myself and what I’ve done. Plus, I’m a stock shooter so I do have some practice working with my agent and their requirements.
* Abroad, Generally I don’t collect.

Describe the nature of my work, primarily, fine art or editorial
* Domestically, Rarely, though I have two stories.

Barn in Joseph, OR

Crop Duster

Consent requirement for various nations:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_consent_requirements
Topic 2: TSA screening
PreCheck $85 for 5 years – $100 for Global
Announcements: Sigma 14 f/1.8 coming to the inventory.
Croatia trip coming along nicely, more details in the next episode.
Dream Destination of the week
Brian – Nat Geo Expeditions
Brent – Eynhallow, in the Orkney islands. A boat goes there once per year.

43 min
August 18, 2017 Model Releases and Listener Questions
Jim talks with Jeff about when you need a model release and listener questions about differences between Canon Rebel and 5M3, RAID storage, and L-bracketsWhen Do You Need a Model Release? Model releases are only valuable for the PUBLISHING of a photo–not the taking Uses Street photography Book cover Website Social media News Selling a print Listener Questions Alex Crossland: ...
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49 min
August 17, 2017 IP Roundtable (EP-239)
When Do You Need a Model Release?

Model releases are only valuable for the PUBLISHING of a photo–not the taking
Uses

Street photography
Book cover
Website
Social media
News
Selling a print

Midroll: IP+

IP+ members get a portfolio review day on August 24 from 8AM to 5PM MST. Details on IP+ dashboard when you log in. (Jeff: if it was Wed I could have offered to help for a couple hours)
Brent Bergherm’s Camera/lens/tripod cleaning class is hitting IP+ today

Listener Questions

Alex Crossland: Has a Canon Rebel T1i and is looking at either a 5D Mark II or Mark III. The only differences that I'm really interested in are the AF points and the 2 card slots. But since my Rebel only has 9 points and one slot, I don't have experience with those features.

Jim: He probably has no idea how much low light performance has improved since the T1i. He’s in for a HUGE surprise!
Jeff: Maybe not quite as big as you think. I looked it up ot as big a difference as you would hope.

I would have looked it up using Bill Claff’s photonstophotos.net site but he doesn’t have any data for the T1i. So I looked at it on DxOMark. ISO performance is so close it looks completely identical until ISO 3200 where 7D2 just barely does better. Dynamic range isn’t really different until you get to ISO 1600 when 7D2 gets a little better. Not much different with the 5D3. Not massively different. Better ISO at 6400 and very different at 12800. Dynamic range about twice as good with 5D3 over T1i at ISO 800 and 3 times better at ISO 3200.
The things you do get are features and build quality. 7D2 feels like a completely different thing compared to the T1i. It has weather sealing. It has video. It has more focus points and a much faster focus system. It has GPS. It has fps of 10. 5 more megapixels.
I responded to him on the Facebook group already, but the thing most hobbyists and beginners don’t realize is the cost of the lenses besides the cost of the camera body. Alex seemed to get that here, but rather than it being an $800 difference in the cost of the body, it can be thousands of dollars in the cost of the lenses. It is why I am still shooting the 7D2 today. I do finally have the glass now after saving up and investing in it over the past 5 years and going with Tamron instead of Canon there, but really don’t have anything compelling me right now to go full frame even though I have the glass.

Drew Fellers: Does anybody have any suggestions on a backup workflow? I'm up to my eyeballs in external drives. I'm thinking about getting a RAID system. Any suggestions???

Jeff. Have an article out at improvephotograpy.com called “The Ultimate Backup Workflow for Photographers”. If you search google for that will probably be the first thing to come up. Don’t need to go over everything here, but a Synology NAS is the next investment I am saving for because I am headed for the second storage wall photographers hit very soon.

Joseph Land: I primarily shoot landscapes and I finally bought an L-Bracket. My only question is why didn't I use this before?!?!? Total game changer!

Totally agree! I got an L bracket at the beginning of the summer, which meant getting a new tripod head too so that I could use an Arca-Swiss quick release that the L bracket requires. Another kind of hidden cost I know as a hobbyist I didn’t think about until I decided to finally get an L bracket.

Hotline:

Abe Lincoln Powder horn caller (I can’t hear it btw)

News Desk:

None

Announcements

Print lab winners from Brian’s test

Pro DPI was best canvas print
Bay Photo won best metal print
49 min
August 14, 2017 “How I Got The Shot” Millers Park Weding Photo (Photo Taco)
Jeff Harmon does a detailed "How I Got The Shot" (HIGTS) for the first portrait shot he felt like he created instead of just captured. It happened to be a wedding photo taken in the summer of 2017. He talks about how he actually had a sad ending to the story because the Lexar USB drive he was using to store photos for use on his MacBook Pro failed and took the original Raw files with it. Then he talks about the factors involved in making this photo different from the others he has done over the past 5 1/2 years since getting his first DLSR back in December 2011.

You can see the photo being talked about on the show at https://improvephotography.com/higtsmiller

Resources mentioned in the episode:

Photo Taco - How To ETTR: https://improvephotography.com/34062/photo-taco-how-to-ettr/
Photo Taco - Histograms Explained!: https://improvephotography.com/38081/photo-taco-historgrams-explained/
Photo Taco - Metering Modes Explained!: https://improvephotography.com/36333/photo-taco-metering-modes-explained/
Phot Taco - Spot Metering Gotcha: https://improvephotography.com/41495/photo-taco-spot-metering-gotcha/

Other Photo Taco resources:

Vote for Jeff’s “Cull” module idea to be added to Lightroom: http://bit.ly/cullmodule

Photo Taco Archive: https://improvephotography.com/category/taco/
Improve Photography Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ImprovePhotographyListeners/
Photo Taco Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phototacopodcast/
Photo Taco email: [email protected]

Jeff’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/harmon_jeff
Jeff’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/jsharmonphotos/
Jeff’s Portfolio: http://jsharmonphotos.com
Jeff’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmonjeff/
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August 12, 2017 Photo Taco: How I Got the Shot (HIGTS) at Millers Park
Jeff Harmon does a detailed “How I Got The Shot” (HIGTS) for the first portrait shot he felt like he created instead of just captured. It happened to be a wedding photo taken in the summer of 2017. He talks about how he actually had a sad ending to the story because the Lexar USB drive he was using to ...
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35 min
August 11, 2017 Solar Eclipse and Listener Questions
Jim talks with Jeff and Brent about shooting the solar eclipse and listener questions about sharpening, keeping TIF files, getting past being a beginning photographer, and balancing time as a hobbyist photographerShooting the Eclipse Unless you have been hiding under a rock you must know that a rare event is coming up on 8/21 where a full solar eclipse is ...
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1 hr 7 min
August 11, 2017 IP Roundtable (EP-238)
Shooting the Eclipse

Unless you have been hiding under a rock you must know that a rare event is coming up on 8/21 where a full solar eclipse is going to sweep across America like the sash on a beauty pageant contestant. Starting in the upper north west in Oregon and ends in the south east in South Carolina.
Brent and I did an entire Photo Taco episode about photographing the eclipse and we'll make sure to put a link to that in the show notes. But a few more resources have come up since then so we wanted to briefly cover those in this IP episode.
First Brent, give like the 2-minute recap about what you need and how to shoot the eclipse.
I don’t know why I didn’t think it would be a craze to see the eclipse, but I got serious about trying to get somewhere to shoot it waaaay too late
1 hr 7 min
August 09, 2017 Tripod: Weekend Warrior
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