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Who Is Dima Sytnik? Dima is the co-founder and CTO of Skylum.  He is a passionate photographer with a software engineering background.  He spent many years developing games for both desktop computers and phones before starting the company that was originally named MacPhun and is now called Skylum.  Dima sat down with me to talk about Luminar, the photo processing ...

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The Conversation Scott, we have you here to tell us a bit about the NextGEN plugin by Imagely. You work for Imagely and you even have a podcast called WordPress for Photography Podcast. Tell us a little about you as a photographer and the company you work for. I’m a WordPress user, and I teach it at the university. Right ...

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In-Person Sales For Portrait Photographers Aaron and I had a little discussion in the Master Photography Facebook Group a couple weeks ago that led to my asking if he wanted to come on the show and talk about it further.  I had shared my recommendations on lighting gear for photographers who are looking to get into lighting, the basic kind ...

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Learn about the impact AI and computational photography is having on photographers in 2019 Is Brent Switching From Canon to Sony? Brent, as we were talking about his episode you said you wanted to talk a little about a decision you are toying with on possibly switching from Canon to Sony. Tell me about that. Brent is a conflicted man.  ...

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Getting Started Lighting Gear Listener Chris Truhe asked in our Facebook Group: “Could someone provide me with a list of gear one needs to begin off camera flash, in addition to a speed lite, a stand, and an umbrella? Appreciate your time.” I am going to walk through the lighting gear that I am using.  It is gear that is ...

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Fall Mini Session Tips Booking Reach out to people directly – past clients, friends, family, etc. A personal invite makes people feel special. I sold out 75% of this year’s spots just with my personal messages before I even opened them to the public. Use Canva or something similar to create graphics to share on social media. Create multiple graphics ...

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Fall Colors In the Northern Hemisphere summer is basically over and we’re looking forward to the changing seasons. Fall is coming and we figured we’d talk about ideas for shooting fall colors today. I love shooting fall colors when I get a chance to do it anyway, but in my area we don’t get a whole lot of fall colors. ...

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Listener Lightroom Catalog Question This entire episode was the result of a question that was asked in our Facebook Group by listener Bryan Fishman: ” Can you point me to an episode on combining old Lightroom catalogs into one locally and storing photos externally. New MacBook Pro coming with just 512GB” Bryan’s question is not a very lengthy one, but ...

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New Tripod Legs and Ball Head From Colorado Tripod Mark and Jeff did an episode back in February called Best Value Tripods 2019.  We aren’t going to rehash everything in that episode but we had to do a follow up on it because we have both had some time now with the tripod legs and ball head from the new ...

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Catching Up With Brent As of this recording, I just returned from our 3.5 week family road trip. We drove over 5,500 miles (8,851 km). I had a printing workshop in Boise, ID, as well as a presentation to their club. We then went to Denver where I hosted another printing workshop. In Boise I had 18 present, and in ...

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