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Here are four reasons to pivot your photography business: Outgrowing your current business Opportunities offered to you Identifying unmet needs in the market Loss of interest/passion OR discovering a greater interest/passion Here are four things to help you make a pivot with your photography business successful: Research: structure, pricing, unmet needs, competitors, target market Update: portfolio, social media, website, Google/Yelp/etc. ...

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Sharpening and Noise Reduction Options Greg graciously accepted an invitation to come on the show after I read a July 2019 article on his website called “How to reduce noise in Photoshop”.  I always enjoy the articles Greg posts to his website, but one line in this article caught my attention and made me want to have him come on ...

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How Much Memory Does Lightroom Need? I am trying to create a resource over at https://phototacopodcast.com that will help photographers answer all sorts of technical photography questions.  Especially questions about what computer they should buy to do post processing. I get constant questions from photographers about deal they see on computers and I know that the real reason they are ...

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Follow-Up on Brent’s Switch to Fuji Brent, it has only been a week but I can tell from your posts in the Facebook group that you have made some progress with your switch to Fuji.  Why don’t you give a little bit of an update? Brent: I am going to disappoint some people. I sent the camera [Fuji X-T3] back. ...

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Going Fuji Brent, after shooting Canon for many years you are giving Fuji a serious try.  What did you buy and what made you decide to give Fuji a try? Brent: Bought the Fuji X-T3, the Fuji 23mm f/2 and Fuji 14mm f/2.8.  Wanted to give Fuji a try for a long time, just looked like the perfect camera for ...

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Today’s show starts out with some fireworks photo tips. It’s our Nation’s birthday and we celebrate by exploding fake bombs in the air in reference to our National Anthem. After a few minutes on this topic we dive into the remainder of our photo terms for beginners. Let’s get into today’s main topic. Defining photography jargon. I’ve written down some ...

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Let’s get into today’s main topic. Defining photography jargon. I’ve written down some starting points here to get us started, but I really like having the three of us on to each provide our own perspective. Also, these are in no particular order. Stop, or Stops or f-stop Quite literally comes from the idea of the aperture ring on older ...

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In this episode we talk about copyright for photographers.  Right off the top we need to make the disclaimer that Brent and Jeff are not lawyers and even though Jim is educated as a lawyer he is not your lawyer.  All of you listening would be best served to find yourself a lawyer to help you work through specific situations ...

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WWDC 2019 Reaction WWDC happened in late June 2019.  This is a conference that is intended to help developers know what is coming from Apple later on in the year with updates to macOS, iOS, now iPadOS, and hardware changes.  Let’s talk a little about some of the things that I think are important to photographers. iPadOS and External Storage ...

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Lightroom Classic 8.3 Update I don’t want to spend much time on this.  In the last episode I told the listeners that I couldn’t quite give my Photo Taco seal of approval for the latest update to Lightroom Classic, version 8.3.  I wanted to give it another week to see if anything else came up. Now that week has passed ...

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