Saved By Features and Super Powers

Quick Side Notes

Before we get into our topic today we have two small things we don’t want to spend much time on but need to just do a little follow-up on at the top of the show.

* Canon EOS RP Spec Reaction: As we thought we would, we had some listeners contact us about our reaction to the specs of the new Canon EOS RP full frame mirrorless camera.  Don’t want to go over any of it again here, go check out the previous episode to hear that, but wanted to say here that some took away from the episode that Nick and I seemed really happy that would could kind of tear down the RP and could have a negative reaction.  That somehow we had an inner excitement that Canon released something we didn’t like. Nothing could be further from the truth. I can’t speak for Nick but I think he would agree when I say I want to see Canon put out good cameras. I very much want to see Canon succeed, that would be the very best thing for me.  I am a very happy Canon shooter. The cameras I have are truly wonderful tools that I can use to make photos I am proud of, tools that enable me to realize my creative vision. No matter what camera you are using as you listen to this episode, get out there and shoot! It doesn’t really matter which camera you choose, anything you buy right now is going to be plenty of camera to do a whole lot of amazing work.* Improve Photography Questions* It has almost been a year now since our very good friend Jim Harmer was extremely generous and turned the podcast over to the 5 co-hosts who had been on many episodes with Jim for several years.  The podcast was called the Improve Photography podcast originally and it was something Jim created through a lot of hard work. Jim decided that he wanted to make a significant career shift and focus on something different and I will forever be grateful to him for taking a massive chance on me as a hobbyist photographer and mentoring me as a podcaster.  * All of that said, we get questions from long-time listeners about Jim’s websites and services and need to take a moment here to let you know that the only thing we took over from Jim was the podcast.  He still owns and operates those websites independently of our team running the Master Photography Podcast Network. We love Jim, he is a great friend, but we don’t have a business relationship any longer.

Camera Features Saved a Shoot

Brent, I want to talk about a couple of camera features that saved a shoot for me this week.  These are two features I haven’t used as much of until this week when they both became really important.  There is more to the story that we will get to at the end of the episode today, but to kind of outline why it is we did an episode reacting to the specs/features of the Canon RP full frame camera last week I wanted to talk about two features of the Canon 80D that saved my bacon at my last shoot.

This was a portrait shoot for a couple and we were shooting in a pretty small room in a house.  It was the room for an infant, about 10 feet by 15 feet. There was a crib and a rocking chair and a diaper changing station in the room that we had to move around to get a small bench into the room for the couple to sit on.  After we got things kind of situated I setup my Canon 80D on a tripod using my Tamron 24-70 lens, putting the focal length at 24mm to get as wide as I could in the tight quarters and I still had to put the camera and tripod all the way up against the wall of the room which means I couldn’t be behind the camera.  Fortunately the Canon 80D has a fully articulating touch LCD screen. So that is the first feature that saved the sho...