This Week in Photo

A special joint TWiP + SmugMug episode!

SmugMug, the world’s most influential name in photography acquires the most popular photography podcast!

In this show @Frederick Van Johnson @Steve Brazill and @PhotoJoseph briefly discuss TWiP’s hiatus, then tear into GoPro and the failure of their Karma Drone. Then we’ll discuss low-light photography tips and finally we’ll round things out with a panel discussion around their favorite cameras.

TWiP Apps 21: RAW Power; Apple’s RAW Power Unleashed

There are many RAW decoders on the market from companies like Adobe, Phase, DxO, Macphun and of course Apple. Apple’s RAW engine is loved by many but since the demise of Aperture, we haven’t had a way to truly access it. Sure, Photos uses the macOS RAW engine, but you have no control over it. At least you didn’t… until now. RAW Power by Gentleman Coders is a Photos extension and standalone app that gives you complete access to the macOS RAW engine in an intuitive interface that’ll feel very familiar to Aperture users largely because of who wrote it. To find out more, you’ll just have to watch the show.

Join me, PhotoJoseph, for this episode of TWiP Apps with guest Nik Bhatt, founder of Gentlemen Coders.

Find out more about RAW Power at:

website: www.gentlemencoders.com

twitter: @gentcoders

Platform: RAW Power is available on macOS Sierra 10.12.2 and above

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TWiP Apps 20: HoudahGeo

What would it take to put your photos on the map? Apparently not much more than a GPS logger and a curiously named app called HoudahGeo. Seeing every photo you’ve made populate a globe on your screen is a fantastic way to relive old memories, find photos based on where, not when, and simply explore your photo library from a whole new dimension. Very few cameras outside of our Android and iPhones have GPS built-in, but with the addition of a little piece of hardware or even an app on your smartphone, you can record precisely where every photo was taken, every time. It’s easy. It’s fun. And it’s from Houdah Software.

Join me, PhotoJoseph, for this episode of TWiP Apps with guest Pierre Bernard, Founder of HoudahGeo.

Website: www.houdahgeo.com

Platform: HoudahGeo is available on macOS 10.10 or later.

Guest App Pick: Posterino 

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TWiP Apps 19: Aperture Exporter

Many Apple Aperture users are still lamenting the loss of their beloved app, holding on as tightly as they can, but knowing that eventually… they will have to let go. Today’s podcast isn’t about helping you to decide where to go, but, how to get there. Any decision you make will be a bitter pill to swallow, but to keep you out of the rabbit hole, may I recommend you take… the blue pill. Aperture Exporter by Blue Pill Software is an app that does as the name implies — it exports from Aperture. Your original photos, adjusted photos, metadata, and more, into a universal format that any app can read. No, your adjustments aren’t coming along for the ride but your adjusted images, are.

Join me, PhotoJoseph, for this episode of TWiP Apps with guest Adrian Grah, owner of Blue Pill Software Ltd.

Website: https://apertureexporter.com/

Platform: Aperture Exporter is available on OS X 10.7 or later

Links mentioned in this episode:

Guest App Pick: Thumbs Plus Pro  http://www.cerious.com

 

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TWiP Apps 18: Affinity Photo

Affinity Photo, from the UK based company Serif, is ONE of an eventual three part series of apps designed to fill your photo editing, design, and page layout needs. Based on modern tech, clever engineering and perhaps a bit of magic fairy dust, Affinity Photo is incredibly fast and impressively deep. For those tired of the subscription model of certain other software companies, Affinity Photo may do everything you need at a fraction of the cost. Its brethren apps, Affinity Design for vector based illustration and a forthcoming layout app, as well as an iPad version with feature parity on the horizon, you may find that you are, in fact, ready to take your photo editing to Affinity… and beyond.

Join me, PhotoJoseph, for this episode of TWiP Apps with guest Ashley Hewson, Managing Director at Serif.

Twitter: @Macaffinity

Website: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

Platform: Affinity is available on macOS 10.7 or later as well as Windows (coming soon).

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Guest App Pick: ProCreate

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TWiP Apps 17: Photomatix

HDR, or High Dynamic Range photography, has been around for longer than you may realize — largely thanks to the engineering minds at HDRsoft. Before HDR evolved to what it is today, it started as simply tone mapping, and the generating of 32-bit images in Photoshop. Today it’s used for everything from landscapes to real estate… can be fantastical or practical… and can make the impossible, real. The results are your dreams… and the software is Photomatix.

Join me, PhotoJoseph, for this episode of TWiP Apps with guest Ron Pepper, Photomatix Insider. 

Twitter: @hdrsoft

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HDRsoft/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/photomatix_official/

Website: https://www.hdrsoft.com/

Platform:

Photomatix is available on macOS and iOS, as well as Windows and Linux. HDRsoft also offers PhotomatixFX for iPhone and Photomatix OneShot for Mac OS.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Guest App Pick: PhotoPills - http://www.photopills.com

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TWiP Apps 16: StudioBinder

Photo and video productions can involve you and a location… or you, a location, a producer, director, actors, make-up artists, lighting techs, DITs, PAs, DPs, first AD, second AD, and a whole slew of other acronyms. Getting everyone where they need to be, when they need to be there, can be a bit like herding cats. StudioBinder is your cat wrangler. A web-based app that organizes everyone in your production, notifies them where and when to be, and even offers simple confirmation that they will actually show up on set makes this app a must-have for anyone involved in serious production.

Join me, PhotoJoseph, for this episode of TWiP Apps with guest Shant Kiraz, Co-Founder and Head of Marketing of StudioBinder. 

Find out more about StudioBinder:

Twitter: @studiobinder

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/studiobinderapp

Website: https://www.studiobinder.com/

Platform:

StudioBinder is a web-based app and is compatible with all platforms.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Guest App Pick: Priime - https://priime.com/

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TWiP Apps 15: Picktorial; Pick Quality

With dozens of photo editing apps on the market today, picking one to get to know intimately can be a difficult decision. You want something with powerful, high quality editing tools, a modern and robust engine that takes advantage of the latest hardware and OS technologies, works both standalone and as an extension, is easy to use, flexible, and won’t break the bank. I present, for your consideration, Picktorial… an app from a small Israeli company that is sure to impress.

Join me, PhotoJoseph, for this episode of TWiP Apps with guest Dr. Yoav HaCohen, Founding member of Picktorial.

Find out more about Picktorial:

Twitter: @picktorial

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/picktorial

Website: http://www.picktorial.com/

Platform:

Picktorial was demoed on macOS.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Guest App Pick: Manual by Will Global

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