• Sharpening 101 - EVERYTHING You Need to Know About Image Sharpness
    2025/01/27

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    Sharpening is a topic that invokes debate in the photography community, with every photographer having differing opinions about the importance of sharpness and how to sharpen your images. If you're wondering about how to sharpen your photos, if sharpening is even essential, and how you should sharpen depending on your export destination, this episode is going to help you understand it all.

    Links from this episode:
    How to Find the Sharpest Aperture
    Why I Shoot at f/5.6
    High Pass Sharpening in Photoshop
    How to Prepare and Resize for Print
    The Best Way to Fix Blurry Photos

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    10 Landscape Photography Tips in 10 Minutes - FREE Video

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    25 分
  • Matt Shannon - Post Processing Tips and Tricks
    2025/01/20

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    Post-processing is half the battle to creating eye-catching images, yet many photographers still struggle to create consistently compelling photos. In this episode, Canadian photographer Matt Shannon shares some of his favorite tips and tricks for editing images in Lightroom and Photoshop. The tips range from small workflow adjustments to different ways of thinking about editing an image. If you want to improve your post-processing, this episode is for you!

    Links from this episode:
    Matt's Website
    Matt's Workshops
    Matt's YouTube Channel

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    10 Landscape Photography Tips in 10 Minutes - FREE Video

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    50 分
  • 5 Ways to Improve Your Images in 2025
    2025/01/13

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    Any photographer looking to improve their photography in the new year should listen to this episode, which covers five different ways to shoot better images in 2025. These five tips are quick-hitting, concrete, and can be applied instantly. No matter who you are or what you shoot, this episode will help you improve!

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    10 Landscape Photography Tips in 10 Minutes - FREE Video

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    30 分
  • Syler Peralta-Ramos - Getting Creative with Composition for Wildlife Photography
    2025/01/06

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    Capturing great wildlife images requires a lot more than luck. As a photographer, you must react quickly and place yourself in the right spots at the right time to capture the most captivating images.

    In this week's podcast episode, Syler Peralta-Ramos covers some of his favorite tips, tricks, and techniques for improving your wildlife photography compositions. Syler shares all sorts of different pieces of advice that will help you instantly improve your photography in this episode.

    Links from this episode:
    Syler's Website
    Syler's Guiding Company
    Syler's Instagram

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    10 Landscape Photography Tips in 10 Minutes - FREE Video

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  • 2024 Episode Highlights - The BEST Advice of the Year!
    2024/12/30

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    In this episode, you'll get to listen to some of the best tips and tricks from 2024 throughout various episodes. I've selected eight short sections that I've remixed into this episode, highlighting one of my favorite parts of one of the 2024 episodes on the podcast. This is the perfect episode for anyone wanting a refresher as we move into the New Year or anyone who didn't get to listen to every episode in 2024!

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    10 Landscape Photography Tips in 10 Minutes - FREE Video

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    43 分
  • Why I've Been Shooting Landscapes at f/5.6
    2024/12/23

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    The old adage we're used to hearing as landscape photographers is that f/8 is the best aperture for landscapes. f/8 offers the best balance between depth of field (getting everything in focus) and decent lens sharpness. But lately, I've been doing it differently and shooting at f/5.6. Listen to this episode to find out why!

    Links from this episode:
    Helicon Focus Video
    Purchase Helicon Focus


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    10 Landscape Photography Tips in 10 Minutes - FREE Video

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    22 分
  • Jack Igo - How to Take Dramatic, Dark, Moody Images
    2024/12/16

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    Dramatic light and dark, moody images go hand-in-hand, and it's an effect that so many photographers are after. Despite the popularity, recreating this look can prove challenging, and oftentimes, a dark and moody image can quickly turn into a mess if you don't know how to create the look you're after.

    In this week's podcast, Jack Igo shares some of his best tips, tricks, and advice to create dramatic images. From in-field advice to post-processing tricks, Jack covers it all to help you create the type of images you're after.

    Links from this episode:
    Jack's Instagram

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    10 Landscape Photography Tips in 10 Minutes - FREE Video

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    27 分
  • Why You Struggle to Create Images that Look Realistic
    2024/12/09

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    Creating realistic images is a lot harder than one might think, and it can be easy to fall into one of the many pitfalls of photo editing. If you struggle to maintain a consistent style that feels realistic, this podcast episode will help you target the most common causes of unrealistic-looking images and how you can avoid them in the future.

    Links from this episode:
    Tone Curve Explained - 1 Minute Video

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    10 Landscape Photography Tips in 10 Minutes - FREE Video

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    23 分