PhotoActive
A podcast about photography and the Apple ecosystem.
Displaying Episode 31 - 40 of 166 in total of PhotoActive with the tag “photography”.
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Episode 159: Fuji X100VI and the Appeal of Small Fixed-Lens Cameras
March 8th, 2024 | 34 mins 23 secs
apple, cameras, fuji, fujifilm, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, ricoh, x100v, x100vi
The entire Internet - yes, the whole thing, trust us - is going crazy for the new Fujifilm X100VI compact fixed-lens camera. What’s the appeal of this not-inexpensive camera? Its predecessor was in such demand that Fujifilm just stopped manufacturing it because it couldn’t keep up...for more than a year. And now the X100VI is backordered until summer. Is it all just influencer hype?
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Episode 157: Photos at the High End: Hasselblad 907x/CFV 100C
February 9th, 2024 | 33 mins 10 secs
100mp, 907x, apple, cameras, cfv 100c, hasselblad, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, medium format, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast
What would you do with 100 megapixels? Jeff recently had the opportunity to shoot with the new Hasselblad 907x/CFV 100C, a medium format camera in the form factor of Hasselblad’s classic film bodies. This $8,200 (body only, of course) system made him rethink the photographic muscle memory he’s developed over the years, as well as the mental-muscle-memory of how to approach making photos.
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Episode 156: The Rescue Mission with Derrick Story
January 26th, 2024 | 39 mins 3 secs
aperture, apple, cameras, derrick story, drobo, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, peakto, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking the photos on your old hard drives are perfectly safe. But are they really? Our guest Derrick Story needed to extract 200,000 images saved in Apple’s discontinued Aperture software on an old Drobo storage array. Using a combination of an old MacBook that could run Aperture and modern software like Peakto for organizing the extracted images, he was able to restore them all.
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Episode 155: Favorites from The Photo Book
December 15th, 2023 | 35 mins 55 secs
apple, cameras, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, the photo book
To wrap up the year, we thought we’d turn our attention to selections from The Photo Book, a massive, rich collection of photography from some of the best photographers throughout the history of the art form. Out of hundreds of images, we each picked five photos and explain what about them caught our eyes.
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Episode 154: Lens Blur
December 1st, 2023 | 35 mins 12 secs
apple, blur, bokeh, cameras, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast
It’s time to talk about the B-word again! Jeff couldn’t trick Kirk into saying “bokeh,” but this week we’re looking at a few ways to get background blur using Portrait mode in the iPhone and editing in Lightroom. Technology has improved quite a lot in the last couple of years, to the point where simulated bokeh can sometimes pass off as natural lens blur.
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Episode 153: M3 Macs
November 17th, 2023 | 38 mins 5 secs
apple, cameras, imac, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, m3, mac, macbook pro, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast
The photographer’s dilemma rears again. Not only are we sometimes struck by gear acquisition syndrome when new cameras are announced, we run into it when new computers that can process our images come to market. In this case, it’s the new M3 MacBook Pro and M3 iMac models from Apple. Will the M3 processor make a difference when working with photos? If you bought an M1 iMac when it came out, is it time to upgrade? Kirk and Jeff hash it out.
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Episode 152: Android and AI
November 3rd, 2023 | 28 mins 9 secs
ai, android, apple, cameras, google, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, ml, photo editing, photo organization, photography, pixel 8, podcast
Google’s Pixel phones are held up as the Android smartphones to follow, and their cameras are often pitted against the iPhone as examples of the state of the art. However, as Kirk discovered when he bought a Pixel 8, the details matter... such as the Pixel 8 not being able to use the full resolution of its main camera. Also in this episode, we check in with some new developments in the generative photography world with Adobe’s release of Firefly 2 and GenAI integration in Photoshop.
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Episode 150: Episode 150: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro
September 29th, 2023 | 37 mins 13 secs
apple, cameras, iphone, iphone 15, iphone 15 pro, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, tetraprism
Who wants to talk megapixels and tetraprisms? In this episode, recorded shortly after Apple announced the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro, Kirk and Jeff look at the specs and possibilities of the newest cameras-that-also-make-calls.
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Episode 149: Daniel Agee on Glass Year 2
September 1st, 2023 | 40 mins 39 secs
apple, cameras, daniel agee, glass, glass photo, instagram, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, social media
In episode 111, we talked to the founders of the photo app and community Glass about their approach to making a social photo service that isn’t exhausting or frustrating like Instagram or many others. For this episode, we catch up with Daniel Agee, the head of Marketing and Community at Glass, to talk about Glass’s two year anniversary, eschewing VC funding, and how community is making such a difference.
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Episode 148: Creativity with S J Watson
August 18th, 2023 | 33 mins 40 secs
apple, cameras, creativity, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, sj watson, writing
“With writing I’m trying to use a story to create images, and with photography I’m trying to use images to create a story.” That’s S J Watson, best-selling novelist of Before I Go to Sleep. In this episode we talk to him about how street photography feeds his writing and vice-versa, and the way different endeavors contribute to creative mindsets.