PhotoActive
A podcast about photography and the Apple ecosystem.
Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 16 in total of PhotoActive with the tag “raw”.
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Episode 136: Photo Preconceptions
March 3rd, 2023 | 35 mins 33 secs
apple, cameras, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, photo editing, photo organization, photo preconceptions, photography, podcast, proraw, raw
Do you use a particular lens or photographic technique because someone said that was the only way to do it? In this episode, we break down some common photo preconceptions.
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Episode 132: The Best Focal Length
December 23rd, 2022 | 38 mins 18 secs
aperture, apple, background blur, bokeh, cameras, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, lightroom, luminar, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, proraw, raw
Perhaps you’ve heard that there’s an ideal focal length that is the closest approximation to the human eye. Or perhaps you’re a purist who can’t imagine shooting anything but a 50mm prime. In this episode, Jeff and Kirk dig into these preconceptions and talk about how focal length affects your photography.
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Episode 131: Buying a New Camera
December 9th, 2022 | 32 mins 50 secs
apple, camera buying, cameras, fujifilm, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, proraw, raw
October and November bring a deluge of new camera announcements, which gets our minds to thinking, “Do we need new cameras?” But buying a camera today is different than it was just a few years ago, with factors such as AI-based autofocus systems and much higher megapixel sensors that affect everything from memory cards to computer storage.
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Episode 130: Apple Photos Little-Known Features
November 25th, 2022 | 34 mins 20 secs
apple, apple photos, cameras, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, proraw, raw
In this episode, we’re focusing our attention on features in the Photos apps for Mac and iOS/iPadOS. Did you know you can select text in images, select and copy subjects with a single touch, identify plants and animals, and identify duplicates in your library? We show you how.
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Episode 129: Visualizing the Edit
November 11th, 2022 | 31 mins 39 secs
apple, cameras, capture one, fujifilm, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, leica, lenses, lightroom, photo editing, photo organization, photography, photos app, podcast, proraw, raw
When you look through the viewfinder of your camera, what do you see? Just the scene in front of the lens, or the version you know is possible when you edit the shot later in software? This week Jeff and Kirk talk about visualizing the edit while you’re shooting to get photos that look the way you remember or how you’d prefer them to be.
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Episode 128: New iPads and Lightroom Updates
October 28th, 2022 | 33 mins 18 secs
apple, cameras, ipad, ipad pro, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, lightroom, lightroom classic, lightroom mobile, mobile, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, proraw, raw
Apple announced new iPad and iPad Pro models aimed at two very different audiences, but how do they look for photographers? Also new are updates to Adobe’s Lightroom line of products, bringing improved AI-based masking features to the broad suite of photo editing apps. Jeff and Kirk weigh in on these and more in the latest episode.
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Episode 125: Gunning the Photonic Engine with the iPhone 14 Cameras
September 16th, 2022 | 38 mins 13 secs
48mp, apple, cameras, cinematic, iphone, iphone 14, iphone14pro, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, macro, photo editing, photo organization, photography, photonic engine, pixel binning, podcast, proraw, raw
Here we go again: Apple has released the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro, with more camera enhancements including a new 48 megapixel sensor on the Pro. What is pixel binning? Is the Photonic Engine just marketing terminology? Kirk and Jeff break down what’s new…while waiting for the phones they ordered to arrive.
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Episode 119: WWDC and New Apple OSes
June 10th, 2022 | 37 mins 39 secs
apple, cameras, ios 16, ipados 16, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, m2, macbook air, macos ventura, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, proraw, raw, watchos 9
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) wrapped up last week, and with it a lot of news about hardware like the M2-powered MacBook Air and what's coming in macOS Ventura, iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and watchOS 9. In this episode, Jeff and Kirk look at what struck their interest for photographers.
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Episode 108: Masking in Lightroom
January 7th, 2022 | 33 mins 38 secs
apple, cameras, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, lightroom, lightroom classic, masking, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, proraw, raw, selective editing
The new masking features in Adobe Lightroom and Lightroom Classic make it much easier to apply selective edits to areas such as skies or subjects, without a lot of manual fiddling.
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Episode 107: Simulated vs. Optical Background Blur
December 10th, 2021 | 38 mins 47 secs
aperture, apple, background blur, bokeh, cameras, iphone, iphone13pro, iphone13promax, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, lightroom, luminar, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, proraw, raw
You shot a lovely portrait and realized later that the background could benefit from some artistic blur. It used to be that if you didn’t get it in camera, you were stuck. But now it’s possible to recreate that blur using AI features in software later. Or, if you captured the shot using the iPhone’s Portrait Mode, you can edit the effect whenever you want. Is the software option really worth doing?