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PhotoNetCast #82 – Panoramic and 360-degrees Photography, with Ron Pepper

Ron Pepper joins us on the photography podcast to talk about his wirk in panoramic photography and 360-degree photography. We discuss the gear, software and, most importantly, the technique to achieve good results.

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Panoramas and 360-degree photos

 

In this episode we are joined by Ron Pepper to talk about his expertise in panoramic photography, with emphasis in 360-degree images. While panoramic images are frequently made, and even more so with the large advances of software for this specific application, 360-degree images are not so frequent, and still demand attention for their interactivity. This is probably the only type of photography that is mostly reserved for the web and Ron is a skilful artist in achieving quasi-magic results.

Road to the Cullin Hills
© Antonio Marques, Isle of Skye, Scotland

 

In the news, we talk about Photoshop World, the new Sony QX “Lens Cameras”, the Creative Cloud deal for photographers ($9.99 – bargain), and a new promising technology developed in partnership between Cornell and Adobe. Take a look at the video below,  after the show notes.

As always, feedback is most welcome.

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Podcast Show Notes

 

 

PhotoNetCast #76 – Common steps in image processing

We take a look at some of the basic properties you should pay attention to when starting processing the images.

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The first steps after importing into your DAM software

 

Even in cases where you are not really intending to so serious post-processing on images, there are a few image properties that you will always have to check after import and will often have to modify slightly. In this show, we discuss those steps, describe what each of us does and mention a few tools that can help both during shooting (to minimise the need for any later adjustment) and during post processing. New Jersey photographer Scott Wyden joins us to give a helping hand to the discussion.

Such things like Exposure, White Balance (here’s a good explanation for white balance), some Colour tweaks, Noise reduction and Sharpening are all discussed with some explanation on why we do these adjustments.

On the news, we discuss IKEA slowly shedding photography for computer generated images, Kodak set to quit film and photo paper business, the imminent release of the Nikon D600 and the Super-Ultra-Mega new standard for video, the Hi-Vision 8K (is 7680×4320 pixels enough?).

As always, any feedback is appreciated, and if you have any questions for us to answer on the show, go ahead and send them our way.

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PhotoNetCast #75 – Highlights from the bookshelf

On this episode we take a look at some of our books that we think should also be on your collection.

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Let’s talk about books

 

A few years back we produced an episode in which we gave a few suggestions for some good photography books. Recently, our guest Ruben Vicente (see also his project at Light Travelers) suggested that we repeat the topic, with a few more book recommendations. And so we did. We brought him on the show to share his book highlights and we’ve added a few more of our own.

On the news, we’ve discussed a few of the latest issues with the newest cameras on the market, we’ve seen how a smartphone can be used to photograph the Olympics, and we take a look into the split-second decision to photograph or intervene in photojournalism.

Also, our Lightroom giveaway is still on. Because we’re releasing this episode so close to the deadline, I’m going to give it a couple more days before randomly selecting the winner.

As always, your feedback is mostly appreciated, and suggestions for topics are welcome.

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Highlights from the bookshelf

In no particular order, here are the books that were mentioned on the show. If any is missing from the list, just let us know and we’ll update it.

 

 

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