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Photographing people is incredibly satisfying, and lighting them well is icing on the cake. Flash photography has a steep learning curve, but thanks to Roberto Valenzuela’s new book, Picture Perfect Flash, creating flattering portraits is attainable. In this episode we talk flash with Roberto.

As we wrap up 2023, Jeff and Mason take some time to reflect on the year, look forward to 2024 and answer some listener questions.

A new iOS app for photographers has just launched and it may be just the thing you are looking for if you enjoy making images outdoors. In this episode we talk with Daniel Kennett about Photo Scout and how we’ll use the app to plan outdoor shoots involving the sun, moon, aurora and weather.

Traveling with camera gear is nightmare fuel, and every photographer who arrives at the gate with their camera gear tucked safely into their favorite camera bag worries that they won’t have anywhere to put that precious bag when they get onto the plane. With the new normal of oversold flights and overstuffed overhead bins, we talk about our hacks for traveling with cameras.

When severe weather rolls across the great plains of the United States, dozens of storm chasers live-stream their exploits as they dodge baseball-sized hailstones and play hopscotch with tornadoes. Mason recently spent a few days in the Midwest with his son chasing storms and shares his thoughts on severe weather photography and the madness of running toward danger.

Adobe’s Lightroom is the gorilla in the room when it comes to managing and processing digital images. Jeff has been working on a massive book that can help you tame that gorilla and in this episode he shares some of his wisdom and knowledge. Enjoy!

With a handful of keyword prompts, anyone with access to the internet can now leverage Artificial Intelligence to generate realistic photographs, so have we just been replaced? Should you sell off your camera gear and leave creativity to the ‘bots? Not yet.

In this episode we get real with Mark Heaps, a photographer and designer on the cutting edge of AI. This conversation may comfort you or terrify you, but we can assure you that it will make you think.

You know those photographers out there who are making amazing images all the time? The ones who day after day have glorious captures to share on Instagram? Yeah, that ain’t us.

In this episode, we talk about how Imposter Syndrome keeps us from making photos and some of the techniques we use to overcome the paralysis that image insecurity can bring.

Adobe Lightroom (in its myriad versions) has become the industry standard for image management and processing, and as the programs have grown and evolved over the years, Julieanne Kost has been there to make sense of it all. As Adobe's Digitial Imaging Evangelist Director, she has a distinct knack for making the complex and often-confusing process of turning piles of pixels into works of art as easy as possible. In this episode we pepper Julieanne with our most pesky questions about Lightroom, and she blows our minds with insider tips, new approaches and fresh perspectives on software we thought we knew well.

It’s become an annual quest for us to seek out fall color. This year’s journey into the Cascade Mountains of Washington State delivered smothering wildfire smoke and disappointing levels of fall color but despite this, some cool images were made. Join us as we talk about chasing fall color and sometimes finding it.