October 24, 2008

It’s a little hard to believe that in 2006, me, a twenty year old kid who was shooting weddings and whatever else he could get hired for, jumped in feet first and had the nerve to start a show telling people how to be better pro’s.

Now some would contend that I’m still just a punk kid who doesn’t know much about anything. Perhaps they’d be right, but I do know there’s a lot we can learn as photographers, no matter what our age or experience.

Today we’re starting The Best of Pro Photo Show. Content posted on the site quickly gets pushed down and sometimes fades into internet oblivion. Then I’ll get a question a year or two later and think. “Someone talked about that on a show”

We’re going to add the best articles and podcasts to this page, which will then be continually updated. This isn’t some automated popularity algorithm. It’s our hand picked content, so that newcomers and long time fans can find the goodies easily. I’m especially embarrassed by some of the early podcast’s. I still have a lot to learn as a broadcast as well, but I cringe at some of the first shows. Still some of them contain good stuff and for that reason I’ll keep them around all the way back to #1 which can still be found in the archive.

I have not seen many sites using a best of list. Sure I may be crazy, but I think it’ll be useful now, and as PPS continues to grow. So, without further adieu..

The Best Of Pro Photo Show

~Gavin Seim~

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October 23, 2008

“Don’t allow them to charge you 5.00 folks. Let’s at least attempt to keep them honest”

I know this is a photography site, but most photographers have cellular phones, so this is relivent for us too. Oddly I’m not seeing much reporting on this. I guess I’m just a cranky geek.

If you call AT&T Wireless to pay your bill with a real person they’ll charge you a five dollar fee to give them money. I’m not kidding here. They’ll tell you that if you go online, or use the automated system there will be no fee, but if you pay them it will cost you five US dollars. I’m not really interested in them forcing their system on me. I didn’t agree to pay a fee, I agreed to pay my bill.

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October 20, 2008

By Gavin Seim: Today I want to share a tip that some of you may already be using, but many others have not delved into. It’s called Auto Sync.

Within Lightroom’s Develop Module (D) you can select multiple images in the filmstrip and you’ll see the sync button appear on the bottom of the right panel. You can select the images you wish to sync, and click Sync. It will ask what settings you want to apply, then apply those settings to the selected images. OK so most of us know this already, and while it can be a big time saver there’s still more.

Auto Sync is slightly more hidden, but very useful. With your images selected, hold CNTRL (Win) CMD (Mac) and the Sync button now turns into the Auto Sync button. Click on the Auto Sync button to activate it. It now stays active until you click again to turn it off.

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October 15, 2008

<<Click To Listen – Photography Roundtable Podcast #10 – PPS #51

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Todays Panel:
Gavin Seim ~ Seim Studios

Dennis Zerwas ~ DZ Photography

Paul Walker ~ Paws Pet Photography
Erik Guggenheim ~ CopperBreaks.com

Scott & Adina Hayne ~ Hayne Photography

Notable Time Indexes:
3:55 News & General Talk
52:33 Scott & Adina on selling Weddings & Portraits
1:04:06 Paul on Pet Photography
1:14:25 Erik on the Nature business

Listeners can Save with these codes:
15% from OnOne software with promo code PRPHTPC
15% on Seim Effects with promo code FALL

Roundtable 10 Forum Discussion:

Links:
Kodak Launches Ektar 100. Yep real film

5D MK2 is here

Pet Photography NOW: by Paul Walker

On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa: Nick Brandt

Orphan Works act may be dead

Freebies on the Seim Effects Facebook fan page.

Some articles of note…
90 seconds to better photography
Managing LR catalogs and images for Pro’s

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Picks of the week:
Adina:
Shoot Cue Studio Software

Scott: Brinkmann Maxfire Dual Xenon Spotlight

Paul: Our Peaceable Kingdom: The Photographs of John Drysdale

Eric: Molar Bean Bags

Dennis: Moon Phase for iPhoneLed Headbeam Lamp

Gavin: Good Printable Disks: Taiyo Yuden Water Shield Printable CD & DVD –  Overnight Prints for postcards and bussiness cards.

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October 15, 2008

Adobe Creative Suite 4 is officially available for ship and download orders. There’s not a ton to say yet other than to let you know. We’ll see when we get it in our hot little hands on it, whether it’s an upgrade worthy of our money. According to the poll (currently) on the right, it looks like about half of you are upgrading in some form or another.

Sadly Adobe has not opted to simplify the lineup, so there’s still six versions of the Creative Suite none of which come cheap. If your just a PS user you can of course upgrade that alone. From the looks this seems evoluationary, nor revoluatiary but itv does look to hold some really cool updates just the same.

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