Ask Tim Grey - Digital Photography Podcast

Tim and Renee chat about an amazing opportunity to photograph an English Garden in the Palouse region of eastern Washington State during their photography workshops. They then address questions from photographers about long exposures at night, calculating exposure with a neutral density filter, choosing among RAW processing software options, continuous focus with back button autofocus, and different types of ICC profiles. Links from this Episode: Xume...

Tim and Renee chat about the first week of their 2016 Palouse Photo Workshop, and the notion of creating photographic opportunities whenever possible. They then address questions from photographers about neutral density (ND) filter options, color temperature sliders seeming "backwards", whether or not it is important to build custom printer profiles, and how to flip a selection in Photoshop. Links from this Episode: Breakthrough Photography...

Tim and Renee chat about the long gap in podcast episodes, and then turn their attention to the remarkable Palouse region of eastern Washington State where this episode was recorded. They then address questions from photographers about the use of image stabilization with a tripod, a mystery about a viewfinder cover, print longevity with matter versus glossy paper, and the risk of image file degradation. Links from this Episode: Palouse Photo Workshop: http://www.timgrey.com/palouse Tim...

Tim and Renee chat about how great it is to be home after traveling for about four weeks non-stop, and how they are focused on catching up on producing new educational content for photographers. They then address questions from photographers related to transferring photos with the Lightroom app for mobile devices, copying image layers between two photos in Photoshop, back button focus, the order of adjustments for Color Balance, and lens hoods. Links from this Episode: Pixology...

Tim and Renee chat about the concept of a cruise providing something of a "tasting menu" for both travel and photography. They then address questions related to the "as shot" white balance setting, creating an inverted copy of a layer mask in Photoshop, printing iPhone captures, underwater cases for the iPhone, and downloading photos from an iPhone for editing in Photoshop. Links from this Episode: Underwater Photo with...

Tim and Renee chat about their transit through the Panama Canal while teaching on a cruise ship, and the experience of photographing the process. They then address questions from photographers about collections in Lightroom, "flecking" on prints, sharpening workflow, in-camera adjustments to RAW captures, and correcting spelling errors for keywords in Lightroom. Links from this Episode: SpotPen: http://timgrey.me/1RgQ1CW GreyLearning "Everything" Bundle: http://timgrey.me/atgpod99

Tim and Renee are back with the Ask Tim Grey Podcast! In this episode they talk about their long (unplanned) hiatus from the podcast, and how excited they are to be producing new episodes again. They then address questions from photographers about Wacom tablets, renaming individual images in Lightroom, renaming in Adobe Bridge when managing photos in Lightroom, adjusting the size of thumbnails on the Layers panel in Photoshop, and using a laptop as a primary computer. Links from this...

Tim and Renee welcome listeners back to the long-awaited Ask Tim Grey Podcast, and talk about how Tim thinks the Space Needle in Seattle is often photographed incorrectly. They then address questions from photographers about the new Dehaze adjustment in Lightroom, accessing the "Hand" tool in Lightroom, the fact that the Dehaze adjustment is only available in the Creative Cloud version of Lightroom, file size concerns for images to be published to a blog, and working around the lack of a...

Tim and Renee talk about how exhausing a photography workshop can be, explaining why there were only three questions this week for the Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter. They then address (only three!) questions from photographers about where to store your Lightroom catalog while traveling, creating a JPEG image when sending a photo from Lightroom to Photoshop, and what is causing bright "orbs" in images that include the sun. Links from this Episode: Palouse Photo...

Tim and Renee chat about conditions in the Palouse region of eastern Washington State that are dramatically different from what would be normal this time of year, and how that will impact their photo workshops. They then address questions from photographers about creating printer profiles, upgrading to a larger hard drive for storing photos, creating vertical text in Photoshop, consolidating photos from two smaller hard drives to one larger hard drive, and managing captures for time-lapse...

Tim and Renee chat about scouting in the Palouse, and the notion (and challenge!) of gaining knowledge about an area you'll be photographing. They then address questions from photographers about easily importing to a specific folder in Lightroom, using a hard-edged brush for painting on a layer mask in Photoshop, using a selection to protect an area of a layer mask in Photoshop, blurring a background within a photo, and recommendations for hardware to calibrate a monitor display and...

Tim and Renee chat about different photographers viewing scenes in different ways, and sometimes finding unique photos among subjects that are taken for granted. They then address questions from photographers about deleting photos, high dynamic range images versus tone-mapping, exporting full-resolution photos from Lightroom, and creating a zoom blur effect. Links from this Episode: Panning Blur...

Tim and Renee chat about the first session of their New York City Photography Workshop. They then address questions from photographers about a slow Quick Selection tool in Photoshop, merging Lightroom catalogs from multiple versions of Lightroom, removing older versions of Lightroom, recovering from a failed hard drive, and the Background Eraser tool in Photoshop. Links from this Episode: Palouse Photo Workshop: http://timgrey.com/palouse/ GreyLearning...

Tim and Renee chat about the fact that Tim grew up in the Los Angeles area, but never really spent time creating "real" photographs there until now. They then address questions from photographers about minimizing haze in photos, getting a better preview of text in Photoshop, color shifts with neutral density filters, working with Lightroom on two computers in two different locations, and confusion about the Lightroom version number. Links from this Episode: B+W 10-Stop Neutral Density...

Tim and Renee chat about San Diego, in terms of great bird photography, great weather, and yet more travel on the calendar. They then address questions from photographers about Lightroom 6 versus the Creative Cloud version, differences between exporting as a catalog versus just copying files in the context of Lightroom, cropping based on a zoom setting, aligning image cleanup work in Photoshop, and whether one-stop increments are necessary for high dynamic range (HDR) photography. Links...

Tim and Renee chat about a visit to Charleston, South Carolina, as well as Savannah, Georgia. They then address questions from photographers about Process Versions in Lightroom, switching to the "Cloud" version of Lightroom, adopting a single Lightroom catalog, shooting HDR images hand-held, and working with Adobe applications on multiple computers. Links from this Episode: GreyLearning Bundle: http://greylearning.com/subscribe.html

Tim and Renee discuss the launch of Lightroom 6 (aka Lightroom CC), as they record the podcast from in the field near Savannah, Georgia. They then address questions from photographers about removing deleted photos from Lightroom, viewing only the photos in a top-level folder, soft previews of photos in Lightroom, Colorize versus Tint for a color effect, and a problem launching Lightroom 6. Links from this Episode: Tim Grey TV on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/timgreytv GreyLearning...

Tim and Renee chat about a brief detour to Washington DC that happened to be almost perfectly timed for photographing the cherry blossoms in full bloom, and why the experience didn't exactly live up to expectations. They then address questions from photographers about sharpening upon export from Lightroom, High Pass sharpening in Photoshop, resetting adjustments without losing the Lens Correction adjustments in Lightroom, cropping to a specific aspect ratio for a batch of photos, and a...

Tim and Renee chat about Tennessee as a "best kept secret" for beautiful landscapes. They then address questions from photographers about mouse pointers in Photoshop, a problem with drag-and-drop in Lightroom, changing capture time for photos, whether a Lightroom user needs Adobe Bridge, and moving photos to a new hard drive in Lightroom. Links from this Episode: GreyLearning Bundle: http://greylearning.com/subscribe.html Pixology Magazine: http://pixologymag.com

Tim and Renee chat about their two-week marathon session in the studio, producing a variety of new training videos for the GreyLearning video training library. They then address questions from photographers about DNG versus TIFF file size, incorrect order for photos captured in rapid succession, how the "missing" information is calculated for individual pixels with digital capture, matching precise colors in a photo, and exposure info display for photos in Lightroom. Links from this...