PhotoActive - Episodes Tagged with “Photos App”

Episode 129: Visualizing the Edit

Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 01:00:00 -0800

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.

Hosts:

Jeff Carlson: website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram, Jeff on Glass
Kirk McElhearn: website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram, Kirk on Glass

Show Notes:

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Episode 123: Learn Your Camera
Theme Time Radio Hour, Bob Dylan

Our Snapshots:

Jeff: Wireless Flash Trigger 2.4 GHz with Transmitter and Receiver
Kirk: The Philosophy of Modern Song, by Bob Dylan

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Original Barley Field, underexposed (Photo by Kirk McElhearn)

Edited Barley Field (Photo by Kirk McElhearn)

Washington Pass, original (Photo by Jeff Carlson)

Washington Pass, color (Photo by Jeff Carlson)

Washington Pass, edited (Photo by Jeff Carlson)

Road and Tree, original (Photo by Kirk McElhearn)

Road and Tree, edited (Photo by Kirk McElhearn)

Yellow Tree, original (Photo by Jeff Carlson)

Yellow Tree, edited (Photo by Jeff Carlson)

Editing Yellow Tree in Lightroom with multiple masks

Yellow Tree, iPhone unedited (Photo by Jeff Carlson)

Yellow Tree, Fujifilm X-T3 landscape orientation (Photo by Jeff Carlson)

Episode 84: Editing Shadows and Highlights

Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:30:00 -0800

We often talk about "bringing up the shadows" and "recovering highlights" when editing photos, particularly with raw files. But what does that mean exactly? This week, we walk through some edits to show just how that's done. This episode is available as audio with embedded images, and also as a video—go to photoactive.co and get the video link in the show notes.

Hosts:

Jeff's website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram
Kirk's website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram
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Show Notes:

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Our Snapshots:

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First photo unedited

Exposure (looks terrible)

Shadows

Whites

Whites plus Shadows

Whites, Shadows, and Exposure

Highlights

Compare: Before

Compare: After

Blacks: Increase

Blacks: Decrease

Editing in the Photos app

Kirk’s edit in Photos app

Lightroom Auto button

Tone Curve in Lightroom

Tone Curve edits

Barn unedited

Barn Shadows

Barn Highlights

Barn Shadows decreased

Barn Contrast

Barn Blacks

Barn Color adjustments

Barn earlier full edit

Shoreline photo before editing

Full edit of shoreline photo

Episode 55: Photos App in iOS 13 and macOS Catalina

Jeff Carlson & Kirk McElhearn — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 01:00:00 -0800

Photos App in iOS 13 and macOS Catalina

Now that iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina are out, Jeff and Kirk have some strong opinions on the changes made to the Photos app for each platform. It's time to rant a little.

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Take Control of macOS Media Apps, by Kirk McElhearn
Take Control of Your Digital Photos, Second Edition, by Jeff Carlson
Take Control of Photos, by Jason Snell
Episode 52: iPhones 11 and Semantic Rendering
Inside iOS 12: Photos Encourages More Engagement, TidBITS
Episode #12: David duChemin on the Long-Building Vision

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Jeff: Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter
Kirk: A Beautiful Anarchy podcast

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The cover of Kirk’s surprise Photos-generated slideshow.

An example of the Photos app needing a manual sync control. The iPhone is connected to Wi-Fi, but Photos doesn’t seem to realize it.

The mysterious “Detecting Duplicates” message at the bottom of Photos as it’s scanning the photo library following the upgrade to macOS Catalina. Is this a new feature to come?