I am pleased to announce that on Saturday, June 12th, I will present a free all-day virtual photo conference, featuring a variety of live online presentations on photography, Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and more!
The GreyLearning Virtual Photo Conference will be held on Saturday, June 12th, from 10:00am Eastern Time to about 5:30pm ET.
The schedule of presentations is as follows (all times are Eastern Time zone):
10:00am – Keynote: Better Photography Through Travel 11:00am – Streamlined Organization in Lightroom Classic 12:00pm – Smartphone Apps for Photographers 1:00pm – Lunch Break 2:00pm – Mastering Layer Masks in Photoshop 3:00pm – Mirrorless Cameras, Presented by Noah Buchanan of Hunt’s Photo & Video 4:00pm – Depth of Field Demystified 4:30pm – “Ask Tim Grey” Live! Q&A, with Gear Questions Answered by Hunt’s Photo & Video
On Monday, April 26th, there will be a “supermoon”, which is a full moon that occurs when the moon is near the closest point (the perigee) in its elliptical orbit around the Earth. That means the moon will appear larger in the sky than usual, which can be great for photographing the moon in the context of foreground scenery.
If you’d like some help planning a great shot that includes the supermoon, the PhotoPills app for mobile devices provides some powerful features. You can get the specific timing of the moon (or sun), and also use the Planner pill in PhotoPills to plan for an optimal location from which to photograph the supermoon juxtaposed with an interesting scene or subject.
If you’d like to learn to make the most of the PhotoPills app for planning various aspects of photography, I have a comprehensive course on PhotoPills called “Photo Planning with PhotoPills”, which is available in the GreyLearning library here:
The April 2021 issue of Pixology magazine is now available, featuring the following articles:
Strategy for Deleting This article provides tips on defining a workflow for deleting outtake photos, including considerations of your “philosophy” of deleting photos as well as how quickly you should delete outtakes.
Photoshop Layer Groups
Layer groups are a simple yet powerful feature of Photoshop that enables you to organize the various layers in an image, or employ special features for targeted adjustments and composite images. In this article I cover the many ways you can make use of layer groups in Photoshop.
Location Metadata
There are a variety of ways you can have location information added to metadata for your photos, from GPS-enabled cameras to semi-automatic or manual options. This article provides the details of these various approaches to tracking the locations where your photos were captured.
Lightroom Classic on Multiple Computers
In this article you’ll learn how you can make your Lightroom Classic catalog available on more than one computer, so you can shift between locations without losing access to your full workflow.
Photo Story: Waterfall in Austria
During a photo workshop I was leading in Austria, I was reminded of some valuable lessons in photography, especially as it related to composition for wide-angle photography. I share the story of the image that resulted in this article.
Pixology magazine is included in the GreyLearning Ultimate Bundle, and is also available as a standalone subscription here:
I am pleased to announce a free all-day virtual photo conference, featuring a variety of live online presentations on photography, Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and more!
The GreyLearning Virtual Photo Conference will be held on Sunday, February 21st, from 10:00am Eastern Time to about 5:30pm ET.
The schedule of presentations is as follows (all times are Eastern Time zone):
10:00am – Keynote: Lessons Learned from Favorite Photos 11:00am – Top Photo Accessories 12:00pm – Favorite Features of Lightroom Classic 1:00pm – Lunch Break 2:00pm – Photoshop Features I Use the Most 3:00pm – The Role of Planning in Photography 4:00pm – Improving Your Photography 4:30pm – “Ask Tim Grey” Live! Q&A
In my first presentation for 2021 as part of the GreyLearning Webinar Series I shared my favorite “nuggets of wisdom” that I have found tremendously helpful in photography over the years.
These are the little tips and techniques I’ve both learned from others and discovered through trial-and-error, that have proven helpful to me in a wide variety of photographic situations.
You can view a recording of the full presentation on my Tim Grey TV channel on YouTube here:
A reader of my Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter had watched my webinar presentation where I talked about the lessons I learned while traveling around the world on an extended trip, using only a single lens for the full trip. They send an inquiry, curious about what the “histogram” distribution of lens focal length used during trip looked like.
I should hasten to point out that the single lens I used during this trip was the Tamron 18-400mm lens (https://bhpho.to/2DPkI3C) on a camera with a 1.6X cropping factor. That translates to a range of about 29mm to 640mm in 35mm (full frame) equivalent focal lengths. So I wasn’t exactly making a big compromise when it came to available focal lengths for my photography by using a single lens.
Below is a histogram chart showing the distribution of focal lengths used, but the chart is admittedly not the easiest to read because of the scale of the data. So I’ll start with some stats that help illustrate how the lens was put to use.
During the trip I captured a total of 8,342 photos with my digital SLR and single-lens combination. Of those, 2,253 (17%) were captured all the way at the maximum focal length of 400mm. Another 648 (almost 8%) were captured at the minimum focal length of 18mm. So just about one-quarter of all photos captured during my travels made use of the minimum or maximum focal length.
Beyond that the range was somewhat evenly distributed, with a bit more representation at the shorter focal length range compared to middle to long focal lengths.
The distribution is interesting to me, but in retrospect it makes sense. As much as an all-in-one lens such as the 18-400mm lens I was using provides a wide range of focal length options, very often I found myself at the limit. It seems when it comes to lens focal length, we always want either as much zoom as possible or as wide a field of view as possible.
Here’s the histogram chart, which you can click on the chart to see it in a bit more detail:
The presentation that inspired the question was on the subject of “Lessons Learned Around the World with One Lens” after an extended trip in 2019. You can view a recording of that presentation on my Tim Grey TV channel on YouTube here:
In my latest presentation as part of the GreyLearning Webinar Series I shared tips for planning a photo that includes the full moon. This included tips on finding an optimal location from which to photograph the full moon, finding out when a full moon will occur, and much more.
You can view a recording of the full presentation on my Tim Grey TV channel on YouTube here:
I am pleased to announce that I have published a new GreyLearning course focused on helping you plan many aspects of your photography using the powerful PhotoPills app for mobile devices (iOS and Android).
To celebrate the launch of the new “Photo Planning with PhotoPills” course, for a limited time you can get $10 off. You can get all of the details with the “pillslaunch” coupon code applied automatically by using this link to get started:
The “Photo Planning with PhotoPills” course features almost four hours of in-depth lessons to help you master the many powerful tools of this app. From basic details like the timing of sunrise and sunset, to specific planning such as determining when the sunset will align with a specific subject, you’ll be amazed at how much the PhotoPills app can help in your photography.
For example, I use PhotoPills to plan where and when I need to be in order to capture photos that include the sun and moon. PhotoPills can also be used to calculate exposure settings, determine depth of field, find out when you can view and photograph the Milky Way and meteor showers, and much more.
Composition is one of the key ingredients to a great photographic image. During my recent live online presentation as part of the GreyLearning Webinar Series, I shared tips for approaching composition in your photography.
You can view a recording of the full presentation on my Tim Grey TV channel on YouTube here:
In October I will be leading two online workshops in my “virtual classroom”, with one focused on photography and the other covering creative effects in Adobe Photoshop.
Each of the online workshops features four live online sessions of two hours each, for a total of eight hours of live online learning for each of the workshops. The topics for these online workshops will be:
You can learn more about the individual online workshops with the links above. If you’re interested in joining me for both of these online workshops, you can save by signing up for the bundle of both workshops here:
