I will be a keynote speaker for the online Annual Photography Conference hosted by the Florida Camera Club Council, being held February 10-11, 2021.
In addition to my keynote presentation on “Take Your Best Shot: Top Lessons Learned in Photography”, I will also present two breakout sessions. Those sessions will cover “Maximum Control in Photoshop” and “Staying Organized in Lightroom Classic”.
You can get all of the details and registration information for this online event here:
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:
We have a winner! I am pleased to announce that photographer Ron Byram of Charlotte, North Carolina, has been selected as the winner of the “Full Moon” photo contest. Here is Ron’s winning image:
Here is what Ron had to say:
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Hello, I am Ron Byram from Charlotte, NC. By Day, I am a Computer Analyst. I have done amateur photography since I was 10 years old. But since 2010 I have been into DSLR photography.
On weekends when I’m not on call and I’m off my chain, my wife and I travel through North Carolina, South Carolina, and other states to photograph nature and landscapes or action and sports.
The photo was taken in December 2020 at the Pocosin Wild Life Refuge in eastern North Carolina. My wife and I have been going out to the refuge for the last 5 or so years to get away from work and see what we could capture.
The full moon was the Full Cold Moon and the last one of 2020. The birds in flight were snow geese at sunset.
The geese were in a corn field feeding and the moon rose up over the tree line. The geese lifted off and swirled around and around. This was my first time trying this. I was not 100% sure about my proper settings or if the geese would fly in front of the moon.
I used my Canon 7D Mark II on tripod, with a 150-600mm lens on a ball head mount. The exposure was 1/8th of a second at f/11 and ISO 100 in Aperture Priority mode. I was exposing for the moon, and I guess I got lucky.
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I’d say there was much more than luck involved in capturing this photo. Ron made a plan to visit a good location at the right time to photograph the full moon, and was able to make the most of the geese flying around him.
As the winner of this GreyLearning Photo Contest, Ron wins a Tamron 100-400mm lens (https://bhpho.to/39NWhRy). Congratulations, Ron!
The January 2021 issue of Pixology magazine is now available, featuring the following articles:
Red Labels for All! In this article I share a relatively new addition to my workflow that involves adding a red color label to every photo upon import to my Lightroom Classic catalog.
Understanding Lens Compression
Photographers often talk about “lens compression” changing the perspective of a scene. In this article I explain how it isn’t really the lens that creates this effect, but rather the position of the photographer relative to the subjects in the scene.
Sharpening Settings
This article delves into the general settings that are commonly used for sharpening using software such as Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic, to help you better understand what these settings do and how to best apply them to your photos.
Time Zone Management
If your photography ever involves travel across time zones, you have probably struggled with managing the capture time on your camera and in the metadata for your photos. In this article I share tips for how to deal with time zone changes for your photography.
Photo Story: Fishermen at Sunrise
While leading a photo workshop based in Salzburg, Austria, with a focus on the majestic Alps, I captured a photo I’m very happy with that was only possible because I listened to one of my students. In this article I share the story behind the photo.
Pixology magazine is included in the GreyLearning Ultimate Bundle, and is also available as a standalone subscription here:
I have just published a comprehensive new video course on “Optimizing Photos in Lightroom Classic 10“, which includes 65 lessons totaling almost five hours of informative content.
This is the second in a series of courses on Adobe Lightroom Classic 10, and you can save by pre-ordering the full bundle of courses covering all aspects of Lightroom Classic.
I am already in production on courses to help you understand and configure Lightroom Classic, as well as a course on sharing photos from Lightroom Classic. Those courses will be added to the “Mastering Lightroom Classic 10” bundle as soon as they are completed.
You can get details of the full bundle of courses covering Lightroom Classic 10 on the GreyLearning website here:
During the month of January 2021 I’ll be teaching two live online workshops in our “virtual classroom”, during which participants can get answers to their specific questions. The two online workshops for January are “Photoshop for Lightroom Classic Users” and “Cleaning Up Your Mess in Lightroom Classic”. You can get either an individual online workshop or the bundle of both at a discounted rate.
You can get all of the details about the bundle of both online workshops 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:
In my latest presentation as part of the GreyLearning Webinar Series I shared tips for keeping track of the location where you captured your photos using a variety of options in Adobe Lightroom Classic. The recording of the “Tracking Photo Locations in Lightroom Classic“ presentation has now been published on my “Tim Grey TV” channel on YouTube, and you can view the recording here:
I have just published a comprehensive new video course on “Organizing Photos in Lightroom Classic 10“, which includes more than 100 lessons totaling more than six hours of informative content.
This is the first in a series of courses on Adobe Lightroom Classic 10, and you can save by pre-ordering the full bundle of courses covering all aspects of Lightroom Classic.
The next course is in production, and will focus on “Optimizing Photos in Lightroom Classic 10”. After that, I will be publishing courses on configuring Lightroom Classic, sharing photos with Lightroom Classic, and more.
You can get details of the full bundle of courses covering Lightroom Classic 10 on the Greylearning website here:
I will be a keynote speaker for the online Annual Photography Conference hosted by the Florida Camera Club Council, being held February 10-11, 2021.
