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Live Show Recap: Food Photography

Hello again! It feels like we just looked at your food, yet here you are again, making us hungry.

PhotoNews:

Here are some notable photo reviews:

  • “woah, this is some old-timey food”
  • (ok so there was only one pick in that batch)

Your questions:

  • How to make a logo in Photoshop? Use Squarespace.
  • (ok, there was also only one question in this batch)

More PhotoNews:

Portfolio review: spoooky. Get rid of your creepy photos if you want to be hired! Maybe create two separate sites for art and for portfolio work. Also choose a different layout so that your images are a consistent size.

Back to photo reviews:

More PhotoNews?

More questions from you, our viewers:

  • Photo gear insurance?
  • AF and AF-S focus speed difference?

Portfolio review #2. Mix your events together, pare down a bit.

Chit-Chat! Chelsea’s favorite segment where they read your comments and disregard your opinions.

More food:

More questions/podcast name suggestions:

  • sdp.io/icoveredthisinmybookstunningdigitalphotography
  • Eye-Fi? Tethering?
  • Videography channels? We like nofilmschool.com
  • If an eye were a lens…?

More photos:

Your final questions:

  • Happy birthday, Beethoven!
  • Calendars made by our young friends

And that’s a show, folks! We won’t see you again until the new year, our next  show is January 7th. The theme will be your best photo of 2015! Thanks and happy holidays, friends.

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Live Show Recap: Weddings with Toby and Christina

Guest hosts Toby and Christina were in studio to review your wedding photos! Some tips on shooting weddings at the top of the show from Christina. Great tips on shooting weddings all around this show, so watch it all if you are interested in being a pro wedding photog!

Keep an eye out for their upcoming video of their fast food challenge! They formed two teams with $25 to spend in props using entry level digital cameras to shoot fast food. Which did you vote for?

Let’s review some photos! Notable shots:

Question from you:

  • Chelsea and Tony eloped! So, no wedding photos

Portfolio review! Great images, but pare them down and ditch that staggered layout.

Back to photos:

  • this one gets a ppp (post processing pick)
  • cute reaction shot
  • probably not a real wedding, but gorgeous

Back to me for questions:

  • how to shut those phones and cameras down at weddings? Bring a second shooter to kick the iPad.

More photos:

Poll results!

More questions:

  • what do you use for wedding lighting? Christina gives good lighting tips.
  • have any crazy wedding stories?

Chit-Chat!

  • “You don’t know what a silicon wig is?”
  • “We’re limited by the speed of light”

Aaaand more photo reviews:

A few more questions:

  • pre-wedding coaching?
  • your jobs before becoming pro photographers?

Great show! Next week we’ll be doing food photography again, so tune in as always at 5pm EST.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Live Show Recap: Cars

Hey friends! We reviewed your car photos! There were some gems, if you’re into that sort of thing. We have a video on car show photography here.

sdp.io/help to click through and a few cents for your purchases will go to us!

This coming Thursday we’ll have Toby and Christina on the live show! We’ll be reviewing your Wedding photos.

Here is the grading system on your car photos:

Grade C: Car

Grade B: + Background

Grade A: + Motion

(A+ is +hot babe)

Check out our holiday deals if you haven’t already! And pre-order our upcoming Photshop book! sdp.io/store

Ok, PhotoNews:

  • PhaseOne bought Mamiya
  • Nikon + Samsung merger?
  • T&C on another live news show! sdp.io/ctstyle
  • Pentax full-frame
  • Adobe CC updates, PS customizable toolbar!

Ok, photo reviews. Here are the notable ones:

More PhotoNews:

Questions from you, the viewers:

  • Nikon DX?
  • review the Sony 28mm f/2?
  • what’s your favorite state in the US?
  • Adobe portfolio?

Now a portfolio review! Pare down your photos, ditch that staggered layout.

And another! Gotta ditch that title page, a solid front page photo will bring people in.

Chit-Chat! You say dumb things, we make fun of you.

Back to photo reviews:

  • cool car, cool setting, sexy babe!
  • 4-star ornament
  • Lanchester?
  • good tips given when discussing this Caddy
  • pick for this GT and the man with a baby
  • great environmental photo
  • a rare interior shot
  • weird car, great shot. “You need a heart transplant, this car will get it there”

More questions:

  • what computer for photo/video editing? Watch our video here.
  • Matt Granger wants to know what Photoshop book to get 🙂
  • thanks for cheating the internet, Germany!
  • Photoshop yellowing?
  • what’s your ideal lens?

Ok, photo speed round before we wrap up, check out those picks, there are some great ones!

Chelsea made a serious dick joke at Tony’s expense here. SLAY. Then she called herself a flying B.

Ok kids, that’s a show! Join us this week for Toby and Christina. Keep an eye out for “REKT” with Chelsea.

 

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Live Show Recap: HDR

HDR: the good, the bad and the ugly.

First off: NO SHOW NEXT WEEK. It is Thanksgiving in the US, so we’ll be eating to excess with our families. The week after will be “Cars”, then the week after (Dec 10th) Toby and Christina will be on the live show!

Black Friday! November 27th, we’re giving away signed, numbered prints for the first 50 purchasers of our Everything Set. Keep an eye out for that insanity.

PhotoNews:

  • Chelsea and Tony were on the news! sdp.io/nyberg
  • Challenge! Show us your polarizing filter shots vs non-polarized shots (both RAW files to tony@northrup.org)
  • “Did you just say peen?” “I guess you could say this video was… polarizing”
  • Development of the Nikon D5 announced
  • Z Camera E1 sdp.io/e1

Question:

  • How many exposures for HDR? 3-5

Now to review some photos! Picks, stars and notable bits:

Question:

  • Would you alter a photo for a client?

Portfolio review! Justin teaches us about baby seagulls and why we never see them.

Chit-Chat, where they read your comments on past videos and maybe make fun of you. Chelsea’s favorite segment, for obvious reasons.

  • “Don’t be a scratch pansy”.
  • “It’s like how I look pretty until I go to New York City”
  • Leica users. The worst.
  • “Are these two dating?”
  • The professor

Back to your photos (after the stream drops and then comes back in with my calling to my dog):

More PhotoNews:

Another lovely portfolio!

More of your questions:

  • Tony and Chelsea tell you how their work has influenced each other
  • holiday gift idea video coming up! Here‘s last years
  • how to photography snowy owls

Photo speed round!

One more question, T&C’s favorite photos of their’s. Check out their portfolios: Chelsea, Tony.

And that’s our show. Next week we’re off, see you in two weeks for CARS! Have a great Thanksgiving, those of you who celebrate it.

 

 

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Live Show Recap: Emotions

Emotions! You got ‘um, we reviews ‘um.

PhotoNews:

We start reviewing photos at 13:19, and what a start

More PhotoNews:

  • Upcoming <$200 camera shootout
  • Bag review- Ona vs Peak Design and others

Question Time!

  • birdnerds
  • theme parks- 18-135 maybe?
  • make up

Portfolio Time!

sdp.io/portfoliochecklist

Back to photos:

Chit-Chat!

More questions!

  • have you shot any news?
  • what are your dream Lightroom features?

Photo speed round

“I have a cute story about my dog and a baby animal…”

That’s our show! Join us next week for your HDR shots.

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Live Show Recap: Three Picture Story

I’m back! Sorry if y’all missed my recap last week, I was busy moving into a more aesthetically pleasing house just so that you don’t have to see my stairs and a roll of wrapping paper behind me each live show. Now you can see an umbrella.

This week we were reviewing your 3-picture stories and… some of you got it.

Super-long Squarespace plug to start. We used to review so many rough looking portfolios until you guys got into Squarespace. So just do it.

What’s Chelsea drinking? Tequila!

Next week’s topic: Emotion! “A photo that clearly shows an emotion. Put the emotion in your file name.”

PhotoNews:

  • Sony announced the a68 because they are prolific
  • BOOMR Strap review coming up, “but why?”
  • Lytro Immerge
  • This just in: Tony still hates Kickstarter
  • Buy our T-shirts

We start reviewing pictures at 10:33 and Tony comes to the realization that he can’t crop these.

Picks and notable rants:

  • Inter-species cuddles
  • Cinematic landscape
  • Chelsea and Tony don’t recognize the wedding reveal. Hilarity ensues.
  • A love story between and antelope and a stick
  • None of Chelsea’s friends have ever come to show her a giant donut
  • Baseball
  • Dinosaur hunting
  • Birds and the bees

Portfolios

Over to me with your questions

  • The Photoshop book will be up for pre-order soon!
  • What was your dream car at 16? Chelsea and Tony go off on a car tangent for a while.
  • F— all other photography books.
  • Get Chelsea’s tablet at sdp.io/wacom

Chit Chat!

Back to your photos at 43:55

More questions

  • Would you move to Fuji for portraits? An unequivocal no.

Ok, now another portfolio. A wunderkind, Caleb Rayne! Check this kid’s work out, impressive. His parents declined Chelsea’s invitation to adopt him. “Fetal photographer”

Speed round photo reviews at 1:03:09

  • I would just like to point out that this file name is written, verbatim “frezzing_drawnig_deer_that_lived” Everyone work on your spelling.
  • Kids getting sprayed in the face make Tony laugh. Evil.
  • Engagement!
  • For the birds
  • I’m tagging this one because they skipped over it, but I think it’s great.
  • Yarn forest

More questions from you:

  • Have you considered doing a photo workshop? Yes and no.
  • sdp.io/dell23 for Tony’s touchscreen
  • clean your sensor
  • Wildlife body
  • how to shoot a live event
  • interesting lenses- Petzval, Rokinon, Lensbaby
  • My dog ate a ball and had to have surgery. Dogs are dumb.

We just end up chatting after that, go watch The Martian maybe? Or Trick R’ Treat.

Next week! 5pm EST. Show us your emotions.

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Live Show Recap: Fun Colors

Hello again! We reviewed your fun (and some not-so-fun) color photos this week and we got some creative ones! But not your Autumn scenes. Those were not creative. I deleted them.

PhotoNews:

We start reviewing photos at 10:51. Lots of drug references this week due to trippy colors.

More PhotoNews:

I read some of your questions:

Back to your photos!

Aaaand back to me for your questions

More news?! No. Chit Chat!

 

 

Ok, now more news:

  • no more batteries over 100 watts on planes!
  • register them drones, and get on with the pizza delivery

Portfolios! Squarespace!

Smaakjeks gets my portfolio pick for the night.

Back to photo reviews here

More questions from you and MAN is this going on for a long time. So many bullet points, I’m gonna speed round this wrap-up! Chelsea keeps cycling through photos as Tony answers, this one was a standout. As is this stunner! Then the stream dies for a minute and cuts back in to me talking to Chelsea about moving. Oops. We move on to a speed round. Here’s a good one.

And we’re done! Next week submit your spoOooOoky photos!

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Beginner Project Series: Fun Colors

Well, this is embarrassing. I’ve worked for Northrup Photography for over a year now, but I still don’t know how to take pictures. I mean, I know how to press a button, but you know that’s not what it takes. So it seems well past time for me to actually begin the learning process. It’s the getting started that scares me. Where do I begin? Well, by taking pictures, I imagine. So I’ve done that a bit.

I studied photography in high school (with Chelsea, actually!), and I took photography classes my one year in college. I loved it. I loved the way my view changed, the way that I saw everything as a potential photograph. But then life happened, carrying around a big DSLR (and boy were they big back then!) never seemed practical. Without the constrains of school, I didn’t have the motivation. So I realize now, to get back into it, I need to give myself a project. And what could be easier than using the show I am on each week? That’s right, the live show submission topics! This week’s theme coming up is broad: fun colors.

I happen to live in a city, and don’t have a car, and work from home. So I don’t get out much. And frankly, it’s getting a bit cold, and my house is cozy. So I’m cheating this week and using a photo I took a few months back when I was in CT visiting my family. My mother took my daughter, Eloise, and me to the aquarium. (I don’t really endorse aquariums, but my mom was paying and my daughter was excited. Who can say no to that?)

I took along my borrowed Nikon D3300, a good little beginner camera. My favorite shots were the ones I took of indoor aquarium life, the seahorses, jelly fish, and sharks. My photos were noisy, for sure, but I captured a lot of color.

One of my favorites was this little guy

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ISO 25600 f/5 1/40 sec

Great light, movement, and color. And I love an abstract. So for the color project I decided to just make it a little more dramatic, with the few tools I know. I imported it into Lightroom and cropped it a bit to take out the dark edge on the left side. Then into the Develop Module to do some split toning. I adjusted my histogram and checked to make sure I had some bright whites and dark blues (in this case, no blacks.)

split tone

I chose a blue hue for the shadows to darken them and reduce the appearance of noise in the background (not the best technique, but it worked!) and make the image more dramatic. I chose a yellowish green for the highlights to make the brighter spots pop.

And that is that.

Not a huge challenge, but a start. And that’s all I need, to put one metaphorical foot in front of the other.

What do you think? What would you have done differently? Teach me!

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Live Show Recap: Outdoor Portraits

Guys, everyone was losing their minds about how bad the sound was on this video at the beginning, but watching it back now it seems you are all hyper-sensitive babies. You can skip to 16:07 if your darling little ears can’t handle it 🙂

So Justin wasn’t there this week, he had family in town for a short time, but it is obvious that we need him desperately. Hire Jason! We also had special guest Madelyn!

We looked at your outdoor portraits this week and you sent in SO MANY! There were some great ones.

As always, we get started with PhotoNews at 4:09. Canon announced the M10, their mirrorless camera and the G5 X point-and-shoot. Sony let Tony and Chelsea see the new RX1R II while they were in New York to test the A7S II.

Oh good, a new selfie stick: sdp.io/osmo. It is a bit better than a selfie stick though, check it out.

Tony tries to fix the audio problems and then Chelsea starts whispering like an ASMR video. But then the mic starts popping, so it gets worse before it gets better. Now it’s unlistenable for a few minutes.

We start looking at your photos at 11:06, if you can handle the terrible noises. We troubleshoot that for a few more minutes. Picks for everyone!

A deserved 5 stars and a pick for this one, which would fit in nicely for next weeks theme as well!

Ok, sound gets better at 16:07, so rejoin us!

Chelsea gives this shot a pick, even though it’s more a candid than a portrait.

5 stars for this cool lady.

Immediate love for this gentleman, Curt Tweedle. Will you be our grandpa?

Over to me with your questions at 31:43.

We review portfolios at 33:36, great start Rob Spradlin! We give him some advice on going pro at 38:37.

More PhotoNews at 41:13. Mind your drones.

David Updike may have a terrible photo of himself, but that doesn’t make him a creep. But then Chelsea had to mention sexism against men (oh boy) and out come the MRAs in our comment section.

Results of the photo poll at 46:25!

We have a poll for what future segments you want to include in the live show at sdp.io/poll31.

Lightroom issued an apology for the latest update! It’s since been updated again.

Another question from you at 49:13, then Chit-Chat at 50:06. T&C will be doing a more extensive review on the A7S II, don’t you worry. How much money have you crapped? I need make jokes.

More photo reviews at 53:20, and this fashionable lady gets 5 stars and a pick. This dapper fella gets one too. And this one! You’re on a roll. This one gets a pick once Chelsea crops it. And a pick for this one, great mood.

A few more questions from the viewers at 1:04:44. Tony nerds out about programming, watch us all go dead-eyed.

They speed through more photos while I ask about gels and a few babies and ladies get picks, I can’t note them all! This one is particularly noteworthy. Lots of good ones in this batch.

And that’s our show! Rocky start, but we made it out. Next weeks show is on fun colors. We look forward to seeing them. Thanks for watching and reading!

 

 

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Live Show Recap: Fashion Photography

Hey all! We had a fun show last week looking at your fashion photos.

We start off with PhotoNews and this crazy Light L16 which Tony is dubious about. Chelsea appears to have some trypophobia triggered by the look of it.

Chelsea heralds David Carson for standing up for artists #teamdavid

http://photogrammar.yale.edu/ is a great site of early 20th century photos from across the US. We talk about John Mason and Christopher Columbus and similar jerks who stole countries from natives that we shouldn’t celebrate anymore.

Tony makes a joke about Chelsea being pregnant that is NOT TRUE.

We start reviewing your photos at minute 13. This shot at 15:05 gets a pick!

After some confusion and refining of what makes a fashion photo, we see a few great examples at 25:05, 26:22 and 28:55.

Someone made this great/weird spot color of Chelsea at 29:21.

I get into your questions at 29:52. Who would you photography historically? How do you waterproof your gear? What are the most important technological advancements in photography for you personally? Tony suggests the Sigma 24-105 or the Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 if money is no object.

More news! Lightroom updates. Avoid the Lightroom/CC update, it’s buggy. There is an update for Lightroom mobile as well, which is still only fine, as well as Photoshop Fix and Capture CC.

Ok, so this is Pluto’s moon, pronounced Karen but spelled Charon. I was wrong. Tony and Chelsea get nerdy on space.

Plugs for my recap here as well as our wonderful guest posts by Samantha and Ivo!

Back to photo reviews at 45:14.

A pick for Atomic Starlet! We see your pandering, and we love it at 47:47. Who wore it best? The invisible man’s wife shows up at 51:31.

We get into some of your Squarespace portfolios at 52:22 and T&C give some great tips on improving your portfolio at 56:06.

Everyone’s favorite segment, Chit-Chat, starts at 59:59. Coincidence? I think Northrup. Chelsea plugs Dairy Queen then reveals the origin of her BYU hat at 1:02:36.

More questions from you at 1:04:55, Chelsea demonstrates how tiny women’s pockets are with her 6s. Then back to your photos. A few great fashion shots here, here and here! This wild lifestyle shot is great at 1:12:04, you guys really upped your game towards the end of the show! A nice catalog looking shot at 1:12:17 and another at 1:13:27 and they keep coming! We read script written for us about this photo of a dog in a shirt at 1:14:59. Great way to end the show!

We’ll see you this week for your outdoor portraits! Thanks for watching/reading.