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This week: Apple updates it's RAW support, Nicole Young joins us as a special co-host, and an interview with Ibarionex Perello of the Candid Frame podcast.

Hosts: Frederick Van Johnson, Ron Brinkmann, Aaron Mahler, Nicole Young

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Intro Music by Scott Cannizzaro

Show producer Aaron Mahler at www.halfpress.com or www.twitter.com/halfpress

Show notes by Bruce Clarke at www.momentsindigital.com or www.twitter.com/bruceclarke

NEWS & DISCUSSION

Apple Releases Camera RAW Update
Update 2.6 is not a major update but it does include support for a few new cameras including the Canon Digital Rebel T1i (EOS 500D in Europe), Nikon D5000 and Olympus E-30 digital SLRs. Still no support for the LX3 which Ron thinks stinks. This leads into a discussion regarding what everyone on the panel is using as their carry-around point-and-shoot camera. Ron is using the LX3 and mainly shoots in JPEG + RAW because he doesn't want the hassle of the workarounds needed to work with the RAW files but he likes to have the RAW file around just in case he gets an amazing shot that he wants to do more tweaking with.

Fred is still using his Canon G9 as his P&S camera. Nicole uses a Nikon P5100 but is looking to upgrade. Aaron just uses his DSLR but he has been trying to find a G9 on eBay and prices just seem to keep going up on them due to their scarcity.

Olympus Celebrates 50 years of Pen Series
To celebrate 50 years of the Pen series, Olympus published a video celebrating the history of the Pen Series. In related Olympus news, information on a micro 4/3rds Olympus 'Digital Pen' was leaked prematurely.

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Nikon versions of PocketWizard MiniTT1, FlexTT5 slip to the Fall
Presently the MiniTT1 and Flex TT5 are only available for Canon users. Nikon users will have to wait until the fall.

PHOTO ASSIGNMENT & CURRENT POLL

The current assignment is in it's 2nd week and the assignment is Retro. The winners of the last three contests are now available on the blog. The current poll which will continue for one more week is: Has the quantity of photos / shoots you do changed since becoming a TWiP listener? So far it's running an even split between three of the choices. The choices are: A) It's decreased. I'm too busy listening to you guys gab to go shoot anything. B) I'm taking about the same quantity as I always have. Inspire me, please. C) I shoot a little more than I did before dedicating my life to TWiP. D) Yes! Considerably more than in the dark days before TWiP came into my life.

INTERVIEW WITH IBARIONEX PERELLO

Fred: This week's guest is Ibarionex Perello the guy behind the Candid Frame Podcast and a new tutorial podcast which we'll talk about later. He has a ton of experience in photography and is one of the people who influenced me to get into podcasting. Thanks for coming on the show.

Ibarionex: Thanks for having me Fred. You're making me feel older than I am with that kind of an introduction. I'm happy to be here and I'm a big fan of the show.

Fred: For people haven't heard of you, talk a bit about how you got bit by the photography bug and how you cut your teeth in the photography industry.

Ibarionex: It started for me when I was 8. I was attending the Boy's Club of Hollywood and one of the counselors there was a shutterbug who built a darkroom and brought in people to teach us about photography and developing. Once I made that first print it was game over. I pursued it more as a hobby from K-12 but in college I ended up on the school newspaper where I discovered that I could write, take photographs and tell stories and decided that I could really make a difference with my photography. From then on, every job I had after that was photo-related. I worked for Nikon for about 7-8 years and then worked for Warner Publishing as the associate editor for Outdoor Photographer Magazine, PC Photo Magazine and Digital Photo Pro. I left there to start my own thing at first freelancing as a writer and photographer and then I started a multimedia company with some friends of mine producing video and photography for a variety of businesses and non-profits.

Fred: Having worked at places like Apple, I learned that you get a different perspective. Did you get that when you were working at Nikon?

Ibarionex: I certainly drank the Kool-aid while working there but having a chance to go out and use it reaffirmed how good of a product it was. I shoot with everything these days but I still have an affinity for Nikon products. When working there, as soon as new gear came in, I was one of the first ones to test it and really use it and push it to see what it could do because I knew that it was important and that people would be asking me for my opinion on the gear.

Fred: Let's fast forward to today and talk about your podcast the Candid Frame. Why did you start that?

Ibarionex: I was at the magazine and enjoying writing profiles about the photographers but there was only so much space in the magazine. When I started listening to podcasts like 'Tips from the Top Floor', so much was focused on gear and technique and I wanted to hear more from photographers and learn about their work. I knew I could do interviews and I knew photographers, so l figured out how to record conversations using Skype and once I got rolling it gave me a chance to talk to photographers who I wanted to talk to.

Fred: John M on Twitter wants to know what percentage of time do you spend on your own images vs. viewing, commenting and discussing others?

Ibarionex: Not enough. Right now if I get half a day of shooting time it's good. These days I'm pretty much trying to run a business and don't have as much time to shoot. The bulk of my time is is spent just trying to book photography gigs.

Fred: What percentage would you say is spent on photography vs. running the business?

Ibarionex: Five years ago when I had a job bringing in a steady paycheque it was probably 90% photography and 10% business. Now that I'm dependent upon my own will to earn a living, the time I have to dedicate to making images for my own soul is very precious to me.

Fred: Getting back to the podcast, some of the guests you have on the Candid Frame are outstanding. Who has been your favorite guest so far?

Ibarionex: That's an easy one - Joe Myerwitz. He talks and gems just fall out of his mouth. There are a lot of photographers who do amazing work but there are very few who can speak to the why and how they are doing it.

Fred: One of my favorites who I've been following is Greg Gorman. How was it talking to him?

Ibarionex: He was a class act. I got to go over to his house/studio and it was a great conversation. Part of what happens is due to the approach I take not going in talking about gear and equipment. People get caught off guard but when they realize the direction the interview is taking they end up relaxing and enjoying the conversation and it becomes more of just a dialogue and two people chatting.

Fred: What is your mindset behind getting your show together?

Ibarionex: I look around and asks who excites me? Who's work inspires me that I want to ask questions about it. I'm always trying to think about people other than the usual suspects.

Fred: John M on Twitter asks how the new podcast is going?

Ibarionex: That started off because I saw that there were a lot of podcasts on photography but again I didn't think it was particularly interesting. I'd like to do a podcast that is more instructional but didn't want to be standing in front of a camera saying 'this is a 50mm lens and this is an f-stop'. Part of my company Alas Media is about storytelling so lets focus on say an interesting personality. Let's go out and shoot me photographing them and I'll focus on one sort of concept or principal of photography. It's a work in progress so you'll see with each episode that it changes a little bit.

Fred: What is the name of the new podcast and where can people find it?

Ibarionex: The name of the show is Shooting with Alas. It's available at www.shootingwithalas.com or you can subscribe on iTunes.

Fred: Thanks for taking the time to speak to us today. Where can people find out more about you?

Ibarionex: Go to the Candid Frame.com or you can subscribe via iTunes. To learn more about my own work you can visit www.ibarionex.com

LISTENER QUESTIONS

Q. Mark Duens writes: I'm a Security Forces member in the Air Force and I'm tasked to deploy by the end of the year. I plan on taking my Canon 40d with me. Would you recommend me buying a Camera Armor casing for my camera? Also is there anything else that I should bring, i.e. cleaning kits, battle tested gear?

A. Fred: Pelican cases are the industry standard so I would normally pack all my gear in those to bring them over and then transfer items to a photography bag once you get to your location. Nicole. It depends on what you can bring. I was in the Navy for awhile and depending upon his deployment he might be limited in what he can bring.

Q. Jay Lyon asks: On the show you've spent a lot of time discussing photographer's rights, but I recently happened upon another legal topic important to photographers. Apparently a patent was issued that protects the process of taking pictures of a sporting event, like a running race, and putting them online, searchable by jersey number, and selling them. This is troubling because it doesn't really allow the inventor to benefit from his innovation insomuch as make him rich from a process that I'd consider obvious.

A. Ron: The patent system is completely broken these days. I understand the reason behind some of them but most of them are silly. Net net for photographers shooting this kind of stuff I don't think it will be an issue. It just points that the patent process is ridiculous and hopefully changes will happen.

Q. Shayne Gelo writes: I typically shoot in aperture priority, and manually set the ISO. When I use a flash, the shutter speed is also locked to 1/60 s. From what I understand that's all the variables that go into getting the right exposure. My question is how does the camera get the exposure right if all these variables are set? Sometimes I get a very underexposed shot when shooting like this, and if I turn to automatic and shoot the same shot it seems to get the right exposure with similar settings. What am I missing?

A. Aaron: The camera / flash combo should pre-flash, measure and set flash power and shutter speed according to what it meters in the pre-flash. In some situations, though, this might be misjudged or be outside of the realm of what is possible with your aperture locked tight. This seems like a good situation for using EXIF metadata to learn camera behavior. When you get one of those shots in Av mode, switch to Program/Auto, shoot a "good" one and then compare the settings the camera chose between the two shots to see where the differences are. See if it's consistent in those tests. Nicole: Make sure to check the settings on the flash. If it's in manual perhaps the camera is trying to override the settings and bumping up the ISO.

Q. Dave Henri writes: I've been trying to get my in-laws to switch over to Mac for about 5 years now. My mother-in-law is a hobbyist wildlife photographer and I'm always sure to show off all the tools in Aperture every time they come for a visit. Their old Vaio finally quit on them and I had them talked into a $999 Macbook. I told them to get it at an Apple Store, not a big box store. They went to go get it......AND THE APPLE "GENIUS" TOLD THEM A MACBOOK WOULDN'T RUN APERTURE!! What the hell?!?

A. Ron: Not true. I have a MacBook in front of me that I run Aperture on. I have a MacPro at home which is a bit snappier but both Lightroom and Aperture will run on a MacBook.

If you want to get your question into us, visit the TWiPlog and submit your listener question through the site.

PICKS OF THE WEEK

Aaron - Logitech MX Revolution Mouse

Nicole - My pick is a technique -Dragging the shutter. Use a slow shutter speed, use a flash, twist the camera around and you get some pretty neat effects

Ron - the new iPhone 3GS

Fred - the latest MacBook Pros from Apple

NEXT WEEK

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WRAP UP

Nicole Young - http://nicolesyblog.com/ or www.twitter.com/nicolesy

Ron Brinkmann - wwww.digitalcomposting.com or www.twitter.com/ronbrinkmann

Aaron Mahler - www.halfpress.com or www.twitter.com/halfpress

Frederick Van Johnson - www.frederickvan.com or www.twitter.com/frederickvan

Visit the blog at www.twiplog.com and the Flickr critique group.

Show notes by Bruce Clarke at www.momentsindigital.com or www.twitter.com/bruceclarke