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Erica, Nick, & Darin answer questions from listeners of the podcast & from the new Portrait Session Podcast Listener's Facebook Group. The three tackle questions ranging from how to switch from Lightroom 5 to Lightroom CC all the way to kickstarting your business.
What's in this episode:
- What takes your photos from “Nice” to “WOW!”
- If you were to buy only ONE piece of Lighting Equipment; what would it be?
- Does a matte edit on an indoor portrait work well? When should it not be used?
- Are lighting modifiers recommended at receptions?
- How to completely migrate your library & photos form Lightroom 5 to Lightroom CC.
- Our favorite rechargeable batteries.
- Best practices for photographing a subject with special needs.
- Tips for kickstarting your photography career while working a full-time job.
- Nick's Lesson Learned.
- Erica's Lesson Learned.
- Darin's Lesson Learned.
Resources Mentioned:
- Improve Photography's 2016 China Workshop – (Do not miss out on this adventure of a lifetime with Erica, Nick, Jim, & Brian!)
- EBL Battery Charger 12-Bay LCD Battery Charger – (Nick's Charger of choice!)
- YN-560III or YN-560IV & YN560-TX
- Phottix Mitros TTL Flash & Phottix Odin Wireless TTL Trigger Set
- Amazon Basics AA Rechargeable Batteries & Eneloop Rechargeable Batteries
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I was wondering if you could explain using kelvin to adjust your white balance, the advantages and how you go about deciding what value to use? Thanks, I really enjoy the podcast.
@ Anthony… I would say the biggest advantage to using Kelvin.. is for one.. it will be more consistent from shot to shot than AWB. and there are a lot of times that the presets like cloudy, shade, sunlight.. just dont really get it perfect. Especially when your inside tungsten can be just too cool for my taste.. so I like to dial in my own and just run with it.. if I get it right when take the photos.. its one less thing I have to change later on (in a perfect world)
Thank you for the kind words!
You mentioned the charger for the Amazon rechargeable batteries – which charger do you use?
oh never mind, I see the link. oops
I am having trouble finding the facebook group you mentioned. Can you share the link?
Here it is Sara: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PortraitSessionPodcastListeners/