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The Fotobug Photography podcast for travel and nature photographers. Interviews, training, reviews, and more!
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Sunday May 21, 2023
Sunday May 21, 2023
Jim and Fred recently traveled to southeast Florida and one of their favorite photo spots is Wakodahatchee. Wakodahatchee is a reclaimed water area that has been turned into a nature park. There is a 3/4 mile boardwalk surrounded by an amazing rookery with hundreds of nesting wood storks, great blue herons, great egrets, tri-colored herons and more! Yes, there are also alligators. Highly recommended and completely free! Wakodahatchee is located in Delray Beach.
Sunday May 07, 2023
Sunday May 07, 2023
Jim and Fred recently returned from south east Florida and their first stop was Jupiter Florida. If you plan to come to Florida and find yourself on the southeast coast, their are some great wildlife photo spots in and around Jupiter. Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate with The Fotobug guys, but they pushed on and still managed to get some shutter time! The photo spots Jim and Fred visited are Cypress Creek Natural Area, Loxahatchee Battlefield and the Jupiter Lighthouse.
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Steve Rolfe is a UK based photographer who recently published a book, Small World which is now available on Amazon and in bookstores. Steve uses tiny HO miniature figures to created fanciful and amusing miniature scenes to photograph. To learn more about Steve and his photography, please visit Steve's website at https://www.steverolfephotography.co.uk .
Sunday Apr 09, 2023
Sunday Apr 09, 2023
Sometimes the best image is actually contained with the full image you captured. In this case in order to get a decent size print, or sometimes, just a good size to post and share, you need to enlarge the crop. Jim and Fred compare three popular programs for their AI enlarging capability including On1, Topaz and Luminar Neo.
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Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
The Fotobug guys are happy to welcome back Ron Wyatt! Ron is always a delightful and informative guest and we know you will enjoy hearing Ron's latest adventures. Ron has some amazing upcoming photo trips and to learn more, check out Ron's website at http://www.ronwyattphotos.com/ .
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
New AI plugins in popular photo editing software are making amazing progress toward fixing and enhancing images. In this episode, Jim and Fred check out to see how three popular programs are able to 'fix' out of focus images. They do a side by side comparison of Topaz, ON1 and Luminar Neo.
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Focus stacking is the procedure of taking a number of photos from a fixed position and adjusting the focus between each frame, then using software to combine the focused portions of each image into a finished image. Skylum's Luminar Neo now has a module available that will take the image sequence and combine them into a finished image with a deeper range of focus! Simply import the images into Neo, then drag them over and drop them onto the module! Fred and Jim check out the new module.
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Fred and Jim headed up to north central Florida near Gainesville to Payne's Prairie. In addition to alligators, deer, eagles, and sandhill cranes, Payne's Prairie is the only park in Florida with wild bison in addition to wild horses! There are several hiking trails so watch the podcast to see where to go in the park for the best chance of spotting wonderful wildlife!
Sunday Jan 29, 2023
Sunday Jan 29, 2023
Out of The Fotobug vault! Back in 2017, Jim conducted a lightpainting workshop at the Black Hills Photo Shootout at the Western Heritage Center in Spearfish, South Dakota. This is an important technique for capturing parts of large objects, such as the one room schoolhouse, and then assembling the layers in Photoshop.
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Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Jim and Fred set out to do a complete review of the new Arsenal 2, but despite their best efforts, they weren't able to get it to work. The reason was due to the fact neither one bothered to watch the instructional videos and read the manuals! Big mistake! So, this is a first look at the Arsenal 2 and a full review will be presented in the near future - stay tuned!!
In the news we mentioned the DIY LED light for smart phones and the link for the instructions is https://hackaday.com/2023/01/01/ledcard-the-pocketable-ring-light/
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