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Photo Taco Podcast
by Jeff Harmon
Jeff Harmon, passionate hobbyist photographer, works as an Information Security professional by day and loves to break down complicated and/or technical photography topics so that the newest of photographers can understand them. No topic is too simple or too complicated for the show. If he doesn’t know the answer then he brings on an expert to help him break it down. Get photography tips in the time it takes to eat a taco, or perhaps a burrito!
Episodes
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Photographers Buying Guide – M3 MacBook Pro
A practical guide for photographers buying a 2023 M3 MacBook Pro and only spending what they need!
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HDR Editing in 2023 Using Lightroom and Photoshop
Adobe just finished up their annual MAX conference where they demonstrate the latest things their software can do to help content creators. This usually includes major updates to all of the products in their Creative Cloud suite, including Lightroom and Photoshop that photographers tend to care…
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Deciding to Print Yourself
Should photographers spend the time and money to print their images themselves rather than sending their images out to printing labs? Here are 5 decision points photographers should consider when making that decision. If you are a photographer considering getting into printing yourself, you are…
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Making DeNoise AI Faster
After more than 20 hours of real world testing, here is what a computer needs to make DeNoise AI faster!
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Help With Drive Space and Backups For Photographers
Practical help for photographers struggling to have enough drive space and good backups
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Dimensions and Quality For Social Media Photo Sharing
What Dimensions and Quality Should Photographers Use When Posting To Social Media? Nearly a constant debate online, I constantly get questions on the pixel dimensions, quality setting, and DPI that photographers should use when exporting out of Lightroom and Photoshop for posting the image on...
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13 Steps To Troubleshooting Lightroom Problems
13 steps photographers can use to troubleshoot problems with Lightroom and Lightroom Classic
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Find Your Lens Diffraction Point
An overview of diffraction and tips on how to find the aperture where it makes images soft.
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Lens Variance vs Bad Copy
It is highly unlikely a "bad" copy of a lens is to blame for any lack of sharpness in your images. Let me explain why and how to tell.
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Fire Full Moon – How I Shot The Moon With A Foreground
The details of how I created a picture of a full moon that includes a foreground and looks more like a sunrise than a moonrise
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What Does Apple Silicon Mean For Photographers?
Apple switching from Intel to Apple Silicon should mean faster Mac computers with longer battery life. Great news for photographers who use Macs. However, there are likely to be challenges during the transition and photo editing software like Lightroom and Photoshop may suffer.
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AMD vs Intel For Lightroom and Photoshop With Puget Systems
Conversation with Matt Bach from Puget Systems about AMD vs Intel for running Lightroom and Photoshop in mid-2020.
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Intel NUC – Inexpensive Photo Editing Computer
Can the relatively inexpensive and tiny form factor Intel NUC be a good photo editing computer? The PC counterpart to Apple's Mac Mini, this is the first in a series of videos taking a look at the Intel 10th generation Next Unit of Computing (NUC) to see how well it can run Lightroom and Photoshop.
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Slash The Import Time Of Lightroom Classic By 90%!
Learn how to use the embedded preview workflow with Lightroom Classic to slash 90% off the time to import raw files!
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Topaz DeNoise AI vs Lightroom and Photoshop
After more than a month spent putting hundreds of images through DeNoise AI it is a tool that I think photographers who consistently shoot in low-light environments should have in their toolbox. I explain why in this episode.
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Performance of External Drives With Lightroom Classic
More than 60 hours of testing different ways to have your Lightroom Classic catalog and photos stored on external drives proves that four features are 50% faster with your photos on an external SSD.
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Photographer’s Checklist For Sharper Photos
A checklist photographers can use to make sure they give themselves the very best possible chance of creating tack sharp photos.
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How To Do Water Droplet Photography With Don Komarechka
Learn how to do stunning water droplet photography from Don Komarechka, one of the world's leading experts in macro photography!
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Photography Lens Filters Explained!
Learn about neutral density (ND), graduated nuetral density (GND), circular polarizing (CPL), and ultra-violet (UV)filters for camera lenses. We explain what they are, when to use them, and recommend a best value brand for all types of photographers.
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Best Background for Composites
Learn why photographers new to composite photography should use a white background instead of green
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Taking the Intimidation Out of Photoshop With Aaron Nace
Jeff and Aaron Nace give advice on how to take the intimidation out of Photoshop so that it can become the tool they need to achieve their creative vision.
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How To Use The Texture Slider in Lightroom Classic
Learn what the new Texture slider added to Lightroom in May 2019 does, how to use it, and how it is different from Clarity and Sharpening.
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Getting Started In Macro Photography With Don Komarechka
Jeff talks with world renowned macro photography Don Komarechka about how to get started with macro photography.
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Concert Photography Tips With Steve Brazill
Jeff talks with concert photographer expert Steve Brazill about the tips, tricks, and techniques photographers should know about getting into concert photography.
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Adobe’s New Enhance Details Feature Explained!
Jeff Harmon explains what the new Enhance Details feature introduced by Adobe in the February 2019 release of Lightroom and Photoshop does and when photographers should use it.
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Why Photographers Should Choose Their Top Ten Photos Annually!
Jeff explains why photographers should choose their top ten image annually and what benefit he saw from doing that for 2018.
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Photographer’s Guide to RAID
Jeff and Greg Benz discuss the what, why, and how of RAID for photographers. What Is RAID Storage? RAID is a way to make a few hard drives work together to look like they are all one drive to your computer that can be very fast and more reliably than a single drive. We try hard here on Photo Taco...
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What Is Luminosity Masking?
Greg Benz joins Jeff to answer the question of “What is Luminosity Masking?” Episode Sponsors: Squarespace has beautiful templates to make your website look great and 24 hour support if you do happen to get stuck. Head over to squarespace.com/improve for a free trial and when you are ready to...
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Ultimate Guide to Digitizing Prints and Negatives
Chris Marquardt talks with Jeff about everything you need to know about digitizing prints and negatives/slides using scanners and cameras. Episode Sponsor: Squarespace We love squarespace and are sure you will too for showing off your best work. Head over to squarespace.com/improve for a free…
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What’s New with Lightroom CC 1.5?
Jeff is joined by good friend of the show, Victoria Bampton (better known as the Lightroom Queen), to talk about the new desktop and mobile features of Lightroom CC 1.5 released in August 2018.
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Adjustment Syncing and Selection in Lightroom
Jeff Harmon answers a listener question about how it is that adjustment syncing between two or more photos should work in Lightroom. He describes some important details about how photo selections work, the role of the "active" photo in selections and adjustment syncing, and some reasons why it…
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Lightroom Computer 2018
Jeff talks with computer building expert Matt Bach of Puget Systems about the best choices for building a computer to run Lightroom in 2018. They talk about all of the decisions to make to custom build a Windows computer, as well as the recommendations for where it is worth spending the money if...
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XMP Explained!
Jeff walks through the details of XMP, what it is, why photographers should care, the pros and cons, multiple options to turn in on in Lightroom, and a couple of lesser known options.
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ULTIMATE Guide to Backup for Photographers
Jeff refreshes information from his 2015 article, the ULTIMATE Backup Workflow for Photographers, with information from 2018 including the two "storage walls" photographers slam into in their photographic journey and how to recover from hitting both of them. Photoshop Feedback forum post on the...
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Lightroom 7.3 Profiles Explained!
Jeff walks through a revamp of the profiles feature in the release of Lightroom Classic CC 7.3 and Camera Raw 10.3. Even though profiles have been around for nearly 20 years, Adobe made a lot of changes to them in this release. Jeff walks through: There are now two types of profiles....
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Lr Embedded Preview Workflow
Jeff Harmon walks through how to significantly speed up you culling process in Lightroom by using the Embedded Preview workflow: Disable background processes (pause syncing to Lr CC, pause addresses lookup, pause face detection) Set critical preferences (Camera Raw Cache at least 50GB, enable…
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SAU Q1 2018 and Memory Card Hygiene
Jeff Harmon provides go/no go on the State of Adobe Updates Q1 2018. The he outlines 8 steps of good hygiene for memory cards: 1) Turn off Camera 2) Wait for 5 seconds 3) Carefully remove card and put it in a card reader 4) Use a GOOD card reader 5) Copy the photos to the computer using Finder on...
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Lr Classic CC 7.1 With The Lightroom Queen
Jeff is joined by Victoria Bampton, a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen, to talk about Lightroom Classic CC 7.1. They talk about her new Lightroom Classic CC The Missing FAQ book and go over 6 questions (including tips on faster culling in Lightroom, the magic alt/option key, Range Masks, and why you…
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DPI With Don Komarechka
Jeff and Don Komarechka geek out over one of the most misunderstood concepts of DPI or dots per inch. They talk about how file size, pixel dimensions, and DPI don’t really have anything to do with each other, how Adobe isn’t doing photographers any favors with how DPI is so prominently displayed…
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Lr Classic CC 7.1 Update & Composite Portraits
Jeff updated his Lightroom Classic CC status with version. 7.1 from “WAIT!” to “cautiously proceed”. He recommends backing up your catalog prior to updating and then checking out the new version at a point where you don’t have a huge client Jon to process and see how it works. He also found…
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Holiday Gift Guide 2017
Jeff Harmon goes over gift ideas for the 2017 holiday season in budget categories from $20 to $2,000. Don’t forget about the Improve Photography Retreat 2018 and Jeff’s post-Retreat workshop “Be a Ninja With Your Camera” that you can sign up for at http://www.jsharmonphotos.com/workshop. Links to...
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Is Lightroom CC Classic?
Jeff Harmon goes over the details about the two new Lightroom programs now available to Creative Cloud subscribers, the costs of the various Creative Cloud options, and a healthy number of bugs that have been reported making his recommendation be that photographers who need to get work done using...
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Inexpensive Flash
Jeff answers a listener question about hobbyist photographers getting into flash photography from listener Jose Lopez “I’ve primarily been taking photos of landscapes, events, and other natural light subjects, but recently wanted to do more photography where a flash would be beneficial. I’ve...
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Online Backup
Jim Goldstein, from cloud backup provider Backblaze, comes on to talk with Jeff about 7 important questions photographers should have about backing up their photos and Lightroom catalog to the cloud: 1) How can a cloud backup provider help with the “1” of the “3-2-1” backup strategy? 2) Does…
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HIGTS – Millers Park Wedding Photo
Jeff Harmon does a detailed “How I Got The Shot” (HIGTS) for the first portrait shot he felt like he created instead of just captured. It happened to be a wedding photo taken in the summer of 2017. He talks about how he actually had a sad ending to the story because the Lexar USB drive he was…
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AFMA Revisited
Jeff Harmon revisits one of the most popular Photo Taco topics ever published and talks about his experience doing Autofocus Micro Adjustment (AFMA) tuning over a 5 month period. There are things he has learned that are important for portrait photographers to understand. Resources Mentioned…
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Photographic Dynamic Range
Jeff Harmon talks with Bill Claff about his Photographic Dynamic Range testing and math that can be seen on his photonstophotos.net website. Jeff goes over the following questions with Bill: 1) Who is Bill Claff and what do you do with photography? 2) What is the story or background of your...
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2017 iMac For Photogs
Jeff Harmon talks about a few changes to the show with some consolidation to a single Improve Photography podcast feed and a single Facebook group and then answers a question from listener Katie Shipley who asked: “I had just finished listening to the podcast and taking notes on what to look for...
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PhotoPills Tour
Jeff Harmon takes listeners on a surface level tour of the PhotoPills app with 5 stops on the tour: 1) What does the PhotoPills app do? 2) How photographers should learn to use the app? 3) Why is the app called PhotoPills? 4) What do each of the Photo "Pills" do? 5) What are in the MyStuff and...
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Take Your PhotoPills
Jeff Harmon is joined by Rafel Pons of the PhotoPills app team to talk about how photographers can learn to use the fantastic PhotoPills app: 1) Best way to get started? 2) Free, online videos are great (photopills.com) but are there good cheat sheets available? 3) Advice for photographers...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Jeff Harmon, passionate hobbyist photographer, works as an Information Security professional by day and loves to break down complicated and/or technical photography topics so that the newest of photographers can understand them. No topic is too simple or too complicated for the show. If he doesn’t know the answer then he brings on an expert to help him break it down. Get photography tips in the time it takes to eat a taco, or perhaps a burrito!
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Jeff Harmon
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Jeff Harmon, passionate hobbyist photographer, works as an Information Security professional by day and loves to break down complicated and/or technical photography topics so that the newest of photographers can understand them. No topic is too simple or too complicated for the show. If he doesn’t...
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Photo Taco Podcast is created and hosted by Jeff Harmon.
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