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PhotoActive — 211 episodes

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Episode 211: Obsessive Isn’t a Bad Word

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Episode 210: Photo Scouting

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Episode 209: What If Apple Makes a Camera?

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Episode 208: DaVinci Resolve, Lightroom Killer?

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Episode 207: Monochrome Sensors, DNG, and Apple 50th

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Episode 206: You Can’t Trust Photos Anymore

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Episode 205: Spec Goblins and the MacBook Neo

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Episode 204: Storage Prices

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Episode 203: Do You Have $10,000 to Spare?

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Episode 202: Pixelmator Pro Returns

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Episode 201: What’s Real

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Episode 200: All Our Cameras

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Episode 199: Vroom Vroom

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Episode 198: I’m Not an Animal

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Episode 197: Overenthusiastic in Your Opinion

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Episode 196: Has Camera Tech Hit a Plateau?

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Episode 195: Hands On with the iPhone 17 Pro

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Episode 194: iPhone 17 and Apple’s Fall Event

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Episode 193: Photography Police and Google Pro Res Zoom

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Episode 192: Process, Product, and Problem Solving

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Episode 191: Macro Photography

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Episode 190: Fuji X-Half, AI Scaling, and Lightroom Changes

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Episode 189: Traveling with a Camera

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Episode 188: WWDC 2025

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Episode 187: Checking In on AI in Photography

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Episode 186: A Surrender: Markus Naarttijärvi and Daniel Agee

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Episode 185: Quintin Lake’s Book The Perimeter

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Episode 184: US Tariffs and Camera Gear

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Episode 183: Fujifilm GFX100RF, A Medium Format Walking Around Camera

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Episode 182: Photoshop on iPhone

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Episode 181: Leica Lux Grip and App for iPhone

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Episode 180: David Young’s Brief History of Photography

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Episode 179: iPhone Camera Accessories

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Episode 178: Photographing the LA Fires

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Episode 177: AI in Photography in 2025

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Episode 176: Cleaning Up Libraries

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Episode 175: What Is a Photo?

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Episode 174: Photos Clean Up

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Episode 173: iPhone Photo File Formats

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Episode 172: Photographic Styles on the iPhone 16

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Episode 171: iPhone 16 Pro Hands-On

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Episode 170: iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro

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Episode 169: Peakto 2.0 with Matthieu Kopp

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Episode 168: Image Stabilization

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Episode 167: Sensors and LUTs

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Episode 166: Pentax 17 and Photo Social Apps

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Episode 165: AI and Photography from WWDC

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Episode 164: M4 iPad Pro

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Episode 163: Photo Criticism

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Episode 162: Gear Acquisition Syndrome

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Episode 161: Nitro with Nik Bhatt

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Episode 160: Primed by Seeing

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Episode 159: Fuji X100VI and the Appeal of Small Fixed-Lens Cameras

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Episode 158: AI Revisited

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Episode 157: Photos at the High End: Hasselblad 907x/CFV 100C

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Episode 156: The Rescue Mission with Derrick Story

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Episode 155: Favorites from The Photo Book

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Episode 154: Lens Blur

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Episode 153: M3 Macs

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Episode 152: Android and AI

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Episode 151: iPhone 15 Hands On

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Episode 150: Episode 150: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro

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Episode 149: Daniel Agee on Glass Year 2

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Episode 148: Creativity with S J Watson

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Episode 147: Is Photo Editing Too Difficult?

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Episode 146: Tea and Coffee

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Episode 145: Kirk Simplifies with One Camera

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Episode 144: Wrangling Libraries with Matthieu Kopp

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Episode 143: Mike Shaw Wants You to Enjoy the Stars

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Episode 142: Photomator

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Episode 141: You Say You Want a Resolution

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Episode 140: Denoise and Healing Tools

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Episode 139: The Rant Episode

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Episode 138: DPReview and AI Photography

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Episode 137: Zoom Lenses with Chris Niccolls

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Episode 136: Photo Preconceptions

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Episode 135: Metadata

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Episode 134: Mike Hipple Lived Through That

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Episode 133: New Year, New Goals

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Episode 132: The Best Focal Length

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Episode 131: Buying a New Camera

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Episode 130: Apple Photos Little-Known Features

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Episode 129: Visualizing the Edit

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Episode 128: New iPads and Lightroom Updates

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Episode 127: Hands-On with the iPhone 14 Pro Cameras

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Episode 126: Portfolio Building with William Neill

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Episode 125: Gunning the Photonic Engine with the iPhone 14 Cameras

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Episode 124: Food Photography with Lauren Caris Short

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Episode 123: Learn Your Camera

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Episode 122: The Photographer's Radar

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Episode 121: Jeff's European Photo Adventure

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Episode 120: The Cameras of the Future

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Episode 119: WWDC and New Apple OSes

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Episode 118: Scott Kelby's Travel Tips

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Episode 117: John Cornicello on Lens Distortion

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Episode 116: iPad Photo Editing

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Episode 115: iPhone Camera Tips & Tricks

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Episode 114: Bryan Jones on Why Color Doesn't Exist

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Episode 113: Do Photographers Need the Mac Studio?

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Episode 112: Dan Bracaglia on Rediscovering Joy

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Episode 111: The Glass App(roach) to Photography

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Episode 110: Dealing with Distortion

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Episode 109: Joe McNally Is The Real Deal

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Episode 108: Masking in Lightroom

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Episode 107: Simulated vs. Optical Background Blur

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Episode 106: PhotoActive 2021 Gift Guide

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Episode 105: Aaron Hockley and Computational Photography

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Episode 104: The Leica Episode

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Episode 103: Posing People with Lindsay Adler

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Episode 102: The iPhone 13 Pro Cameras

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Episode 101: Practicing Photography with Ben Long

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Episode 100: One Hundred

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Episode 99: Photo Storage

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Episode 98: Camera Accoutrements

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Episode 97: William Neill's Landscape

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Episode 96: Photographing Kids

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Episode 95: Lens Filters Are Cool

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Episode 94: All About SD Cards

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Episode 93: P Is for Professional

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Episode 92: Sensors and Megapixels with Richard Butler

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Episode 91: iOS Editing Workflows

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Episode 90: Bryan William Jones on How We See

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Episode 89: Buttons and Knobs

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Episode 88: That Was the Year that Was

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Episode 87: Apple Photos Workflow on Mac

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Episode 86: Jordan Drake on Shooting Video

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Episode 85: Film Camera Love with Dan Bracaglia

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Episode 84: Editing Shadows and Highlights

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Episode 83: Raw and ProRaw on the iPhone

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Episode 82: Quintin Lake Returns

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Episode 81: The iPhone 12 Pro Cameras

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Episode 80: Street Photography with Valérie Jardin

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Episode 79: Professional Retouching with Lisa Carney

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Episode 78: Everyday Photo Retouching

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Episode 77: Photo a Day Challenge

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Episode 76: Shooting and Developing Film with Angus Haywood

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Episode 75: Creative Garden Photography with Harold Davis

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Episode 74: Michael Kenna and His New Book 'Buddha'

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Episode 73: Real Estate Photography with Rich Baum

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Episode 72: Night Skies with Glenn Randall

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Episode 71: The Exposure Square

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Episode 70: One-Light Portraits with Sandra Coan

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Episode 69: What to Print, with Rick LePage

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Episode 68: Revisiting Geotagging with HoudahGeo 6.0

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Episode 67: Chris Niccolls on Making Videos about Photography

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Episode 66: Manual Focus Lenses and Jeff's New Luminar Book

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Episode 65: Barney Britton on the Future of the Camera Industry

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Episode 64: Creativity Is Problem Solving, with David duChemin

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Episode 63: Sharing Photos

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Episode 62: Photos App Extensions with Nik Bhatt

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Episode 61: Choosing What to Photograph

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Episode 60: Machine Learning with Andrius Gailiunas and Pixelmator Pro

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Episode 59: Luminar 4 and Its AI Emphasis

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Episode 58: Rule of Turds

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Episode 57: Remote Triggered

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Episode 56: Considering a Second Camera?

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Episode 55: Photos App in iOS 13 and macOS Catalina

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Episode 54: Product Photography with Dan Bracaglia

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Episode 53: Focus Stacking

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Episode 52: iPhones 11 and Semantic Rendering

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Episode 51: Questions, Answers, and Geotagged Flowers

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Episode 50: Creative Black and White Photography with Harold Davis

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Episode 49: Creating Panoramas

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Episode 48: Adventures with Dan Bailey

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Episode 47: Jeff Becomes an Event Photographer

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Episode 46: Pet Photography with Norah Levine

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Episode 45: Editing Photos in Desktop Apps

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Episode 44: Minimalist Photographer Michael Kenna

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Episode 43: Autofocus with Rishi Sanyal

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Episode 42: Memory Cards

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Episode 41: Bird Photography with Marie Read

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Episode 40: Location Exploration with HoudahGeo

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Episode 39: Tripods with Mason Marsh

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Episode 38: Levels and Curves with Nik Bhatt

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Backups and 360-degree Photography

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Episode 36: Photographing with Constraints

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Episode 35: Martin Parr Shot My Portrait

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Episode 34: Ben Long's Complete Digital Photography

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Episode 33: The Language of Photo Editing

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Episode 32: New Year's Photo Ideas

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Episode 31: The Benefits of Digital Asset Managers

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Episode 30: Jason Snell Takes Control of Apple Photos

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Episode 29: Christmas Gift Guide

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Episode 28: Low-Light Photography

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Episode 27: Flying High with Ian Schray and Drones

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Episode 26: RAW Power 2.0

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Episode 25: Understanding iCloud Photo Library

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Episode 24: Manual vs Automatic Camera Settings

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Episode 23: Printing Photos with Rick LePage

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Episode 22: Editing Photos in iOS Apps

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Episode 21: High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography

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Episode 20: The Blur-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named

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Episode 19: Michael Rubin and Classic Photos

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Episode 18: Katrin Eismann on Photographic Literacy

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Episode 17: Prime vs Zoom Lenses

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Episode 16: Buying and Selling Camera Gear

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Episode 15: Time-Lapse Photography

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Episode 14: Chris Marquardt Goes Wide-Angle

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Episode 13: Aspect Ratios and Why They're Important

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Episode 12: David duChemin on the Long-Building Vision

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Episode 11: Selective Editing

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Episode 10: Quintin Lake's Long Photo Walk

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Episode 9: Instagram for Photographers

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Episode 8: Episode #8 - Gordon Laing on Taking Great Photos In Camera

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Episode 7: Do You Really Need All That Gear?

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Episode 6: Raw vs. Jpeg

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Episode 5: Wenmei Hill on Personal Photo Projects

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Episode 4: Mastering iPhone Photography

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Episode 3: Black & White

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Episode 2: Managing Photo Libraries

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Episode 1: Introducing the PhotoActive Podcast