The Digital Photography Show #59: Rick Sammon’s Top Ten Tips for Ultimate Travel Photography
The Digital Photography Show #59: Rick Sammon’s Top Ten Tips for Ultimate Travel Photography (22Mb, 63 mins)
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July 13, 2007: Welcome to the fifty-ninth episode of The Digital Photography Show!
Today, we have a great interview with Rick Sammon, one of the best triple-threat photographer/writer/teachers out there.
Rick shares his Top Ten Tricks for Ultimate Travel Photography. Click here for the original article as it appeared in PC Photo magazine.
Rick also tells us about his new DVD “Rick Sammon’s Canon EOS Digital Rebel Personal Training Photo Workshop.†This is a great resource not only for Digital Rebel users, but anyone who wants to know how to better employ their DSLRs. You’ll get 90 minutes of creamy Sammon goodness as he takes you on location and gives you his one-on-one training in how to get the most out of your DSLR.
Michael and I also talk about Scott Kelby’s blog and the New York Times article on choosing the best entry-level DSLR (see post below).
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It’s almost the cut off for our latest contest: Litle Creatures in A Little Color. The official sponsor of our contests is Wacom.
We are looking for animals smaller than a cat, which also means No cats and No dogs. Rodent s such as ferrets, gerbils, hamsters, rats, are okay. Bugs, lizards, amphibian are also good. The subj ects can be posed or not. Alive or dead, but you can’t kill it for the contest. And please, no roadkill.
The Technique is: Duotone. This technique is performed with your image processing program. You make th e image have only to colors, any colors you want, however black and white (together) are not acceptable.
1. Email jpg images to dpscontest@gmail.com.
2. The image must be in jpg format, and no more than 800 pixels on its widest side.
3. You may only enter three photographs.
If more than three photographs are entered, the first three received shall be entered.
4. Please include the original exif info within the image
5. Please rename the image file with the photographers first and last name (so we know its yours).
6. If you are inclined to title your image (titles are optional),
please append the title after the photographers name of the image file name.
Example file name: MichaelStein_ElbowStuckInEar.jpg
7. Only one image per entrant can be eligible as a finalist.
8. Please provide us permission to post the image on our Phanfare site.
9. Photos will be accepted through Saturday, 14 July, 2007.
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10. Have fun. And hope you win, the prize will be a wonderful Wacom tablet. Wacom tablets are the best tools for interacting with you computer and they can’t be beat for photo editing.
We’d love to hear what you thought of the show either here on the blog or at TheDigitalPhotographyShow@gmail.com.
You can read Scott’s personal blog on politics, technology and why well-built guys have more…fun here.
Thanks to our advertiser DXO (www.dxo.com) for the 20% discount they are only offering to listeners of this show. Try the program for free, and when you’re ready to buy, use the code DPSSHOW.
And don’t forget the fifty buck discount on Alien Skin’s Snap Art (http://www.alienskin.com/snapart/index.html) and the 50% discount on Exposure (http://www.alienskin.com/exposure/index.html) . Just call and tell them you heard about it on The Digital Photography Show.
Thanks to everyone for listening and joining us here on the blog.
Scott
July 15th, 2007 at 5:20 am
Scott,
I am listening to the latest podcast right now, I just got to the point when you mentioned your interest in the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS. Rent it, use it, then FOR SURE you will buy it. This is Canon’s very best lens in my opinion (and in the opinion of people that know a lot more than me about lenses).
The only thing that could possibly be better would be a 100-400mm f/2.8L IS but we’ll never see one of those since it would be about 6″ in diameter, about 10lbs and 2′ long :)
July 16th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Just listening to the show now, You mention that you don’t know of any pro’s using cameras other than canon or nikon. Well my partner and I are both professional photographers and we both shoot with olympus, I have an E300 and my partner has an E500. I’ve used olympus for years now, my partner previously used Fuji digital and nikon 35mm.
Great show, keep up the great work.
Mark (www.markvarleyphoto.co.uk) & Jan (www.murphysfocus.com).
PS, is there a website banner for linking to the show?
July 16th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Allen – I thought you were sending me one of those lenses for my birthday – what happened?
Mark, you are absolutely correct – many pros use cameras other than Nikon or Canon. Fuji and Sigma come to mind as popular among wedding photographers because of their excellent rendition of skin tones. What I SHOULD have said is that among pros who are out there teaching workshops, everyone I ever met shoots Canon or Nikon.
July 17th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Hey Everyone!
The “Little Critters in Duotone” Contest is offically closed. I have just updated the Phanfare Contest Page as of 11.30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Monday, July 16th. We have a total of 377 entries! I noticed some entries in the SPAM box – so if you were wondering why your pictures were not posted until now – it was probably there.
There are some amazing photographs. This community continues to inspire me! Good Luck to everyone with the contest..
Cheers,
Laurel
The Photo Enthusiast
July 18th, 2007 at 5:54 am
Why don’t you go up against TFTTF in the education category. I think you’re by far the best 2 podcasts out there – would have been nice to see how you measure up against each other.
July 18th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Crazy Scott said:
“Allen – I thought you were sending me one of those lenses for my birthday – what happened?”
It’s my birthday this week … what are you sending me?
July 18th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Hi there guys,
GREAT episod indeed -Sammon’s tips were very informative.
Scott, I live in the UAE (Middle East) and YES we have the service for pumbing gas into our cars {you were keen to know in a previous episod ;)}
Keep up the great work guys.
July 18th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Does anyone have a link to the 5-in-1 reflector unit mentioned by Rick?
Thanks for another great show.
July 19th, 2007 at 1:24 am
Alan, there are a few companies who make 5-in-1 reflectors, in a variety of sizes. Here’s a link to those sold by B&H, for example: http://tinyurl.com/235ya5
July 19th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Hey I found this site other day whilst surfing facebook.
They rent lenses and Camera and the have the new mk III
http://www.lensprotogo.com/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=55&=SID#MOREINFO
July 20th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Scott,
In the interview with Rick you mention ‘I can focus faster too when my aperture is wide open’. I assume you meant that more light helps the camera to focus faster, which is true. But AFAIK the lens is only stopped down to the smaller aperture after you’ve achieved focus and press the shutter button, i.e. when composing the shot the lens is wide open. Is this correct or am I missing something?
Thanks
Ruan
July 21st, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Yes, you are right. The aperture is only stopped down when the shutter button is pressed or the depth of field preview button is pressed. The rest of the time, the lens is at its largest aperture meaning that the viewfinder is bright and autofocus functions well.
July 22nd, 2007 at 12:06 am
When is Rick’s DVD/book “Canon Digital Rebel Personal Training Photo Workshop” due to be released. I see you can pre-order. Was just curious.
Thanks – Marc
July 24th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
I would agree that as far as podcasts go, DPS and TFTTF are probably two of the most popular. Don’t forget though, there are also vid-casts and these tend to draw more attention as we are a visual crowd! :) A few that come to mind are the photoshopTV one that comes out of NAPP, and another coming from a site known as Radiant Vista. Not sure if The Online Photographer has any regularly published media in the form of a podcast, blog, or vid-cast, but that’s also a good resource. Will be looking for the DPS on the awards site to cast my vote! Great job guys, and thanks for all you do!
July 24th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Jason – THanks for nice words. We’re looking at doing something with video, but its not easy and the technology isn’t quite there yet to make anything that’s universally playable. We may do the iPod format, but that leaves out other players – although you could still watch it on your computer in iTunes. And it wouldn’t be every show – after all, much of the show is me and Michael, and who wants to wathc us? But maybe for shows where we talk about pictures some video would be helpful.
Marc, I think it’s out already.
Tom W – thanks for the hint!
September 16th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article The Digital Photography Show #59: Rick Sammon’s Top Ten Tips for Ultimate Travel Photography, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:45 am
SCOTT!! I am laughing my head off… at the end of the Rick interview.
S:”Is there anything else you do that is extraordinairy?”
R”Well”
S: “Or do we have to ask your wife?”
You dirty bird!! ha ha ha.