The Stalman Podcast

Talking about non-camera innovations in photography like lighting, batteries, artificial intelligence and storage.Special Guest: Jason Eng.

My old friend Rob Sylvan and author of Lightroom Classic for Dummies comes by to talk about Lightroom.Special Guest: Rob Sylvan.

An unbiased conversation about video editing proffesionals choose the software that they use Watch the YouTube video https://youtu.be/gEtqyfTx_jU Thomas Grove Carter http://thomasgrovecarter.com Johnny Harris https://www.youtube.com/johnnymangosteen Matthew Moniz https://www.youtube.com/matthewmoniz1 Jonathan Morrison https://www.youtube.com/tldtodaySpecial Guests: Johnny Harris, Jonathan Morrison, Matthew Moniz, and Thomas Grove Carter.

It's simple, 2 minute reviews of every photo and video camera that I have any opinion about. Special Guest: Jordan Drake.

WWDC 2019 will be one that we remember for a long time. Stephen Hackett is back to share is macspertise as we try to understand Apple's new world we're living in. Special Guest: Stephen Hackett.

WWDC is here again and there was so much announced that I barely have time to scratch the surface with Andreas Gailiunas of Pixelmator and filmmaker Olaf Blomerus, so we go over our initial impressions of the brand new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR.Special Guest: Olaf Blomerus.

Ever thought about building an app? Casey Liss released his first indie app, Vignette and we talk about the road to becoming a developer. Special Guest: Casey Liss.

Where I've been, catching up with Apple, questions from listeners and my thoughts on the finally of Game of Thrones.

Matt Workman, a.k.a. CinematographyDB, knows the old world of high end cinematography and is creating the future of filmmaking with his app/game Cine Tracer. Special Guest: Matt Workman.

Drue Schnelle is taking beautiful portraits for his Instagram, cool behind the scenes for Johnathan Morrison, and is editing it all on his iPad Pro. We talk about all that and give some powerful retouching tips.Special Guest: Drue Schnelle.

There’s a lot to know if you want be be a creative professional and in this episode Jason Eng comes on to discuss what it takes to work as a photographer.Special Guest: Jason Eng.

If you haven't heard, I run a photo and video business with my wife Ania. Sometimes it's the best, sometimes it's tough, but it was great to talk to another couple in a similar situation. Mallory and Luke Leasure are super talented photographers that shoot a mix of weddings and commercial, and had lots of wisdom to share.

What happens when a tech savvy filmmaker loves expensive camera gear, but is also a minimalist? Matt D'Avella walks the fine line of owning the cutting edge without being consumed by it. Special Guest: Matt D'Avella.

Big gear upgrades feel great and can level up your work, but it can also be a way that we make excuses why we aren't creating our best work. Armando Ferreira lends his expertise as I think about upgrading to the Canon C200 and we call up Jesse Driftwood to find out why he's buying that same camera.Special Guests: Armando Ferreira and Jesse Driftwood.

We're learning video editing super powers from high end commercial editor Thomas Grove Carter of Trim Editing. After this conversation I instantly overhauled my editing workflow.Special Guest: Thomas Grove Carter.

Running a video business is as fun as it is hard and I talked to Caleb Wojcik about how we do it. Special Guest: Caleb Wojcik.

If your audio is great people can forgive medicore video, but if it sounds bad people will turn it off. This episode we are talking with mic and preamp reviewer Curtis Judd and podcast producer Ray Ortega the simple secrets to audio production for some common situations. This podcast is brought to you by Epidemic Sound, where creators can easily license sound effects and music for all your creative projects Audio for social media The priority for quick social media videos like Instagram stories is to keep it simple and sounding great. When you turn on the selfie camera, you‘re off to a great start because the mic is only an arm's length from you face and most phones have decent mics these days. Just be extra careful not make the biggest rookie mistake of covering the mic with your pinkie finger. Stay aware of which direction the mic is facing since phones have mics on the front, back and bottom. If you are pointing it away from you, your voice will get a lot quieter. If this is a situation, you often find yourself in, there are external mics that can help with that. Portable mics for phones Rode Video Me Shure MV88 Audio for Vloging Similiar to a phone selfie, the vlog format has the instant advtage of mic proximity. As long as you’ve plugged in a half decent mic, set the levels, and put on appropriate wind protection, it’s easy to get great audio. With this format, background noise isn’t a huge problem since it blends in with the overall context of the story you‘re telling. What matters most is that you can be heard clearly. Mics for vlogging Rode Video Micro Rode VideoMic Pro+ Deity V-Mic D3 Pro Audio in a YouTuber Studio If people are going to be watching your videos on TV, laptops or with headphones you owe it to them to keep the audio as clean as possible. When they are focused on you‘re talking head, details like echo and background noise start to matter more. So after you’ve taken the first steps of turning off the AC and unplugging the fridge (TIP: put your keys inside as a way to remember to plug it back in), it’s time to treat the room for reverb. In real life, reverb is easy to ignore. Put a decent mic in a room and every echo is a distraction. There are a few simple and affordable solutions, best of all is to drape sound blankets in front of any hard reflective surfaces. This will make the single biggest difference, ever more than you‘re choice in microphone. And speaking of microphones the gold standard is Sennheiser MKH416, which now used by top YouTubers like MKBHD and Johnathan Morrison, but if $1,000 is out of your budget the Deity S-Mic 2 is incredibly similar for a fraction of the price. A favorite of Ray and Curtis is the AudioTechnica AT4053B. Once you’ve picked out your mic, choose a field recorder and plug it in. For the budget minded, the Tascam DR-60DII is a great choice or if you want to go straight for the best pick up the SoundDevices MixPre-3. And make sure you get some good Sound Blankets YouTube Studio mics and premps Rode VideoMic Pro+ SoundDevices MixPre-3 or MixPre-6 Sennheiser MKH416 Rode NTG-1 or NTG-2 Deity S-Mic 2 Tascam DR-70D Tascam DR-60DII Zoom F4 Zoom H6 Zoom F8N AudioTechnica AT4053B Podcasting & Voice Over All the rules of in studio videos apply, but your audience is listening a lot more closely so the pressure is on to make your audio production sound amazing. Ray Ortega has a great writeup on all your gear needs, but the basics are that you want decent mic that rejects background sounds, a low noise preamp and an echo free room. Sounds blankets are your best friend here, so you might want to build a little fort, or at least make sure you’ve got some furniture and carpets in the room. There are many great mics to choose from, for beginners the AudioTechnica ATR-2100 sounds shockingly good for it’s price and can be plugged in via USB or XLR. If you want to step up your game, Tyler likes the Heil PR-40 while Ray uses the Shure SM7B. Podcast mics and preamps Shure SM7B Heil PR-40 AudioTechnica ATR-2100 Samsun Q2U DBX-286s FocusRite 2i2 SoundDevices MixPre-3 Producer’s Choice Sound Blankets Post Production Less is often more in post production, but it is critical get the volume of your sound to match everyone else's. The easiest way is to run your final mix trough the free software Auphonic or if you're using Adobe Audtion, use it's match loudness feature. If you have background noise to cleanup, the absolute best is iZotope RX.Special Guests: Curtis Judd and Ray Ortega.

Stephen Hackett of Relay FM joins me to talk about the history of blogging, and open vs closed platforms, and making a living online.Special Guest: Stephen Hackett.

The best of everything 2018 holiday special, featuring Matt Gonzalaz, Cameron Whitman, and Jordan Drake. Tyler's Picks Computer: iMac Pro App: Spark Camera Stills camera: Sony A9 Video camera: Sony A7III Accessory: DJI Mavic 2 Phone: iPhone XR/XS Movie: Mission Impossible Fallout Game: Spider-Man for PS4 Book: Lost Connections, by Johann Hari Podcast: Omnibus! Matt's Picks Stills Camera: Fuji XT3 Video camera: BMPCC 4K Phone: iPhone XS Game: Red Dead Redemption 2 App: Booster Fuel / Lightroom CC Computer: Surface Laptop 2 Tech accessory: Surface Headphones Book: 4 Hour Body Movie: Spider-Man Into the Spiderverse Jordan's Picks Stills Camera: Fujifilm X-T3 Video Camera: Panasonic GH5S Accessory: Atomos Ninja V Movie: Roma Book: Like Brothers Podcast: Oh No Ross and Carrie Cameron's Picks Stills Camera: Nikon Z7 Phone: Google Pixel 3 Game: Red Dead Redemption 2 App: Grammarly Accessory: Loupedeck Book:A Series of Unfortunate Events Movie:Into the Spiderverse Podcast: Broken RecordSpecial Guests: Cameron Whitman, Jordan Drake, and Matt Gonzalez.

This week i made fast friends with YouTuber Quinn Nelson of Snazzy Labs talking about the MKBHD blind camera phone shootout that we appeared in and then look back on 2018 to see how Apple did.Special Guest: Quinn Nelson.

Marco Arment and Casey Liss are hugely successful podcasters on The Accidental Tech Podcast, but they've got an itch to create videos and have started to upload more to their YouTube channels. We talk about getting started in a new medium, the gear that matters and what it takes to be interesting on camera. Special Guests: Casey Liss and Marco Arment.

Making movies can mean a lot of different things. so we compared working with a full crew vs going solo. The gear, the business, and some tips for any shooter.Special Guest: Nick Thomas.

Working on the iPad Pro, Myke's adventures in video, and why we choose Apple.Special Guest: Myke Hurley.

Marques Brownlee – MKBHD, is the one guy you want to atalk to bout your next phone purchase. But he's not just a gadget guy, his YouTube videos have developed into filmmaking skills to where he could easily be directing commercials for the products he reviews. We cover the 2018 iPad Pro, Red cameras, Hasselblad and the iPhone XS vs Pixel 3.Special Guest: Marques Brownlee - MKBHD.

I got a new drone so I brought in some friends, Martin Reisch (safesolvent) and Johnny Harris (creator of the Borders series on Vox) that create incredible creative work with the little flying tools. Special Guests: Johnny Harris and Martin Reisch.

I got advanced access to the iPhone XR so I brought on one of my favorite Apple podcasters, Casey Liss of The Accidental Tech Podcast, to talk about. Casey has also been starting up a new YouTube channel so we talk about the experience of being a new video creator. Special Guest: Casey Liss.

A decidedly non-tech episode where I talk to writer Pete Forester about what it takes to tell great stories and how one of my favorite filmakers gets it wrong. Pete also works at the one the premier photo agencies in the world and has some great advice on presenting your work to land those dream clients. After that I answer some of your questions about lenses, clients and how I avoid getting too stressed about worst case scenarios.

It's obvious that the iPhone XS camera is taking a very different style of photos from any iPhone in the past. Sebastiaan de With is the designer of Halide and has done some fantastic detective work to see what has change. It's not as simple as a beauty fiilter, so we went over every little detail. Special Guest: Sebastiaan de With.

New phones, cameras and lenses are being released fast and furious this fall. Jordan Drake of DPReview TV is here to give his opinions and hands on impressions of the iPhone XS Max, Canon EOS R, L mount lenses, Full frame Panasonics: S1 S1, Fuji GFX50R, Sigma: 28mm F1.4 and 40mm F1.4 Art lenses, a stabilized 70-200mm F2.8 Sport and 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 Sport and the Nikon Z7. Special Guest: Jordan Drake.

Apple has a hot new lineup of big screen phones and a slimmer watch. We look past the confusing names and talk about the spec bumps and camera updates.Special Guest: Brandon Havard.

I'm joined by YouTuber Jonathan Morrison to talk about the photographer's dream desk we put together, some of our favorite cameras and the 2018 MacBook Pro. Then stick around after the interview where I'll go into some more detail on the desk we put together and answer a few listener questions. YouTube: The Perfect 2018 MacBook Pro Setup Special Guest: Jonathan Morrison.

I am a little bit addicted to apps. Finding new apps, reading app reviews, trying demos, I just can't stop optimizing the apps on my Mac. I brought my good friend Kelly Thompson on to talk about all of our most indispensable apps, from utilities to media production. Also plenty of tips and tricks to optimize your desktop and have it working just the way you like. If you are into photography, video production, web or print design, there will be something here that you need. And I missed you're favourite app, come find me on Twitter @stalman and tell me all about it. Production Lightroom Photoshop Sketch Audition iZotope RX6 After Effects Premiere Davinci Resolve Final Cut Pro X Plural Eyes Audio Hijack ScreenFlow [SetApp](sttp.co/stalman) Bartender iStat Screens ChronoSync CleanMyMac TripMode Utilities Dropbox 1Password VLC Daisy disk Steam Slack Fantastical Kelly's apps Web flow Affinity Alfred Control Plane Coconut battery CalcService WordService AgendaSpecial Guest: Kelly Thompson.

Computer hardware is hard, so let's talk about RAM, disk speeds and eGPUs. Just because you rely on a computer for your job, doesn't mean you understand how it works. Olaf Blomerus came on so we could explore all the things we know and wish we knew about computer hardware. Whether you're on Mac or Windows, desktop or laptop, you're always better off having a deeper understanding of your machine. We cover when you need more RAM, who can benefit from more powerful graphics cards, multi-code vs single thread, and more. This is especially a must listen for anyone who edits video, photos or 3D and has been forced to wait on their computer when it seems like you shouldn't have to. Or it's the perfect episode if you're about to buy a new computer. We also talk about some of the details of my new MacBook Pro, which was a grueling process to configure. It had to be perfect!Special Guest: Olaf Blomerus.

Johnny Harris creates Vox Borders series, and Iz Harris makes epic family travel vlogs and together they make a globe trotting production dream team. We have a lot to talk about. Iz & Johnny's Recomended YouTubers Casey Neistat Adrian Bliss Vlog Brothers Wendover ProductionsSpecial Guests: Iz Harris and Johnny Harris.

My personal techniques to shoot and edit on the go and Jesse Driftwood's thoughts on vertical videoSpecial Guest: Jesse Driftwood.

Sometimes the best camera is the one you have with you, but sometimes there's a better camera out there. And stick around till the end to hear about the 2018 MacBook Pro.Special Guest: Chris Dowsett.

Talking to the world's best menswear illustrator about living a creative life. Matt Miller, aka Sunflowerman, is an incerdibly talented illustrator focused on menswear and fashion. We talk about his years living on the road, building a client base online, clothes, clients and coffee.Special Guest: Matt Miller.

Sorting photos, data management and we answer your questions about how to get the most out of Lightroom.Special Guest: Chris Dowsett.

It may not be a perfect movie, but let’s just be grateful that Solo proves that a Star Wars prequel can actually be pretty fun.Special Guest: Rob Mitchelson.

WWDC is a great time to check in with Apple and see what's great and what we're still waiting for. Sadly still waiting on new MacBooks, but there are lots of software goodies to look forward to.Special Guest: Kelly Thompson.

It's fun seeing all your likes and mentions, but it's pretty issue to be consumed by your online persona. Cards Against Humanity Co-Creator and host of the Do By Friday podcast, Max Temkin, helps me think about how to be myself online. And then I help Max buy a camera.Special Guest: Max Temkin.

Sara and I have so many common interests that we just had to sit down and talk about all the creative stuff we are into. Special Guest: Sara Dietschy.

Jordan Drake and Chris Niccols, formerly of The Camera Store TV and now stars of the DPReview YouTube channel, join me to talk about shooting photos and videos at the same time, on the same camera.Special Guests: Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake.

If you work in a creative industry you know that it has it's own special challenges, like defining your worth, communicating your ideas and staying on target to make your ideas into reality. Shea Kerwood runs Brandsmith and has been my go to confidant for decades, so he's the perfect guy to talk to about the challenges. Special Guest: Shea Kerwood.

In part 2 we got some of Nolan's biggest films, with The Dark Night, Interstellar and more.Special Guest: Chris Dowsett.

Huge budgets, rich characters and intricate story telling, Christopher Nolan is in a league all his own in modern filmmaking. Let's spend some time walking through his filmography.Special Guest: Chris Dowsett.

Irene has created a distinct photography style of her own and shares her techniques with the world on her YouTube channel. We talk about how she developed her dreamy portrait look, what it's like YouTubing from a mid sized city, and how to work with extremely simple gear and lighting.Special Guest: Irene Rudnyk.

The problem with learning about photography is never a lack of information. There are infinite videos and articles telling you how to shoot and edit, so I talked to Nicolsey about how to sort through the junk to learn the valuable lessons.Special Guest: Nicole S. Young.

It's really easy to shoot great looking video these days, I bet the image quality on your phone looks better than most TV shows in the 90s. But image quality means nothing if your video is boring and no one wants to watch it. Good thing I have Jordan Drake here from The Camera Store TV to help give the tips you've been waiting for to start crushing your video game. Then stick around to the end because Jordan got his sticky little fingers on the new Sony A7III, which is poised to really disrupt the camera industry this year. Special Guest: Jordan Drake.

Rene Ritchie is the perfect podcast guest to talk about the computers we use as creative professionals, and if you're a photographer, filmmaker or designer there is a decent chance you are using a Mac or an iPhone. We talk about history of how Apple came to dominate the creative industry, starting with their exceptional font support and exclusive apps like Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark Express. In 2018 they seem to be in a transition phase, where some users are voicing frustration with the MacBook Pro, but they have also released the impressive iMac Pro and announced an upcoming compartmental Mac Pro. Special Guest: Rene Ritchie.