Billy Newman Photo Podcast

Show Notes for the Billy Newman Photo Podcast   Episode Summary Billy shares reflections on creative workflows in photography, discusses Comet NEOWISE and stargazing in rural Oregon, recounts recent outdoor camping and photo expeditions, and dives into technical thoughts on camera equipment and the creative process. He also touches on issues like light pollution, the evolving nature of digital cameras, and the unique challenges of capturing stunning night sky photography. Chapter Guide Timestamp Chapter Title Segment Highlights 00:00 Opening & Creative Reflections Creative challenge in photography, blending business and creative growth, brief show intro with music. 01:30 Website & Book Plugs Directing listeners to BillyNewmanPhoto.com and his photo books on Amazon; themes — film, desert, surrealism. 02:30 Camping & Comet NEOWISE Recounts July camping in Eastern Oregon seeking views and photographs of NEOWISE; context of earlier “great comets.” 06:30 Childhood Astronomy Memories Reminiscing about viewing comets Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the 1990s; missing Halley’s comet and thoughts on astronomical cycles. 08:30 NEOWISE Observing Details Discusses best locations, challenges of light pollution and haze near sea level, and the difference clear mountain skies make. 10:30 Field Photography and Stargazing Describes equipment and techniques: using binoculars, manual focus, and camera settings, plus tips for night sky shots in the John Day River valley. 15:00 Outdoor Adventure Recap Details on the travel route, dispersed camping, Oregon terrain, rivers, geology, and solitude near the John Day River. 19:00 More on NEOWISE and Night Shots Observing NEOWISE in prime conditions, handling photography challenges, recording images till late night, astronomical observation techniques. 22:30 Tech Talk: Cameras & Workflow Reflections on camera gear — Sony a7R, its quirks, “chimping,” differences with older cameras, and latest high-speed image technology. 27:00 Outro & Calls to Action Directs to BillyNewmanPhoto.com and Patreon, thanks listeners, previews new content, and encourages support.   Support the Podcast If you enjoyed this episode, visit billynewmanphoto.com/support or patreon.com/billynewmanphoto to participate in the value-for-value model and find ways to help keep the podcast going. Check out new blog posts, photo books, and more behind-the-scenes content.   View links at wnp.app Explore outdoor photography, technical media projects, stories from backcountry expeditions, and insights from the creative process with Billy Newman—photographer, author, and podcast producer. Connect, learn, and follow along. Quick Links:Portfolio: billynewmanphoto.com/photographsStudio: wphoto.coPosts: billynewmanphoto.com/postsPhoto Books: billynewmanphoto.com/booksAmazon Author: amazon.com/author/billynewman Podcast Episodes:Billy Newman Photo Podcast: Listen hereRelax with Rain: Listen hereNight Sky Podcast: Listen here Connect With Billy Newman:Email: billy@billynewmanphoto.comInstagram: @billynewmanLinkedIn: billynewmanphotoX (Twitter): @billynewman Recommended Books:Landscape Portfolio (PDF): DownloadBlack and White Photography (PDF): DownloadWorking With Film (PDF): DownloadWestern Overland Excursion (PDF): Download Support the Podcast & Photography Projects:Make a sustaining financial donation: Visit Support Page Podcast Forward:The Billy Newman Photo Podcast blends real-world outdoor adventure, technical insight, and practical photography tips. [MUSIC] Hello and thank you very much for listening to this episode of the Billy Newman photo podcast. I hear different industries kind of talk about what a good day of work is or how that is to kind of get out and get what you need done. And just as like a creative system, it's sort of tough in photography. There's a lot of the entrepreneurial and sort of business related stuff of how do you get paid and how do you operate in a business, how do you function as a photographer sort of a thing. But still outside of that you need to do something nourishing in the system of creativity where you're kind of gaining new ideas and putting new materials together and sort of figuring out a way to make a union of something new with media and with something visual, especially as fast as technology is moving forward. It's definitely an interesting vector kind of using the progression of technology and artistic creativity to try and make new pieces of media to put out. And that's what I really like about new media as it goes. So it's kind of interesting. I'm kind of thinking about the way of making pieces of media and new media elements and working with photographs and stuff. But it's something that I've been really interested for a long time. [MUSIC] You can see more of my work at BillyNewmanPhoto.com. You can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you can look up Billy Newman under the authors section there and see some of the photo books on film, on the desert, on surrealism, on camping. Some cool stuff over there. And I wanted to jump into a couple of the things I've been doing through the month of July and some of the outdoor camping and travel stuff I've been up to. I was going to run down some of that in this podcast today. I wanted to talk about a trip I did out toward Eastern Oregon, I think like last, or what was a week before last is when I was out in this area. And I was trying to get some good observations in for Comet NeoWise. I'm not sure if any of you guys got to check that out while it was in its prime viewing section there. I think that was why we had the new moon before it switched over to being a gibbous moon or a nearly full moon like it's been the last week or so. But I think, what was it, around the 15th through the 25th or so of July, there were some pretty good observations to be made of Comet NeoWise. I guess after reading about it a little bit, it's not considered a great comet, like HaleBopp was, or I think it was Hayataki in 1996. We haven't had a great comet in a long time. I've ever seen those when I was a kid though, and that was pretty cool. Watching HaleBopp come through for, it seemed like three months or something. You were just looking at that in the low corners of the Northwestern and Western skies. It was cruising across the skyline there. I remember that still from third, fourth grade when it was coming through. And I also remember the year before that, when straight up in the sky at night, for it was only a week or so. I was a kid, but I remember for that week, you could see a real bright two-tailed comet that was going through. I think, I can't remember how to pronounce it, I think it's Hayataki or, I think it's some Japanese name, I'm pretty sure. But that was a really cool one. That one I still remember really clearly. I was only like, I don't know, seven or something when that, when that comet came through, but I really appreciate getting to make some observations. So that one, when I was a kid, I missed Haley's comet though, back in what, '87, I think was the last one it came through. And I probably will be the few years or that, that decade or two of age range that doesn't get to see Haley's comet in their lifetime. So I think I was born in '88, of course. So if I make it past a hundred, maybe I'll see it. What is it? Maybe like 80 something years. So it's probably not going to come back around until, I think it's like the 2070s or 2080s that I'd have to make it to, for to see Haley's comet again. It'd be fun, but I don't know, maybe we'll see how future, how the, you know, the future is at that time. But it was really cool to get to see comet Neowise. It was just a little below what would be the legs and feet of Ursa Major, the Big Dipper or like the Big Bear as it would kind of be observed. But if you kind of look at the Dipper part that we're all mostly familiar with, if you kind of consider Ursa Major, the larger bear constellation that it's structured on, if you kind of look down below the Dipper is where I was able to make my observations, the comet Neowise. And over here in the elevation area that I'm at in Western Oregon, it's about 200 or 300 feet above sea level. And there's kind of a constant problem with haze and with light pollution in this area. And I think it has to do something with, well, like, I mean, of course, you know, the amount of population that's around, but also there's something about the air quality or about how the air kind of flows out around here that just doesn't ever seem to be as crisp or as dark as you can get up in the mountains. And really, it's just like a stunning difference when you're able to get out further and make some some more clear observations. You know, the level of magnitude of stars that you're able to reveal just in a dark night is so much more crisp and clear. It's just like a it's a total difference. So it was cool to I think I first was able to spot just a little fuzzy bit of a second magnitude version of comet Neowise while I was here in town. But I tried to make a special trip out toward eastern Oregon out into the desert just to do some camping stuff. But what I wanted to do at the same time was make some good observations and also try and get some good photographs of common Neowise as it was coming through during its period where you could you could make some some good sightings. But it was cool. So going out to eastern Oregon, as it got dark a little past 1030 or so, as you look to the northwest, you could really see the comet and its tail spread for a couple inches in the sky. And I was really surprised to notice how little of it you could really make out or see when you're in an area of almost any light pollution once you're back in town or once you're in a lower elevation area with some light pollution and haze around. It was really difficult to make out in the same way that I could out in the desert or out in the mountains. And

Show Notes for the Billy Newman Photo Podcast View links at wnp.app Explore outdoor photography, technical media projects, stories from backcountry expeditions, and insights from the creative process with Billy Newman—photographer, author, and podcast producer. Connect, learn, and follow along. Quick Links: Portfolio: billynewmanphoto.com/photographs Studio: wphoto.co Posts: billynewmanphoto.com/posts Photo Books: billynewmanphoto.com/books Amazon Author: amazon.com/author/billynewman Podcast Episodes: Billy Newman Photo Podcast: Listen here Relax with Rain: Listen here Night Sky Podcast: Listen here Connect With Billy Newman: Email: billy@billynewmanphoto.com Instagram: @billynewman LinkedIn: billynewmanphoto X (Twitter): @billynewman Recommended Books: Landscape Portfolio (PDF): Download Black and White Photography (PDF): Download Working With Film (PDF): Download Western Overland Excursion (PDF): Download Support the Podcast & Photography Projects: Make a sustaining financial donation: Visit Support Page Podcast Forward: The Billy Newman Photo Podcast blends real-world outdoor adventure, technical insight, and practical photography tips. [Music] Hello and thank you very much for listening to this episode of the Billy Newman Photo Podcast. I’m talking about a photograph that I made on the Oregon coast today doing Blue Hour probably. I think it was after the sun had set. It was sort of like the golden hour to talk about right as the hour as the sun is setting into sunset. The blue hour they also talk about as after the sun goes down there’s a lot of those blue kind of purple tones that show up in the atmosphere or you know in the clouds and in the water. There’s just a lot more of that tone as the sun drops and it’s a spectrum shift from what we see in the daylight to what we see at night time. But I think this was a photograph taken on the Oregon coast. I think your band-in if I’m right. And I really liked this photo. It just had it wasn’t really a big structure in the wave or a big curl or anything like that. That would be that’d be really striking but I really appreciate this photograph as kind of a close-up look at I just sort of the dreamy feeling of being on the coast. But it was definitely a photograph that I liked a lot and I like that line in the skies as it cuts across as you can kind of see at the top there there’s a bit of like a cloud break that goes down and that’s where we get a lot of that light from the sky in the background that kind of cuts underneath that big brim of cloud that goes over the top of the snet that causes a lot of bounce from the ground back up to the sky and then back down and you get a cooler or you get a defused sort of soft light in that effect which I think is really cool. You can see more of my work at billyneuminphoto.com. You can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you can look up billyneumin under the authors section there and see some of the photo books on film, on the desert, on surrealism, on camping. Some cool stuff over there. Finished up that camping trip I was doing up the mountain creek there in the cascades a couple days ago. That was that like Wednesday. I think it was like maybe like Tuesday, Tuesday night to Wednesday morning. I think that was this super moon that was coming up that night if I remember right and that was pretty cool. It was cool to see the full moon up there and they always talk about the super moon which is kind of a I don’t know it’s a little bit of a misnomer but it’s cool to see too that I think they talk about happening every six months or so. Really it’s just kind of the oscillation of a bit of the eccentricities and the orbit of the moon that make it I think about 25,000 miles closer that it’s maximum and then maybe about 25,000 miles further away and it’s distant maximum but I think it’s really like a little bit of a sliver larger than it normally would be. If you notice though it’s a thing I learned way back and I think they they they show it in a scene in Apollo 13 but if you put your hand all the way out and you put your thumb up at all times you’re able to cover the entire full moon just with your thumbnail. It’s pretty wild but you got kind of always like visualize the moon is being this really big thing in the sky and really a lot of the time it’s it’s just as big as your thumbnail at arm’s reach which is kind of a trip but it’s kind of a it was cool to see the super moon that night it was really bright it was cool to kind of watch around and kind of look at how it was illuminating the forest and the trees and the mountains and stuff around me that was kind of nice to see cold that night though man I tell you so I have a 15 degree sleeping bag and that’s great 15 degrees is fine but and 15 degrees really is is more than adequate for most circumstances that I ended up in and during the summertime where it’s I don’t know it’s just not too big of a concern about how cold it gets but when it says 15 degrees it really means you’re going to be comfortable down to somewhere around 35 degrees but anywhere under 30 degrees is a pretty uncomfortable experience I think it means you’re going to stay alive that until it’s about 15 degrees so if it were me again buying something for maybe I don’t know a more heavy three season camping experience most of the time probably a lot of the nights out that I do even though I like to go at all times a year it seems like the majority of nights I go out are during the summer months or during like pretty fair weather seasons but if I were going to buy again which I’m going to try and get like a two or three sleeping bag system going if I was going to buy again I’d probably get a zero degree or maybe a negative 15 degree you know I could really use the warms because man what I noticed is even if it was just a little bit down to what would have been probably maybe I don’t know 29 or something like that it was you know it was a bit below freezing who knows how cold it really was it was only like an elevation of 2500 feet and it was a canyon I thought it was a clear night but I thought it would be relatively sheltered and yeah it was a lot of it was a lot of ice on my window when I woke up and it was a cold cold night to sit through too so yeah that 15 degree bag was just hold up out there but yeah if I was going to go again I think they have like a zero degree bag and then down below that they have like a negative 15 and like maybe like a negative 30 degree bag negative 30 sounds like a real warm like down back so I think mine’s a synthetic bag they talk about this sometimes where there’s like differences in the the thermal insulation qualities of the material that your sleeping bag is made out of and I think that the for it was it was an improvement actually you know above whatever cotton we were using for a while they were using wool stuff which was pretty smart that that works really well to be an insulating material and it doesn’t all right it works well with moisture and stuff and all the other things we know about marina wool is really cool everybody knows about that kind of stuff but we had like you know those really terrible big cotton sleeping bags way back those erupted and I don’t know if they were really even that insulating then they switched over to those synthetic materials which is probably all oil based is that sound right like a petroleum based like plastics product that was made out of synthetics I think that’s how they spin up a lot of those those I don’t know just those synthetic types of materials that they’re making these nylons out of so I think that was how all out of this this synthetic stuff had been made but really I think what they they talk about being the superior insulator is down and that’s what I’d hope to try and find as another zero degree or negative 15 degree sleeping bag would be a negative 15 degree down bag which is normally a bit more expensive you know when you’re looking around at the price points for these different sleeping bags if you’re trying to get into some colder weather camping stuff what you’re going to find is at those name brand or you know not even name brand this is a just a a bespoke manufacturer for a quality technical outdoors product is going to be very expensive and so that’s where you’re going to find I don’t know well you know three three 99 for a sleeping bag two 99 four 99 six 99 I’ve seen like a lot of pretty expensive prices out there I think Nimo makes some bags that are looking pretty cool that I’ve seen recommended a few times I’ve heard a big agnus they make tens most of the time though right they’re tank up and here aren’t they yeah stone glaciers one that I keep hearing kind of pop up here and there now for some sense marm it I think got some bags all right eyes so is you know a retailer of recreational equipment they’re closed right now though so I don’t even know if you could get an order from anyone like that but but they have some bags I think that’s where my synthetic bag was from that I’ve been using for the last I don’t know seven years or so so that’s it’s been fine but I also tested out the sleeping mat I got I got a new thermo rest sleeping mat and now big news it’s pretty exciting guys stay tuned it’s uh yeah it’s a larger sleeping mat than I have before but it’s a coded one with the I think it’s kind of like I don’t know it’s ballistic now but it’s that nylon coating over it so it’s not just the rubber mat at the base of it so you can throw it on the ground or on the semi abrasive materials that it would be outside and it’s working great I think it’s about one inch thick or so it’s about 25 inches wide at the shoulder point and it’s long enough to fit my old body which is probably a new one for me so yeah I got a solid camp mat I think for the last like three years I’m sleeping on one that goes flat about four hours after you start sleeping so that’s kind of nice to swap out I don’t k

Show Notes for the Billy Newman Photo Podcast View links at wnp.app Explore outdoor photography, technical media projects, stories from backcountry expeditions, and insights from the creative process with Billy Newman—photographer, author, and podcast producer. Connect, learn, and follow along. Quick Links: Portfolio: billynewmanphoto.com/photographs Studio: wphoto.co Posts: billynewmanphoto.com/posts Photo Books: billynewmanphoto.com/books Amazon Author: amazon.com/author/billynewman Podcast Episodes: Billy Newman Photo Podcast: Listen here Relax with Rain: Listen here Night Sky Podcast: Listen here Connect With Billy Newman: Email: billy@billynewmanphoto.com Instagram: @billynewman LinkedIn: billynewmanphoto X (Twitter): @billynewman Recommended Books: Landscape Portfolio (PDF): Download Black and White Photography (PDF): Download Working With Film (PDF): Download Western Overland Excursion (PDF): Download Support the Podcast & Photography Projects: Make a sustaining financial donation: Visit Support Page Podcast Forward: The Billy Newman Photo Podcast blends real-world outdoor adventure, technical insight, and practical photography tips. [Music] Hello and thank you very much for listening to this episode of the Billy Newman Photo Podcast. I appreciate you guys tuning into these echo audio files that I’m putting out there and it’s kind of interesting putting out some content for the echo devices. I really appreciate it. I like audio editing and rendering stuff and I’ve been doing a lot of that. I’m trying to do more of it on a Mac Pro and the Mac Pro right now is one of the Mac attached computers that has come out years ago. Really, it’s still quite expensive and it’s really servicing what I need out of it quite well and I’m happy about that because the price has gone down a bit. But if you buy it straight from Apple, it’s still really quite expensive. The computer of the Mac Pro, I think came out in 2013 and computer years, 2013 to 2018, is really nearly ancient. But kind of my lucky start is I just got a Mac Pro. I think it’s still priced around $2,000 to purchase even a used one, which originally I guess spec’d out as it was would have been around $4,000 or $5,000. So you’re still getting $2,000 worth of computing out of it. I suppose. I hope, I think maybe in some cases the iMac, when it’s more fully spec’d out, the more modern like 2017 iMac, I think was outspecking some of the things that the Mac Pro was doing. But really with the, I think the Xeon processor and the graphics cards that you’re working with, at least on the Mac and Touch Side, that’s really one of your only options to work with higher level graphics cards and higher level. Well, I think your only option to work with the Xeon processor. But it’s been really interesting trying to do some professional rendering and editing. What I’m trying to go through right now and do is, is I have a ton of .mov files, 10 of .mkvm4vmks files. I don’t know. Also, AVI files, all these different file formats, these MPaG containers that I don’t really understand that came with that with some other version or some raw file from a camera, something like that. But that’s all to say that these are pretty big video files that are maybe sometimes uncompressed or compressed poorly or maybe not compressed to a version of something that is useful for me to use and definitely not 10 years, 20 years down the line. So what I’m going to try and do is work with some program, maybe handbrake, maybe final cut, maybe I’ll go crazy and use a terminal program called ffmpag. We’ll talk more about that later. But I want to try and go through and take all of these video files and convert them over to an MP4, like some more standard high-def MP4 that’s correct for that type of video that it is. And I want to try and get rid of all these 3GP video files from a cell phone. I want to convert all that video out to some more native MPaG format. And so I’m going to try and use one of these programs to do it. But to do that on my laptop, even a pretty modern laptop, it’s quite a bit of rendering to get all those frames out in HD. And so what I’m going to try and do is crunch all of that stuff out by using this Mac Pro. And I hope that I can save a lot of time by trying to render it all out through there. I saved a ton of time rendering out video while I was trying to stitch together my 360 video. Oh my gosh, it was enormously slow on my Mac laptop. And really it blew through it with consuming quite a bit of time. It still took me a week to render out all the video. But I was able to do it on this workhorse Mac Pro. So it was kind of cool. It was interesting. Definitely not breaking any ground with thinking about Mac Pro’s. But I’m thinking about the Pro line of computers. Like they have the iMac Pro, which is the fastest, best system for Mac processing in a pro environment right now. And I kind of think about that. But I also think about where they go in with the desktop interface for the professional iMac. You can see more of my work at billyneumonphoto.com. You can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you look up billyneumon under the authors section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert on surrealism on camping. Some cool stuff over there. Really trying to do a lot of scouting stuff, which I’ve enjoyed too doing some scouting stuff through the summertime. It’s been pretty cool. Where I’m really trying to go through some of these backroads. I’m trying to like mark spots on the map where there’s good campsites, which I hadn’t really done before. There’s a lot of places I’ve driven, a lot of roads I’ve been on. Especially like backcountry roads, two forest service roads, BLM roads. And I know a lot of good dispersed camping areas. And really I understand the context about find those areas so much better now that I’m older than when I was young. I mean when I was young, and I go camping with my dad, you know, would go out to Eastern Oregon, we’d find some spots. And they had known about this spot since he was a kid and he was going over there and hunting camps and stuff with his grandpa. So it’s cool for me to go over to those same spots and get to check out that area and stuff. But I think there’s been, or at least when I was a kid, I didn’t really understand that the land, like the public land rights that you have and really how those are organized, like how public lands are organized and what you can do on them and sort of how it operates. I didn’t really understand the difference between national forest land and BLM land or national park land and state park land or wilderness areas, national wildlife refuge areas. Man, there’s just so many different distinctions of different things. And then also just private property. So I didn’t really have a clear recollection of any of those things. And really a lot of time when it’s public land, you can go on it. But there’s some things you can’t do on it. Like either maybe hunt in some circumstances, like a like a national park or I think you can’t just try to fire on inside a national park. But for specifically permitted events, maybe probably a national wildlife refuges. I think those hunting opportunities are limited also. Though you can’t still do some things in those areas. I think you have to get permitted and you have to draw a tag for that location, I think is what it is. But yeah, it’s kind of interesting sort of learning about that, learning how these things go. And also finally getting some maps that you can use that you can kind of trust better while you’re in the back country. I think that’s something that’s really helped me kind of understand where I can go and what I can do. And I don’t I mean, I’ve had those map books, you know, like that 50 page or 100 page book of Oregon and you know every page is a 25 mile map of that area. It’s always super useful how they kind of grid out everything and show you that, you know, the mile by mile marking and the topography of the area, the different little roads and stuff. But even those roads, this map maker still got things wrong. I remember too, you know, back in like was it 2004? I think we were out in an area in southern Oregon near the Nevada border. Was it Drew’s reservoir? Somewhere south of Geer Heart Mountain. And I remember we were on some some little some little road. I don’t even know if it was a national forest area. I think it was just is in between private and public lands as it kind of jumps back and forth in those pretty remote areas. All of it is just remote desert and forest and sagebrush and juniper. But some of it goes into like ranch land that’s more managed and some of it cuts back into B.L.M. land. So as this little road sort of meander through it. But I remember being out there and noticing that the map on the page was just totally different than the map or than you know the real world ground truth of where the road went. And I said, oh, wow, yeah, you can’t really trust the maps to show you the information that you want to see when you need it. Other times too, you know, you’ll see like, oh, hey, like it shows there’s a road right here. Good deal. We’ll take that road. Well, you know, it shows it. It’s on the map. So you cut down there, you get on the road and then it’s washed out like crazy or it’s super bumping like and just terrible ride. But it’s the same green roads, the same label, the same marking as the road next to it that was graded and and it’s not paved, right? It’s graded gravel. They put more gravel down. I think it’s what I’m trying to say. They’ve made it an easier going road to to drive on. But then you get those washboard sections out there. I don’t know if you guys have done on that where you’re driving around in the forest, service roads and those gravel roads. And I think it’s a natural process of erosion that occurs that creates these waves in the material. You know, as I think as a rainwater

Show Notes for the Billy Newman Photo Podcast View links at wnp.app Episode Overview Billy Newman discusses professional video rendering on a 2013 Mac Pro, tackles file format conversion challenges, and shares his camping experience during an intense thunderstorm in the Fremont National Forest. The episode covers technical workflows, public land exploration, photography equipment insights, and wedding photography challenges with the Sony A7R. Key Topics & Timestamps Mac Pro Performance and Video Processing •2013 Mac Pro still delivers $2,000 worth of computing power despite being ancient in computer years •Xeon processor and professional graphics cards justify the investment for video rendering •Converting various file formats (.mov, .mkv, .mp4, AVI, MPG) to standardized high-definition MP4 •Using HandBrake, Final Cut Pro, or FFmpeg for batch video conversion •360-degree video stitching projects benefit significantly from Mac Pro processing power Public Land Navigation and Mapping •Learning distinctions between National Forest, BLM, National Park, State Park, Wilderness Areas, and National Wildlife Refuge lands •Map accuracy issues in remote areas – ground truth often differs from published maps •Washboard road effects from natural erosion creating driving challenges •OnX Off-Road app ($29.99/year) for detailed offline backcountry maps •Great American Outdoors Act providing $3 billion annually for public land maintenance Photography Equipment and Techniques •Canon 17-40mm wide-angle lens performance for real estate, Airbnb, and landscape work •Moving away from shooting wide-open apertures (f/1.8-2.8) toward more controlled settings •Binocular harness system for carrying mirrorless cameras during hiking •Lightning photography techniques using long exposure cycling on tripods •Film camera integration with modern Canon L-series lenses Sony A7R Wedding Photography Experience •Excellent low-light sensor performance and image quality •Autofocus struggles in low light compared to older Canon/Nikon contrast-detection systems •Battery consumption issues during intensive shooting (48GB of data written) •Battery grip necessity for professional wedding work •Phase detection autofocus advantages in newer Sony models Fremont National Forest Camping •Thunderstorm experience at 5,100 feet elevation with continuous lightning activity •Summer weather patterns and mountain thunderhead formation •Dispersed camping opportunities and scouting new locations •Bird watching integration with photography workflow Technical Insights Video File Management •Standardizing formats prevents long-term compatibility issues •Mac Pro justification for intensive rendering workflows •File conversion strategy for archival purposes Photography Workflow Evolution •Wide-angle lens versatility beyond real estate applications •Binocular harness as camera carrying solution for hikers •Integration of film and digital systems using same lens ecosystem Public Land Access •Understanding land designation impacts usage permissions •Map reliability challenges in remote areas •Technology solutions for backcountry navigation Equipment Mentioned Computing •2013 Mac Pro with Xeon processor •HandBrake video conversion software •Final Cut Pro •FFmpeg terminal application Photography Gear •Canon 17-40mm f/4L wide-angle lens •Sony A7R mirrorless camera •Canon L-series lenses •Vintage Canon film camera from KEH •Binocular harness carrying system •Nikon 50mm f/1.8 (“Nifty Fifty”) Navigation & Apps •OnX Off-Road mapping application •Various paper map books with topographic detail Locations •Fremont National Forest, Oregon •Eastern Oregon near Nevada border •Drew’s Reservoir area •Gear Heart Mountain region Explore outdoor photography, technical media projects, stories from backcountry expeditions, and insights from the creative process with Billy Newman—photographer, author, and podcast producer. Connect, learn, and follow along. Quick Links: Portfolio: billynewmanphoto.com/photographs Studio: wphoto.co Posts: billynewmanphoto.com/posts Photo Books: billynewmanphoto.com/books Amazon Author: amazon.com/author/billynewman Podcast Episodes: Billy Newman Photo Podcast: Listen here Relax with Rain: Listen here Night Sky Podcast: Listen here Connect With Billy Newman: Email: billy@billynewmanphoto.com Instagram: @billynewman LinkedIn: billynewmanphoto X (Twitter): @billynewman Recommended Books: Landscape Portfolio (PDF): Download Black and White Photography (PDF): Download Working With Film (PDF): Download Western Overland Excursion (PDF): Download Support the Podcast & Photography Projects: Make a sustaining financial donation: Visit Support Page Podcast Forward: The Billy Newman Photo Podcast blends real-world outdoor adventure, technical insight, and practical photography tips. [Music] Hello and thank you very much for listening to this episode of the Billy Newman Photo Podcast. I appreciate you guys tuning into these echo audio files that I’m putting out there and it’s kind of interesting putting out some content for the echo devices. I really appreciate it. I like audio editing and rendering stuff and I’ve been doing a lot of that. I’m trying to do more of it on a Mac Pro and the Mac Pro right now is one of the Mac attached computers that has come out years ago. Really, it’s still quite expensive and it’s really servicing what I need out of it quite well and I’m happy about that because the price has gone down a bit. But if you buy it straight from Apple, it’s still really quite expensive. The computer of the Mac Pro, I think came out in 2013 and computer years, 2013 to 2018, is really nearly ancient. But kind of my lucky start is I just got a Mac Pro. I think it’s still priced around $2,000 to purchase even a used one, which originally I guess spec’d out as it was would have been around $4,000 or $5,000. So you’re still getting $2,000 worth of computing out of it. I suppose. I hope, I think maybe in some cases the iMac, when it’s more fully spec’d out, the more modern like 2017 iMac, I think was outspecking some of the things that the Mac Pro was doing. But really with the, I think the Xeon processor and the graphics cards that you’re working with, at least on the Mac and Touch Side, that’s really one of your only options to work with higher level graphics cards and higher level. Well, I think your only option to work with the Xeon processor. But it’s been really interesting trying to do some professional rendering and editing. What I’m trying to go through right now and do is, is I have a ton of .mov files, 10 of .mkvm4vmks files. I don’t know. Also, AVI files, all these different file formats, these MPaG containers that I don’t really understand that came with that with some other version or some raw file from a camera, something like that. But that’s all to say that these are pretty big video files that are maybe sometimes uncompressed or compressed poorly or maybe not compressed to a version of something that is useful for me to use and definitely not 10 years, 20 years down the line. So what I’m going to try and do is work with some program, maybe handbrake, maybe final cut, maybe I’ll go crazy and use a terminal program called ffmpag. We’ll talk more about that later. But I want to try and go through and take all of these video files and convert them over to an MP4, like some more standard high-def MP4 that’s correct for that type of video that it is. And I want to try and get rid of all these 3GP video files from a cell phone. I want to convert all that video out to some more native MPaG format. And so I’m going to try and use one of these programs to do it. But to do that on my laptop, even a pretty modern laptop, it’s quite a bit of rendering to get all those frames out in HD. And so what I’m going to try and do is crunch all of that stuff out by using this Mac Pro. And I hope that I can save a lot of time by trying to render it all out through there. I saved a ton of time rendering out video while I was trying to stitch together my 360 video. Oh my gosh, it was enormously slow on my Mac laptop. And really it blew through it with consuming quite a bit of time. It still took me a week to render out all the video. But I was able to do it on this workhorse Mac Pro. So it was kind of cool. It was interesting. Definitely not breaking any ground with thinking about Mac Pro’s. But I’m thinking about the Pro line of computers. Like they have the iMac Pro, which is the fastest, best system for Mac processing in a pro environment right now. And I kind of think about that. But I also think about where they go in with the desktop interface for the professional iMac. You can see more of my work at billyneumonphoto.com. You can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you look up billyneumon under the authors section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert on surrealism on camping. Some cool stuff over there. Really trying to do a lot of scouting stuff, which I’ve enjoyed too doing some scouting stuff through the summertime. It’s been pretty cool. Where I’m really trying to go through some of these backroads. I’m trying to like mark spots on the map where there’s good campsites, which I hadn’t really done before. There’s a lot of places I’ve driven, a lot of roads I’ve been on. Especially like backcountry roads, two forest service roads, BLM roads. And I know a lot of good dispersed camping areas. And really I understand the context about find those areas so much better now that I’m older than when I was young. I mean when I was young, and I go camping with my dad, you know, would go out to Eastern Oregon, we’d find some spots. And they had known about this spot since he was a kid and he was going over there and hunting camps and stuff with his grandpa. So it’s cool for me to go over to those same spots and get to check out that area and stuff. But I think there’s been, or at least when I was a kid, I didn’t really understand that the land, like

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0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. I was just talking about terminal stuff and SSH in another podcast just a little bit ago. And I guess what I was gonna say is, how much about the channel? Do you know? Do you know any terminal tips? I was gonna try one out today, talking about it, it might be kind of tough. I’m sure that’s what you’re interested in listening to on your Alexa right now. Wait, I mean echo. Sorry. I was gonna mention the commands if you go to your Mac, or you go to a Unix system, as it were you open up a terminal. A couple of things you can run, it’s probably going to run bash, I figure like I’m some expert, but I think that’s the Bourne again, shall I think it’s kind of one of the more modern, sort of basic default shells that seems to run. If you run Linux, I don’t know got up. Yeah. And you probably know a lot more about it than I do already. So you know, you’re on your terminal tip for the moment, especially if you’re on a Macintosh, I guess it doesn’t work on a Windows machine, because that runs DOS, right? It’s not a Unix-based system shoot. But if you’re on a Mac, and you want to get into your terminal, and you want to move around just a little bit to sort of seeing what it’s like, I guess two commands that would get you started would be the ls command in the Bourne shell. So the bash shell. the ls command is like the list command. So when you type in LS, and then return, what you’re going to have to happen is it’s going to list the contents of the directory that you’re currently in, in text and command line. Oh, man, it’s pretty exciting. You’re gonna be excited when you see it for the first time. If you want to see some other things, I guess what you try, this is a bonus one, this is a big one, too, is CD, this current directory command. So if you want to, I guess move directories from what directory you’re at now, your root directory, let’s say and you want to move up to your pictures directory that you see when you type in LS, you’re going to type in cd space, pictures, and then you’re going to hit return and that’s going to move you to the directory of pictures then when you type in LS, you’re going to get a list of the contents of the directory in pictures. Wow, pretty amazing. You moved a directory in Unix and you found out on this flash briefing. 2:30 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo calm, you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think if you look at Billy Newman under the author’s section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, you cool stuff over there. I think like October, September, October and November I really like maybe one of my favorite outdoors seasons and this probably kind of set up that way for a lot of people that have like a tradition of going out on hunting trips through October or you know like going out on opening day or something like that in Oregon, I think it’s October 1 maybe in other states it’s in a part of September so I think it’s kind of kind of been tuned and tied to the hunting season in like the American cultural lore for probably 100 years or eight years or so as it’s kind of kind of been a part of the American mythologies but it’s cool though I like going out in the fall it’s really one of the best times to go camping it’s when you get to kind of take or make use of all the equipment and stuff that you’ve sort of procured over time and and that’s when you kind of also get to use some of the skills and stuff you’ve been trying to scout out or train on to kind of see how they work and the application of them you know in the summertime when it’s really nice out it’s cool to go out and camp and I’ve always had a really great time doing that but like the hot weather camping Oh, no, it’s it’s it demands a little less, I guess it’s kind of obvious, but the environment is sort of something that you don’t have to contend with as much. And in the deep winter, the environment is probably too much to contend with. So there’s a cool kind of pocket that I like, as like an ideal, but a cool kind of weather pocket or environmental pocket between I guess like parts of the fall until November when it kind of gets too deep into it. And then parts of the spring as we’re coming up into the summertime, where you can kind of feel like you’re getting to do a little bit more fires. So kind of a no, right? over the winter, it’s springtime to do that. But at least in late fall like in November or these like northern Oregon areas. After you start getting like a layer of snow or a significant amount of rain and the fire. The emergency level drops back down to the green. There’s a lot of open burning that you can do on campsites that you sit at the public land and stuff. So I think that’s always kind of a fun part of life. The winter like late fall camping stuff is when you get to set up like a bigger fire gather some wood gather some big logs to be kind of like your fuel for the evening it’s kind of fun and it’s sort of like that more I don’t know primal kind of connective to to like the real kind of Route camping stuff but as it goes for a lot of the year like in the summertime like hot weather stuff you kind of like doing it around water or you know it’s like we would we would do stuff you know you do rafting or something so it’s kind of like enjoying the day you don’t have to layer you don’t have to wear like a dry suit or you know a bunch of different I don’t know warming layers you have to kind of be conscious of so I think that’s kind of where you start getting into more of that now I think like now like river trips and stuff you know they sort of shift from like the recreational summer tourism whitewater stuff they get between I guess like may and Labor Day and now as you get kind of further into September and now deep and October you have people I guess coming down just kind of strictly for some of the fishing season stuff so you get like instead of RAF’s, you’ll have a bunch of drift boats come down, like fishing boats and stuff, guided tours and stuff for some of the lower river stuff or just people out on there. That kind of set up and prepped for a fishing trip. But it’s cool. Yeah, a lot of enthusiasm around some of the fishing stuff during this time of year. I want to get out and do some fishing stuff. I got my fishing license earlier this year, and I’ve gotten it a couple of times this far, but I need to really, I guess commit a little more and kind of set it up the right way. I think I’m always kind of doing a couple of too many things here like I’m trying to like set a camera up to record footage, and then throw some casts and let the line set and then you wait for an hour or so but maybe if it’s a non-optimal time or you kind of have to something else and move on and stuff so I haven’t caught a lot of stuff that was a keeper worthy. I picked up a couple of things out of the lake and it was like a 6:52 cheap little tiny game or a little like tiny Sunfish or Rafe, what is it? Yeah, I think it’s Sunfish like these 6:57 like the kind of like bluegill. Not a lot, you know, sheep a little better than a minute. But yeah, I want to try and get into doing some more fall fishing stuff through now until like the end of the year. And I think there are a couple of good seasons that kind of come on through November but I think it’d be cool I’m gonna try and try and jump into that a little faster. I think there’s also some kind of controlled like stocked ponds that are nearby where I’m at, I think they stocked them with trout through the winter and I’m interested in trying out a couple of those places they seem like they’re you know, just to kind of the numbers that they talk about it’s like I mean that’s kind of cool for that kind of thing for stock fishing kind of thing but I’ve been trying to get a little bit more into like what I ca

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0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. I was just talking about terminal stuff and SSH in another podcast just a little bit ago. And I guess what I was gonna say is, how much about the channel? Do you know? Do you know any terminal tips? I was gonna try one out today, talking about it, it might be kind of tough. I’m sure that’s what you’re interested in listening to on your Alexa right now. Wait, I mean echo sorry. I was gonna mention the commands if you go to your Mac, or you go to a Unix system, as it were you open up a terminal. A couple of things you can run, it’s probably going to run bash, I figure like I’m some expert, but I think that’s the Bourne again, shall I think it’s kind of one of the more modern, sort of basic default shells that seems to run. If you run Linux, I don’t know got up. Yeah. And you probably know a lot more about it than I do already. So you know, you’re on your terminal tip for the moment, especially if you’re on a Macintosh, I guess it doesn’t work on a Windows machine, because that runs DOS, right? It’s not a Unix-based system shoot. But if you’re on a Mac, and you want to get into your terminal, and you want to move around just a little bit to sort of seeing what it’s like, I guess two commands that would get you started would be the ls command in the Bourne shell. So the bash shell. the ls command is like the list command. So when you type in LS, and then return, what you’re going to have to happen is it’s going to list the contents of the directory that you’re currently in, in text and command line. Oh, man, it’s pretty exciting. You’re gonna be excited when you see it for the first time. If you want to see some other things, I guess what you try, this is a bonus one, this is a big one, too, is CD, this current directory command. So if you want to, I guess move directories from what directory you’re at now, your root directory, let’s say and you want to move up to your pictures directory that you see when you type in LS, you’re going to type in cd space, pictures, and then you’re going to hit return and that’s going to move you to the directory of pictures. Then when you type in LS, you’re going to get a list of the contents of the directory in pictures. Wow, pretty amazing. You moved a directory in Unix and you found out on this flash briefing. 2:30 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo calm, you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think if you look at Billy Newman under the author’s section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, and cool stuff over there. I think Yeah like I said, I like the October period, you know, it’s kind of a cool outdoor month for stuff and that’s kind of what I’m going to talk about too is kind of layering up stuff for October I’ve been trying to kind of build up the layers of clothes and the layers of like shelter stuff that I have for some of the outdoor travel stuff that I go out and do and I do it on a budget and I don’t have much stuff and like other people have a lot more experience of like just getting to try all these different pieces and see like the benefits or the kind of weigh out the pluses and minuses of different pieces. And so I’m sure it’s probably the case that like the best gear is always the best gear. It’s kind of interesting to sort of go through those checklists or you know, like kind of in your mind like seeing like what like how’s this work or what’s better for me for this thing or not. So I’ve been pretty happy to always have or for the last couple of years to have like a vortex range outlay and for a lot of outdoor stuff that I do in Oregon, later into the year that’s been like a real lifesaver for having just like a hard waterproof shell that I can like the trust that as like a good hood on it that I can keep me dry for most of the day. That along with I guess kind of like working inward like the puffy jacket makes a huge difference. And so I use a puffy jacket all the time. There are a few differences like sizes though and you sort of have to like look at the down fill layer to see what’s going to be best for you and like the climate that you’re going out to that it’s kind of weird it goes back and forth through me a little bit. So like out here in Oregon, where I am like west of the Cascades it’s sort of a mild climate a lot of the year and so I’m able to I think you’re kind of dealing with like above freezing temperatures. Most hours and on most days through the year I think like you know there’s some sections of the year where you get some heavy freezes but outside of those storm times it’s like pretty mild weather a lot of the time and if I’m going camping or doing something outdoors in the winter. Well, there are a couple of different types I definitely use it but really for a lot of like the three-season work I do. I use a light puffy jacket either because of North Face Thermal, or thermo ball, I think it’s like a like polyester-based one. It’s not a downfield, puffy jacket. But I’ve used that for maybe six years now. And I appreciate having that I think it’s great. That’s probably one of my most used insulating layers when I’m going out and I mean works great, really all four seasons with the kind of compared in these mild weather circumstances like I am here in Oregon like that paired with that shell, it has been enough for me to go out. And in almost every kind of weather circumstances I’ve been in when I’ve gone out and been working or like when I was working outside a lot in the rain and trying to be outside like most days through the fall and winter, it was really fine to do that with a strong or like a good GoreTex shell that keeps you dry all the way and puffy, thermo insulating layer that keeps you warm. So it’s pretty cool, but kind of comparing that and I have like this Patagonia jacket that I think has a heavier down fill rating and that has a lot of insulation to it, which is cool, warm jackets are great. And I take that out kind of deeper into the winter. But what I noticed though, is that for a lot of circumstances, like I said three season work. And while you’re working or kind of like physically kind of exerting yourself I’ve noticed like if it’s not below freezing that is too warm of a jacket to wear. And so you kind of get to pick a little bit of like where your environmental thresholds are like what kind of environment you spend a lot of time in and is it going to be above freezing temperatures below freezing temperatures, or is it going to be hot weather temperatures like where you’re working, you know, your coldest temperatures might be 50, but you’re going up towards like the 80s and 90s pretty regularly. And that’s kind of a different environment to work into. So I’ve been kind of trying to keep an eye on that. But as we’re kind of dropping into October the outfitting stuff that I’m doing is sort of away from the heat gear stuff that I would have been using where I’m in like lighter synthetic shorts and 6:59 trying to use lighter layers and stuff like in the winter you kind of get to layer up and stuff we just got to kind of fun sweater weather right so what I picked up last year I’m kind of excited to put some more use into it was a wool baselayer so I got a great wool t-shirt and I kind of appreciate trying to cut out some of the cotton material that I’m using when I’m going out and doing some more outdoor stuff and I guess it’s because back in the day cotton was a great revolution right you know it was a more breathable fabric and it would dry faster than other fabrics that they had available to them I guess is part of what was cool about it. But as I sort of understand now it’s one of the riskier types of fabric that you can wear as a base layer when you’re out in the woods for a couple of days or when you’re out camping or you know the talking TV shows abo

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0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Today I wanted to talk to you about the performance of the new MacBook Pros. Is there an issue with it? I don’t know, I’ve heard a couple of stories about it where these higher I’m sure probably the entry-level system is quite adequate and a very positive type of computing experience that you’re going to get from I’m sure you’re going to be happy in a lot of experiences. But there’s talking about the I nine system specifically because of its heat output. I think that you know, that’s the new division of there’s the I five processors, the ice seven processors. Now for laptops for the first time, in Mac, at least, you have the option to get a nine processor. Now I guess this has a significantly higher heat threshold than the processes before. And the laptops don’t have a better system of removing that heat from the system than the previous laptops are then the other iterations of the laptop in the same line that produce much less thermal energy. So this is kind of, I guess, been performance hinders, in some cases, because there’s something called thermal gating. It’s a system where when the computer gets too hot, somewhere around boiling temperature, can you imagine that’s happening just in your little laptop, heat venting out of your keyboard? Goodness gracious, that’s what you have to do to get a 4k video coming out of a laptop. So with all this going on with that, that process, you’re trying to not reach a boiling point, it does something called thermal gating where I guess it turns your fancy new four gigahertz I nine processor into quite a bit slower, one gigahertz processor kind of churning through some things because of its heat output, and because of how much heat is generating. So it’s kind of an interesting thing. I guess there was a YouTuber that did a video render from an Adobe Premiere file, they did it, you know, on the desk, where it was pretty, it was spinning up, the fans producing a lot of heat and stuff, they put it in the freezer, which is maybe a good idea, maybe not I made me do it and put it in the freezer. And I guess the render time was 20% faster because it was not running up to the thermal gating fast, I guess because it was a better heat dissipation system, though. It’s not an optimal system to run a computer freezer. Because of that system. And you know, it’s a laptop of a very thin laptop, trying to run very high-performance utilities. So I’m kind of curious about, you know, really what the design perspective is on that. It’ll be interesting to see where things go from here. And I’m sure things will probably be fine, but I don’t know I don’t I just still don’t like USBC that’s how old I am. Give me a headphone jack. 3:00 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you can look at that Bitly Newman under the author’s section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism, camping, and cool stuff over there. Oh, yeah, there’s been so many discoveries since last year, gravitational waves have been verified and had been projected before but now they’ve been verified, I guess I suppose. They say the math is strong. I’ll let the scientific community that that’s all but yeah, they say that they found what was it like a 26. And ours, I think was 26 and 34. solar mass black holes orbiting each other came closer and closer kind of spiraling in on their same-like point. And then they finally merged when the two giant black holes a solar mass, like we talked about before, is the size of our Sun. So one sun around Earth is one solar mass. So these black holes were each 30 solar masses, so 30 times more massive than the mass of the sun. And these two black holes smiled at each other. And it’s at this rate, I think, predicted in Einstein’s theory of special relativity, where it kind of matches a pattern of how gravitational bodies will orbit around each other and then collide with each other. And so when these two bodies collided with each other, there was an X, I think there was if you think of E equals MC squared as energy equals mass times the velocity of light squared, then what that would mean is that when mass is accelerated to a certain point turns in energy. That’s what happened in this event, these 230 solar mass, black holes collided with each other. It released three solar masses That are three times the whole mass of our Sun, from mass into energy out into space. And I think this is one of like the largest or the most energetic events that we’ve been able to record. in cosmology. It’s really big. Yeah, well, yeah, or not, not in priority, but in the amount of energy that’s exchanged at a single point that’s verifiable. And so that’s, I think, what the type of thing that this, this type of observing observatory was looking for, was something to collect these gravitational waves. So it’s a cool story, they’ve kind of figured that out. I think that was back in September, that they made the observations, and then now, and was it early February, mid-February, that’s when they kind of announced it probably won’t make a lot of changes for any daily use, but it will change a lot of the astronomical. Well, I’d say like, part of the study of astronomy going forward in the next 50 or 75 to 100 years, you know, it’s because now we can make gravitational telescopes, we can make these tools that can observe gravity waves out in space. And this is just the first time that we’ve done it, this was an observation of one of the strong signals are strong events that we’d be able to gravitationally pick up. And so now from here, over the next several generations of this, this technology, they’re going to be able to refine it so much more that they’re going to be able to pick out much more subtle gravitational waves. And once they’re able to do this, or once you’re able to, let’s say, now that it’s proven this type of technology out into space, and then make that experience vast, we’re going to be able to refine details of these gravitational waves to a much smaller resolution. And that’s going to give scientists and cosmologists and these new gravitational wave astronomers, more tools to look into the universe, and especially the look into the early stages of the universe forming, we’re just going to be exciting. I think this event that they observed was one and a half billion light years away, they say, it’s not triangulated. So they don’t know exactly where in space, this event took place. But they say that it would be out somewhere past the Magellanic Cloud if we were to kind of think about it in the sphere of the sky that’s in the southern hemisphere. 7:18 Pretty cool stuff. Pretty cool. So say, okay, the coolest thing. So it’s kind of up to us to sort of wrap our head around what it means what are they observing, what is the gravitational wave, but this ripple from this event that happened one and a half billion years ago, sent a wave in Gravity through space-time across the universe? And it adjusted the width of the Milky Way galaxy by the width of your thumb? Oh, yeah, that’s so in the room. There’s, in any kind of human perceptible distance, there’s no change. There’s like an Adam’s with a change. For us experiencing it here on Earth. That’s why we didn’t see any kind of crazy, you know, thing happened, there’s no kind of observable event, you with something that’s probably one of the strongest events observable. For us, you know, out in outer space, these collisions of black holes. But, yeah, that wave, I think stretched and then shrunk the Galaxy by the width of a thumb. So that’s like, 100 lightyears across. I think it’s 100,000 light-years across the Milky Way galaxy. And that kind of wiggled by an inch. Yeah, see a gravitational wave, 8:30 are you saying that it? A got a space in it. That was the wi

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0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Yeah, this summer, I’ve been trying to do a lot to work to get together some new photos, some new stuff to try and kind of build a base, and then move from there a little bit. But I’m excited to try and put up a bunch of the older portfolio photographs that I have. And I was really happy to work on the website a lot this summer, I kind of redesigned a bit of that, you check that out, totally think of it, it’s a billion human photo.com. And I tried to strip out a lot of the unnecessary parts, and I’m trying to kind of hone it down a little bit. So it’s a little cleaner, but it’s gone. Well, I’ve tried to set it up a little bit more. So it’s stream-based if that makes sense. You know, we’ve kind of moved toward like the Facebook stream, the Twitter stream, the Instagram stream. So I’m trying to kind of move it to were like I talked about on the podcast before where a lot of the media stuff that I put together, the video clips, the photographs, and stuff that wherever they do end up going whatever sites I am populating, like flicker and Instagram and Facebook and all the rest of it, that’s kind of what’s shown on the website or you know, have the websites kind of try and automatically pull that stuff and ingest that into the website. So I don’t have to do it as much. And that’s kind of been fun. It’s kind of been cool doing that. But the thing that I need to do, the part that is still left is I need to go through my photo portfolio, kind of the long-term portfolio of images I have, and I’m trying to go through and select what would be good to show the work that I’ve done so far. And I’m trying to do that in a way that’s more developed than I had before I’ve gone through and I’ve selected, I’ve kind of picked the photos that I liked a lot. But I’ve tried to do a couple of different things. And hey, another truck. Man, that looks like a few times of gravel in the back. So what I want to do them, with the photo stuff, and what I’ve kind of been trying to work on a little bit is to go through Instagram, or to go through Facebook and to try and select my favorite photographs, but then also just select the ones that have been sort of chosen by the market. That’s another idea that I’m trying to go for what do people actually like about the pictures that I take? What are the ones that people seem to connect with the most. So on one level, I’m trying to find all those photos. And then I’m trying to sort of remake those photos or re edit them or you know, kind of re republish them in a way that looks sort of new. And that’s cleaned up a little bit in the way that I can I can edit and create stuff now. So part of the step is that and then the other part is sort of learn what people like are the photos I make. And then I want to go out and try and make more of that. Or try and dig in a little deeper on on the part that seems to get the most traction or that seems to be seen as the most valuable. So what are those, like what I’ve noticed? 3:03 Well, yeah, what I’ve noticed anecdotally so far is that the low light stuff, or the Astro photography, the night photography, the landscapes, where there’s stars matched in the background seem to really perform really well. And I really love trying to take those photos and I know a lot about how to lay out the stars that I would want in that foot or you know, I know where the stars are, I know how to kind of line some of the landscapes I thought that I know how to expose for it. So that’s a part that I’d really like to get into and push for more what seems to be a draw the photos that I take. But on the other side of that too, I really want to do more, more fine art photography, that’s what I really liked, and was kind of drawn into when I first started taking photos, even way back on film, before I knew how at all but I really liked the fine art side of it, where you could go through and try and put the nicest elements together or, you know, try and put a landscape together. But I like that side of it a lot more than the product or production side of it. In, in a sense at least. And I’ve always been really interested in the fine art photographers that are out there, or the fine art landscape photographers where you see some of the advanced kind of work that they put together some of the ways that they’re able to put real pieces real elements into a photograph, it’s always seemed so cool, when you’re really able to be in tune with that sort of stuff. And I’ve just always loved the old landscapes and, you know, old Fine Art images from the past. So that’s got to the stuff that I’m trying to get into. But organizing this stuff has been interesting. So I’m trying to use this program called Scrivener. And maybe I talked about it before or maybe a while back. I talked about it. But Scrivener is kind of interesting. It’s this, and I talked about it yesterday. No, but it’s this writing application that I’m trying to get into and it seems like it would take a few tutorials to really figure out it’s a little bit more in depth. Hey, gravel truck. It’s a little bit it’s quite a bit more in depth than something like Word. Even though Microsoft Word is sort of an industry standard that every One has sort of learned on for the last 1520 years, it really is a little bit more specific to like an essay for at least the way I’ve learned it. But it’s more specific to the an essay format of word processing, where you’re trying to get a page accomplished, and you’re trying to edit through that or you’re trying to edit through kind of a single document. And Scrivener is sort of laid out in a way where there’s a few more pieces on the side of it, where it’s really supposed to be a research applicant, or you’re supposed to kind of compile 5:28 different documents of text research or photo research and kind of put that together. And then you’re able to sort of assemble a larger writing projects from there, which I think is kind of interesting. Like I figure like book authors would use a writing program like this to work on their character outlines, and their story outlines their plot summaries, and then they would work that into the manuscript that they would make into their book later. So I just think it’s kind of an interesting way that they seem to be going, or that the program is built to sort of go about it. So I’m trying to get into that and do it well, but one of the aspects I’m trying to do is to put in all the portfolio photographs that I have, into this Word document, and then sort of sort those photographs, and write about those photographs a little bit to see which photographs really seem to connect with me, or connect and connect with an audience the most and, but also, what photographs sort of have a story associated with them, I love that. Like, if you would follow me for this for a second, you would kind of see that there’s a difference between the photographs that are going to be the most monetizable the ones that you can make money from like, let’s say portraits, let’s say business portraits for some company, you could get, you could get some money for that. But you wouldn’t really want to post that in your portfolio of work necessarily, you’d want to like, at least in my case, what I’d like to do is show some photos from the in the high River Canyon, like where we were last week on our photo trip. So you kind of want to move into that stuff. But you don’t, it’s not gonna be the same sort of thing. Like there’s landscape, fine art photos, or just, you know, the landscape, travel, adventure, tourism sort of stuff, that’s all gonna be on one side of it. And then the other is going to be, you know, senior portraits, business portraits, event photography, wedding photography, that sort of stuff. So there’s sort of two sides of, of a portfolio one of them’s a photo product that’s valuable for money. A

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View links at wnp.app Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/billynewman/ Website Billy Newman Photo https://billynewmanphoto.com/ About  https://billynewmanphoto.com/about/ YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/billynewmanphoto Facebook Page  https://www.facebook.com/billynewmanphotos/ Twitter  https://twitter.com/billynewman 0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. 0:23 I’m showing another photograph of mine today, this one from Mount Washington up in the Cascades. It’s a really beautiful spot. And I appreciated this, this day to photograph it because of those high altitude clouds that you see in the photograph with a lot of that dark rich color, and it seems like a lot of I don’t know if it’s moisture thickness, or density, or just the parts of it were thinner, and there’s passing cloud or something like that. But I loved the light that day, it was sort of a vanilla color. At least in the higher part. You see those dark blues down toward the horizon where it seemed like there was a lot more of a heavy storm that was moving in. But it’s a cool spot up. I think it’s on-off highway 126. You take that to the end and then you come into that road that’s going to take you down into sisters right before the hoodoo snowpark but you can go up there and there’s a number of spots you can get a good view of Mount Washington really beautiful kind of picturesque peak and especially when it’s covered in snow like this, it looks almost like the like mount Paramount, you know the one in the movie, the movie and trail. But it was a really cool spot. It’s an interesting mountain and it’s a cool spot up there there’s really happy to have this photograph and a few of the others in the sequence come out the way that they did that it’s cool, I appreciate the kind of tonal color of it and just the sharpness the way that that mountain really kind of has a presence in the frame you really get that with that compression of the big lens 1:47 you can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think if you look at that Bitly Newman under the author’s section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping and cool stuff over there. We did like a bunch of traveling and we recorded a bunch of stuff which was pretty cool it was kind of a special project so that’s what we’re gonna be talking about today. But Marina what kind of special work were we doing? 2:20 It was super cool we were doing some 360 video and photo recording 2:27 and it was really cool yeah it was really interesting doing that I did like a little bit of a podcast talking about the idea 360 video and some of the GoPro fusion stuff but yeah, it was really interesting having the GoPro fusion for for a week we rented it and we went around and we shot like a bunch of footage all over Oregon and a whole lot of different spots have a similar like the natural areas that we’ve been where we’ve had like the the just it’s probably like the more high profile locations for landscapes and a lot of the areas in Oregon so it was really cool getting to run around and maybe be some of the first people to shoot some high end or higher quality 360 footage in those areas. 3:07 Yeah, I think so definitely. I think there’s some of the spots we got to the I don’t think I really see many regular photos from 3:13 yeah not many people really go there in the first place. Yeah, and really some of those locations were incredibly beautiful like I was thinking about I think about like sisters rock that we did at the end that evening was just so cool but just the the way that the 360 video virtualizes is really interesting to look at it it’s kind of a neat kind of optical effect when you get to look out and you get to kind of turn your head and see just sort of this the field of view that you would see if you were experiencing the place if you’re traveling there but it’s really fun to get to see especially in certain locations you know where you really get to turn your head and see different aspects to the environment that are going on. Yeah there’s something going on 3:52 yeah, it was it’s really cool what a great job we the GoPro camera does yeah just with the quality of it looks so real and so beautiful 4:02 yeah I was really interested in that and how it was gonna do but but yeah the GoPro fusion is I think the the newest offering from the GoPro camera company and and you know they have they have the regular you know, two dimensional system still too but but the three 3d six system is really interesting. It’s not through sight, it’s not 3d, but it’s a 360 degree spherical image it’s well I was talking about an actual rectilinear image that stitch together from two cameras that record 180 degrees of your field of vision, and then that’s brought into the computer and stitched with the special software, the fusion Studio software, and it’s really interesting how it works but I think this is really pretty new. If I understood right from from like the the invoice and what I understand about GoPros these cameras really have just come out I think it was it was marked as the the like the innovative product of the year at CES this year. So that back in January Pre announced. And I want you know when some some more now it’s interesting, but but I think it has really just come out for release in April now. And then so we’re probably some of the first people to even rent it from this company that has it available. So it was cool. Yeah, last couple of weeks of May. And yeah, trying some of the new technology out. But the GoPro fusion is probably the most adept 360 camera that’s available for consumer use right now. I think there was the other camera, the ryla, which is a 360 degree camera that also has some of the video gimbal stuff that the GoPro has. But really, I think the GoPro is higher end. And there’s, it seems like, every time I’ve not used the GoPro system, I’ve had a little bit more trouble, but I was really impressed with that works, that’s really the only 360 system I’ve used. There’s also the theta camera built by Rico, that is 4k video. And that’s a little bit less expensive. I think that’s been out for a couple years. But um, but I don’t think that’s the gimbal system, you missed the stepping kind of image stabilization. 6:01 Man, that made a huge difference for videos, we were able to watch them, I guess you can preview them on your phone with an app. Yeah, just from directly from the camera. And it looks awesome, but you can see the motion for the stepping and stuff a little bit. And it’s cool when you process it through your computer. And and see the the effects of everything, 6:28 the full stabilization is really impressive. And it really makes it possible to have like a walking or moving video and 360. And I think I think otherwise given given like the change in access that would happen. You know, like as the camera moves through the 3d field and Z axis changes, or you kind of spin the camera a little bit, then it kind of throws the rest of the axis off is how it would be without stabilization. But with stabilization, you really virtualized in that location, and you kind of independent from the movement of the camera, which is what’s really amazing about the way that it’s able to do some of the recording which really gives you a much more immersive feel when you’re watching the video because you can move the camera independent of any kind of jerky motion that the camera recording had in it, which really makes possible for for videos that are moving I think otherwise. It would almost be nauseating to have video that was moving unless it was on some other kind of gimbal system. Yeah, that’s why probably you’ve really seen only only like kind of standstill videos up into this point that are related to 360 video. And what’s really cool about the GoPro 360 is that it really provides you so much opportunity to do moving videos that look really good in this 360 immersive environment in 5.2k. So like when we’re compressing down to 4k, it’s cool, but oh my goodness, does it take forever on this laptop? 7:51 Yeah, does rendering take so long? 7:54 Yeah, so we had to go in overnight. So i

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And I guess that encrypts the data that’s transmitted across that protocol before that HTTP had just an open protocol where you could still read the contents of data that was being routed to that page. So at least, I guess with HTTPS, that data is encrypted, like your banking data is encrypted, or your payment data is encrypted, and it can’t be siphoned off in some man-in-the-middle attack, I guess, apparently, or unless that didn’t work that time. That’s sort of how hacks always work. Oh, yeah, it’s protected. But except for that thing that it didn’t work for. We weren’t protected by that. Okay, well, so if you are interested, I think a VPN is sort of an interesting way where you can create a virtual private network is what it stands for. Many of them are paid, and many of them seem to be free. I think the probably the best one to jump into if you’re interested in something like Tor or the Tor Browser, the Tor router when they talk about that, I think it’s like a virtual private network system that kind of jumps you around to different IP addresses before it finally spits it out somewhere. And what that allows you to do is sort of anonymizing the the registry information that would be tracked about your connection to the Internet. At that router, is interesting. I’ve been learning all sorts of stuff about all the things that attract and sort of where it logs the router information. Wild to know about but man, it’s it makes you think a little bit about all the different things that you’re tracked on over the internet, everywhere. Crazy stuff. It’s a weird world that we’re gonna live the weird world we will live in over the next 15 to 20 years like the last 15 to 20 haven’t been so 2:39 you can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you can look at Billy Newman under the author’s section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, and cool stuff over there. But this week, I want to talk about some of the past truck travel stuff that we’ve done, and I think you’re the guy who inspired me to get a truck at the first man I got a truck gotta have a truck. Strangely, though, most of my road trip travel has been stolen camera and the cameraman. 3:22 But that camera was legendary. 3:24 It was legit. It was absolutely legendary. But for today’s episode we’re thinking about doing was kind of breaking down a couple of the stories in the past we had about doing some overland stuff, some overland, like travel, if you can call it overland. I don’t know that’s like a heavy word. I think that’s a modern word, right? Like this term. I’ve seen that around like overland where people have seen a lot of that. Yeah, it seems to be kind of the trendy sort of rich guy word to say for Whelan. I’m going Madden. Landrover Madden or four, four wheeling or something. You take that overlanding overland 3:58 excursion? 3:59 Oh yeah, it’s always that but i think that’s kind of a funny part of it. But I see like a ton of that stuff. I got into that, like, I got into that stuff back in 2011. Like the overland travel Have you ever seen like the magazine overland journal? 4:12 Is that inactive? 4:14 I think so. Yeah, I don’t know. It’s like sort of a niche. It’s a niche category. Like this whole thing. So it’s where it’s like that thing. You’d never find it unless you looked for it. But it’s kind of it’s interesting. There’s tons of stuff out there like that, but that’s one of the first ones that I ran into. And that’s like, that’s when I had like the Camry and I was back in college and stuff. And you know, that’s when I first really wanted to get because I couldn’t get a Landrover from the 70s I really wanted to get like a roof rack and a top box. I was I was like set on that because if I could get that, that was like that was like my that was my version of making like a Camry into an overland vehicle, you know, because I’m going to get into this but I’m 20 and I’ve got 138 bucks, so we’re going with that. Yeah. Without as a part of it so yeah I remember setting up like like setting up the car that the roof the roof top or the top box you know man those are those are like super handy like and that was great on the on the camera when I had it but that was all kind of what was yours 5:12 you had like that that top box 5:15 yeah it was a I forget what it is now I think there’s like the excursion that I had at a time and then there was like the summit model that 5:24 we didn’t have the overland model didn’t 5:26 I missed out on both of these were like oh man they were like you know I don’t know the early 90s maybe late night early mid 90s or something that’s like when the plastic was produced that’s when that thing was called New and now it was just sitting on my my equally old aged car gonna go around and grab those things hold their value like crazy I picked mine up both of mine I think now three of them in total I picked three of those top boxes up oh on Craigslist was for different cars and stuff I got a little fat one for the for the Camry I’ve had one for the truck and we got one from Marina CRV or what do you say the truck I mean the old foreigner let’s get into that later too but that long one on the old foreigner so I bought like a few of them and I always bought them on us like on Craigslist or something right like yeah it’s like new they’re like five or 600 bucks to get into this cheap man yeah it’s yeah super frustrating so even when they’re used they’re they’re still floating in like for good ones or for like stuff from the 2000s that sort of the more modern clamping systems or you know when they actually made it they made it better you know where you can put it off take it on and off your car without putting together like a bunch of plates wing brackets made out 6:38 to spend the whole afternoon doing yeah it’s 6:39 great because he would always like you know mess up you get stuck in some situation like that when you like I think one time we had to move we’d like it was you and I Robert and Scott and we had to like move that that that top box we’re talking about to the oh yeah to the raft right and we were going on that snowboard trip so we had to like pack we had to put it on and like put like a bunch of snowboards on or something. And it was just like it was just like snow and slash and it’s kind of raining you got like you don’t even have a headlamp you’ve just got like a light kind of crimped on your shoulder and neck. As you’re kind of trying to twist this wing that back and forth to make sure that this thing’s tight in the right spot. It was such a pain man, it was so awful. So after that they made like more simple clamp systems that work better. But man those are like still like 300 250 like the low end range. Like the second like us. Yeah, the stuff broken. I just sold one for like, 85 that was that like a big chunk missing out of it? Oh, geez. Yeah, it’s not Yeah, it’s like it’s a gold. At least I don’t know, it seems like in Eugene May. In Southern Oregon, it was a lot harder. I think I had one and never sold. But it seemed like in Eugene and in Corvallis and Portland, or, like, you know, where that that that string of Hebrews and topsoccer Yeah, right. exists all those all those overlanders out there. Mm hmm. But that was my foray

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 0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. I’m talking about a photograph that I made on the Oregon coast today doing blue hour probably, I think it was after the senate set sort of

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0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Today I was going to be talking about some of the ideas around VR rendering, I’ve been just getting into that after recording a ton of 4k,

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 0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. 0:23 Think yesterday I just recorded some of it, where I got into some more information about 360 videos and some of the interesting stuff

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 0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. I think today we are getting a recorded podcast and a little bit about some of the videos that we recorded in the high desert when we had the Go

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If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work, or  a podcast interview, please drop me an email.  Drop Billy Newman an email here. If you want to book a wedding photography package, or a family portrait session,  please visit  GoldenHourWedding.com or you can email the Golden Hour Wedding booking manager here. If you want to look at my photography, my current portfolio is here. If you want to purchase stock images by Billy Newman, my current Stock photo library is here. If you want to learn more about the work Billy is doing as an Oregon outdoor travel guide, you can find resources on GoldenHourExperience.com. If you want to listen to the Archeoastronomy research podcast created by Billy Newman, you can listen to the Night Sky Podcast here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography: you can download Working With Film here. Yours free. Want to hear from me more often?Subscribe to the Billy Newman Photo Podcast on Apple Podcasts here. If you get value out of the photography content I produce, consider making a sustaining value for value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books all on Amazon here. Website Billy Newman Photo https://billynewmanphoto.com/ YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/billynewmanphoto Facebook Page  https://www.facebook.com/billynewmanphotos/ Twitter  https://twitter.com/billynewman Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/billynewman/ About   https://billynewmanphoto.com/about/ 0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. 0:23 I'm bringing this photograph up today, it's another image going up on Instagram, Facebook, and my site. And this is a photograph from the winter storms that we had back at the end of December, the beginning of January, I think this is after the big ice storm that we had. But after, after, I think one day of a winter storm where we had a lot of snowfall, the weather cleared, and we went out on a walk. And we took a bunch of photographs, probably a number of the pictures that had been that have been put up in the last few weeks here. But this photograph was from a section near the cemetery, I think close to the university of Oregon campus. I like this image, it's really simple, and it's pretty easygoing. It's just a panel of trees that are maybe 100 feet away or so that stretch up and kind of reach up into the top of the frame. I like the composition a little bit. And I also liked the backlight that was

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