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My friend James Dewitz was in Thailand for many years, but recently returned to my area for a short time. I’ve been wanting to feature photographers on this channel for a while now and I didn’t want to pass up this opportunity. In this first of two videos we will take a look at part of his camera gear kit interspersed with information about his photography as well as tips he has based on his experience. He has a focus on oral history, photo journalism, and street photography. He also does other types of photography, but we only focused on the street photography work. See his work here: https://www.instagram.com/j.dewitz/ https://www.facebook.com/jdewitzphoto/ You can find a list of all equipment here: Camera kit on Kit.co I also have the full kit on Amazon.com with newer equivalent items: Camera Kit on Amazon.com Let’s go into more detail… Most of the information here is provided by James.  Olympus O-MD E-M5 Mark I If you don’t want to spring for a better or newer camera, the EM5/1 is...

While ordering the professional line photobook from Saal Digital  (they provided the book for free to me so keep that in mind), I was also able to get a paper sample set. In this article we will look at all 15 types in detail. I have two Youtube videos available if you are interested in seeing the photobook process ( Design & Reveal , Photo Selection Time-lapse ). The set included 15 samples and a coupon code. I took three groups of photos for each print type ( see my Youtube video here about taking photos for this article ). The first is a straight view from above. Two primary lights were on the left and right of the print, and I had set up my camera with the tripod to shoot vertically downward. The goal was to get the photo and camera as parallel as possible. I had made a little jig out of card stock and tape. The second set are macro level detail photos of three crops of each print. I was using the EF-M 32mm f1.4 lens on the Canon EOS M50 with two Fotga extension tubes. I al...

I’ve been using Acdsee’s photo software since the 2017 version. This is a full organization and editing environment for photos. It has a mixture of non-destructive editing as well as layered raster editing. There is a lot of functionality that I won’t be able to cover here. I feel like I’ve only just started to scratch the surface of what it offers in terms of features. I got into it after trying a number of similar programs in a search for something that wasn’t “software as a service” like Adobe’s Photoshop/Lightroom software sold now. It is my “daily driver” application for general photography and initial photo manipulation of stills for my Youtube videos. I’ll be shortening the name of this program to “APSU” throughout this article for ease of reading. Full disclosure: they sent me a license to the 2019 version after they approved my application to their affiliate program. I want to see this software become more popular because I do think it’s a solid fully featured photo management...