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.

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

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

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

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: bil

Show notes for the Billy Newman Photo Podcast.Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below.  wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography:  you can download Working With Film here.  If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here.  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 Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below.  wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography:  you can download Working With Film here.  If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here.  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. 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

Show notes for the Billy Newman Photo Podcast.Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below.  wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography:  you can download Working With Film here.  If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here.  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 Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below.  wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography:  you can download Working With Film here.  If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here.  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. 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 c

Show notes for the Billy Newman Photo Podcast.Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below.  wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography:  you can download Working With Film here.  If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here.  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 Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below.  wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography:  you can download Working With Film here.  If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here.  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. 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

Show notes for the Billy Newman Photo Podcast.Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below.  wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography:  you can download Working With Film here.  If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here.  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 Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below.  wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography:  you can download Working With Film here.  If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here.  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. 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 pi

Show notes for the Billy Newman Photo Podcast. Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below. wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography: you can download Working With Film here. If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here. 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 Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below. wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography: you can download Working With Film here. If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here. 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 p

Show notes for the Billy Newman Photo Podcast. Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below. wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography: you can download Working With Film here. If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here. 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 Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below. wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography: you can download Working With Film here. If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here. 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. Today I wanted to talk to you about something, maybe important, but do you use a VPN? I don’t use a VPN, and I probably rarely do. But I’m kind of figuring out now like how many pieces of information routers pick up and your ISP picks up about your traffic. And I’m trying to finally figure out what HTTPS is good for, like HTTP exists, like what we remember in the 90s, typing that into Netscape trying to get to our first web domain. Or we have HTTPS now, which is the secure hypertext transport protocol. 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’

Show notes for the Billy Newman Photo Podcast. Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below. wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography: you can download Working With Film here. If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here. 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 Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below. wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography: you can download Working With Film here. If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here. 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. But this photograph is a cool one from the Sierra Nevada on the east side of the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges near Lone Pine, California, in the Alabama hills. And we liked camping in the Alabama hills. This was I think, right during Thanksgiving week. During 2012, we had a blast being there and camping there during the day, it was cool. It was strange because, at that time of year, the sun sets still very early. Like it was around three o’clock that the sun would set behind these mountains. But it would be pretty warm out I think we remember getting sunburned out there even on the first and second day of December when was still when we were still there. It was pretty cool. We had a lot of fun being out there. And this is a really beautiful photograph of it that we took early that morning around sunrise. 1:14 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, camping, you cool stuff over there. Today I posted a photograph from the way Canyon area, it’s like really remote South East Oregon territory. It’s cool out there I’ve only gone out there a couple of times and truthfully we need to be I don’t know just needs to be explored much more than what I’ve put my time into it for but it it’s just so remote. It’s amazing how it is that they like what we did we came in from Boise we drove down and through that, you’re kind of in the Ottawa area as it kind of flows into I guess though what he would flow into the Snake River. Somewhere around Ontario, Oregon. But up above that, I guess the law he goes up toward Winnemucca which is sort of what I understand or at least kind of stretches on there a

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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 like you know, the golden hour to talk about right as the hour as the sun is setting into the 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 the water. There’s just a lot more of that tone as the sun drops and as the spectrum shifts from what we see in the daylight to what we see at nighttime, but I think this was a photograph taken on the Oregon coast. I think you’re Bandon if I’m right, and I really liked this photo just had, it wasn’t really a big structure in the wave or a big curl or anything like that. That’d be that’d be really striking. But I really appreciated this photograph as kind of a close up look at just sort of the dreamy feeling of being on the coast but there’s definitely a photograph that I liked a lot and I liked that line in the skies it is it cuts across. As you can kind of see at the top there there’s a bit of a 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 brand of cloud that goes over the top of the snapback causes a lot of bounce from the ground back up to the sky and then back down and you get a cooler or well you get a diffused sort of soft light and net effect which I think is really cool. 1:50 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 up Billy Newman under the authors section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert on surrealism on camping, you cool stuff over th

Show notes for the Billy Newman Photo Podcast.Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below.  wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography:  you can download Working With Film here.  If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here.  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 Communicate directly with Billy Newman at the link below.  wnp.app Make a sustaining financial donation,  Visit the Support Page here. If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Send Billy Newman an email here. If you want to see my photography, my current photo portfolio is here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography:  you can download Working With Film here.  If you get value out of the content I produce, consider making a sustainable value-for-value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books on Amazon here.  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

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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, I think 5.2k video with the GoPro fusion I’ve just talked about a lot of that stuff on the last flash briefing, but today, I’ve been bringing it over onto my MacBook Pro, which is quite a modern version of the computer. I think many of the pros commented recently, it’s probably the better iteration of the MacBook Pro for the last number of years. I’ll get into that and some of the apple WWDC news just in a few seconds, but for some of the VR rendering that I’m doing on it without maybe a dedicated graphics card to push through it as you know, the fast clip, it takes a long time so I’m trying to export 360-degree equo rectilinear video footage in 4k mp4 file format with an H dot 264 to throw in some other term that this someone might not understand. But I’ve been trying to do that overnight. So I’ve been using, I’ve been using that command if you have a Macintosh, this is a good one to learn. If you go into your terminal, I think you can use the command caffeinate just the word caffeinate and then space dash D and that will force your MacBook or your iMac or you know you’re your Apple computer to remain on and to not go to sleep under the normal circumstances that your settings would have precluded it to do. So it’s a really cool, cool little bit, if you’re just trying to make your computer stay on or force it to stay on for a longer amount of time, it leaves the screen on to you gotta you gotta do your little f one f two thing or something to turn that down but it works really well that I’ve been using that to leave the computer on and have it running so that it can be churning through some of these 4k rendering