Hi, in this video I'm going to give you my top 10 photography apps and resources
to make you photography life easier better more efficient and more fun... let's
go!! Hi I'm Adam and welcome to First Man Photography. Now I often get asked about
what photography apps I'm using and in this overcrowded world of photography
apps it can quickly get overwhelming so I thought I'd put this list together
I've curated myself to show you what I'm using on a regular basis and which apps
are really helping me solve a problem okay let's get into this. First up we
have the Lightroom app now I talked about the whole Lightroom and Adobe
ecosystem a couple of weeks ago and I hope a few of you have checked
that out it is brilliant but one of the things I really like about the app is it
lets me just go into a photo and edit it or tweak it a little bit before I'm
gonna post it on social media one of the other great things about the Lightroom
app is that it has a native camera built into it and that captures DNG RAW files
and the amount of adjustments and data that's captured in those RAW files
really can take your iphone or android photography to the next level in the
post-processing also with the Lightroom app as well today you can make some
pretty advanced adjustments and that includes things like ND grads it's a
really great app give it a try.
Number two is Photopills, it's an app I've
talked about a few times before and it's basically the Swiss Army knife of
photography it's got something there probably for almost all photographers
it's got things like exposure calculators it's got a planner to help
you plan your shoots and photography. It will help you do your nighttime
photography things like at the milky way shots it's got a time-lapse mode that
lets you measure your time lapses and get the right period of time and the
right number of shots it measures the hyperfocal distance it's also got a
brilliant AR or augmented reality mode where you just point it and you can see
exactly where the Sun is going to set or the moon is going to rise in your field
of vision it's a great app I've talked about before it is a little bit
expensive now it's about £10, expensive for an app, but it's still well
worth it for a lot of photographers next up is the Canon camera Connect app now
I'm sorry if you choose Nikon but this is something that you should
push Nikon to be putting into their cameras a lot of the new Canon cameras
have a built-in Wi-Fi and that now lets you remotely connect to your tablet or
your phone and it lets you have remote control of the camera. It's something
I've found myself using more and more and more recently if you look I'm
currently controlling the camera with the iPad here and you can control
exposure you can start and stop recording for video you can use it if
you are doing landscape photography you've got your camera really close to
the ground you can adjust your exposure and you can actually take the shot from
your phone when you're out in the field and it's an absolute game changer it
doesn't mean you're bending down to your camera all the time once you've got it
set and it's just a really nice app that's just making my life much easier
it's letting me do more as well which is why it's important to me for example
when I'm at a wedding if I have the camera like this set up on a tripod
doing video I can be with another camera taking photographs and always controlling
the other camera on the tripod, it is a game changer that's taking things
to another level just giving you a new level of control and allowing much more
multitasking than we could do in the past.
Number four is a weather app if you
do any kind of shooting outside of whatsoever you're going to want to check
your weather app on a regular basis I use for here in the UK the BBC weather
app it is not the most accurate one but it does let you list lots of different
places that you attend so you can quickly monitor all those different
places I don't want to use actually an app for weather that's too specific and
too accurate because that can sometimes put you off actually going out sometimes
the BBC weather app just shows it's gonna be average so I'll head out
it might go bad it might go great but I'm out there capturing moments that
otherwise might not have caught like this shot of the lighthouse in a
lightning storm I am clutching at straws a little bit
but I think out of that it's actually forced me to think a little bit harder
about how I can pull a composition out of this situation so the vlog isn't a total failure.
Next I'm using the Ordnance Survey map app. A map app is
going to be important Google Maps for example you need it to get to the places
you want to shoot you photography if you've not
been there before but when I'm out and about in the wilderness doing my
landscape photography the Ordnance Survey app is absolutely brilliant it
has all the different types of map on there the Ordnance Survey produced the
land Ranger ones and the Explorer ones all those kind of things and it sinks in
with your GPS on your phone so you always know where you are it's
important to stay safe when you're out and about in a wilderness know where you
are the OS map app does that really well it's about 20 pounds for a year
subscription but with that you get all the maps and you can download them onto your
phone so when you're in the mountains where there's no signal you can still
use those maps and see where you are on it. You might want to take a battery
charger as well just to make sure your phone doesn't die I'm intending to talk
about that a little bit more and show you how it works in an upcoming video
500px that's the next one it's something I've been pretty slow in
getting on to 500px is a sort of photo sharing social web site and it's sort of
replaced what Flickr used to be Flickr is dead, oh my goodness what have they
done it used to be great. But 500px has kind of taken up the mantle that
Flickr has left behind you can see some really good quality images on there
you're not getting all the rubbish that you see on Instagram. You see the
pictures in nice high resolution as well and it seems to be a pretty good
community on there they've also started to introduce a few features for
professional photographers. A marketplace, websites that kind of thing
it's not something that I've delved into yet but I am now on 500px so I'd love
it if you could give me a follow at first my photography @500px .
And next
that leads us on to Instagram..... you know why..... and if you're not.....you should.
The next one is also from Instagram but it's the Hyperlaps
app. This is there to create those walking hype lapses and the way it works
is by digitally stabilizing the footage so gets those really nice Hyperlapses.
What it's also great for though is if you turn it round landscape size you can
shoot it but you can slow it down to 1 times speed so you just end up with
digitally stabilized footage straight onto your iPhone that looks beautiful
if you get some nice interesting footage with it. It's an app I've used a bit now
it's really good and it's FREE so well worth a try particularly if you're
doing video.
Next up is Medium, now if you haven't heard of it, Medium is a blogging
platform where some of the newest writers and some of the best writers all
contribute and there's just so much there to read and the written word is
there front and center there's some great photography stuff on there as well
I've been writing for some time now for one of the biggest photography
publications on there called Vantage it's well worth checking out with some
great photography articles on there it's a really nice community there there's a
lot of positivity and Medium is a good place to check out if you're interested
in reading some of you contact number ten is the humble website we are all now
operating on our phones most of the time but there's still lots out there on
traditional websites I'm talking about photography blogging sites like Peta
Pixel and F-Stoppers that are both great. You've got Canon rumors and Nikon rumors
that are always quite good fun and you've also got things like Skippy sky
that can help with you sunrise and sunsets and of course you've got the
First Man Photography website. The apps I've talked about have saved me
time they've made me more efficient and that just lets me do more and more and
more and therefore get better. Hopefully they can do same for you anyway I'll put
a link down below to everything I've mentioned and please do leave a comment
and let me know if I've missed anything what do you like to use? Share your ideas
with everybody else that'd be really appreciated so I hope you've enjoyed the
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