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Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Canyon lands in the Utah desert out in the southwest of the United States. It was a really cool trip to go on. And this photograph shows this area just outside of canyonlands National Park, and I guess in southern Utah, as you get south of Moab, and down on the east side of canyonlands National Park, but this is cool. As we came into the entrance, there was a handful of dispersed campsites as sort of ran off into the well I don’t know it’s sort of a desolate area out there really. I mean, if you look at it, it’s interesting contoured landscape that you see these, the sandstone and the sandstone mounds that kind of come up all around where we were, while we were camping, we were surrounded by other folks too, that were a little further off, but this was remote dispersed camping. And so we came down to the edge of this, this wall of rock. And in this photo, I walked around kind of farther to the other side where you can see the car and then this drop off of rock is as the fast setting son pulls up the shadows higher and higher into the rocks in the background just before the end of the day where there’s no more more light left over that area. But it was a great spot to camp and it’s really cool. There’s so many wild places out there especially are outside of those, those national parks area so it’s really cool and it’s really fun to get to be out there. I think this is from 2011
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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. kind of continue with some of the stuff that I’ve been talking about the last couple episodes talking about some everyday carry camping stuff that a an outdoors II stuff that I have around with me as I was gonna talk a bit about flashlights too. I’ve tried to pick up some some kind of outdoor flashlights that I can have around with me had the headlight I have a headlamp I have a black diamond headlamp I like that headlamp works pretty well for me it’s a pretty rugged, kind of outdoors he sort of Rei ready tool works pretty well. I think it’s around like 190 lumens or so for the spotlight piece and then there’s sort of a not as bright kind of wild angle LED light on there too also as the switch over to the red LED a lot of that stuff is nice works pretty well hasn’t really failed me yet runs on three triple A batteries I think it’s a pretty cool piece I think it’s been fine I’ve been also kind of looking around at other flashlight units and other kind of outdoors sort of work and utility flashlights that I can get ahold of for the longest time as as a kid I was really into the mag light systems you know like the the kind of like the cop lights that you’d have that runs on the D cell size batteries and I had like the the to sell flashlight That was a good one to kind of put they have like a truck holster these little pins that you can put down kind of drill them straight down to the bed of your truck by your your left hand driver side as you kind of dropped down to the floor there before you get out your driver side door and you could kind of pop in a two cell mag light there as your truck like I said that was pretty cool and but I’d have the add the mag lights and stuff around a long time I think that’s what you know what they have like the five mag light that for cel three so they have the two double a mag lights yeah you know the model across the lineup and stuff had those for years. Those ended up kind of failing on me after a while no they’re really not supposed to but I think like the back end sort of rusted up and then I had some trouble with corrosion with the batteries that were in there and I wasn’t able to break it open with the the PV blaster penetrating fluid that I was hoping to use on it. Anyway that’s all to say that mag light has been put aside I think for a couple years I haven’t used other stuff LEDs the way to go mag light hasn’t really updated the technology so that you’re still using kind of a real lame like 50 or 80 lumen incandescent ball that they just pop in there which I think is really inferior especially at this point and their LED conversion options that they make, I think are really limited and aren’t really anywhere near the type of LED it’s you know, it’s just it’s it’s like a reproduction of the same incandescent ball but as like an LED as a real kind of harsh I thought blue light to it. And it doesn’t really have that kind of bright and crisp sort of layout and focusing beam system that you get even with really cheaply made Chinese LED lights now. So I was trying to find some of the kind of brought in some of the cool sort of outdoorsy or utils Stuff toughness that the maglite had with its branding or you know, kind of with its flashlight engineering. And then something that kind of brought in some of the cool led focusing being light technology stuff that we have with the more modern flashlights that that we’ve had over the last 10 years or so right like blue LEDs came out in 2008, something like that, that’s the first time that we had red, green and blue LEDs which allowed us to make white LEDs and that allowed us to make you know, all these cool color changing light emitting diode patterns that we have now and that’s where we can get these diodes that are real bright and just kick out a ton of light versus their power output. So we can run these incredibly bright 1000 lumen flashlights out of just like a handheld couple battery, you know, like you know, a few a Ford, D cell battery or an eight double a cell battery. You can load up these flashlights or you can load them up with your own rechargeable batteries which is a really cool new feature you can juice them up with USB like your iPhone and then punch that light on you can run a sustained like 1000 lumen torch for hours after that it’s really cool yeah those kind of options now so that’s the sort of stuff that I was looking into I was looking into a couple different brands of sort of durable reliable and useful sort of outdoor utility flashlights. I think that the Marines or special forces use one specific light that’s like $1,000 insanely priced then it’s fine in this other ones stream light I don’t know if you heard these flashlights I’ve heard of them a bit before I’ve seen them in some other stuff and it seems like they’re kind of
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I don’t know sort of like an industry standard so I think if you’re doing a lot of like first responder work or like you work with and you’re working an ambulance I think you have a Streamlight has a contract with a lot of emergency response people so they have like these stream light flashlights some really cool stuff it seems like nicely made utilities a lot of metal flashlights, a lot of polycarbonate flashlights, a lot of safety flashlights a lot of what are lanterns I don’t like these big new kind of like big carry lights that have like three sort of like three led diodes laid out in this triangle shape on the front. And then a red flash on the side manage big honkin lights but they’re expensive man if you get if you get I think like their top whatever their their 20 it’s like it’s like iPhones or something. They’re serious about it they’re 2020 model flashlight is like $170 you get like 1000 lumen handheld flashlight. It’s rechargeable, it’s got a bunch of buttons on it supposed to be dropped proof shatterproof tactical proof you know all sorts of stuff that they’re kind of making claims on them on its usefulness and its reliability and it’s pretty cool man these lights are just incredible on like some of the stuff that they can do it seems you know i mean or at least like to whatever degree they’re trusted in emergency response or police use I think like the police use these Streamlight lights a lot a lot of people in kind of professional settings seem to use them a lot so I was looking around at them minimum even just for Penn lights those are starting at like 30 bucks it seems like and then as you’re getting into like some of their nicer mid range stuff you’re talking about 50 bucks a light or you’re talking about from there into something even even higher into like the $100 like averaging $80 to $100 to $200 or $250 for some of these these lantern lights that they have listed out there so cool, cool lights, cool flashlights man, if I was gonna get a premium flashlight I probably get one of these seems like they’re gonna last a long time seems like they have good warranties with them and they’ve got like a bunch of a bunch of different stuff around it that seems like man What a cool like Marina like that’s gonna be a really reliable constructed piece that you can carry around with you but at that price point, I just can’t really see that it matches what I need and where I need to go very well I can’t really spend $75 on a flashlight it just sort of doesn’t really quite fit with what I’m trying to be up to right now and for the way that I’ve kind of been talking you know, it’s like flashlights sort of go bad, you know, use them for a while, but you don’t use them all the time. Or at least like in my circumstance like you know, it’s like I use it, I like to use it, I need to have a flashlight. I got them. I got them around where I need them, but I needed to be good. But I also needed to fit a certain price point where you kind of get the best sort of trade off between these two different things. And I think you can make a quality flashlight for less than $100 right. So I was looking around I found this other brand out of Portland called coast and you see him they’re distributed everywhere. You can find them in a lot of places you can I think you can find them at Walmart. You can find them on Amazon. They’re all over on Amazon in stock. You can find them on their site. You can find them wasn’t gonna say Home Depot they’ve got a big selection just laid out at Home Depot you can get a bunch of different pieces lanterns, magnetic work lights like utility lights and then a bunch of ranges of flashlights and they have a steel or like how do I say like a mag light style series that’s sort of a steel metal casing and then they also have this other one that’s a polycarbonate casing that’s sort of like almost like plastic but it’s like a steel case with a polycarbonate coating is supposed to be good for some outdoor or you know some kind of
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I guess higher work stress threshold flashlights so I think that’s kind of what I went I went with coast and I thought it was kind of cool that they were a Portland company. They’ve got a whole led line they’ve got like a line of knives too that are inexpensive and kind of cool to get a hold of and if you can find them that’s one of those in the toolbox it seems kind of fun. But these lives these these lights these flashlights is pretty easy to get ahold of I picked up a poly steel 400 I think that’s a 400 lumen handheld poly steel Latta ticks four double A’s and that’s got like a real solid beam on and the poly steel is cool it’s that polycarbonate case so it’s kind of like it’s kind of like plastic but it’s like it’s like that it’s a polycarbonate so it’s like the plastic or you know it’s like that kind of the plastic that’s on a clock handle or it’s on you know, like a knife handle or something like that but real sturdy, you can kind of slam that thing under the ground and it seems like it it still stays intact still still works I think that’s sort of one of the things that this this model prides itself you can go online to coast Portland calm their website and you can watch these tests these stress tests their flashlights where for whatever use this is I don’t know if you’re gonna do this a bunch I guess get this flashlight but they have a guy up on like a 10 storey building and he checks this lit flashlight off the building down into an empty parking lot below you watched the flashlight fall to the ground drop boom bounce kick over slide off and the light stays on why wouldn’t miracles so works so I guess the I guess it’s tough is what they’re telling me which is really actually pretty wild. If you try and do that with a lot of other led flashlights you’re really gonna have that led you’re gonna have the power to the LED interrupted from the battery source that’s going to get knocked out and probably cracked or messed up and the LED circuitry itself is going to crack and shatter and you’re not going to be able to use that chip anymore to emit light in the same way that you had been before so that’s what’s really cool about these is that they can take what seems like you know, like what are you doing this for kind of a thing but they’re crushproof
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I think they’re waterproof IP x eight rated flashlights they’ve got the the CO be the chip on board, light panel LED light panel kind of on the side of one of the flashlights that I picked up, you know it’s got this straight beam ahead. But then it’s got that kind of newer led lantern effect that some of these flashlights have now where it’s got instead of just like a single spotlight led lens through the front of the light, they’ve got this like strip of LEDs now on the side of it you kick a kick another switch that turns on and it’s sort of more of a broad and open lantern light that you’d have if you’re walking the dog or something like that or you want to kind of fill ambiently the light in a room with a flashlight you can kick that light on and sort of a softer illumination across across the ground without any kind of spotlight and a sort of a warmer white color to you also click that button one more time boom it turns into red so you got a safety light you click it one more time and you got flashing reds which is pretty cool that you have a few of those different options but but yeah, I got I got that one that’s a I think almost 1000 What is it? she get that right i think it’s I think it’s 800 lumens out the front spotlight and then another 500 lumen light out the side chip on board CLB or whatever it is but that that sidelight so yeah really bright lights I got that 400 lumen spotlight there’s also like I was talking about headlamps really add that Black Diamond one I think that was like maybe like 150 lumens that sort of averaged out to be there for the spotlight and the wide the wide light that I had there for for this coast stuff they have a they have a headlamp it looks more like a miner’s headlamp you know like the cool thing about the LED stuff, the backpacker stuff that’s all kind of sleek and design it’s small it’s kind of a compact methodology that they’re laying it out and but if you look back in time and you look at like the miners life, they had these minor headlamps is Oh man, how silly would that have been but I think it was just kind of a shiny piece of metal that kind of kept around a pretty regular incandescent bulb and that was supposed to sort of lens forward your light for you so you could kind of grab it and focus it all toward the toward the front of you. And that was a pretty inferior way of doing it at the time but that was how they produce their headlamp spotlights at the time they kind of improved that technology over the last 100 years of course, and even during the the you know, the battery operated days, you’d have like a big miners like like the high end headlamps or like just these big old beastly lights, and then it runs a wire down to your hip, we’re on your belt, you have a battery pack hooked up, and then you kind of switch it on from there, it juices up your light up your back on a cable and then boom, out the front of the light comes. I don’t know 500 lumens or 400 lumens or whatever it is you get, you get your real sustained light there. Now some of the advancements of the LED stuff, you still have those lights and those are really high end and really cool tactical lights. But even just looking at some of these kind of more simple headlamps from coast that they had, they had the kind of the big kind of miners headlamp style spotlight section thing there. And that put out 400 lumens of light, which was you know, maybe double at least what my little headlamp was doing. So it’s kind of cool that you can just kind of pop in, pick up some of these other tools and stuff and they’re waterproof crushproof ip x eight rated kind of outdoor utility tools and so it’s cool, you can get a hold of those things. And it’s nice that they’re as inexpensive as they are, they’re really a lot less than those Streamlight lights. But man, I really like those stream lights also. So I’m going to try and keep an eye on them and if it seems like it comes up with a good deal or a good value on trying to pick up one of those, those kind of Streamlight higher end lights. I might go for it too but really for the value for money and utility that it provides. It seems like these coasts lights are a real score. The last one I picked up was a penlight. So this is sort of the everyday carry light that I’ve got with me in my bag we’re actually in the ammo Can I put that that kind of that smaller polysteel 400 coast light that’s in the in the ammo cam box been in the pocket every day I’ve got this this little pocket pen light still kind of the same thing I think it’s a 110 lumen light it’s got two AAA batteries in it and it’s about the size of a pan just a little bigger kind of like a bit of a
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thick Sharpie is sort of about as big as it is but that size in the pocket it’s got the same waterproof rating crushproof rating is as the other pieces that I had talked about but yeah it’s just a smaller handheld pen light that I like really quite a bit I think it’s pretty cool to have like a more full size light I know my I know my phone has its LED on it that’s really nowhere near as bright as what I’m able to get out of this out of this panel light so it’s kind of cool having that peace around me and even even already in the last couple of days of nurse I pulled this thing out a lot more than I thought I would try and try and use it as a utility especially in spots where the the phone light would come in is no good. So kind of fun stuff going around working the flashlights trying to check out some different brands and stuff maybe I’ll still try out a mag light in the future. Those are kind of fun for nostalgia sake but I think some of these coastlines might be the the direction I go and it’s kind of fun.
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most of this podcast has been brought to you by using cakewalk sonar brought to you by band lab maybe I talked about this a little bit but band lab is a website or a company and I guess it made a purchase of the software cakewalk sonar that had been for a short time previously owned by Gibson Guitar company since like 2011 or something like that. So interestingly a couple years ago or something they Gibson said hey, we’re not going to do any more updates to the sonar software. So that’s just sort of abandoned but sonar was like one of the professional die editors for a lot of multitrack recording studios especially stuff that you know that was that was PC based PC based recording other than maybe addition or Reaper tract as a bunch of other stuff out there but sonar I’ve been cakewalk and so on. I have been one of the long standing multitrack recorders out there, so So, I guess it was purchased by this company band lab. They’re continuing continuing to do updates and development in the software. And it’s available for free now, which is pretty cool. So you can go to band lab.com you download like their installer software. And yeah, you can just download a full functioning version of the the top of the line, sonar was a cakewalk Platinum studio had come out a couple years ago. And so that’s what I’m recording into right now. It’s a pretty nice layout, it’s working fine on this, this older windows 10 machine that I’m working on right now. And it’s pretty fun, I’m having a good time recording into it through the audio interface that I’ve got going the h4 and with the XLR inputs coming in left and right into it and then it’s the two in two out USB interface. So it’s just going over like a USB cable out into the computer. And it seems like we’re getting great preamp quality a lot better than we did with the what is it the ad the audio digital converter that’s in this unit apparently have to take like an analog signal and then crunch that down into data and then get that into the computer so that this doc and record the the way whatever it’s going to do. And apparently it’s beginning like technology does it’s getting progressively better over time. So I guess a lot of the things that used to be maybe very expensive for ad conversions are now a bit better or higher fidelity or you know, a full bit was like CDs or 16 bit and maybe there’s like a 32 bit ad conversion or 64 bit ad conversion so it’s probably just a level of recording sampling that’s or maybe that’s even just different altogether. I don’t really know the process ad conversion but what I do know is that this one that I had that’s about 10 years newer than the other one I had seems to have way better preamps maybe is what I’d say but just the way that it’s able to control the sound as it comes in seems like it’s it’s much better and doesn’t really contain that it’s sort of like this weak digital sound is one of the best way I would describe it something that you’d have like early sound cards and stuff like that to where it’s it just didn’t really sound like it had like a full quality of the track to it when you recorded it. So kind of interesting stuff but yeah, this one sounds a lot better than the other one did and the other one was pretty good for its time it was a lot better than the sound cards that would have been available for for me and I mean that’s what I was using to record stuff even up to just a couple months ago. So yeah, isn’t the h4 n again got the keyboard in here ready to go I need to figure this out with some other cool stuff there’s like setup with a piano sound for a while. I switch it over to this nice little pass it’s pretty cool. on the Mac I’m pretty frustrated I’m on a PC now right so on the Mac there’s this great program I think by rogue Amoeba called for Raja ferragosto. And like that it’s it’s really cool. What you call like a soundboard app where you can kind of trigger you can hit a key right like that a bit it’ll trigger some sound that you have sent you know just some patch of sound that you have as a clip in that spot. So you can build your own soundboard. So you have a keyboard you can punch in like all these different sounds that would play through your computer you can record stuff I really want to use it but it’s only it’s like Apple Mac only. I can’t put it on this PC shoot. So I think what was it discord that the chat and call communications platform app that a lot of gamers use. I guess there’s like a couple soundboard utilities that those guys use on the windows side. So there might be something in there where I can do a MIDI controller to have in the background to grab a couple patches. The thing I’m trying to do there really is to figure out like the MIDI controller that’s in cakewalk and see if I can build my own set of patches like I only need like three or four. And then against I can hotkey those and record like this one. That’ll be like the intro music and that’ll be the outro music in the speech. Some some amusing sound soundbite that I can drop in. Right That’s all I need.
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Probably not though, but I’ll try to figure something out with it. It’s kind of fun kind of goofing around with it really. I’m not sure if I’ll use this keyboard a lot in the podcasting process but other two other than to annoy the the poor. While I was gonna say folks, but probably just folk, just one or two people that are that are poorly making the choice to check out this long winded podcast. So thank you if you made it all the way to 20 minutes and 50 seconds into this program. So yeah, it’s kind of fun doing all this audio stuff and working in cakewalk sonar and learn about some audio recording stuff, I got the multitrack and stuff set up pretty well. So I can do. I can do this input I can do an input into the mic over to the left of me and then again, got the keyboard in here got the MIDI controller set up to do some recording to so that recording to a wave and that’ll be Together another episode I’m sure you excited of the built at wood photo podcast that I’ll be able to, I guess throw up on to my website maybe in the next 24 hours or so. I got to make that party’s here that’s the thing that I want to make a little bit more fun in the next like 40 minutes or so is just trying to like get everything open and get this file loaded into my WordPress site. It’s kind of like a more automated way to do that right? I should look into that. Maybe that’s the sort of automation stuff I need to try and figure it out.
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