Five Lightroom tips for bird photography

I’ve been dabbling with Lightroom recently to explore which settings work well when taking photographs of birds, and I want to share what I’ve learned along the way. Taking photographs of birds can be very rewarding and very frustrating, in equal measure.

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Five Spooky Image Ideas for Halloween

Halloween is a perfect opportunity for photographers to experiment. There are so many creative effects to explore!

I want to share five techniques I used over the weekend. These ideas range from the simple, where you don’t need a fancy camera, to the more advanced, where you’ll need a degree of skill with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Hopefully, there’s something for everyone.

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What skills does a photographer need today? The 1990s.

This post is part of a series that charts the history of photography since the 1900s. The series takes a decade by decade look at how the skills a photographer needs have changed in light of technological, economic, and societal change.

Digital cameras

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