As I write this it looks like we’ll be missing another Photography Club meeting and the lockdown will continue for at least a few more weeks. Our worldwide photography community has been doing a great job of coming up with things for us to do while we sit and practice our introvert skills. Here’s a few of those resources.
Here’s one shown on Picture Correct by Sunny Shrestha. The title tells it all. It’s called “10 at Home Photography Tips During the Lockdown”.
https://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/10-at-home-photography-tips-during-the-lockdown/
Our French friend Serge Ramelli has done a video titled “Quarantine: Create Macro Photography”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf4QaPfkWG4
And Aaron (I’m so glad he cut off that man bun) Nace from Phlearn has published his intro to Lightroom Classic tutorial series. Here’s a link to 7 tutorials on Lightroom.
- How to Import & Organize Photos in Lightroom Classic
- How to Filter & Favorite Images in Lightroom Classic
- How to Edit Photos in Lightroom Classic
- Advanced Photo Editing in Lightroom Classic
- How to Batch Edit Photos in Lightroom Classic
- How to Create Presets in Lightroom Classic
- How to Export Photos in Lightroom Classic
You can find all of those tutorials Here:
https://phlearn.com/playlist/intro-to-lightroom-classic/
Our contest for the second quarter is Still Life, probably a good choice considering we’re all staying still. Here’s an article on Picture Correct by Autumn Lockwood that might help with your entries. It’s titled Still Life Photography Tips and Techniques.
https://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/still-life-photography-tips-techniques/
Since we’re locked up and can’t get out to take any new pictures, one solution is to create a picture by putting elements from different photos into one. The big problem with that is to get the lighting and colors to match up. Here’s a tutorial from Colin Smith of Photoshop Café titled How to Match Colors Between Layers in Photoshop.
https://photoshopcafe.com/match-colors-photos-photoshop/
Finally, I’m going to wrap this month with a video I found on Mirrorless Rumors by Robbin Wong. I consider it a message of photographic reality. It’s titled: ‘There Are No Bad Cameras, Only Bad Photographers – And Some Other Harsh Camera Truths’.
https://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/there-are-no-bad-cameras-only-bad-photographers-and-some-other-harsh-camera-truths/
