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Photography Insights | October/November 2022 Edition

Published over 1 year ago • 3 min read

Hello Reader,

I hope you had a colorful autumn (or spring for my southern hemisphere friends) and enjoyed the cooling temperatures. As with every autumn, the season felt too short. This is especially true since I spent most of October photographing seascapes while working the two Out of Oregon conferences.

One of my favorite things about the conferences is spending so much time with other landscape photographers. Sharing stories, lessons learned, and photographing together is exhilarating and helps me continue pushing myself. This morning, my brain is flooded with ideas for upcoming photography articles and creative projects to try.

While I'm grateful for those experiences, it was hard to miss much of the autumn colors along the East Coast. During the time I did wander through the Oregon forests, they were still showcasing their beautiful and vibrant greens. Thankfully, I made it back in time to catch the last lingering color in the Great Smoky Mountains this past weekend.

Now, it's time to process the images from this season which sparked this month's article:

  • Technical Tips: Fall Photography: Easy & Effective Post-Processing Advice
  • Educational Resources: Nature Photography Classes Fall Speaker Series
  • Dose of Inspiration: Washington Evergreen: Land of Natural Wonders
  • Grab Bag of Fun Photography Finds

Photographing fall colors is an exciting time for nature and landscape photographers. Fall foliage adds bright and captivating colors throughout the landscape. However, those autumn images can often fall flat when you view them on your computer screen.

This article explains what happens when you use the saturation, vibrance, contrast, texture, clarity, and dehaze sliders in Lightroom. Understanding the differences among these options gives you easy and effective post-processing tools to make your autumn colors realistically pop in your images.


From Grand Landscapes to Small Scenes, this line-up is nothing short of incredible.

  • Marc Adamus - "Looking within"
  • Eric Bennett - "Adding by Subtracting" - The Art of Exclusion
  • Alister Benn - "Understanding the Landscape" - The Emotional Language of Vision.
  • Erin Babnik - “Beyond Perfection: Balancing Artistry and Technique in Your Photography"
  • Josh Cripps - "Stop Being a 1-Dimensional Photographer!"
  • Guy Tal - "Creativity and Expression in Photography"
  • Sarah Marino - “The Expansive Mindset: Practices to Transform Your Photographic Experience”

The presentations are sprinkled throughout the fall season, so some have passed. However, you can purchase to watch all seven speakers or register individually at only $10 per presentation. It's a stellar option if you are looking for a more in-depth dive than what most free educational series provide but cannot commit to a full workshop or conference experience.


I cannot say enough good things about the members of the Photo Cascadia team. While I think every one of them is a wonderful photographer filled with passion for this art form, I'm grateful to know and to have photographed with many of the team.

During our time in Oregon, the team gifted me a signed copy of their latest book Washington Evergreen before it was released. I've spent the past two weeks with this book and let me tell you, they have outdone themselves once again. This book takes you on a bountiful visual journey across Washington and has single-handedly moved a trip to the evergreen state to the top of my bucket list.


1.) Alan Shapiro is hosting a free webinar on Lightroom's New Features for Visual Wilderness on November 4th.

2.) The Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions is hosting free and paid educational sessions starting October 30th with a great line-up of speakers such as Marc Adamus, Josh Cripps, Huibo Hou, Richard Bernabe, Julieanne Kost, and more. Click "Buy Tickets" to register for any of the free and/or paid sessions.

3.) Sarah Marino dropped not 1, not 2, but 3 free portfolio eBooks recently. I have always found Sarah's work impressive, and of course these three portfolios are nothing short but a feast for the eyes grouped beautifully by a theme.

4.) Dusty Doddridge released a free eBook on Photographing Forest and Trees which is filled to the brim with 44 quick case studies grouped by seasons. I would certainly have paid for this product because it's just the right dose of lessons learned and inspiration needed before heading into the woods.

5.) I was too distracted with travel this month to pay attention to the Adobe Max Conference, but thankfully Michael Rung produced an easy-to-follow in-depth article as well as a Top 10 Lightroom Updates Video covering the new software features.


Happy Photographing,
Chrissy

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