Some tips for the Canadian Raptor Conservancy outing and other action photography.

Introduction In the past few weeks, I’ve had a few people approach me about how to best get started using Lightroom Classic. These are people who have taken thousands of photos over the years and now want to get a little more serious about their hobby. In short, they want to move from “picture takers” to “photographers”. Typically, they have a spider’s web of photos lying around their hard drive and/or on external drives. The first step, before worrying about Lightroom, is to get...

After a recent outing, several of the newer photographers sent me some photos asking for comments. The first thing I noticed was that some of their shots had sensor spots which, as my mother used to say, "stuck out like a sore thumb". So I wrote this article to assist others in dealing with the inevitable sensor spot and lens marks that are a part of photography.