@blessingscaptured Ok, great! Thank you all so much!

I agree with Lydia, Lightroom is very powerful, and you probably don’t need PS unless you are planning to do background removal (like making cutouts for a calendar) or complicated photo layering/stacking that Lightroom can’t do (like focus stacking).

I believe the MacBook Air has USB-C ports, so a USB-C SD card reader should work.…Read more

Ok great. I will probably just get the Lightroom subscription, then, thanks so much!

I hadn’t yet, thanks for that suggestion! I will definitely look into those. 🙂

Personally, I almost never use Photoshop for photo editing. Lightroom is very powerful, and has become more and more so through the years.

Pretty much the only time I’d use PS for editing would be for advanced edits like face swaps or dramatic removals from backgrounds, but I almost never need to do that since…Read more

Hopefully this doesn’t get confusing! I have two different questions, but they are sort of related, so I just thought I would include them all in one post.

I am considering getting Lightroom, as I want to make my photos look more professional, as well as have a good way to organize all my photos. I am likely going to pay for…Read more

Let’s go out and bless some families with photos this month!

I decided to do a wildlife theme, because that’s what I have the most of in the last year, but I might do something…Read more

I really like photographing wild animals!

I feel like every photoshoot I do, I walk away with at least one thing I learned or something I can do to improve next time. The more experience you have, the more those things will build up so you’ll have more and more ideas on what to do in all sorts of situations!

Congratulations to the winners! I’ll be emailing you all this week with your awards. And all participants are getting a little something special too, so keep your eyes on your emails for that as well.

I’d condense my suggestions to the three following points:

1) Plan general groupings
i.e. full family, dad/kids, mom/kids, siblings, individuals

2) Use variations within each grouping
i.e. posed, seated, standing, moving (walking, running, playing “red light green light”, giving group hugs,…Read more

I don’t know your personality, but it helps me a LOT when I scout out a location beforehand, preferably at a similar time and same lighting conditions as the real shoot will be (sometimes an hour or two before the real shoot works fine).…Read more

While it doesn’t technically have anything to do with photography, learning how to add text to a photo is a very good skill to have! So I’m glad you took the time to work through the process and figure out how to do it, Jake @lenorascholl.

And what a wide variety of photos, @parrisfamily…Read more