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Organizing Photos In Lightroom By The Date–I do, Should You?

ByGary Culley 2022-02-042022-02-10

Lightroom is one of a category of software for me that is limitless. Not in its editing capabilities but in organizing. It is very full, super full, featured. When I start putting together information for today’s article I realize how much there is that I do not use. It’s not that I need to use…

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Before Clients – How to Build Your Photography Portfolio –

ByGary Culley 2022-01-182022-01-18

Photography, at some point, moves from hobby and passion to business, for many. As I write this I cringe a bit when referencing something that is so much fun becoming WORK, or business. Yikes! But it’s just a light that goes off that says “hey, this could be my job”. It did for me. I…

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Photography, for the most part, was easy for me. BUT, there were and continue to be exceptions. HDR was simple except for a few small techniques. This became "Lost Lessons of HDR". Metering was something I grew up with, it seems so simple. Then I realized and started teaching the different metering modes as a way to learn the different situations that call for specifics of metering. This became the "Don't Shoot Manual". Wedding Photography seemed so basic in the day's workflow and it just grew as I did more and more weddings. The shot list was never a part of my shoot days because it was all so well organized. That organizing became the article "Wedding Photography Shot List in PDF, Excel & Numbers and the accompanying package of spreadsheets of the dynamic shot list.

Lost Lessons of HDR - clears the way to creating your best imagery.

Wedding Shot List - Dynamic organizing of the wedding day shoot

Don't Shoot Manual - Learning the basic differences in the metering modes of your camera and which one to settle in on.