Tamron 28-75 F2.8 Di III VXD G2

Tamron 35-150 mm f2-2.8 for Sony Cameras

Hidden 1-Click Actions in Photoshop

This is an interesting photoshop video by Anthony Morganti about one click actions. To use them hit Command or Control J to duplicate your layer then click on Help>Photoshop Help>Select a quick action.

Interesting Presentation on Bird Photography

Join Kyle Marquardt for a unique look into how to photograph the most successful animal on earth, birds!

DJI Mavic 3 Cine with two Cameras and a Micro 4/3 Sensor

Check out DJI’s new high end consumer drone.

OCTOBER 2021 UPDATE OF ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

Here is a link to the full update information page on Adobe’s website.

How to Back-Up Your Images and Edit Them From Amazon Photos

This video is part II of my series on cloud services. If you haven’t read my previous article on the Top 5 Best Cloud Services I recommend you check it out as well. To get started with Amazon Photos sign up for Amazon Prime.

October 2021 Update of Adobe Lightroom

Latest updates in Adobe Lightroom

Let’s have a look at the major enhancements and new features of Lightroom Classic’s latest version below:

Enhanced editing with masking:

Masking is the headline addition in the latest lightroom version. Arguably, it is a complete game-changer.

Masking Icon

Masking Options

The local adjustment tools have merged into a solo masking icon. The icon is available in the tool strip. Clicking it will let you have a popped-up selection tools list, that includes the prior local adjustment tools that are known as Radial Gradient, Linear Gradient, and brush tools. This list also includes the Color Range mask, Depth Range Mask, and Luminance Range Mask.

Two new options in the list Select Subject and Select Sky:

These two new options are based on Artificial Intelligence to select an animal, sky, person, animal, or any other object that’s a clear part of your selected image. This one-click solution really performs well.

Select Subject

Inverting this mask selects the background.

Improved workflow for metadata

The customize button allows you to select what fields are in your metatdata.

Even though this feature isn't as exciting as masking, the metadata panel has gotten a redesign. Now it will allow you to control which field you want to customize completely. You can open and customize the metadata panel by clicking the customize button.

Batch edit improvements

Adobe Lightroom’s recent release has also brought performance improvements because you can now apply editing to a batch of images easily. This way, you can quickly update previews in Survey, Secondary Grid, and Grid mode.

When you will apply batch editing on a larger number of images, you can put the metadata panel in Edit-Only mode to speed up performance.

Auto-Save in XMP

The recent release also offers several enhancements when you select write changes into XMP automatically. The XMP file will be automatically saved when there is any change in any image’s metadata. You can also pause this auto-save feature in the Catalog Settings.

Additional Features:

New Premium Presets sets are also available in Lightroom Classic to let you achieve your creative vision effectively. Premium Presets are now available with 8 new categories, Black & White, Food, Landscape, Urban Architecture, Lifestyle, Retro, Travel II, and Cinematic II. Adobe Lightroom has also come up with camera matching color profiles for Canon Picture Styles.

You can now filter your content by a specific date as well.

File storage has also been optimized. You can now find the “.lrcat-data” file in the same folder of the catalog file. This file will have essential information about your images.

All of these amazing enhancements are now available to use after the October 2021 release of Adobe Lightroom.

European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards Ceremony 2021

Results from the 2021 GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards:

If you have any interest in wildlife photography this is defiantly worth watching. Be inspired by the best photographers from around world and check out all of the winning images. The cover image for this story is by Angel Fitor (Spain) the overall winner of this contest. Click here to see all of the winner galleries.