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Best Photo Spots in Florida- Barefoot Beach Preserve
Barefoot Beach Preserve is right on the north edge of Collier County. It’s a great place for portrait photography since there are no high rise buildings. The white sand is pretty, but there are a lot of shells. It’s not the soft, fluffy white sand you’ll find on the beaches south of here. There are also pretty boardwalks for posing your subjects.
Best Photo Spots in Florida- 18th Avenue South
This is a great place for portrait photography as there is ample parking (paid) and a cute little shaded park just south of 18th, accessible from the beach.
How To Use the Content Aware Fill Feature in Photoshop
How To Use the Content Aware Fill Feature in Photoshop
Best Photo Spots in Florida- 32nd Avenue South Naples
This is my favorite portrait spot, but it’s also great for nature photography because of the different types of wood pilings. The houses are all set pretty far back so they don’t turn up in your pictures. Parking is limited.
Best Photo Spots in Florida- Ave Maria
Best Photo Spots in Ave Maria Florida. The town centers around a huge oratory, which is fascinating to photograph. You may be able to get permission for a portrait shoot at Collier Family Farms, which is a working farm with colorful buildings and farm equipment. There are also numerous beautiful parks within the small community of Ave Maria for portrait shoots.
Getting Started in Real Estate Photography; What Camera Should I Buy?
What camera to buy for real estate photography. Real estate photography for realtors and beginners.
MonoGimbal Head by Wimberley Review
The Understand Photography team reviews the Wimberley gimbal head for your monopod.
How to Swap the Sky in Photoshop using the Color Range Tool
How to Swap the Sky in Photoshop Using the Color Range tool.
Restoring the Lightroom Classic Catalog from a Backup
Did your Lightroom Classic catalog get corrupted? Joe Fitzpatrick shows us how to restore your catalog from a backup in this short video. He also teaches how to find it on your Windows or Mac computer.
How to Change the Color of Anything in Lightroom Classic
How to Change the Color of Anything in Lightroom Classic. Lightroom Tips.
How to Locate the Lightroom Catalog From Any Module
Are you having trouble finding your Lightroom Catalog on your computer? In this tutorial, Joe Fitzpatrick will teach you how to locate the Lightroom catalog from any module. From any module, click on EDIT in the top toolbar if you are on a PC. Click on LIGHTROOM if...
How to add POP to eyes with Lightroom Classic
In this Tuesday Photo Quick Tip, Joe Fitzpatick will teach you how to add a POP to the eyes using Lightroom! · In the Develop Module zoom in on eyes by left clicking on the bridge of the nose · Select the local adjustment brush · Set FEATHER to...
Sensor Cleaning in Naples, Florida
Isaac Hadid from Southern Photo Technical Service (www.sp-ts.com) will be here in Naples on Saturday, June 15, 2019 to clean sensors and pick up cameras for repair. We need at least 20 cameras registered for cleaning in order to make it worth Isaac's time to travel...
Lightroom Classic – Crop Tool Secrets
Speed up your Lightroom editing workflow with these simple tips on the crop tool. Joe Fitzpatrick really simplifies Lightroom!
3 Ways to Add Keywords in Lightroom Fast
In this Tuesday Photo Quick Tip, you will learn 3 different ways to easily add keywords to your photos in Lightroom. It's easy to find that special image that you made last week or even last month, but when it comes to finding an image that you made last year or even...
Lightroom Classic 5 Hidden Features
Understand Photography’s technical specialist, Joe Fitzpatrick gives helps us understand and navigate through Lightroom on this week’s Tuesday Photo Tips.
3 Ways To Level Your Horizon In Lightroom
I'm Joe Fitzpatrick with another Lightroom Classic CC Quick tip! Today, I'm going to show you 3 ways to get your horizons level. When judging images, I'm amazed at the number of photos that I see where the horizon is not level. Especially since this problem is...
How To Quickly Add a Signature or Copyright in Lightroom
In today's quick photo tip, I am going to show you how to quickly and easily add a signature, graphic or copyright notice to your images in Lightroom. First, at the top left of the screen, click on edit, then click on edit watermarks. As I already mentioned, there are...
Lightroom Classic CC Enhance Details Feature
In this Lightroom Classic CC quick tip we will look at the enhance details tool introduced in Lightroom Classic CC version 8.2. According to the Adobe web site, the tool produces crisp detail, improved color rendering, more accurate renditions of edges, and fewer...
Install Presets in the Develop Module of Lightroom Classic CC
In this Lightroom Classic CC quick tip Joe Fitzpatrick will teach you how to quickly and easily create a custom preset of your basic editing steps. Then, he will show you how to apply the preset to all your photos during import or in batches to photos that you have already imported.
Seven Common Mistakes on Artist’s Websites
7 Common Mistakes on Artist Websites. You want to brand yourself as a successful and creative artist, not someone with no credibility.
Lightroom Quick Tip- Quick and Targeted Collections
In this understand Photography Tuesday quick tip, Joe Fitzpatrick will show you how to speed up your workflow in Lightroom Classic CC with the quick and targeted collections feature. If you need to temporarily access multiple photos in different folders for a project,...
How to Access Canon Quick Menu
How can I access the quick menu on my Canon camera? The Canon Quick Menu is really good for anything you need to look at quickly. First make sure your camera's turned on and press your shutter button slightly, and that'll wake up your camera. Then hit that Q button...
How to Change Shutter Speed on a Canon 6D
How can I change the shutter speed on my Canon 6D? There are a couple ways, but really there's one way: there is a dial on the top to change your shutter speed. Or, if you're looking through the viewfinder at the same time, you will see the shutter speed changing. If...
Learn how to use Range Masks using Adobe Lightroom Classic CC
In this short tutorial, Joe Fitzpatrick will teach you how to use range masks in Lightroom. Lightroom's adjustment brush and the graduated and radial filters are powerful tools. With them, you can edit just parts of an image. The graduated and circular filters' erase...
How to Change the Aperture on most Canon DSLRs
How do I change the aperture on my Canon? I'm gonna teach you how to change your aperture on a Canon 6D. Now I am talking about when you're shooting in the manual mode. All you have to do while looking through the view finder or anywhere is just turn this big round...
How to Enable Highlight Alert on a Canon 6D
How can I enable the highlight alert on my Canon 6D? One of the nice features that most DSLRs have is something called highlight alert or our nickname is the blinky's. When you view the image anything overexposed will blink so it alerts you that are overexposing parts...
How to change ISO on Canon 6D
How can I change the ISO on my Canon 6d? There are two ways, basically, to change your ISO on a Canon 6D. On the top of your camera, there's an ISO button right here. If you press this button, you'll see the small screen isolated the ISO number. Use your...
How to Use a Platypod instead of a Tripod
Do you want to take pictures low to the ground or from unusual angles, but just need that camera very steady? We're going to show you how. I was a speaker at a convention one summer and this nice company gave me this device. It's a Platypod. The Platypod is...
How to Synchronize Settings in Lightroom Classic CC
In this Lightroom Classic CC Quick Tip, you will see how to quickly and easily make the same adjustments to multiple photos using Lightroom Classic CC's sync settings feature. Start by selecting one of the images and switching to the develop module. Edit the...