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10 Tips for Beautiful Fall Photos

Fall is my favorite time of the year, and it’s a favorite for many landscape and nature photographers as well. The beautiful colors of autumn can transform a scene, and cooler weather makes it more enjoyable for being outside and hiking to get to that perfect spot. In this article we’ll look at 10 tips to help you get the most of your nature photography this fall.

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How to Make Fall Colors Pop Using Lightroom

Autumn is a great time of year for landscape and nature photography because of the beautiful colors of changing leaves and foliage. But sometimes you may feel that your photos are not a great representation of those colors. Fortunately, Lightroom gives us plenty of potential to work with color and boost specific colors in our photos.

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How to Color Grade Landscape Photos in Lightroom

Many times it is the small tweaks and subtle enhancements in post processing that can take your landscape and nature photos from good to great. In this video Simon Plant demonstrates how you can use Lightroom’s tools for color grading images. He shows how to use split toning, while explaining the different settings and how they work, as well as how to color grade with tone curves.

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How to Photograph Lightning

Lightning is one of the most challenging, yet rewarding types of photography.

Lightning storms can be amazing to watch. Their beauty, power, and unpredictability are features that appeal to photographers the world over.

But while lightning storms can make striking photographs –they can also be difficult to capture. After all, working in (often) low light conditions, and attempting to capture a fleeting moment of electricity is no small feat. Still, taking the time to master lightning photography is more than worth it. Capturing some of these powerful and spectacular bolts can produce some truly amazing images.

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Why Shoot in Aperture Priority Mode?

Aperture Priority mode is a go-to for many photographers. The reasons? Creative control, artistry, control over light management are just a few of the inherent benefits. Our cameras, depending on the make and model, have multiple shooting modes. The three primary modes that are referred to mostly are Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority and Manual.

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How to Use Lightroom’s Radial Filter to Enhance Your Photos

While it does not provide as many options for advanced selections and photo manipulations as Photoshop, Lightroom has a number of tools that allow you to do the majority of your post processing without needing to open Photoshop. Lightroom 5 introduced the radial filter, and there were some small enhancements made to it in Lightroom 6/CC. The radial filter can be used to make selective adjustments quite easily for a wide variety of different purposes. In this video Simon Plant provides an introduction to the radial filter and shows how it can be used to improve a sample photo. If you are not very familiar with the radial filter or if you rarely use it with your photos, this is a video that may be of great help to you.

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