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Karen Randall: Landscape, Milky Way and floral photographer

This week we’re getting to know community member, Karen Randall. Karen loves photographing flowers, landscapes and the Milky Way. She enjoys hiking and camping and takes her camera with her wherever she goes. Haven’t joined the Photofocus Community yet? Sign up for free today! How did you get started in

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Keeping street photography settings simple

Interested in getting into street photography but not sure where to begin? Among the first things you must familiarize yourself with are the camera settings that work best for this type of photography. However, this be understandably confusing if you’re a total beginner. Sure, you can set your camera on

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Saying goodbye to noise: Which software is best?

Over the past year or so, there have been a couple of new pieces of software that have come on the scene, promising to do one thing — reduce noise. In addition to Topaz DeNoise AI, DxO PureRAW and ON1 NoNoise AI have come to the market to help photographers

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Getting sharply focused landscape photos from front to back

One of the things that landscape photographers must pay attention to is keeping their photos sharply focused from foreground to background. Aside from the creating a better sense of place, it makes viewing the photos a more immersive experience. If this is something you’re struggling a bit in your landscape

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Moody cinematic portraits inspired by dreamy science fiction

If you want to craft a compelling visual story for a photo series, the cinematic route is hard to beat. With the style borrowing the lighting, setting and composition of the big screen, it encourages the reader to pay attention to the narrative. Still, I think it can be challenging

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How to create selective color in Lightroom

I have been asked several times is it even possible to create Selective Color images in Adobe Lightroom Classic. It’s actually pretty easy, especially with the right photo. Take this simple orange gerbera. So I thought I’d put together a little post about how to create selective color in Lightroom,

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Practice wildlife photography by heading to the zoo

Three main things I find that have helped me create stronger wildlife photography are patience, practice and anticipating behavior. You work on all three when you have animals in front of your camera. Get thee to a zoo Many times I don’t have the subjects which to study and photograph

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