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Photography 101: Your Workflow, Part I

Posted on November 19, 2013 by | 2 comments

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In her Photography 101 tutorial, Leanne Cole introduced us to the basics of image editing, using tools in Adobe Photoshop. As we mentioned, you don’t have to pay for software to edit and process your images — there are free options out there like Pixlr and Picasa, as well as built-in tools on your Mac or editing and organizing tools for Windows, like Photo Gallery.

Today, we’re talking with WordPress.com photographers about their workflows: after a photo shoot, what do they do next? How does an image move from camera to blog? “Getting the shot” is just one part of the process. Whether you’re a professional photographer or a beginning photoblogger, you should have a process for uploading and displaying your images on your blog.

Let’s read how others do it, shall we?

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More Florida Birds

Posted on November 19, 2013 by | 44 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

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We’ve traveled to Florida a number of times over the past couple of years, and each time I’ve come back with hundreds—sometimes thousands!—of bird photos. The bird life on the Gulf Coast of Florida is amazingly rich and varied, and the birds have learned to tolerate, at least up to a point, human proximity…

Needless to say, processing thousands of bird photos has taken a long time.

But I’ve been getting through it. I’ve posted a few selections of the photos along the way (here, here, here, and here), and here now is the final installment.

As usual, though, I need help with identification! The identity of many of these birds is obvious, even to me, but of others not quite so obvious. But I know there are some real Florida bird experts among our readers… :-)

(click on any photo to start slideshow)

Great blue heron
Snowy egret
Little blue heron
Great egret
White ibis
Great blue heron
Little blue heron
Little blue heron
Immature night heron
Great blue heron
Great blue heron
Great blue heron
Willets
Yellow-crowned night heron
Little blue heron
Royal tern
Snowy egret
Reddish egret
Royal tern
Immature gull
Royal tern
Sanderlings
Ring-billed gull
Snowy egret
Royal tern
Snowy egret
Laughing gull (?)
Great egret
Snowy egret
Anhinga
Sanderlings
Great egret

Still more photos are here and here.

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