Another strategy is Greentoe. Bid a couple hundred under the lowest internet price, see what happens. I got a 5d mIV for less than $3k that way.

Windoze only :(

The 100mm f2.8L macro also makes a fine portrait lens.
The 16-35mm f2.8L is a great wide-angle lens for landscape. The newest revision is III, I have the II, it is substantially discounted now.
Your 24-105, I think it is f4 L, is a great all-around lens, wide enough for scenery, enough reach for urban, is unobtrusive.

I would maybe add a 50mm prime, they are inexpensive, I have the Sigma f1.4 Art lens and love it.

ON1 Photo Raw suite is pretty equivalent to Lightroom, and also exposes the layers concept and masking, which LR hides. It also has some rudiments of digital asset management.
I like it for some things, the perfect brush/eraser are cool.

Other programs like Affinity and Luminar seem to have most of the same raw editing capabilities: white balance, tint, white point, black point, highlights, shadows, coupled with some easy to use masks will get you a long way down the road for RAW editing. One thing I like is being able to do color balancing easily. Lightroom's HSL panel is fantastic, but it's only a global adjustment; why they didn't extend that to local adjustments drives me crazy.

But for things like exposure blending, tone adjustments, color adjustments I go back to Photoshop and tools which allow me to build complicated tone or color-based masks easily.

I paid good money for PhotoMechanic to help with ingesting, organizing, and exporting photos, and I'm glad I did, it's very powerful.

LR CC "Classic" (not LR CC as far as I know) will let you do this.

It's called Sync. In the Develop module, edit one photo to your satisfaction. Then, leaving the edited photo selected, shift or Alt (Cmd on Mac) -click to select the others you want to apply the same edits to. Press the Sync button in the lower right-hand corner of the panel. You'll get a dialog box with the options to apply some or all of your edits to the other photos.

They use them to make Pringles.
<<Sorry>>

TL;DR
Use Photos on your Mac to learn how to do basic adjustments to improve your compositions.


IMHO, "easy to use" depends a great deal on your skill level as a photographer. If just starting, the most helpful tool would be cropping, that helps you visualize your compositions better. When you start to understand exposure and the limitations of your camera, the next set of tools allow you to adjust the color temperature (cool vs. warm), overall highlights and shadows, and contrast.

Every program that I've used allows you access to these tools, most at a pretty understandable level. I use Lightroom, ON1, Photoshop, and I've taken a look at Affinity Photo. Lightroom tries to hide the complicated parts, to the point that when you get to the next level, local adjustments, I think it falls over. It's a big conceptual leap to look at layers and masks for doing local adjustments, you might not need that for a while, or ever. Lightroom hides these concepts (mostly), while the others bring them front and center.

You can do basic cropping and straightening in Photos on your Mac, that should get you going with no additional outlay of money. Try to make your compositions strong, it will really benefit you in the long run. The concepts you learn here are applicable everywhere.

There is a world of material available online. One person I particularly like is Matt Kloskowski, he does videos for LR/PS and ON1. I think he has a Lightroom course that's pretty good.

Of course, everybody's buzzing now about what Adobe is doing with Lightroom. They took the full-featured version and renamed it Lightroom Classic (Coke, anyone?), while they have a crippled version for online, cloud, tablet, and phone use. They're really going after the phone photography market, which makes me wonder about their commitment to desktop (D/M)SLR workflows. I am looking for alternatives, I want to develop a business, I need full-featured database (search and cataloging) support, and I would prefer it to work with any editor. But for now, I'm still using Lightroom to import and export for the web. I use Photoshop to prepare for printing. Now that I'm used to thinking in terms of layers and masks, I want my editors to be able to use their full power. ON1 is getting there, but I still have the feeling that it's a bunch of semi-autonomous pieces kind of glued together

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I like to think of a water pipe with a valve emptying into a bucket as an analogy. An exposure is the act of opening the valve for some period of time.

Think of aperture as the diameter of a pipe, shutter speed is how long you hold the valve open, and ISO is the volume of a bucket that the light pours into. Over exposed means light (water) spills out. Under-exposed means the bucket didn't get filled as much as you could have.

So if you double the size (volume) of the bucket, you either open the valve half the amount as previous, or decrease the aperture by the equivalent amount. The equivalent amount is a little tricky, since the volume of the pipe depends on the square of the radius, so the factor to go up or down is the square root of two. Full f-stops are (approximately) multiples of each other by a factor of square root of two, approximately 1.4. So going from f/2 to f/2.8 is one full stop, since 2 x 1.4 = 2.8. Same for going from 2.8 to 4, 4 to 5.6, 5.6 to 8, etc.

Just incredible scenery all around you. Drive up through Madrid and Cerrillos from ABQ to Santa Fe. Old town SF is cool. Maybe visit a pueblo, but photography likely is not allowed. Drive east on I-25 to Pecos, beautiful scenery, river valley, Pecos River canyon is wonderful. Depending on how far you want to drive, just about any direction from SF offers great sights. Drive north past Española, into the Rio Grande gorge. If you have time, go up to Abiquiu, the Ghost Ranch, it's an hour or two from Santa Fe.

PS CC 2017:

Layer Menu > New > Layer ...
A dialog box pops up. When you set the blend mode to overlay, it shows a checkbox at the bottom to allow you to fill with neutral (50%) gray.

24-105 for an entire trip to Scotland. Brought the 16-35, but didn't use it.
I'm also going to Italy next month, planning on taking the 24-105, and a sigma 50mm f/1.4 for interiors, no flash.

I think Flickr is owned by Yahoo, not good for stability.
Google Photos will be around for as long as Google is. They LOVE images, it's a lot of raw material necessary for training their algorithms ... resistance is futile! Assimilate now!

What do I use? Dropbox for small amounts, but I'm building my own website for galleries and portfolio.

Oops, I see somebody said Google was dropping Drive. I'm sure they'll migrate your stuff to whatever comes next. Like I said, they need lots of raw data for training their image recognition algorithms.

ha, yes, I need one

I just mailed it off this afternoon to the first person who responded.
Thanks
//w