rwilson1942 Loc: Houston, TX

I spent an hour in the park this morning mostly photographing the Juncos and Chipping Sparrows.

Chipping Sparrow

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Dark-eyed Junco

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Swamp-Cork Loc: Lanexa, Virginia

Beautiful captures, especially when downloaded! PS Just looked back at your past topics and very nice! Hope you post more often!

rwilson1942 Loc: Houston, TX

Thanks, I don't know why but I seem to be shy about posting since I mostly do birds. I'll try to post more in the future.
Rick

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

Great Capture. Love the green grass. White grass here and 4 degrees this morning.

Swamp-Cork Loc: Lanexa, Virginia

The same with me Rick and you can see on my site the relatively few that I have posted for as long as I have been on the hog. I'm not very computer savvy and joined Adobe's Lightroom and Photoshop not knowing what I was getting into and have spent countless hours trying to learn lightroom and still have a mess! That's where a great deal of my time has gone. I'm primarily a birder and decided to start taking photos to capture images of birds which I could not identity, but you know what happens next, once you learn a little. But you bird images are very well focused and have good color. I downloaded and then even clicked again to really magnify them and they were still very well focused and sharp. Take care!

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

Very good Rick.

pbcbob Loc: Delray Beach, FL

Nice. Those little birds are so much more challenging than the big ones.

rwilson1942 Loc: Houston, TX

I've been a photographer just about forever (~60 years) and a birder for around 27 years but just decided to combine the two a couple of years ago. I too, use Lightroom, I watched a bunch of Youtube tutorials, mostly by Anthony Morganti to learn Lightroom and have a fairly quick and simple workflow for birds now. I created a development preset that does all of my standard settings and then make the rest of the settings manually. Rarely spend more than 5 minutes on an image unless there are serious issues.

Swamp-Cork Loc: Lanexa, Virginia

I really like the post processing capabilities of Lightroom, but would like to use my own storage and filing system. It was not as elaborate as their system, but really understood my system and it never locked up when downloading as the lightroom one does just often enough to keep me worried and unable to successfully retrieve my images, when it happens! Think maybe I should use Photoshop instead! I have also viewed Anthony Mprganti videos & others on Youtube and have read and referred to Scott Kelby's 533 page Lightroom5 book until the pages are actually falling out! I really think there was a problem with my lightroom program as there were really no reasons that I could find for my downloads to fail, never in the beginning,but somewhere before completion, and only occasionally. It would also happen once is a while when viewing images which had been successfully downloaded months earlier! I also tried as suggested to do most everything in lightroom so the index would know where the negatives were stored. Also think that I needed more training just on the basics such as retrieving back ups when needed and other things such as that, but using my old system most always knew where to look. Take care!

pbcbob Loc: Delray Beach, FL

You might find Paintshop Pro by Corel a better deal than Lightroom and Photoshop. Price is definitely better and there is almost nothing in PS that is not in PSP. Main difference is that PS is the industry standard and used by most pros.

Swamp-Cork Loc: Lanexa, Virginia

Thanks for the info, pbcbob. I think I'm committed to Adobe through December, but may look into making the change after that.