Most cameras can adjust white balance fairly well but this tip will set your white balance under existing challenging lighting conditions of any kind allowing you to shoot at any subject under that lighting and maintain the same color for each shot. If your Auto White Balance isn't quite doing the job, consider this. Cameras adjust white balance every time you point the camera & trip the shutter. This tip will lock that color value so no subject will change the color value as your shooting. As a pro I carried the Expo Disk to allow me to set a custom white balance for all the different lighting conditions I shot under. I wanted each shot to maintain color balance. This type of pro device cost me $69 but not everyone wants to spend money. What also works is the plastic lid off of a butter tin. By shooting thru the lid or the expo disk, you create an image of 18% neutral gray which is what the camera feels is ideal color. This image will have a neutral gray filter pack set. Shooting at a scene doesn't always create that ideal color so using this technique allows us to lock the color value under our current lighting by using Custom White Balance. You will have to read your manual to find the steps to select this feature. It will ask you for an image on your card that represents a custom balance, choose that 18% image you shot thru the lid. At that point you can move around and shoot at anything under that lighting and come up with consistent color in all your images. What also works is a clean white tee shirt, white wall, white cardboard, they all produce the same 18% neutral gray image so don't get hung up on just using one technique. I just mentioned the butter lid because it is easy to stick in your bag for when you need to use it in a challenging lighting situation. PS that larger lid will fit virtually any glass you put on your camera. One size fits all.

We're already to September, where do you stand?

Did you change from JPEG+RAW to just RAW?
ALWAYS RAW
Did you sell the equipment you didn't even use in 2019?
SMALL INVENTORY USE IT ALL EVENTUALLY
Did you keyword all your legacy images?
ALWAYS, IMPORT THROUGH LR AND KEWORD
Did you replace that flimsy tripod?
NO MINES GOOD ENOUGH
Did you watch at least 5 training videos for the software you bought?
ALWAYS. HAVE A FEW RESPECTED SOURCES
Did you create a back-up of your images?
ALWAYS!!
Did you start culling more aggressively?
REFINING ALWAYS
Did you share more images on social media?
NOT A BIG SOCIAL USER
Did you shoot off of auto?
ALWAYS MANUAL OR A PREFERRED
Did you change to mirrorless?
NO, PROBLY NEVER AT THIS POINT
Did you use that prime lens?
YES 50 and 85 favorites
Did you buy some film?

I’m an amateur. I have no aspirations of self glory or making money through photography, though I admire those who can.

I just terminated my LR/PS subscription after 5+ years. Why?....because I stopped lying to myself that I would ever become proficient at PS (which I never used after trying to wrap my head around it and watching dozens of tutorials). I was reasonably competent with the LR tools I used, but never developed proficiency in many of them.

The bottom line for me is that programs such as Luminar have a place in my toolkit. Rather than beating myself up for not mastering LR/PS I can push a few buttons here and there and, for the most part, achieve something that suits my needs all while creating time for pursuing other, equally important hobbies.

Works for me.

I'm in the market for external SSD drives, to save and backup my photos.
I believe I already know the answer to my own question, but would like the opinions of others.
Should I get a larger SSD, say a 2 or 3 terabyte, or go with a few smaller ones, say 500 gigs. My reasoning for the smaller ones is that if something should go wrong with the drive, I'd only loose some of my work, apposed to loosing most or all of it, if it was put into a larger drive.
I know these drives are reliable and don't usually crash, but things happen.
What the consensus here?