Ria's Digital Nature Photography

http://www.nanpa.org/learning/ NANPA is the North American Nature Photography Association. Members of NANPA have access to learning and opportunities and connections with other nature photographers. NAMPA promotes conservation and learning. They offer classes, webinars and other classes to novices and professionals alike. They even offer scholarships to high school and college students to go to their Nature Photography Summit and Trade Show.

Ria McCarthy  Exposure: 1/1600 at f/6.3 ISO: 400 300 mm Exposure: 1/1000 at f/5.6 ISO:560 300mm

https://petapixel.com/2018/11/10/10-lightroom-tips-every-photographer-should-know/ This article goes over a few tips for beginners on lightroom. I thought it might be helpful. Auto tone in lightroom: a good way to start. You can adjust from there but it gives you a starting point on the tone. Angle Tool: The angle tool helps straighten photos according to the horizon line. Crop Overlays: You can look at all of the crop options at once to decide what you want. Radial Brush: adds focus to what you want and blurs out the rest. Resets: Click the name of any tool with a slider and it will reset to 0. Luminance: affects certain colors Drawing Straight lines: hold shift when drawing lines and it will make straight lines Virtual copies: make it so you can edit multiple copies without taking up room on your hard drive. Lights out: hit L and everything will be blacked out so you can see just your photos without any clutter.

https://criswellphotography.com/painting-the-arches/ This is actually a link to a photography blog. I was looking for interesting articles and came across Michael Criswell's blog account of his night of photography the arches in Arches National Park at night but with bright lights on the arch. He calls it painting with light. The Pictures are so cool and it really hits close to home as I am from Utah and spent a lot of time in Arches as a teen. I never saw the arches in this light though! He talks about how crazy the crowd was on the hike up to Delicate Arch and how they were worries about shooting with the crowd. Lucky for them the crowd dispersed when it got dark. They got up to the spot they wanted to shoot long before the time they wanted to actually get the shot so they would have time to scout and they got some cool photographs out of it.

Ria McCarthy Exposure: 1/1250 sec at f/5.6 ISO 400 Exposure: 1/125 sec at f/11 ISO 125