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May 2025 Class Work

For May our assignment is to thoroughly explore somewhere and to create landscape pictures. I started with Accotink Creek near where I live.

I also did some work in Huntley Meadows Park.

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Personal Project

Using Photoshop I create several variations of a yellow rose.

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Class Work for March 2025

I am taking a class from the Capital Photography Center called a Year in Photography. Each month a photographer associated with the center gives us an assignment which they introduce on ZOOM. We work on the assignment and share our pictures in the community forum the center has. At the end of the month we submit one picture for review.

For March we were told to take one of our pictures and to edit it, or re-edit using some of the new AI features of Adobe Lightroom. I chose the picture below.

 

This picture was taken in the “raw” format, meaning that what the camera sensor saw was saved directly to the memory card. I then enhanced it to improve the contrast and exposure. As you can see the heron is standing in front of a distracting branch so I used the Lightroom remove tool to get rid of the branch and a couple of other tools to get rid of other distracting elements.

Below is the resulting image.

 

Here are some links to show how to use the new features.

New Adobe Lightroom AI innovations empower everyone to edit like a pro.

AI Masking for Landscape Photography in Lightroom Classic

And:

This Lightroom Feature Is CRAZY! Generative Fill AI (Sorry but there is an ad in the middle of the video)