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About this section:

At the beginning of the Learning Journey, we held monthly Q&A sessions. As the Community grew and became more active, people got more comfortable asking their questions there, and our Q&A sessions were not as valuable any more.

I changed them to “Community Connect”, but the format didn’t really stick, and they quickly became Workshops – focused on a specific topic or theme, and are now found in their appropriate Stage and Topic.

We are now (March 2024) trialling “Hot-Seats”, where we get one amazing Community member to chat one-on-one with Emily for 20-30 minutes about a problem or challenge they’re having, and upload it here.

So, if you look through the archives and find Community Connect, and Q&A sessions, that’s why.

June 2023 Community Connect!

In this Community Connect, Sabrina and Teresa take over! They discuss lenses, especially the difference between the 85mm and 135mm, blurry backgrounds in photos, the pet photography awards, and plenty more.

May 2023 Community Connect!

In this session, we discussed: different types of tablets and how to use them, export settings for printing, why photos look different from monitor to phone, calibration, room brightness, and so on black dogs and blue colour-casts, setting up Back Button Focus on a Sony camera

April 2023 Community Connect!

In this Community Connect we go over: How to make a panorama photo in both Lightroom & in Photoshop How do you know when it’s time to start taking clients/launch your business? How to pick the best photo from similar ones
Messages from companies re: “brand deals” or “collabs” who want to send you free product in return for photos/posts on Social Media. Walking client dogs before a shoot. Feeling overwhelmed by doing ALL THE THINGS and then not motivated to take photos

March 2023 Community Connect!

In this community connect session, we talk about business, pricing, different business models, and more.

October 2022 Q&A

How to edit the eyes of senior dogs when they're cloudy? How to train the "wolf stalk" trick? Is it worth upgrading my camera? Questions about noise/ISO/low light conditions, and also about detail on close up vs. further away photos. How to create a silhouette photo in front of car headlights?

September 2022 Q&A

working with white dogs in PS,
white balance in interesting lighting conditions with white dogs,
eye pieces for your view-finder,
camera settings, when to expose for highlights, how to quickly choose camera settings when you don’t want your model sitting around, full manual mode vs. aperture priority mode,
contracts and legal obligations when setting up a photography business

July/August 2022 Q&A

In this Q&A we cover: getting a variety of photos, client vs. self mindset, shaping the light & WB in LR, lens softness issues, getting the eyes in focus, creating panoramas to fix composition, and more

June 2022 Q&A and New Member’s Welcome!

April 2022 Q&A

Including: what crop/perspective works best, camera recommendations, removing hazy grass from an image, when to make panoramas and more

March 2022 Q&A

Colour harmony for black dogs, using the brush tool in Lightroom, better phone photos, posing big dogs, success rate in action photos and more.

January Q&A

This Q&A covers: preparing files for printing, issues with depth of field when using the clone stamp/content aware fill tools, issues with the camera taking the photo before focusing, group photos, exporting your photos and white balance.

December Q&A: Editing People & Pets

Since we didn't have many Q&A questions, I focused instead on discussing how I edit people and pets. We do a head swap, work a bit on skin, talk about the liquify tool and more.

November Q&A

Sharpening eyes when they're out of focus, how to direct owners to pose dogs, growing social media and Instagram, where to find overlays, how to get brighter eyes when there is hair in front of the eyes

May Q&A Session

Questions: Catchlights, how to decide what to edit, information about printing, and pet & owner photos.

March Q&A

In this Q&A we look at: Issues with focus when underexposing and when it might be ok to blow out highlights in that cast, composites, head and background swaps, basics of masking, saving files for different purposes, UV lens filters, and the liquify tool

February Q&A

Getting soft backgrounds & foregrounds, focus & lens calibration, basic panel vs. tone curve, setting the white balance, and removing colour cast

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