To make the most of the bold colors of autumn, grab yourself a polarizing filter! Most of us shrug these off as an extra we dont need but they are mighty useful this time of year and they will also save you a ton of time in post. Thanks to this handy dandy filter, you will greatly reduce your glare off of water reflections and the leaves and it was also majorly up the ante of your color contrasts in your photo. Go big or go home,

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While the cooler temps have certainly hit the States, there are a few nooks that have that "ever Summer" vibe and are still lucky enough to be soaking up the sun. Do your best to fight off the green monster as I tell you that Florida is reporting a toasty 85° forecast this week. While yes, the season of chill and relax is long gone, many of us are only now getting to edit our summer travels and its hard to not reminisce as we run through

The season's stunning autumn colors can do some pretty wacky things to your camera's auto white balance so when shooting that brilliant display, adjust your Kelvin settings accordingly or to make it easy on yourself, use the "Daylight" white balance setting to ensure that you have the most neutral display possible. This will keep your colors as accurate as possible and make postediting a breeze. "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words

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To say that autumn is my ‘absolute’ favorite season to photograph is a complete understatement. I am one of those people who start marking off the summer days just one week into summer. Yes, I do love the summer vacation and the ability to “play as we please”, but fall foliage and weather is what gets my “creative juices” going. Long before fall starts, I like to go into my archive of photos and look over the photos that I LOVED from the years before. This gets me