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    Thank Goodness for Photoshop!

    That's the same, but with less flexibility. You have to select the wheels to copy them to a new layer. You may as well select them and make it into a mask. Then you can alter and refine it if needed. Just hold "alt" when you click to add a layer mask, and it will give you a black mask to...
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    Bulbs for Godox strobes

    The point of having spare flash tubes is if one goes pop on a job. As good as Lencarta may be, I doubt they'll be on-site with a new bulb in two minutes if you need one. ;) As Steven says, you can buy the tubes from various places, and pop them in yourself.
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    Texting while driving

    I think drug (other than alcohol) driving already is isn't it? People committing those offences are very often those who aren't going to be reached by driver education, or the risk of a fine though. i.e they're addicted drug users who need help. You do get the party drug idiots as well of...
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    Waiting for trains - London Underground, Overground, DLR

    Some good shots there, certainly a big improvement from the first post you made about this project. And the processing is much cleaner, and immeasurably more consistent than it was before. Obviously rather cliched on the whole, but number two I think is really nice, with the symmetry in the...
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    What does LR do when it's 'Loading' an image?

    The first is the embedded preview. If you don't like the rendering of the file as a starting point for your processing, take a look at the profile section at the bottom of the develop panel. It'll likely be set to Adobe Standard by default. You may prefer one of the camera manufacturer presets...
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    Presenting photos with no exif data

    I doubt that you do. I don't think there's any lynching going on. People are just suggesting you may be better off considering a different approach to your learning. Getting hung up on camera settings is a sure fire way to taking boring photos (that ironically, are likely to also be...
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    Presenting photos with no exif data

    Lightroom does what you tell it to do with EXIF and IPTC. That information is not essential to anything.
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    Presenting photos with no exif data

    Learn what though? How to expose the exact photo you're looking at? You don't need EXIF data to learn how to expose an image. Your photography will progress much further, much faster, if you set your mind to other things. :thumbs:
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    Presenting photos with no exif data

    Each to their own of course, but if you're here to learn, surely this is just depriving you of many opportunities to do just that, and for no logical reason. Not sure why you would go to the trouble of looking for exposure information on every image you see. Easy solution - spend five or ten...
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    Instagram - share your user name

    Well, you found a thread where that same question's been asked three times already, and with a few hundred links to the site. Should be as good a place as any to get across the basics of it.
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    Beginner Image Capturing Workflow

    There's no trick or cheat sheet. Just do less reading and more shooting for a while.
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    Organising photos on the HDD?

    Lots of threads on here about Lightroom organisation so worth a search. It's a personal thing of course. I go by date, and just have one catalogue file, as things often overlap, personal/work, commercial/weddings, etc. Have often thought about splitting into multiple catalogues, but I think...
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    Shallow depth of field and glasses

    Yes, as I said, "from the distance to the subject". Use a 24mm to take a portrait of someone stood across the room from you, and see if you get any exaggerated perspective.
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    Shallow depth of field and glasses

    Distortion will come from the quality of construction of the lens, and from the distance to the subject. Not the focal length per se. Re. glasses, yeah, same as anything, just focus on what you want to be in focus, i.e. their eye.
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    Lightroom 6 editing help required

    In Lightroom?
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