Week 37- Sept 7, 2026 Mike Mercadante Highlights How-to Tips Event Reminders CCP Newsletter New Members Highlights PPC Annual Competition - Time Sensitive - The Professional Photographers of California (PPC) is hosting its annual image competition on September 19 and 20, with submissions due September 12. We seek at least ten Coastal California Photographers (CCP) to submit up to six images. CCP aims to win the "Affiliate Trophy" and be the top-scoring camera organization i

Week 36- Aug 30 2026 Mike Mercadante Highlights How-to Tips Event Reminders CCP Newsletter New Members Highlights PPC Annual Competition - Time Sensitive - The Professional Photographers of California (PPC) is hosting its annual image competition on September 19 and 20, with submissions due September 12. We seek at least ten Coastal California Photographers (CCP) to submit up to six images. CCP aims to win the "Affiliate Trophy" and be the top-scoring camera organization in

Time Sensitive The Professional Photographers of California (PPC) is hosting its annual image review on September 19 and 20, with an image submission deadline of Saturday, September 12. We are seeking at least ten Coastal California Photographers (CCP photographers) to submit up to six images to this year’s competition. The state camera organizations are in friendly competition, and CCP hopes to take home the coveted “Affiliate Trophy” and earn the title of top-scoring camera

I just found this in an email from PictureCorrect - these folks are worth a follow and subscription! https://www.picturecorrect.com/ When Sharpening in Lightroom, global sharpening can over sharpen parts of the image that you'd like to keep soft. So I normally don't sharpen in LR and do local sharpening in Photoshop. Global sharpening in Lightroom hard bakes the sharpening into the file when opening in Photoshop. But, this cool trick gives you local sharpening in LR - i.e.

Another fine quarterly Image Competition, with excellent images, great judging, and a lot of Merits! Here are the Judges Choices: 50 Images Submitted, in 10 Categories, by 14 Makers. Results Ranking Score Range Image Count Percent of total Exceptional 95 to 100 0 0% Superior 90 to 94 3 6% Excellent 85 to 89 18 36% Merit 80 to 84 25 50% Above Average 75 to 79 4 8% Average 70 to 74 0 0% First Place: "Focus" by Bob Turk - Photojournalism Category Second Place: "The Hunter" by

Judge: Lori Pond Photography has always been about more than recording what we see. Sometimes its greatest power lies in revealing what we don't immediately recognize. This month's Peer Critique Challenge invites you to explore that very idea with a deceptively simple theme: Abstract Body. At first glance, photographing the human body as an abstraction may sound easy. After all, couldn't you simply photograph an arm or a hand and crop it tightly? Not so fast. Our September ju