Choosing the Best Wildlife Photos in Adobe Lightroom

I had Emilie join me to narrow down some final photos for scheduling on my website and social media. We discuss what we like and don't like and why I keep certain images and skip over others. It's a long process but hopefully you find something helpful in seeing my thought process during this step.

[@andreaskentis565]

Hei there, beautiful pictures! I was wandering if you could put a video about contests in wildlife photography. What are your thoughts about it and also if you would share a picture in social media before you actually sent it to a contest. Is there a line? Between showing your best work or save it for something bigger?

[@RayHennessy]

Thanks so much. As for contest discussions I've got a few episodes of my podcast all about contests. Check out these episodes www.rayhennessy.com/wildlife-photo-chat/121-weekly-with-jamin-hunter-taylor-and-brad-james or www.rayhennessy.com/wildlife-photo-chat/096-wildlife-photo-chat-weekly-with-brad-james-photo-contests and an upcoming episode 143 is another discussion related to contest you can check out. Hope that is what you are after!

[@andreaskentis565]

@@RayHennessy oh, nice I will check this out. Thanks a lot 🙏

[@PeterLariviere]

You two are so cute together! And the Puffin next to the Pine...what DULL???? It is a beautiful beautiful (yes 2x) image.

[@RayHennessy]

Thanks so much and yeah, it could maybe be edited to have a bit more pop but in the end I had other images I liked more! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ItsWillLee]

I lol'ed at your qualm with "qualm" hahaa! We use it quite often here in Newfoundland

[@RayHennessy]

Haha, glad you enjoyed that! Thanks for watching.

[@733-y1c]

Somehow I think Emillie has a bias 🤔 lol joking. I really enjoyed seeing your process here. Posting on social media is something I have long struggled with as an artist. Call it stage fright or what have you, but seeing how self critical you were here in your culling process made me feel reassured. Do you use an app to schedule posts? Or do you post them your self after this point?

[@RayHennessy]

Haha, she may be biased, but I'm glad she is always honest with me, which is a great thing! Anyway thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it and I use the built in scheduling service from FB/Instagram to schedule stuff. You have to log into their Business suite through a desktop browser but it lets you schedule posts and reels up to 1 month in advance and it's free so I love that about it!

[@733-y1c]

@RayHennessy thanks for your response Ray, I wasn't aware of the desktop feature, I will have to give that a try! 🤙🏻