In my last post, I ended by saying I had chosen Lightroom Classic and Topaz Photo AI for my post-production needs. It didn’t take long for me to realize that Lightroom Classic’s new Denoise feature made that a bad choice, for me.

The first thing to know about bird photography is that it’s hard. And the second thing to know is that you will need a long lens.

After many years of happy shooting with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 (and its Mark II upgrade) I’ve made the switch to the Fujifilm X-T4. It’s really more of a switch back because I shot a Fujifilm X-T1 immediately before the Olympus. So why the flip-flop?

After I settled on the right off-camera lighting system for me (Profoto), I needed to choose between Glow (an Adorama brand) and Profoto (specifically their OCF line) for a system of softboxes. As with the lighting system choice, I wanted a range of light modifiers that worked together and in the same general way so as not to complicate things by having to remember how each of a variety of different softboxes was assembled and adjusted.