"Take Control of Your Digital Photos-Adobe Lightroom"
by Shawn Carey-MA
Monday, February 24, 7:30 PM


Do you have thousands of digital photos and are having trouble organizing them? Do you need help on how to process a digital photo for output to e-mail or web? Join wildlife photographer and Mass Audubon instructor Shawn Carey of for this Adobe Lightroom program. Learn how to manage your digital photo-files in a way that makes sense, is easy to learn plus many shortcuts. Shawn will touch base on-understanding lightroom and how it works, organizing your photos-files; library module; importing files, rating and editing or culling images; proper backup of files and catalog; keywords and keyword list and the proper way to apply them and understanding collections and why they are useful.

Our speaker produces bird and wildlife related multi-media presentations, videos and photo workshops that have been presented all over the United States through Migration Productions. Shawn started watching birds in 1988. His avid interest in photography was joined with a newfound passion for birding and he began to combine the two in 1991. By 1994, he and good friend Jim Grady started Migration Productions as a way to present their multi-image slide presentations to a live audience. Migration Productions offers the finest quality bird and wildlife programs with stunning photographs, video, and soundtracks. They feature interviews with many people involved with bird watching and natural history topics. Since 1994, Migration Productions has presented its programs to camera clubs and natural history and birding organizations including Mass Audubon, Eastern Mass Hawk Watch, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary and countless others.

Shawn’s photos have been published in the Boston Globe, New York Times, Mass Audubon Sanctuary magazine, Science magazine, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary magazine and many others over the last 20 years. In 1997, he started teaching bird photography workshops such as Fundamentals of Bird Photography for Mass. Audubon and he is an instructor for Summer Fields Schools on Cape Cod for Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. He is a member of many Audubon Councils and Advisory Boards, as well as many bird and Hawk Clubs. He is also the current Chairman of the Mass. Camera Naturalists - CamNats. To see more of his info and work please go to Migration Productions at www.migrationproductions.com