
amateur bird photographer | tech sometimes | mid-30s
love them all but that first one especially is super impressive!!
side note, may i ask what editing software you use? i hear most people use lightroom, but like, fuck adobe; i started using rawtherapee recently which seems decent, but curious on your perspective 
yo thank you so much!! I lost my shit when I saw the look on the cooper's face zoomed in lol
I'm also on team 'fuck adobe' but I get photoshop's photo plan for free so I haven't turned off it yet - and I do basically everything in CameraRaw. Only time I open Photoshop itself is to sync up the shots I make gifs out of.
I said this somewhere else today but I created some raw presets based off of some old expired Portra 400 that I used to shoot (my partner Della's a film genius and we both used to work for a school photography studio right when they transitioned from 35mm to digital so she got ALLLL of their film, and we lived close to a guy with a developer machine in a shop so we could just drop off rolls at his place and then scan all the negatives with our film scanner, but I digress) - the goal is that everything ends up with a kinda film grain feel.
If rawTherapee can import Adobe CameraRaw settings I'd be happy to toss you the presets!
ah makes sense! and i think rawtherapee can import them, so may i take you up on that? you should be able to dm me on discord (@avoset) if that's easiest for sending them
thank you so much!!