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Winner of Member Challenge 50 | Outdoor Scenes

We put your outdoor photography skills to the test for this challenge, as we asked you to scout out your favorite locations, natural wonders, city skylines, local parks, or beach fronts, and capture their essence in a photo. We wanted you to compose a stunning image that tells the story of your favorite outdoor scene. The purpose of these challenges is to motivate you to get out there and put all your newly learned skills into practice. After all, practice does make perfect.

We announced the final results at the end of May on the Insider, but we always like to give the winner a little recognition here in the magazine as well. So it’s our pleasure to (re)announce that the winner of Member Challenge 50 is Ron Greven. These bright and cozy tents offer a safe haven in the midst of a beautiful, snow-covered scene. Ron absolutely knocked this out of the park. Congratulations, Ron!

Ron Greven

You can check out our Member Challenge 50 runner-up and honorable mentions on the Insider, and then head over to the KelbyOne Community to look through all the amazing entries. And finally, be sure to look back at all our past Member Challenges on the Insider for more examples of community awesomeness!

Member Challenge 51 | Summer Fun

Long summer days, long summer nights—that means plenty of time to take lots and lots of photos! Whether your plans include a beach getaway, lounging by the pool, family time, fun and games, or backyard barbecues, we want to see summer through your eyes.

So get out there and enjoy the season, have fun, and soak up the sunshine. Then, don’t forget to submit your best image of the summer.

The process for Member Challenge submissions has slightly changed, so make sure to read the rules closely, and then jump right into the Outdoor Scenes Member Challenge! Here’s how the Member Challenge works: • Entrant must be a KelbyOne Pro member to submit their work into the contest • Work must be original to the entrant • Only one image can be submitted per entrant • Work must be created within the challenge dates (June 3, 2022–September 25, 2022) • Images must be submitted by September 25, 2022, at 11:59 PM ET • Entry must be submitted to the Member Challenge Gallery • The winner of this Member Challenge will be announced by October 6, 2022, and will receive a Member Challenge feature on the Insider and major bragging rights!

So get out there and create an amazing image for your chance to win a feature, bragging rights, and exposure on our social channels. After you’ve shot and processed your image, click this link and upload your entry to the Member Challenge Gallery. Good luck to everyone, but more importantly, have some summer fun!

Photoshop World: The KelbyOne Conference

Photoshop World is a massive, live, online three-day creative conference taking place August 30–September 1, 2022. For 21 years, we’ve been crafting the perfect conference experience, and this show will be packed with training sessions, opportunities for connection, and fun. As an attendee, you’ll be thrown into several well-rounded tracks, interactive sessions, a fun-loving community, an edge-ofyour-seat keynote, and hilarious after-hours entertainment. There will be classes on everything from Photoshop and Lightroom to photography to business and inspiration.

On top of all that, what other conference comes with a six-month KelbyOne Pro membership to keep your learning going? That’s right! All registered attendees, including current KelbyOne Pro members, will receive a six-month KelbyOne Pro membership. That’s worth almost $120 alone. But, of course, a good education is priceless, so go to PhotoshopWorld.com today to register and take advantage of the early-bird discount before it expires on August 30! n

Greg Noel uses his camera to capture and share all the beauty around him. Rather than limiting himself to a specific niche, he captures nightscapes, landscapes, wildlife, pets, people, and more. He feels there are just too many amazing things in this world to restrict yourself photographically. One of his images is on the cover of this issue.

Can you tell us a little about yourself, including where you’re based, and what you like to photograph?

I’m a landscape, nightscape, wildlife, pet, people, and everything-else photographer, based in Newfoundland, Canada. They say you should find a niche to focus on, but Newfoundland is so abundant in beauty that it’s nearly impossible to do so. How do you decide to shoot only one thing when you have huge icebergs, whales, puffins, an incredibly rugged coast, perfectly dark night skies, and a robust unique culture all around you? Newfoundland really is a hidden gem of the photographic world and I’d never want to limit myself to a certain niche and miss out on capturing all the rest.

Congratulations on the cover image. Could you tell us about that image? Did you know where foxes would be or was it a patient waiting game?

Newfoundland is abundant with wildlife, including puffins, whales, owls, and foxes. Usually, you have to be patient to get great photos of them, but this was one of two locally known foxes and, unfortunately, they’re fed frequently by people so it was quite tame. They’re not afraid to get close and, while I was on the ground photographing this one, the other fox was sniffing my shoes. It was sad to see such wild animals become so domesticated, so this was my only time photographing this particular fox. I didn’t want to contribute any further to its fearlessness.

A beautiful location often delivers a multitude of great places to shoot and get those perfect Milky Way images. What’s your process to catch the best nighttime skies?

Night skies all come down to location and planning. We’re fortunate to have some of the darkest skies in North America, with Bortle scale 1–3 skies all around and plenty of beautiful landscapes/seascapes to pair with the Milky Way. I’m constantly scouting new locations and using a variety of planning apps such as PhotoPills to plan the best times to shoot those locations. Then it’s up to mother nature. While we have very dark skies, unfortunately, it’s often cloudy or foggy so the number of good nights to shoot is limited. But when it’s clear you’ll find me out shooting.

You started in photography at a very young age playing with film cameras. What was your favorite film camera and what’s in your kit today?

My first camera was an old Kodak 110 film camera I got when I was about 10 years old. I went through so much film in those days just capturing everything. My whole life I stuck to point-and-shoot cameras until my daughter was born. Then I finally decided to invest in a “good” camera to take better pictures of her. Fast forward 10 years and today my kit includes multiple Nikon DSLRs and a full range of fast zoom lenses and primes to cover everything from 15mm to 500mm. When you shoot everything under the sun you need a big kit.

KelbyOne has such a huge range of photographers and designers for instructors. Who have you learned from the most?

When I started, I spent some time on YouTube learning the basics. That’s where I discovered The Grid and watched every episode before joining KelbyOne. Once a member, I immersed myself in so many courses. For wildlife, I watched Moose Peterson; for dogs, it was Kaylee Greer; for night photography, Dave Black and Jennifer Wu; for stuff on people, Lindsay Adler and Peter Hurley; for retouching, Kristina Sherk’s classes; and for Lightroom and Photoshop, I watched all of Scott Kelby’s courses. The list goes on. It didn’t matter what I wanted to learn to do next, there was a course for it on KelbyOne.

You also photograph pets. They say never work with children and animals, but dogs are just the best. What made you interested in photographing animals as well as humans?

I love dogs and have an amazing German Shepherd that I use to practice photography on. Photographing dogs can be challenging because they can move so suddenly and often don’t do what you want them to do, so you have to learn to adapt and change settings quickly. Then I discovered Kaylee Greer on an episode of The Grid and fell in love with her work. I just had to learn how to take photos like that. After taking her courses and capturing some stunning pics of my own dog, I started getting requests from other people to take photos of their dogs. Then it steamrolled from there. n