Assignment Details: Prayer

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On Assignment: Motherhood

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Assignment Deadline: March 23, 2024

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Who We’re Shooting for

What They Need

Photos on the topic of "prayer" to illustrate blog articles, free family Bible guides, podcast episodes, social media, etc.

Request

Christian Horstmann with Christian Family Reformation & Family Discipleship Podcast would like to see as many different illustrations of the concept of prayer as we can possibly come up with!

Details

Special Instructions:

Think of how you can get creative and not "just" take photos of praying hands. How can you make the background/setup more interesting? Can you find inspiration on a stock website like Lightstock? Some suggestions Christian offered were:

  • An individual in a posture of prayer
  • Close-up shots of praying hands
  • Include candlelight or other creative light
  • Praying hands over an open Bible
  • Mason jar of flowers next to the Bible
  • A whole family praying together
  • An individual praying while sitting on a log in the woods
  • Group of siblings praying
  • Parent and child praying
  • Grandparent praying

Orientation: Horizontal is preferred; if possible, compose photo in a way that would allow it to be cropped into a square if necessary.

Photo Specs: High quality. Minimum 2000px longest edge. Edit tastefully.

Model Release: If people are recognizably included in your photos, each person you photograph (or the parents/guardian of the person) should sign a model release like this one. You do not need to submit the signed model releases to Lenspiration unless specifically requested.

Assignment Awards: The photographer whose photo is chosen as the winner of this assignment will receive one free month of Lenspiration membership. There will be one winner. However, Christian Horstmann reserves the right to use any of the photo submissions for future projects.

    Submit your High-Resolution Photos

    Required: Upload your non-watermarked, high resolution photo(s) to Dropbox. You may submit up to 10 photos.

    If using Lightroom, export as DNG and upload those.

    Share for Discussion

    Optional: Create a small version of your edited photo(s) to share & discuss with the Lenspiration community. You may submit up to 10 photos.

    Share JPGs, less than 8MB each. 1200px longest edge recommended. Watermarks are fine.

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    We'll review photos submitted for the assignment, and answer questions asked during the live event.

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