Good evening Lenspiration!
I want to thank you all for the submissions I received and the support you are giving us!
Caitlin Compton has stolen the prize for this VersePic Opportunity with her fantastic submission featuring a girl reading her bible! Her original submission and the finished VersePic will be shown below.
Before we get to that though, I do want to make a comment.
THE COMMENT! 😂 Caitlin submitted a DNG RAW file to me via the DFR, and if you have a RAW file, I’d highly appreciate if you would submit that way! RAW files offer huge benifits to the editor (me!) with all the extra information in the photo! And that extra information can come in seriously handy when I find I need to boost exposure dramatically so I don’t suffer from too much noise, when I brighten up shadows, and numerous other edits that would take forever to mention here. So, if you have a DNG or RAW file please use the DFR instead of submitting a JPEG here. That’s not to say I can’t or won’t use JPEGs, this is actually the first RAW file I’ve actually used in a VP, but rather it just offers me more flexibility!
FINALLY! 😄 On to the contest winner! 🙂
Caitlin’s original submission
The Finished VersePic!
I really enjoy it when I get inspired and everything just falls into place! That doesn’t mean everything was super simple, but it does mean everything goes smoothly!
This photo was a FANTASTIC option for a graphic designer becuase of the “blank slate” in the photo’s middle, or the Bible! This shot (she submitted several others at different angles) is taken at just the right angle so that the Bible almost forms a bit of a diamond shape-wise that perfectly complements text with a frame. The fact that it was nicely uniform in color didn’t hurt either! Everything goes together well. There weren’t any overly saturated or unrealistic colors in the image, and even if there were any, since I had a RAW image I could have easily fixed it up in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for iOS. (Yes, there is such a thing, and it is FANTASTIC for editing RAW files!) As long as we are on the subject of editing, I also liked how Caitlin edited her image. I did edit the image myself in Lightroom to get a more balanced image and color over all, but I found that I liked the bright white of the paper in Caitlin’s shot better than the balanced readable pages in mine. I decided I would leave all of her editing intact and kept out of even making any small tweaks. (Just to mention it here, since Caitlin submitted a RAW file, all the changes were left intact and readable by Lightroom, letting me see the “true” original file along with all of her editing.)
As @creative-click-photography (Caitlin) is a PRO member, she will be recieving a $5 reward as a small thank you from Lenspiration! Caitlin, if you can email me at [email protected], I’ll get your money to you ASAP!
Thank you all, and I look forward to the next VPO that will be appearing soon!
Ben
VersePic Director for Sharpening Character