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Welcome! This is the place where you can share your photos for the “Family Devotions” photo assignment, participate in discussion with fellow assignment photographers, and ask any questions you might have about the assignment to Lenspiration team members.
This is not the first time this assignment has run, so just scroll down to the bottom of the page to join in!
Click here to read the Assignment Details, learn how to shoot the assignment, submit your high-resolution photos, and register for the webinar!
So. Fun! Thank you @blessingscaptured!
So glad to see you shot this assignment, @blessingscaptured! It was not an easy assignment, but it sure was a good, growing assignment!
Now that my role here at Lenspiration is officially changing, I’m no longer eligible for payment with the assignments, but I plan to continue shooting assignments alongside you guys…learning, growing, encouraging one another to serve with our photography!
With this assignment, almost everything went differently than I expected. I had a hard time finding a family whose schedule worked with my availability to get these photos taken, but was so grateful when finally I was able to line up the schedule with one family we know!
First, I was shooting with a different camera that I’m getting used to using in preparation for some upcoming weddings. I’m not at a point where I know where all the settings are intuitively, so that took a bit of mental exercise as I was leading the shoot.
Secondly, I thought I remembered the family’s ceiling was white, so I planned to use bounce flash. However, upon arrival, I realized only their kitchen has a white ceiling. Their living room has a wooden ceiling…beautiful, but not quite what you can bounce light off of. So, finding myself unprepared for the lighting situation and shooting with a window behind the subjects proved to be a challenge, both in the actual shoot and in editing afterwards.
Third, after setting up the family on their couch, I asked the dad to act like he was leading them in a time of devotions. Their family soon was reading from the Bible and discussing things from the passage, and I just felt awful asking anyone to tweak poses in the middle of a discussion on the book of Ezra! So, if I was doing it again, I would think more carefully through how I wanted to navigate that situation.
It’s amazing all the things I learn every time I go out to shoot an assignment! That’s one of the reasons I’ve loved shooting assignments for the past several years. That, and the opportunity to serve real-life people with real-life needs. It’s a blessing to be a blessing to others, isn’t it?!
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Well, @blessingscaptured, I’m glad you’re a Lenspiration member, otherwise no one would be getting paid for this assignment! Your pictures will be the first to be reviewed by Christian, and hopefully he’ll decide to use one of them. Thank you for taking the time to shoot and submit your photos. I’ll look forward to critiquing them in the webinar tomorrow night!
For anyone who has not registered for the webinar yet, here’s the link! https://www.lenspiration.com/product/photo-coaching-64/ Price will be $0 if you’re logged in to your membership account.
Hi everyone! Thank you so much @blessingscaptured, @lenspirationlydia, and @jamesstaddon for putting your time into this project for me! I can’t wait to make use of the winning photo on my site. 🙂
Unfortunately I won’t be able to sit in on the critique live tonight because I don’t get off work till 8, but I’m looking forward to having the replay in the archives so I can see it in the next day or two!
Blessings to you all and thank you again! ~ ChristianWonderful! This was a really great concept to shoot for, @christian-horstmann. God bless your ministry!
Thank you so much @lenspirationlydia! I just finished watching the webinar replay from the other night and really enjoyed it! And thank you @blessingscaptured for your wonderful submission 🙂
Blessings,
ChristianIt’s a blessing to me that you could use it! I also wanted to extend thanks to my family for being willing to be photographed!
😀 When I get it all uploaded and set up on my homepage, I’ll post the link here in case you want to see it on there! 🙂
Thank you, @christian-horstmann! I would normally announce the winner here, but I’ll you post a link to your website when it’s up, and everyone can know exactly which photo you decide to use then! In the meantime, everyone can know that it is one of @blessingscaptured photos. 🙂
And if anyone would like to watch the replay of the webinar, here’s the link! https://www.lenspiration.com/video/webinar64/
Hi everyone! I finally got my theme verse onto the winning photo the way I liked it, and got it uploaded on my site to replace the filler photo that I had there. 🙂 Here’s the link.
Thank you again, @blessingscaptured!
~ ChristianThat’s so great, @christian-horstmann! Thanks for sharing!
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