FEATURED: Studying the Word

[Lenspiration]

ASSIGNMENT DETAILS:
• Publisher: John Bechtle with Ezra Project.
• Purpose: Our aim is to help people break the Greek barrier so they can start exploring the Greek behind our English Bibles. We have some stock photos for the home page, but it would be great to have pictures for the other pages such as resources, word study, grammar, blog, etc.
• Request: Pictures of people who seem to be enjoying the study of the Word, either individually or as a group. Choose one of the following two concepts to photograph: 1. An individual or group studying the Word, using printed Bibles and/or a tool like a concordance or an expository dictionary along side their Bible. 2. An individual consulting a Bible software program on their laptop or phone.
• Special Instructions: We would like to show a variety of people – different ages, gender and ethnicity. It could be a Mom or Dad sharing with their kids, or a Sunday School teacher preparing a lesson.
• Orientation: Horizontal orientation.
• Photo Specs: A minimum of 2400 pixels on the longest edge.
• How to Submit: Members can follow the A, B, C process outlined here. (Instructions for non-members can be viewed here.) You can submit up to 10 photos.
• Remuneration: Lenspiration members will receive $27 if their photo is chosen!
• Terms: By submitting your photo(s) on this forum, you agree to the terms outlined in the STS Photo Assignment Agreement.
• Deadline: Midnight Saturday, June 26, 2021 (or until this topic is no longer highlighted yellow).
• Important note: The person you photograph (or the parents/guardian of the person) will need to sign a model release (like this one). You do not need to submit the signed model releases to Lenspiration unless specifically requested.

LEARN HOW:
Watch how I shot this assignment and get related training on how to shoot it yourself at “On Assignment: Studying the Word”!

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• This topic was modified 6 months, 3 weeks ago by Lydia Bennett.

[James Staddon]

And here are my submissions!

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[Lydia Bennett]

Just scheduled up a photo shoot for this assignment! I do some music lessons with a few families at a local church on Wednesdays, so I’m going to go for a teen Bible study/Sunday School feel with the three kids of one of the families while we’re there. 🙂 Am glad they’re willing to help out in this way. I think it will be fun!

If anyone needs help coming up with ideas or has questions on shooting this assignment, be sure to ask here on the forum! 🙂 Looking forward to seeing what everyone is coming up with!

[Blessings Captured]

I’m planning on doing it later this week. Right now I’m busy editing pictures from a wedding. To get ideas, I searched Lightstock for “Bible study”.

[Ava Clark]

These are my Photos of the Studying The Word assignment.

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[Lydia Bennett]

So great! Welcome to the forums, @lensesrus! You sure had some studious looking subjects for your photos!

Here are my submissions. I had about 10 minutes to take pictures so kind of rushed it. Found it a challenge to artistically compose with the three kids sitting around the corner of the table. I think a round table may have been better. Thankfully though, later, I was able to take another 15 minutes or so with the two girls and get some pictures with them in a cute little sitting area.

A few takeaways: the notebooks they were using for props were actually their piano assignment notebooks. Wasn’t thinking about it at the time, but later when I was reviewing the pictures I realized that I couldn’t really use pictures that I took over their shoulders. Even though the words in the notebooks were out of focus, if you zoomed in, you could still see what scales and exercises they’re supposed to be practicing; kinda takes away from the feel of a Bible study to have that. 🙂 So, I should have had them write some actual Bible-related notes.

Same thing with the mugs the girls had in the other pictures. They were empty, and you could see that when I did some higher angles. So, didn’t use any of the pictures from those angles.

Live and learn, right? 🙂

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[James Staddon]

To get ideas, I searched Lightstock for “Bible study”.

That’s a really great idea, @blessingscaptured.

Those are some good insights, @lenspirationlydia. Thank you for sharing.

Is there anything specific that you remember learning from your shoot, @lensesrus?

[Blessings Captured]

Here are my submissions!
For the ones in the blue shirt, I used a tablet as a remote to get into position, focus and fire the shutter.(The one looking over the shoulder, my sister fired the shutter for me). [It was the first time I tried it, my d4300 didn’t have that feature.] I also used bounce flash for most of them.

-Hannah

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[Blessings Captured]

I went out to our panic table two different evenings and took these picture. It was a little bit windy with the ones with the boy. But the next night it was calm when I took pictures of the girl.
-Esther

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[Riley Beeson]

Loved this assignment! Can’t wait for another one!

• This reply was modified 6 months, 3 weeks ago by Riley Beeson.

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[Blessings Captured]

On my second picture(100_0010), I had a little trouble removing, with the spot remover in LR, a pole that was near the pen.

-Ruthann

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[Sarah Beers]

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[Sarah Beers]

Here are a few more photos. I put a preset on one of them, and I can’t decide which one I like better so I submitted both. It’s hard to edit the exposure and brightness when I’m trying to keep the words in the laptop screen noticeable!

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[Sarah Beers]

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[Sarah Beers]

I just realized there is a visible slogan on the bottom left of the laptop. I was able to edit it out on the last two pictures, but not the first.

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