Lydia Bennett

And then for some submissions based on my personal take on the hymn….

As I reviewed the words to this hymn, I was struck by how personal a song of testimony it is! First off, it’s written in the first person. 🙂 But beyond that, it’s a beautiful reminder of how personal my relationship with Christ is. He is my Friend, my Savior, and how He lov…[Read more]

Alright, here are my submissions! This is the best that the clouds and I did at coordinating our schedules. 😀

@jamesstaddon, something I encountered with some of these photos was the challenge of editing with high noise situations (specifically filenames ending in _0126 and _0207). I’ve sometimes been struggling with this in various other p…[Read more]

Congratulations, @creative-click-photography!

Caitlin, your many years of hard work, study and practice in photography technique are indeed paying off

…and are inspiring as well! 🙂

@jamesstaddon, looks like in the photo credit at the bottom of the page, they incorrectly spelled Caitlin’s name with a y instead of an i. 🙂

That sounds great!

Nice job with capturing the butterfly! Now that I think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever done so myself!

Personally, I think both photos could be much more dynamic if they were composed on a third rather than the centered composition. The photo with the butterfly seems unevenly weighted (there’s a lot going on to the left of the butterfly, and…[Read more]

Also wondering what you anyone thinks of these two? I wasn’t quite sure how to compose intentionally with more abstract scenes like these, but I liked the textures and colors. I was kind of thinking more along the lines of stock photography when I shot these.

Again, specs in file names, shot in Manual, edited in Lightroom 6.

@jamesstaddon, I’m not sure that the disorganized photo for that last pair uploaded correctly… It appears that it did and it’s just not showing up as a preview in the attachments, but let me know if I need to re-upload it. I don’t think I’ve ever tried uploading that many photos at once!

I haven’t done many photoshoots for people.

Neither have I, but late last year I had one weekend that I did six (for a local moms’ group), and that gave me a little hands-on experience! I did half-hour mini-sessions with the families, and ended up delivering around 15-20 photos to them in the end.

Aren’t babies so exciting and such a blessing?!

Absolutely! Can’t wait to meet this little one! 🙂

After reading it I said to my sister, ‘Where else would you find tips like these?’ (Ones that actually encourage each other in God’s ways!) And my answer is definitely – only Lenspiration!

Praise the Lord! And I agree!

“If a picture pai…

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Yay! That’s wonderful. Glad our photos worked for him!

And how long does a standard photoshoot go for? 1/2 hr? 1hr?

I think 1/2 hr or 1 hr is pretty standard for a photoshoot. It kind of depends on how many pictures you are going to try to take, if you’re doing everything in one location or you’re going to move around a bit, how efficient you are, etc. 🙂

@creative-click-photography

Congratulations on being promoted to aunty, Caitlin! What an exciting time. As a matter of fact, I am going to be a first-time aunt any day now too! 🙂 I didn’t actually have an opportunity to do a true maternity photo shoot with my sister and her husband, but it’s a topic that’s been on my mind in general over the p…[Read more]

So I went back and found a different picture of the two people looking up at the Saracen’s Tent formation. Is this one any better? There isn’t the third person in the photo.

Yes, it is better, although now it’s so much closer to perfect it almost makes it worse! 😉 The lady on the right moved over perfectly, but the guy didn’t help you out all…[Read more]

Wow, what a fantastic opportunity, @elianafranzenburg!

Here’s what I would do:

1 – Define “ordinary”. Look it up in the dictionary if you want to. Just get it clear in your head what exactly you’re going to want to convey.

2 – Make a list of anything and everything that you would classify as “ordinary”.

3 – Think of “extraordinary” w…[Read more]

Hi there, @hayhand02!

#3: This picture was more a snapshot of a cool scene than a artisitly composed image. I should have taken a little time there and done it right.

It’s amazing what a big difference a little time can make, isn’t it? It can change something from a “snapshot” to a work of art.

#2: Ummmm, the tour guide made comments abo…

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And since he talks somewhat extensively about the Air Force in the blog post, I thought I’d submit these photos I took just this past year when my brother graduated Air Force BMT at Lackland AFB in TX. 🙂

Here are my submissions!!

I can’t speak from a professional opinion, @creative-click-photography, but I definitely prefer the term the “tool” of thirds vs “rule” of thirds. I think that’s exactly what it is. A tool. And just like a tool, it’s great for some situations and not for others. I think it’s kind of like asking which is better, a hammer or a screwdriver? Well it…[Read more]

@elianafranzenburg

The darkness of the leaves doesn’t quite seem to match the lighting on the flower. I might try to bring up shadows a bit more on them in post-processing, although I’m not sure how much you’ll be able to do that without creating too much noise. The photo also doesn’t seem like it’s quite tack sharp.

As far as the logo goes, I w…[Read more]