Lydia Bennett

It was an excellent webinar! Thank you again so much! I think that it was one of the most insightful webinars yet for me as far as actually learning new technical information in an extremely practical way. And perfect internet was a plus, too! 😀 I had a lot of questions answered, so I’m really grateful for that!

Thank you @bensharpeningcharacter! This is really good.

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I hadn’t thought about cropping in so it would be centered. I had originally wanted to utilize the space to the right for where the verse was going to be, but then I felt like there was equal pull between the tunnel and the verse, and my eyes didn’t know what was more important. So tha…[Read more]

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Beautiful doesn’t even seem to adequately describe this scene! 🙂 Love it! It’s very interesting because as I look at it, I think “contemplative” & “full of life” – those two terms don’t seem like they would go together, but somehow you managed to capture that! 😀

My thoughts:
– I believe removing the lens flare…[Read more]

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Thanks, Caitlin! I’m following you (and Morgan) too 🙂

Wow, thanks @blessingscaptured! That helps a lot! 🙂 By the way, I really like your photos – they’re so full of life!

That’s wonderful, @morganwriter1gmail-com! I hope you do well!

Does anyone have tips on creating collections on Lightstock? I have not succeeded in creating one. When I “create collection”, then it says “start adding photos”. When I click that, it takes me to “my photos”, but I haven’t found how to then put those photos into the collection!

@elianafranzenburg, yes I discovered that last night. Actually you can see why they declined them; if you click on the individual photo, below it says “Reject Reason:” and then whatever the reason was. That was super helpful to discover!

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Caitlin, just wanted to let you know, I’m on Lightstock now! 🙂 Thanks for your encouragement. I am finally figuring my way around the site. 🙂

Actually I submitted a bunch of these to Lightstock, and I was surprised that some, like this one, weren’t accepted. I wasn’t quite sure why.

Quick update: I found out why! I had trouble uploading a bunch of my photos, and many of them had failed to upload. 🙂 So I just have to retry that. Also, I figured out where I can see which photos the…[Read more]

Wow, that’s awesome! I love the design too. 🙂

These are two that I put together with pictures from my archives.

Here are some more concept pictures I took the other day!

Thank you for your very encouraging critique, @jamesstaddon!

Some follow-up questions and comments:

1. In editing, I was not always sure how to determine what saturation or what temperature the picture should be, other than just eyeing it. Also, how to know how much blown out highlights are fine to have in the picture. Any tips on that? And how…[Read more]

Hey @rmadaris, that certainly is a beautiful scene! Very nice.
In shooting it, I may have gotten a bit lower to the ground to “feel” the foreground area better. Editing, maybe bring up the clarity & sharpen it a little bit. Also, I think I’d edit out that thing far down the road (a truck?); it’s difficult to tell what it is, and doesn’t really add…[Read more]

Since there’s not construction equipment readily available to me and I didn’t have the chance to go and find some, I thought I’d try out the “other ideas” option. 🙂 A rolling pin in action seemed like it could illustrate the concept, so here’s what I got.

These are some ideas that I had. This goes a little bit more with the “imagination” than the “cathedrals”, although it sure felt like an outdoor cathedral of winter wonder when I shot these!

By the way @jamesstaddon (or anyone else), I’ve been wondering, in cases when you’re supposed to have a model release on file, do you still do that when it’s…[Read more]

It’s good to go through old photos and find ones to salvage!

Depends on what you’d like to use the photo for, but I think I might try to crop it more on a third. Currently with the way it’s edited, it looks like a yellow flower that just got plopped onto blackness. 🙂 It doesn’t particularly make me want to admire the beauty of the flower.

I…[Read more]

Thanks @loganlamar for that info. Very interesting! I haven’t ever even used that cord.

Congrats on getting your amateur radio license! 🙂