Lydia Bennett

Fantastic! Thanks for that info, Ezra and Erin!

Amazing! Love how you included the house in the bottom of the photo. Makes it unique. Nice job on the framing as well.

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing! I’ll definitely come back to this topic for ideas next time I need to do some sort of flat lay shot.

Fun to see your behind the scenes set up, too. 🙂

Photo #1 is absolutely stunning. It looks like it must have been so awe-inspiring to be there, and she captured that feeling well. In editing, it looks like there are a few dust bunnies here and there, so it would be nice to just edit those out.

My eye is having a hard time finding a subject to anchor on in photo #2. It would be interesting to…[Read more]

@blessingscaptured

With the photos that you have taken that came out like that, you might be able to remedy the situation by cooling the photo down in post-processing, and changing the tint to be less green. I popped the photo into Lightroom quickly, so you can see the basic idea.

I think that might work, to warm up the photo. If you edit in Lightroom or a program where you can make local adjustments, I might play around with radial filters, as the area around the candle feels pretty intensely yellow now (at least to me personally).

Thanks for sharing how you laid out the photos, as well! Very nice.

Hey @blessingscaptured!

I just asked Caitlin this question as well but, would love to hear how you went about setting these up. What kind of mental process did you follow? 🙂

In general, I’d say:
• Keep a close eye on your shadows. I think it would be good to look for ways to diffuse the light so the edges of shadows are softer. I’m just findi…[Read more]

Hey @creative-click-photography!

Would love to hear how you go about setting these up! I always have a hard time creating set ups like this…I often don’t know quite where to start or what to add where! It’s not something that comes naturally for me, to say the least. 🙂

Also, you mentioned using natural lighting. Curious to know in more detai…[Read more]

@kina Yes, and I may have overdone the “brightening up” in my edits of your photos. I wasn’t really looking pixel-peeping or looking a whole lot at the grain, first because the photos were low-res anyways so it’s harder to tell, and second because I was just trying to give a basic example rather than perfect an edit. 🙂

One thing I personally…[Read more]

@joshua_ong, if you search “Panning” here on Lenspiration, there’s a whole bunch of resources to explore on the topic. You might enjoy checking those out!

my brother and I experimented with slow shutter speeds when taking pictures of a waterfall in broad daylight. But we soon discovered that our pictures tended to be over-exposed when we slowed…

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I don’t think the lighting in the background is a problem. It’s fantastic that you kept the lighting on them even. I had a shoot where I was dealing with unavoidable dappled lighting on the people, and it was a real challenge.

I think it’s definitely a good idea to keep an eye on the lighting backgrounds as much as possible, you can position…[Read more]

Interesting the way there’s a real feeling of emerging from the shadows there! Is there a specific verse that comes to mind that you think would go well with it? 🙂

Personally, the edit has a little too much contrast for my liking, and I think I would pull back on the highlights a tad, but that may just be a personal preference thing.

@joshua_ong, I keep meaning to comment on these photos, but time got away from me! 🙂

I love the rich colors of these fruit spreads! I think if I was arranging this photo, I would’ve tried to put all the jars in an distinct order of darkest color to lightest color. It looks like you generally did, but I think I’d try to get it even a little more…[Read more]

when I’m editing a photo I’m always asking myself, “what’s wrong with this photo?”

@jamesstaddon, you have no idea how much those five words have already helped my photo editing! I no longer feel like I’m guessing my way through editing. Of course, there’s always room to grow and develop the skill of recognizing just what is wrong with a ph…[Read more]

Then we went back inside to cool off, build with lincoln logs while their mom read about westward expansion, chop the veggies they had just picked from the garden for lunch, and finished off with eating those veggies! 🙂

Here are the photos from my shoot with the second family. They’re such a sweet family, and were so excited to show me all their gardens and what they enjoy doing inside too! 🙂 Here are the outdoor photos.

Those tips you gave were super helpful, James, not just for this assignment (obviously), but just in general! It was actually kind of funny with both families I visited…I was all prepped to “get the kids comfortable with the camera” and ease them into getting the photos going. With the first family I visited, the kids were so comfortable with…[Read more]

or others, do you have any tips to share on how to get real smiles on kids?

That’s a great question, @esther. I think a lot of it has to do with the age and maturity level of the kids, and whether or not they’ll smile “on cue” (i.e. “Hey, so-and-so, can you give me a grin?”). If they’re a little bit older, it can be easier to get this done. If…[Read more]

I think maybe in the original crop, you could feel how expansive the scene was, but felt the limitations of the crop sensor. With the widescreen crop, the amount of sky doesn’t lead you to that same feeling, so you’re actually able to enjoy the elements in the scene better without it feeling like there’s more to be seen. At least that’s what I think. 🙂