Lydia Bennett

@tashavk

I forgot to mention that most of those photos I posted as examples where not taken in our kitchen. Some were in the living room and others in the family room. I’ve also taken photos in my bedroom sometimes. You just have to find what works for you in your situation and with what you have! 🙂 I once rigged up a backdrop in the middle of…[Read more]

@tashavk, wow those look really tasty!! Very nice.

Similar to what others have said, I believe the two main things to think about in shooting these photos is

1. Lighting

2. Clean backgrounds

Just a quick note, and I’m sure others could give more expert advice on lighting, but here are two resources here on Lenspiration that might be helpful: Li…[Read more]

Thanks for those tips and the article, @jamesstaddon. That’s very helpful! I’ll bear these in mind going forward.

Yes, @alightforhim, don’t give up experimenting with it! Ezra gave some great tips there.

I had just wanted to put it out there, that you don’t necessarily have to adjust your composition in order to get the picture to be properly exposed. Keep up the good work! 🙂

Really nice clean photo, @zclark! Totally looks like something I’d see on a stock website.

Honestly, I like both versions – both darker and brighter. I think the underexposed version gives more of the dark, subdued, cold feeling of a winter evening and the brighter edit tells a story of a tree on a winter day. Both look nice to me.

I guess how…[Read more]

@alightforhim

It’s been fun tracking along with this conversation here! Pretty sunrise at a pretty spot! And it’s been neat seeing the different ways different folks edited it!

You mentioned,

…the sun was towards the right of the photo and it made the picture look a lot more realistic…your comment made me remember the way the sun was…

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@ephillips

It’s always fun to see what others come up with!

Agreed! 🙂

Hey @ephillips! Really nice shot! I like it for similar reasons to what Caitlin said.

Here’s a forum thread on the Principles of Photo Editing from a few months ago; you might find some of the things mentioned in there helpful if you haven’t seen it before.

I know how it is when you hit a roadblock in editing and you can’t quite sort out why…[Read more]

Love it, @vincent-charmaingmail-com!

When I first saw the request for the concept of a child with light on their face/dark background, I wasn’t sure how on earth I’d do it. Putting the child in front of a window did just the thing, though! So glad you did that in the example images, James!

Also, how to get a 1 year old to look up “in wonder”?!…[Read more]

@loganlamar

I like the idea of doing family photography sessions, I know I could shoot videos for a business, and I’ve heard a bit about real estate photography. I guess my question then lies primarily in marketing. I have skills and equipment, but how do I get the ball rolling?

If you haven’t already, I think it would be good to set up some s…[Read more]

@tashavk

WOW, that is indeed a beautiful sunset!! Such a blanket of color in those clouds!

I’m noticing the silhouette aspect of the landscape, and thinking that would be something to capitalize on in this sort of situation. I see a windmill on the distant horizon, and I think if you were able to zoom in (or get closer to it) and make that and…[Read more]

Neat! Thanks for sharing that, @creative-click-photography! Very interesting.

Thanks for that info, @loganlamar! Well laid out and good to know!

Hey @loganlamar! My culling process is pretty similar to @dfrazer‘s but not quite as in depth. I go through pretty quickly and flag photos I want to edit, and then as I’m going through and editing, I’ll give them star ratings (I do 5 for great, 3 for nice and 1 for fair) as needed. My process is still in need of refinement though, and I just might…[Read more]

Good to know! Thanks @blessingscaptured!

My sister has a Kodak pixpro AZ401 bridge camera. The biggest limitation and frustration for her is that it doesn’t have manual focus point selection

Somehow I didn’t see this before! Thanks for mentioning that, @blessingscaptured!

Is that normally the case with bridge cameras?

@jamesstaddon

Ultimately, what you said about goals is where the decision is going to be made.

Good point. From my understanding, her son doesn’t have goals in photography, per se…he’s just wanting to use something other than a phone or ipad to take pictures.

I’m not sure if the final two photos didn’t upload or if they’re just being slow, but here they are again.