Ezra Morley

@jamesstaddon, thank you! I’m glad one of my photos is being used for God’s work.

^^ What he said… 🙂 I’m afraid photography has taken a back burner for me lately with everything else I have going on, but I’m really glad that photos from my archives can still be used for a good cause now and then! Thanks James!

people are saying to never have the sun directly in front or behind you, but at a 90 degree angle

I wouldn’t necessarily put that down as a hard and fast rule. Rather, just keep in mind that a polarizer’s effect is greatly reduced when pointed directly at or away from the sun.

And as @loganlamar said, the “rule” about tripods isn’t necessarily…[Read more]

It looked awful setting the white balance off the bride’s dress, and having the audience turn blue. I had to make selections between the colors of light and tint them to match. Is there a way to fix such problems before post? I was asked not to use a flash during the ceremony, so that didn’t help matters.

Wow, you had a major problem… 🙁 I h…[Read more]

I’m a little late, but here are a couple from my archives. I know some of you on these forums will recognize this waterfall from a certain CAPTURE workshop. 🙂

Actually, come to think of it, what I did to help with the WB and lighting problem was to use more than one speedlight. I had one speedlight on-camera bouncing off the ceiling, then I had another slave flash in the back of the church on high power also bouncing off the ceiling. With 2 speedlights, I could pretty much overpower the ambient light,…[Read more]

I have shot an indoor wedding with flash, and I can attest to the fact that differing WB can cause issues. In my case, I just tried to strike a good balance between the “warm” indoor lighting, and the “cool” flash and process all the photos with the same settings.

@dhancock is right, ideally you would match the flash color to the ambient…[Read more]

These are so fun, aren’t they? Out of all the graphics designs I’ve done, “versepics” are some of my favorites. 🙂
A couple of hints:

• Take advantage of all the beautiful, free fonts that are available to you. Fontsquirrel is a good place to find good free fonts.
• Experiment with opacity and drop shadows to make the text “fit in” while still…

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@kina, you don’t have to pay anything if all you want to do is change the resolution of your photo… Just edit your photo to your liking with whatever software you currently use, then export it. Then use some free software to change the resolution to whatever you want it to be. Normally I would recommend FastStone Image Viewer but since you’re…[Read more]

The client does not have to have a Dropbox account to access the pictures, even though Dropbox might try to convince them that they do. 🙂

If you had a regular webhost you could probably come up with a way to deliver them that way, but I don’t think Weebly will work for that… 🙁

Check out these threads for more info… Feel free to ask if you have any further questions!

Resize and Compression Tools for Photographers

Best Photo Viewer for photographers?

I highly recommend that you don’t try cutting out the subject and pasting it on a better background. (Unless you just want to do it for Photoshop practice…) For starters, it’s nearly impossible to get another background that will “match” well enough to look natural without some serious fiddling with colors, tints, and levels. It’s a whole lot of…[Read more]

Correct me if I’m wrong, buddingphotographer, but I think the difference is that the first one uses “RF”, a radio frequency, versus the second one that uses “IR” infrared light. https://blog.1000bulbs.com/home/ir-vs-rf-remotes-whats-the-difference

You’re right, @jamesstaddon. 🙂 I mostly find myself using my wireless remote for group portraits…[Read more]

I’ll add my 2 cents and say that I think it’s a lovely idea! It would be a great way to use our photography for something besides “sitting on a hard drive” and give us some practice with graphics design as well. 🙂

@jamesstaddon might have already covered this in the Critique, but I’ll post it anyway for future reference. 🙂

When I refer to highlights being “clipped” I’m talking about the far right side of the histogram. See the screenshot below… The red boxes are showing where you should look for clipping in the shadows and highlights. In this case, the…[Read more]

Ah ha! Now that histogram is telling the truth… 🙂 At least one channel is clipped in the highlights. I guess it’s a good thing you bracketed your shots!

OK. You want to be careful when you use the “Highlights” slider when you’re dealing with “blown out” areas in the sky (even if the histogram doesn’t show them as clipped). If you pull down the highlights too far, LR starts making things up to try to fill in the missing details, and you end up with a muddy mess. Even as good as digital sensors have…[Read more]

Yep, http://www.adorama.com and http://www.bhphotovideo.com are both highly recommended places to buy used gear. They carefully inspect all the used gear before you buy it, and they have excellent support and return policies if something does go wrong. I’d much sooner buy from them than a random seller on eBay or Amazon where you never know what you’re getting.…[Read more]

Wow, the lighting was pretty amazing! On my monitor, the “sun” part of the sunset looks a little oversaturated and clipped. Is that how it looks to you? I would be curious what the original RAW files looks like, especially the histogram…

I still get duplicates whenever someone @mentions me in a topic that I’m already subscribed to… One is a plain-text email, the other HTML. I like the HTML version, because the links are clickable, the plain text is not. 🙁 I’ll forward them both to you.

Adblock Plus just wasn’t working very well for me, some ads were making their way through the filter. (Possibly because of their so-called white-list that lets “good” ads through. uBlock promises to be lighter on computer resources, and I have no reason to disbelieve it. I never even notice that it’s there, (except in the rare instance when it…[Read more]