Ezra Morley

Choices, choices… 🙂

If it was me, I’d stick with the D7000. You’re looking at 2 totally different classes of camera. The D7000 is built like a tank, the D3500 is built like a… plastic toy. Seriously, check out this comparison: https://cameradecision.com/compare/Nikon-D7000-vs-Nikon-D3500
The D3500 weighs half of the D7000! Don’t put too…[Read more]

Lens flare has everything to do with the angle of the light hitting the lens. If you don’t want a great big blob of green, the best way to get rid of it is to shift your camera. It doesn’t take much to change the angle of light. Unfortunately, once the photo is taken, it’ll require a photoshop job to get rid of it. 🙁

Here’s an example of how…[Read more]

OK, I didn’t see any picture with orange… Did it fail to upload?

That’s strange. The HDR software must be doing something funny. What software are you using?

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/lens-flare.htm

Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about it:

A ferrite bead or ferrite choke is a passive electric component that suppresses high frequency noise in electronic circuits. It is a specific type of electronic choke. Ferrite beads employ high frequency current dissipation in a ferrite ceramic to build high frequency noise suppression devices. Ferrite…

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Boy, you’ve got me stumped! 🙂 It’s not off of the USB cord that usually comes with your camera, is it?

Something like this….

http://www.getyourmemory.co.uk/ebaynew/cables/500-usb-camera-cable.jpg

Thank you @buddingphotographer for showing me how to export the pictures!! The problem I’m having is importing the pictures into LR. I’ve attached the error code. Apparently the version I am using needed a certain upgraded for RAW files, so I figured out another way to do it.

You’re welcome!
Oh, I see… So it’s a problem of importing, not export…[Read more]

Some excellent advice here already! I’ll just add my 2 cents… 🙂

When a shadow or a “glow” doesn’t make the text stand out enough, you need to get a little more drastic. Think about it; what you’re really looking for is contrast. If you can’t read the text, it’s simply because your eyes are having a hard time picking it out from its…[Read more]

@hannahm If you’re in Lightroom you need to be looking in the Lightroom Export dialog for the “resize” option. Set it to ~2000px, and make sure you’re saving as a JPG file with compression below 90. (or you can set the “Limit File Size to” 1900K)

(Don’t mind my sharpening settings, I was doing some printing. :))

@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]