Caitlin Compton

Thanks! I enjoyed the critique yesterday!

@rmadaris, Incredible!

Seven years ago we had one that virtually devastated our town.

@rmadaris, Wow! That would’ve been scary!

Thankyou, @rmadaris, for your comments! I’ve attached a new photo of the fern without it being cropped off and with those distractions removed. Go you for spotting it cropped off on the side. Somehow I missed it – another pair of eyes is definitely helpful!

Thanks for your critique, @jamesstaddon!

Backlighting is always awesome.

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Cool cloud formation! I’ve never seen anything quite like it over here – we don’t really get tornadoes, thankfully. 🙂 I agree with, @dara__cochran, that the trees are cool as they add context, but it would’ve been good to include more. Since you didn’t include more though, (don’t you wish you could replay photo situations with the…[Read more]

One more! 😉

Here are some of the photos that I submitted via the DropBox link. 🙂

Here are some that might work! 🙂 If you where to choose one of them, I can send you a DNG file if that’s required.

The silky water effect is so fun! I was very excited the first time I tried it out. 🙂 Lovely photo & great subject, @elianafranzenburg!

Here are a few thoughts!
Your image is leaning to the left a tad, so I thought you might want to straighten that up. Also, since the fountain is cut off on the right hand side a bit, I thought it’d would look…[Read more]

Awesome!

Ok. Sounds like I’ve got some video watching to do. 😉 After I’ve watched them I guess I should let you know and we’ll go from there?

Thanks for your quick responses, @jamesstaddon. Your answers are really helpful.

Just one quick clarification … So you’d do 5 exposures that are 2 stops apart. So that’d be one exposure 4 stops below what would be the correct exposure, one 2 stops below normal, a normal one, one 2 stops above normal and finally one 4 stops above normal. Is tha…[Read more]

Yes! I think that looks way better! 🙂 Love it.

Hey @morganwriter1gmail-com!

I really like the sunburst in the first image! I think it’s good how you took one image with a lot of space as that can really come in handy if you’re wanting to design something with a Bible verse like you said. But I also thought that maybe you could’ve tried a vertical on it. So get rid of all the empty space on…[Read more]

this is something I would have to do a little more research on.

Sure thing, @jamesstaddon.

Perhaps we could do a coaching call about it?

That would be helpful as I know totally nothing about editing HDRs! I can’t really say that I have direct questions about it, because I don’t know about it, if that makes sense. Would you recommend me…[Read more]

Thanks for that, @josiahw! That’s an interesting thought about the editing side of things – I hadn’t thought about it from that perspective before!

Thanks for answering those questions, @jamesstaddon! That was really helpful.

since you are a PRO member, if you have more questions like this and want to talk about it instead of write about it, I would not mind doing a personal coaching call with you for free if you’d like.

Thanks for offering! I would be happy to do that! I mean, I only…[Read more]

No, @hayhand02, I haven’t been to the US. . . yet. 🙂 I really want to, though. Hopefully one day!

Thanks, @bensharpeningcharacter!

So you cloned out other parts of the picture and put them on the black bar area to make it look like it was there? How did you get it look so realistic?

Oh right! So the sunburst is a sunburst. Phew! That makes more sense. 🙂

I remembered one more question. . . With the picture you actually ended up using, do…[Read more]