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Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic FEATURED: Mother & Social Worker in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 1 day, 20 hours ago

Would we need a model consent form? Is there a preferred number and age of the kids?

Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic FEATURED: An Animal that Flies in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 1 week, 1 day ago

I have tried to photograph butterflies before but they never turned out that well as butterflies don’t exactly sit around and wait for you to take their photo. I still keep trying every time I see one although I’ve never gotten a good photo till one day.

I was photographing some lavender that my Grandma grows, there were some bees and but…[Read more]

Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic FEATURED: An Animal that Flies in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Would a butterfly work? Do we submit the story along with the photo or do we have to do something else?

Eliana Franzenburg started the topic Flower/Flower with Butterfly in the forum Photo Critique 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Hello everyone! What do ya’ll think of these photos? Is there anything I could do different?

First photo:
f/7.1
1/320
ISO 200

Second photo:
f/10
1/20
ISO 200
I used a flashlight for the light source.

Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic Shooting RAW… ugh… in the forum Photography Q&A 1 month, 4 weeks ago

I’ve started shooting in RAW recently just as it seems to produce more detailed/sharper photos. I have a Mac so I mainly use the “Photos” app (which works extremely well for what I do) and Photoshop Elements for any in depth editing. The only problem I have when editing is that my laptop is quite old so it can be slow processing the larger files.…[Read more]

Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic How to blur the backround in a family picture in the forum Photography Q&A 2 months, 2 weeks ago

To expand on what @loganlamar said, the distance is very important to get the background blur you want. I don’t have as much experience with groups but with individual portraits if you have an aperture of f/8 you need to be at least 6 feet away from your background to get it blurred.

When I do have groups I’ll usually start with about f/8 then…[Read more]

Eliana Franzenburg started the topic What does it mean? in the forum Photography Q&A 3 months ago

Hey fellow “Lenspirationers”!

I am thinking of entering the HSLDA photo contest this year and need some insight. The category for my age group is “Ordinary” and I’m not sure what they mean. That is all the information they give so I’m in the dark.

Any ideas?

Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic Peony and Logo in the forum Photo Critique 3 months, 2 weeks ago

P.S. I purposely went for a darker high contrast look to make it look a little “richer” if that makes sense 🙂

Eliana Franzenburg started the topic Peony and Logo in the forum Photo Critique 3 months, 2 weeks ago

This is the first peony of the year for us so I took the opportunity to get some shots and this is my favorite.

The lighting is a flash bounced off of the gold side of my 5-in-1 reflector.

Settings:
ISO 640
1/20
f/9
I brightened it slightly in editing but that is all.

Also I finally got around to making an actual logo! What do ya’ll think of i…[Read more]

Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14) in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 6 months, 3 weeks ago

@bensharpeningcharacter Thank you for your advice! I will definitely keep all that you said in mind!

Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic FEATURED: Praying Hands (ends March 9) in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 6 months, 3 weeks ago

This is what I have come up with so far! Lots of different angles and I converted some to black and white.

There may be more in the future…

Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14) in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 7 months, 1 week ago

I wasn’t able to actually go out and shoot something so decided to use an old photo. It doesn’t really illustrate the verse but it’s pretty!

Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic Wintery Wonder in the forum Photo Critique 7 months, 1 week ago

@bennett-family If you go to “Your Dashboard”, click “my photos” you can filter your results and select “declined”. You can see which ones they declined but they don’t say why. Hope that helps!

Eliana Franzenburg started the topic Yellow Marigold in the forum Photo Critique 7 months, 3 weeks ago

I was clearing out my memory cards and found this photo that I never did anything with, so I spent a little time with it and this is the end result. What do you think?

The first one is the edited one, all I did is make the background black and crop it a little.
The second one is completely un-edited.

1/200
f/5.6
ISO 100

Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic Guiding Light (ends February 1) in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 7 months, 3 weeks ago

@jamesstaddon How would you go about photoshopping a lighthouse into a photo?

Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic Snow Covered Landscape (ends January 12) in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 8 months ago

Never mind. I will be there.

Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic Snow Covered Landscape (ends January 12) in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 8 months ago

I don’t think I’ll be on the webinar tonight, but hopefully you can make one of them work!

Eliana Franzenburg replied to the topic Proverbs 3:5-6 VP Challenge (ends February 14th) in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 8 months ago

Can we make more than one wallpaper or should we just focus on one.