Eliana Franzenburg

So these are what I was able to get. It’s a baby grand and the top didn’t open so I didn’t have that option. There was very little room to be able to fit all of the piano in frame but I did the best I could. The church had Christmas decorations up so I had to do a lot of editing to remove those.

It was very fun, and also an exercise in moving…[Read more]

Is black & white ok? Would having music on the piano work? Or would they possibly want a person in the photo? (learning how to play piano?)

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

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]

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

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]

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]

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

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

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…

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!

@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!