James Staddon

Oh boy, sounds exciting! Hopefully @buddingphotographer, @dfrazer, or @nasa will be able to answer that question for you?

@blessingscaptured, to answer your questions:

* Yes, I’m pretty sure there are only three “sizes” of that kind of Joby strap: women, men, and men extra large.
* It is VERY easy to screw on and off the Joby strap. But that doesn’t mean it comes off easily when you don’t want it to come off! It’s designed very well.
* Yes, the cording on the anchor…[Read more]

EXCELLENT research here! Let me share just a bit from experience.

I really like the Joby strap. @esther‘s brother introduced me to it years ago and I was skeptical at first because of the price (like, really, for a strap??), but after he showed me how it worked in-person, I was sold. For some reason, however, they don’t manufacture them any more,…[Read more]

Sounds good, @blessingscaptured. It’s fun to see it’s transformation over time.

Usually, I try not to go any smaller than 8pt.

It’s interesting that it’s the same font since it’s not flat-looking like “Photography”! It’s very creative to have the three “bullet points” as periods before the three types of services. At first I thought it was an…[Read more]

After getting to know it after awhile, feel free to share here the things you wished you knew about it before you started using it!

@blessingscaptured And there’s beautiful foreground blur too!! It looks so bright. Good job!

@sarahb A “peaceful shore” indeed!

This is so much fun!!

I’m glad you found something, @blessingscaptured, that you like and use! That’s a genius idea to go take a look at the focal length ranges you typically use to help you determine what lens you think you’d use most. 🙂

What I meant by a “gray layer” was a solid color of gray that covered the entire photo….but I masked out only the places where I wanted it to be visibile, ie. certain portions of the ring.

I don’t! Is it free software?

I like the different camera. Looks less like a “toy camera”.

Some ideas:
* Drop the drop shadow (drop shadows are to set text off the background, so like if light text on light background….you already have plenty of separation here with the font “colors”)
* Is b&w and gray for colors intentional?
* Maybe stack, left alighted, Family, Wedding,…[Read more]

@blessingscaptured, sorry I’ve not been responsive! Not quite the end of Convention season yet. 🙂

Interesting about the flashlight. Now that I think about it, it would need to be diffused also, which would reduce it’s brightness. I guess you’d need a very powerful flashlight.

I do not know of any way to tell what color the ambient light is…[Read more]

In addition to what I mentioned on the webinar, you might want to look into a invoicing service such as Dubsado, https://www.dubsado.com/, or just search “alternatives to Dubsado” with an Internet search engine.

Thank you @blessingscaptured!

Here are the two photos I shot specifically for this assignment, plus two pictures from my portfolio that I thought were bright and beautiful and went well with the idea of “shore” and “mansions”.

Hey @ernestf_lloyd, I’ll plan to talk about this on the webinar tonight! https://www.lenspiration.com/product/photo-coaching-66/

To get ideas, I searched Lightstock for “Bible study”.

That’s a really great idea, @blessingscaptured.

Those are some good insights, @lenspirationlydia. Thank you for sharing.

Is there anything specific that you remember learning from your shoot, @lensesrus?

Since the camera is going off the edges, I would recommend not using a border. “Family. Wedding. Commercial” doesn’t feel like it’s in the right place. I would either put it right above the contact info, or move the contact info up to be put underneath it. Far too many fonts used in my opinion. Use the font for “PHOTOGRAPHY” for everything below…[Read more]

I give her a high quality JPA

I assume, @blessingscaptured, that you meant JPG?