James Staddon

I was a bit embarrassed

Know the feeling. 🙂 You’d think that when average vacationers see conservative camera-toting anomalies like ourselves, they would find it interesting instead of gawkable. I guess it doesn’t hurt that they know that we exist, though! Reminds me of this excursion from way back. 🙂

Some friends of mine tried to start contributing to Adobe Stock and we ran into some issues with age limit. It turns out that contributors must be 18 years old or older. Here is my correspondence with Adobe:

Hi, a friend of mine who is under 18 years old would like to sell her photos on Adobe Stock. Is this allowed if she uses an Adobe account…

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Wow! Good job, Valerie!!

I’ll be making official announcements about this assignment on the webinar tonight if you’re able to watch that, after which I’ll be sure to followup here as well!

I’m going to assemble all the submissions and choose a random winner now! Knowing that so much thought and effort went into each photographer’s mini-portfolio, oh, drawing a name out of a hat tis the kind of task I dread! :[ Winner or no, you’ve done the work of assembling your best photos from the past year, and that’s the important step you’ve…[Read more]

@creative-click-photography, though my perspective a non-experiential when it comes to Lightstock, it seems to me photos taken on a shoot specifically for stock would sell better than just random photos from every-day shooting. I would make special efforts to conduct specific shoots for stock, and then, like @blessings-captured does, incorporate…[Read more]

@bennett-family, I’m glad you learned some things through this assignment! That was the idea. 🙂 Everybody’s going to learn something different.

Hi @momparfitt, sorry for not getting back with you on this earlier!

When it comes to size, the best quality for printing will be if the photos are at least 3600px wide.

Unless you want the watermark printed in the calendar, I would not submit photos with a watermark. For the winner of the assignment, I can add text to give credit in a way…[Read more]

Drum roll please! All the details for this assignment have now been finalized! This was such a high-end job that I wasn’t sure if any of our photos would be good enough, but I am thrilled to announce that two photos have indeed been chosen. Bradley took a look at the photos without knowing who shot what, and @bennett-family takes home the prize…[Read more]

Ah, I’ve left my tripod behind like that before! 🙂

I really like the one shot that you cleaned up a bit. Those little details make a difference. I may have tried walking up closer to the water? Sometimes the waves coming in create interesting shapes and textures that could fill the foreground, even at hand-holdable shutter speeds. This could…[Read more]

Thank you @blessingscaptured for letting us know about this! I think I’m going to try doing that this year. It may help meet a need I was contemplating a day or two before you posted….truly God’s timing!

If anyone has any questions about how to start submitting photos through Adobe Stock, just let us know here.

Good news, @mummaufam‘s photo was approved in the draft version of the 2020 Precision Elevator Corp. calendar! Someone told me once, “Don’t rejoice till the money’s in the bank”, but I’ll keep you posted as to what happens next. 🙂

Hi @mummaufam, I will announce whose photos are purchased, but I doubt I will have the time to critique them on the webinar (the link is working now by the way 🙂 )

Hi @loganlamar, sorry to have not answered your question earlier. And no, this was a very specific regional request. 🙁 I didn’t have any pictures of NYC either. 🙂

I just love the autumn feelings associated with this photo! I wouldn’t have guessed it was an HDR. That’s a good thing. It still looks very natural. Perhaps give it a bit more sharpness (unless it’s the JPG compression that makes it feel soft….soft, not out of focus)? The vignette is a bit heavy to me. I love the arrangement, the onions stacked…[Read more]

And oh, good decision, @elmullet, to submit your photos here on the forum as JPG even though you were unable to figure out a way to submit a DNG version.

If @bensharpeningcharacter needs a higher resolution version than the ones you submitted, then I’m sure he’ll reach out to you to help you figure out how to do that.

Kinda nice to have a little easier of an assignment, eh? 🙂 Thank you, everyone, for your submissions. We’ll look forward to hearing what Ben decides to use (or not use), and then I’ll go over them myself on the November 12 critique webinar! https://www.lenspiration.com/webinar/photo-critique-46/

@elmullet, yes, I am most easily able to critique the photos that are submitted as JPG here on the forum; however, I usually reference their “original or RAW” counterparts submitted via the link in the details so I can better know how to critique the photo.

Oh, good question! I’m sorry, I meant to mention that only Lenspiration members could win. Will change the details!