James Staddon

Wow, it was really exciting to look over everyone’s submissions. It’s one of my favorite parts about an assignment! I think we’ve got some good material for a good webinar tomorrow night. If you haven’t registered for it yet, you can do so here: https://www.lenspiration.com/product/photo-coaching-69/ And And I’ll get busy thinking about how to…[Read more]

A note from Suzanne yesterday: “Great work on this project! We are looking forward to the many photos submitted by Lenspiration students :)”

Great question, @tashavk! Here’s what I can share from what little experience I have:

* Most professional photographers look down on stock photography today. They feel stock agencies take advantage of photographers by hardly paying them anything for their work. For the amount of work that goes into stock photography, I do agree.
* But just like…[Read more]

And this assignment has been closed! This is the photo they ended up going with. Thanks everyone for pitching in to help as much as you could!

Thanks @christian-horstmann! I’ll keep this thread updated as things move forward. Evidently it hasn’t been super high priority since I haven’t heard back from my contact in a while.

I learned a lot while shooting this assignment! I decided to go to the same location multiple times in the day to observe what the same location looked like at different times, and really enjoyed my time with my Creator and Redeemer while doing so.

Lenspirationers, you do well.

The publisher said, “It was SO HARD to choose only 5, there were about 15 photos that stood out to me as winners.”

But only the ones that suit their needs best can be winners. So below you can see the 5 winners!

And in case you missed the webinar or want to watch the critique of your photo again, here’s a replay…[Read more]

I can not tell you how excited I am!! You guys came up with so many things I never even thought of. We are going to have so much fun on the webinar! I’ll be sure to talk about how to make lines and edges straight and not crooked in-camera. Any other questions you would like me to address specifically? Post them here or ask them live tomorrow at…[Read more]

This is REALLY great guys! I’ve never critiqued photos of textures like this before, so it’s going to be fun to figure out how to do this!

Yes, I believe that is correct.

Nice @blessingscaptured! Lighting is gorgeous!

Updating myself on this thread. Thank you @buddingphotographer for helping out here. In answer to your question @blessingscaptured, “Can you have two copies of LR on one computer? Or is it sufficient to just have a second catalog?”, I would definitely say stick with one LR subscription, and then create as many catalogs as you please! I do this. I…[Read more]

I took a lot of texture photos, but I think these are the ones that would work well as true “backgrounds” with lots of negative space.

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!!