James Staddon

I think this is the most creative photo I have even taken for an assignment! This is my final photo.

Oh, and these are the photos the Ziesemers are considering using. The final decision hasn’t been made yet, but these are the ones they liked best!

I hope this assignment was a good reminder to help us have our photos organized by the end of the year. It has only been in recent years that I have felt like my photos were organized by the end of the year. And it’s a good feeling! However, I am still ending each year with boatloads of unedited photos from that year. What good is it to photograph…[Read more]

Yes, @jemimajvr, I was indeed joking. 🙂 It’s really fun to hear some of the backstories to your photos! And thank you for the invite!! Wow, that would be a wildlife photographers dream for sure! You start watching the webinars at 1am?! I really appreciate your dedication. That’s amazing.

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Well, I hope everyone enjoyed spending some time organizing their photos last month!

And you guys submitted some incredible photos. When it comes to a photo of an animal coming to the water to drink, I don’t think anyone could top that elephant photo! You sure you’re the one that took that photo @jemimajvr? 😀 And @esther, that broken handcuff…[Read more]

Yup! I had a similar problem the other day. Since I was photographing toward a direct light source, and that light source was not in the very center of the frame, I got lens flare. I took the protective UV filter off, and it solved the problem. Same exact photo, taken with the filter (left), and without the filter (right).

Thanks for weighing in, @loganlamar! Good to hear from you again.

That’s funny 😀

I’m glad you’re able to do some editing, @esther! It helps a lot.

Wowzers guys! These are beautiful photos! I specially like your blue shore photo, @esther, and your Bible with the fall leaves @edpt1025.

Reminder to everyone: Only HORIZONTAL photos will be accepted.

That is so great to hear @samuelwest!

Good job @brenalig! Bear in mind that the requested orientation is horizontal.

And here are the photos from my portfolio for this assignment! You can see how I went about choosing them in the accompanying blog post, On Assignment: Many Different Photos.

Here are the phrases in “Break Thou the Bread of Life” that go with each photo:

1. Wheat field – [Opening photos]
2. Broken loaf of bread with Bible – Break Thou the bread of life, Dear Lord, to me
3. Sea shore – As Thou didst break the loaves Beside the sea
4. Close-up pages of a Bible – Beyond the sacred page I seek Thee, Lord
5. An…[Read more]

I was inspired by all your submissions! And my wish that there could be more than one “winner” may very well come true since Sarah said she would love to buy some of your non-winning photos! Money may soon be floating your way, members!

And for those of you who didn’t watch the webinar and don’t know who the winner is yet, here’s the replay link:…[Read more]

Thank you @buddingphotographer for the info!

Hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend! I wasn’t keeping an eye on the assignment, so it was enjoyable to catch up today and I’m super relieved that there were no questions that I missed. You guys are really good at submitting your photos. 🙂

Will look forward to critiquing them all on the webinar on Tuesday, and Lord willing, announce…[Read more]

How do I make a NEF a smaller file?

That’s a great question! NEF is the raw file format straight from your camera. It is unedited and not downsized. That means it is not generally what you want to submit. In the submission process , it says (in short):

1) upload edited high res (to Dropbox)
2) then upload edited downsized (here on the…[Read more]

@blessingscaptured, I don’t know if it was the way you edited it or if the lighting was actually that way, but I love how in your second shot, the vertical one, how morning-like the lighting is! It’s the perfect contrast, giving a nice energetic feeling.