James Staddon

Good to know!

Totally! Take a look at the difference between these shots. It might give you an idea of what to be looking for. Gradients, mainly, from what I know at the moment. The jagged edges I think are called something like “JPG artifacting”. Not knowledgeable in this area. One was exported at Quality 90, the other at 5, from LR.

Yeah, I like the widescreen crop. It makes it feel more balanced somehow. And yeah, widescreen. Wish I would have thought to interpret it as such during the webinar. 🙂

Thanks! That’s how mine work as well. Agreed, I don’t think the diffusion panel works that well either. I find they work well enough for fill light for video but I haven’t found them strong enough for hand held photography. 🙁

@esther, I didn’t really look at these photos until now….those are really interesting! Don’t think I’ve ever seen lightning quite like that before.

Here are some of the photos I liked from my homeschooling photo shoot. If nothing else, try to duplicate the one of the dad on the couch with the kids. There are lots of other options, though, beyond the normal “mom and child at the table” perspective, so see what kind of variety you can get like they provided in the details!

I haven’t just used a prime lineup before! Maybe you’ll be able to give me advice one of these days. 🙂 I’d be curious to know how often you find yourself switching lenses, and also why you have both the 50mm 1.8 and 1.4, and if you’ll probably end up getting rid of one of them?

Yay, that’s great! Were they both a max brightness?

If you want something free, I would probably try Rawtherepee! I think I remember Darktable being kinda hard to navigate. But with no experience with either, I’d trust @frazer-family‘s recommendations!

For a one-time-payment program:

Luminar is the best straight forward, easy-to-use program that I know of. It is incredibly powerful and has tons…[Read more]

Thanks for taking the time to submit some photos for this more advanced assignment. I’ll ask Eric if he’d like to use any of them and respond back here!

Are you suggesting that when I export from Lightroom I should decrease the quality or I should “limit file size to ____” some specific size?

Personally, when I deliver photos to a client, I give the full pixel dimensions (so, no Image Sizing at all in LR), but I do set the Quality slider to lower than 100. I can’t see that much of a dif…[Read more]

Drum roll please! Eric chose @freedomphotography‘s photo of the flower buds, and this was his comment on it: “It is a unique photo of blossoms, a type of picture we’ve not yet used on a calendar. And there is plenty of horizontal space for the long verse!”

Evidently the idea of symmetry wasn’t as important as I made it out to be! It was still f…[Read more]

Ok folks, for those of you who were not able to join me on the webinar Tuesday where I critiqued the photos submitted for this assignment, here’s the replay you can watch! https://www.lenspiration.com/video/webinar54/

Will be announcing the winner her soon.

Yeah, going wider seems to be the best option here, to actually capture what you were wanting. Was it even possible to step back further? The replay of our discussion on it Tuesday is here: https://www.lenspiration.com/video/webinar54/

Hope there was something helpful that popped out to you in my rambling on Tuesday. 🙂 https://www.lenspiration.com/video/webinar54/

Wow, I just have to say, I’m VERY impressed, everyone.

It appears as though a reply that I intended to post on June 22 didn’t get posted for some reason, so just wanted to say thank you @jace, @blessingscaptured, @okiephotos, @freedomphotography, @allienelson, and @ernestf-lloyd for making the special effort to find, photograph, or pull from your…[Read more]

Congratulations, @creative-click-photography! Praise the Lord about your lens there, too. 🤦‍♂️

I agree with @bennett-family…I deliver the high res, edited JPGs (only, I export at a quality setting of 90, because that decreases the amount of hard drive space it takes up without reducing any visible quality, at least, as far as I can tell).

And…[Read more]

How incredibly interesting! I think it was a good decision to go back to what it was that caught your eye. If I don’t get around to talk about this on the webinar Tuesday (https://www.lenspiration.com/webinar/photo-critique-54/) I’ll be sure to come back and write what comes to mind. This is a tough one! I can totally see myself running out there…[Read more]

Such a pretty place! I’m going to tuck this one away to bring up on the webinar next week, if that’s ok with you? https://www.lenspiration.com/webinar/photo-critique-54/

I prefer to keep auto-update off. Maybe it’s just because that’s the way I’m used to. But I do agree with the reasons given by Ezra and John.