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April 15, 2024 at 5:35 pm #86305James StaddonKeymaster
Wow, shipping to/from Alaska. Hadn’t thought of that! I see how that could be expensive.
April 15, 2024 at 5:33 pm #86304James StaddonKeymasterAnd thank you, @christian-horstmann, for letting us shoot for you!
April 6, 2024 at 10:42 am #86205James StaddonKeymasterYes, yes, YES! This is perfect. Just the kind of creative direction we’re going for with this assignment!
March 29, 2024 at 3:45 pm #86158James StaddonKeymasterMy photos didn’t turn out quite like I was expecting, and wouldn’t say I was super happy with the way the whole photo shoot turned out in general, but I was happy that I was able to pursue my idea pretty far and I actually had a few nice photos to show for all my effort. Here are some of them!
March 29, 2024 at 9:43 am #86140James StaddonKeymasterThat’s right, @monaomi! Every photo is an invitation for the viewer to think about something. Depending on what we decide to include in our photo, that could be a good or a bad invitation!
Your comment also reminds me of an insight someone shared with me the other day. In so many words, he said it can be very easy for us to claim the glory for our nice nature photos, but the reality is, I only took the picture, I didn’t make the lovely landscape, the pretty bird, the glorious sunset . . . that’s God’s handiwork and my pictures are simply a display of it! What right do I have to exalt myself using someone else’s creative work? In a way, we photographers are simply master plagiarists. 🙂 That’s why it only makes sense to give God the glory for our work.
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March 29, 2024 at 9:02 am #86136James StaddonKeymasterAs always, it was a joy to review all your submissions and see how you all are growing in your photography. It was a great assignment. And it was a great webinar too! Covered a lot of ground, and I was actually able to critique at least one photo from the 20+ photographers who submitted for this assignment. Here’s the link to the webinar replay, available for members: https://www.lenspiration.com/video/webinar99/
And attached is the winning photo! Congratulations to photographer Valentia (@darien-radcliffe) with her simple, yet well thought out and composed work of art. You’ll have to watch the replay to see which submissions I liked best. 🙂 It’s near the beginning that I show them.
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March 27, 2024 at 10:56 am #86044James StaddonKeymasterIsn’t that fun, to discover an enjoyable, new, constructive, non-computer (mostly), outdoorsy thing to do! If you didn’t already know, I love color in photos, so I really like your subjects, yellow flowers and sunset sky. 🙂
I like how you got down on the level of the flowers in the last set of photos (as opposed to the first).
Notice how in the very last photo (IMG_7462-2.jpg),you can see the shape of the flowers better than the previous two. This is mostly because a brighter exposure is used, but it’s also because the backlit flower is up against the part of the background that is dark. Since the pedals are partially transparent, it allows the light to illuminate them and set them apart better than if they were against the sky. So, I like that about the last one. The color isn’t as good, though, so the silhouettes in the others work well. If they were more “set apart” from other silhouetted elements, it would help me recognize them as daffodils more readily. Some of the photos have nice level horizons, so that’s good.
Just some random comments upon first look!
March 27, 2024 at 10:50 am #86043James StaddonKeymasterThat’s so fun, @lenspirationlydia! Good idea, not to look at mine first. 🙂
Very interesting, @samuelwest, having never edited a snow photo before! I’m glad you can now say you have. 🙂
The reason I edited mine the way I did (kinda dark), is because I wanted attention to be drawn to the sky. I tried to bring out the color there as best I could. It took some local adjustments. I also wanted to make he beehives more prominent, so that’s why I cropped it. Should have done that on-location in-camera by zooming in. I also went for the slightly pinkish feel so it wouldn’t look too warm for a snowscape.
March 27, 2024 at 10:44 am #86042James StaddonKeymasterI love the different color combinations!
o.jpg – Pastel green with red and a highlight of yellow
i.jpg – Earthy brown with bright green and a hint of pink
IMG_3624-edited-2-1.jpg – Vibrant orange and yellow, with subtle cool tones
pi.jpg – Red-orange and tan
p.jpg – Cool browns and green, with a touch of yellowIt’s amazing to me the different colors around us, even at this time of year! I love colorful pictures. That’s why I think #1 (o.jpg) is my favorite. The color is very nice, and it’s a sharp photo. The copyright watermark on that one is the best of them all, too. The font combination is good, as well as spacing from the edge the relative ratio of text size to picture size. My least favorite is probably #2 (i.jpg) because it has the most empty space, and the least interesting subject. Though I have to admit, the thorn does add some character, helping it not look like a plain stem of a “normal” tree. Overall, excellent background blur, subject choice, and composition!
March 25, 2024 at 2:36 pm #86021James StaddonKeymasterWhat great submissions! So creative. Many ideas I never would have thought of. I’m so sorry, @samuelwest Cody! 😭
Guess what? I heard that there were a total of 24 photographers who submitted for this assignment! Can you believe it? Not everyone posts their photos here on the forum, I guess. There’s going to be some pretty stiff composition tomorrow! Looking forward to the webinar at 7pm. You can register here: https://www.lenspiration.com/product-category/webinars/ See you there!
March 18, 2024 at 5:28 pm #85900James StaddonKeymasterWow, that’s neat, the eyes naturally being so blue! It does look a little otherworldly, though. If you want to tweak just one color in the photo, does your editing program have something like Lightroom’s “Color Mixer”? “Saturation” will turn blues more or less gray, “Hue” will change the color from blue to another color, and “Luminance” will change how bright the blue is.
March 18, 2024 at 4:12 pm #85898James StaddonKeymasterIt’s so much fun to see everyone’s photos coming in! The lighting is lovely, @blessingscaptured. Silhouette is a great idea, @puregrace. The highlighters and bookmark are a creative touch, @laura-aome. Great variety of poses, @sager7 Evelyn. The fairy lights add a nice touch, @cg. Hope you all are learning a lot shooting real life assignments!
March 13, 2024 at 11:48 am #85752James StaddonKeymasterWow! What clear, blue eyes! Very interesting. Is that the “problem with light reflection” you were talking about? Can you tell us which one of your photos is original, unedited?
March 13, 2024 at 11:46 am #85751James StaddonKeymasterI love it! Great idea.
March 13, 2024 at 11:43 am #85748James StaddonKeymasterThanks for your recommendation on good astrophotography lenses. That’s not something I know much about at all!
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