Ok, so the book has a very broad variety of recipes, so anything would be fine, just don’t make it so specific that people think “that looks yum, where’s the recipe?”.
No, there aren’t any schemes in the book. What I am planning on calling the book will be something like “Homeschoolers’ recipe book”.
And yes, it…Read more

–Laura

I took these for a friend’s business, specifically to be used on social media to advertise the soap, not as actually for the “product photos” on the online shop. They were taken on the kitchen bench with plenty of window…Read more

Hope you all do better than me! Laura

I copied the idea of the low key folded hands from a stock photo I saw when searching for ideas of prayer,…Read more

For the Raven category, I am submitting an iconic NZ bird called a Tui. I found out today that “Tuis are known to be highly intelligent and have been observed using tools, such as sticks or twigs, to extract insects from tree bark,” so…Read more

These are Australian Magpies which are common in urban and rural areas of New Zealand and are often seen foraging on lawns and in parks (I’m not sure if my picture is fully in focus).
-Jemima

Sadly I haven’t managed to get a good shot of a Hawk.

@blessingscaptured So cool that you were able to photograph an owl!

I hope the fantail is still able to be in the sparrow group for me…
The second picture is a Fantail / Pīwakawaka.
It is an active and curious bird, often seen darting…Read more

I was so glad I was able to photograph a hawk! We’re in an urban area, so there aren’t any at our place, and the one I did see when up the hill was too hard to photograph…so it worked really well that our family did an unexpected trip further south where I was able to take this photo. The first one I saw was…Read more

Thanks so much for your response, Donald! It was exciting to read, because I already have photos of Fantails and Kea in my portfolio! Now I have a complete set! Thank you!

There are other methods, such as using Dropbox:)

–Laura

–Laura

I looked at the GPU, and no, I only have AMD Radeon. I watched the course video, James, on preparing to print, and you mentioned the sRGB colour profiles or something, and I downloaded some and have set sRGB2014 as my default profile, and colour rendering is better than it was when I first got the…Read more

Thank you for your response. Yes, I’m doing this for an assignment in the Lenspiration photography program to get my screen to match a print, although I realise that printers are different.

What I’m actually trying to do, however, is to get my screen into the range of “normal”, maybe to where it matches the colours on…Read more

I have a Lenovo Windows 11 Pro, and am trying to adjust how my screen displays colour. I’ve played around with the Microsoft Display Colour Calibration tool, but can’t seem to get my screen how I want it. I also downloaded some ICC profiles, but they also don’t achieve the result I’m looking for. I feel like what I really need is a…Read more

–Laura

–Laura

Yes, I have already uploaded my photos to the Dropbox…although I think they were just JPGs. Maybe it’s because my camera doesn’t shoot in RAW that I didn’t have DNGs? So at this stage, should I re-edit and re-upload, or do you think it will be fine if I just leave them as is?

I would love to calibrate my laptop…Read more

Could you guys give me some feedback as to whether these photos are indeed too saturated, or if they’re fine on your screen? I’m thinking it’s the laptop screen that needs to be adjusted to render…Read more

–Laura

–Laura

@molong, Thank you too! The picture was taken in NZ beside a tiny highland lake called Lake Sarah, near Arthur’s Pass🙂

–Laura

–Laura

I’ve literally just finished watching the video on colour adjustments in the Secrets to Photo Editing Course before seeing your post, and am thinking the picture is a little too green/saturated… If you haven’t seen this video yet, you might find it helpful: https://www.lenspiration.com/lesson/color-adjustments/. In it,…Read more

–Laura