Logan Lamar

Hello @blessingscaptured! I was in your shoes about two years ago. I ended up spending my graduation money on a used Canon 17-55mm 2.8 IS for my Canon 60D (crop sensor).

Wow let me tell you that it has been the one of the best photography investments I have ever made. It has a fixed 2.8 aperture all the way through… and it is AWESOME. I find it…[Read more]

@joshua_ong haha yeah time shortages are where we have to get real creative with how we go about this, and also why we need to get a little creative here with any potential job opportunities. They can’t take up a whole lot of extra time or they need to be really flexible when it comes to what I can put into it.

@ernestf-lloyd Actually, I do shoot videos for my father’s small business, and in fact I’ve gotten a lot of valuable experience through that. In fact, shooting for my dad led up to a gig with a small life-coaching conference. I shot the whole thing, edited it in a month, and it paid for a part of my tuition! I guess my challenge is that I don’t…[Read more]

shot on my Nikon L830 🙂

I actually had a bridge camera; it was a Nikon L830, and I used it from the time I was about 14 until I was 16 and my mom fully entrusted trusted me with her DSLR (a Canon 60D with an 18-200).

Biggest pros for the bridge camera:
—Cost
My L830 was roughly $300.

—Versatility
34x zoom. This meant I could zoom in and read billboards that were rou…[Read more]

@kazuki-maeda you look like a new face to the forums to me 🙂 welcome!

You’re going to want two programs for your photography:

1. A photo sorter/developer
2. A photo editor

These are not the same thing, but there is a bit of overlap. I use my photo developer for doing a lot of global adjustments across the whole image (cropping, colors,…[Read more]

Wow I barely even remember asking this question… maybe there was a glitch or something or maybe my prepping for finals is getting to my head a bit much.
Thanks so much for your help @dfrazer and @bennett-family! YES, my photography software (On1 2020) has a rating system, and normally… I think it’s just going to be buckling down and practicing…[Read more]

@kina @bennett-family one photographer I was reading—and I don’t know that I would recommend this, but maybe you could find a way to say it without being deceitful—said to ask your child subject to look for the little bug (or fairy or whatever) that lives inside your lens. You certainly get some very quizzical and fun expressions that way!

I’ve heard great things about the quality from
nationsphotolab.com. Utilized them a couple of times for a couple of competitions.

@c-anon, wow, I don’t know if I would try this on an 24-70! I think that’s a more complex lens to work with (being that it has full time manual focus and there’s a focus clutch in there…), but again, I wouldn’t know at all. You’re going to have to proceed at your own risk here, as I did with my lens.

I don’t really know where or even if your…[Read more]

@hayhand02 has some neat ideas there! I’ve done it before for a shoot for my mom’s blog:
https://www.ahappyhomemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/When-the-Holidays-are-Hard-1.jpg
In the image above, I wanted your attention to be on the young lady, as I was trying to get the viewer to feel a sense of empathy for her. That’s why she’s wearing red,…[Read more]

Hi @joshua_ong!

Is this technique often used when subjects and scenes (i.e. landscapes) do not have much colour?

I’d answer that with “sometimes”!

I used to shoot products for a guitar case manufacturer. I shot a lot of black guitar cases :). If the guitar case was solely black and white then, and any color introduced by the camera (chromatic…[Read more]

Hi everyone! As I didn’t have any takers (yet), I’ve listed them on eBay ($40 PLUS shipping, or make me an offer 🙂 )

If you guys are interested, here’s the link:
http://ebay.us/tsrSfm?cmpnId=5338273189

thanks!

@joshua_ong, I think the answer is that it all depends on your genre and the purpose of your photo.

If I am shooting for a newspaper or an event, I really don’t want to be doing a lot of Photoshop work at all.
For instance, I don’t know how many of you have been watching the news lately, but let’s say I visited the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest…[Read more]

@martha-lapp, @jamesstaddon
Having used both extensively, Luminar I don’t think is quite fully developed yet if you’re looking for a serious editor. I really hoped the new “libraries” feature would help with image browsing… and I bought the program expecting something solid… unfortunately, it was really, really slow. On my computer, I had to…[Read more]

@martha-lapp
I’ve done a lot of research on this, tried a number of free trial programs, and I think I may have found where I’m going to settle down for a long while.
I’ve been very very pleased with On1. I think it’s quite close to Lightroom in terms of features both in editing and in browsing, but it’s a much better deal in my opinion and you’ll…[Read more]