Aurora-d.jpeg – This one is by far my favorite shot of the ones you submitted. Like @loganlamar said, I’d dial down the saturation. Also, I’d see what I could do to prevent haloing from happening around the dark trees. It’s only happening…Read more

@grace-galdamez, perhaps BJU could have something you are looking for? https://www.bju.edu/academics/

This was very insightful: “If I were taking this picture, I’d p…Read more

This was taken off the side of the road as we were driving through some countryside…one of those “hey can we stop the car so I can take a picture here?!” moments. 🙂 I loved the way I was able to find so many leading lines to incorporate in the photo, and yes! the sky was a huge part of what…Read more

I’ve tried a couple of different ways of shooting star trails. There really are only two ways of doing it: either you leave the shutter open for a long time, or you set up your camera with an intervalometer and take a bunch of shorter exposures (about 30 seconds apiece) back to back to back and stitch them using…Read more

You’ve probably already had this looked at on the webinar (which I was sorry to miss as a long-time Lenspiration member), so I’ll keep this super brief!

Things I like:
–that sky. those clouds are super super cool looking and you certainly picked a good time to shoot.
–lead in lines!…Read more

I think you (@abigail16) and @nateb might be referring to two different phenomena here. Abby, in your photos, you’ve narrowed your aperture and partially occluded the sun in order to get the “sun-star” effect (which is…Read more

I shall get a telephoto and a prime.

I’ll let you all know what I get!!

I am now torn between first buying the bundle you have, and getting a used telephoto lens… I find myself trying to get closer to subjects that I…Read more

I use On1 Photo RAW for my editing program. It’s very similar to Lightroom and has a lot of similar features (just better 🙂 to take my shameless stab at Adobe). No subscription required, but they re-release the software every year with new features. It appears the earliest OS the…Read more

• GIMP (free, but clunky to…

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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

@dfrazer, I’ve seen you on these forums! Any tips?

Thanks so much,
@loganlamar

I’m looking for an excellent external monitor to use for photography and videography… what do you guys all use/recommend?

Thanks so much!

@loganlamar

I like the idea of doing family photography sessions, I know I could shoot videos for a business, and I’ve heard a bit about real estate photography. I guess my question then lies primarily in marketing. I have skills and equipment, but how do I get the ball rolling?

If you haven’t already, I think it would be good to set up some s…Read more

I’ve also never been in your situation before, probably because I haven’t approached photography from a business standpoint. It’s been more of a hobby for me when I have the time. Unfortunately, my studies…Read more

Never been in your situation, but here’s what comes to mind right off. Most anything will spring out of your current connections. Talk about it with everybody you know personally. Does the school have a dedicated photographer already? If so, do they need anything? If not, what does…Read more

Yes, I love this family! but I admit that I do feel much more intimidated by little kids than their parents. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE little kids + babies, but I feel like I have to ‘win’ their trust, and ‘win’ their comfortability and ‘win’ their affection, and fight myself (or so it feels) for every…Read more

I think my Canon 24-70 2.8 might need some lubrication. The auto focus always gets stuck at 3ft.

Where exactly did you put the grease? I did open the lens, but couldn’t decide where to put the grease.

Thank you!

Thank you so much for your helpful tips and insight into this area of photography. I’m assuming that the edited pictures attached above were processed using Lightroom/Photoshop.

@loganlamar and @blessingscaptured, to summarise what you have said, I think B&W would be used in the…Read more

Thank you so much for your helpful tips and insight into this area of photography. I’m assuming that the edited pictures attached above were processed using Lightroom/Photoshop.

@loganlamar and @blessingscaptured, to summarise what you have said, I think B&W would be used in the…Read more

If the color contributes or enhances the feeling I want to convey with the photo, I’ll keep it… If, however, the use of color detracts or distracts from the feeling I want to convey with the image, I’ll convert it to black and white… It all depends on what you’re trying to convey.

Absolutely. This is probably the most impor…Read more

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

This is a topic I gave some thought to, when I started editing a little while ago. I do mostly wildlife/nature photography, so I’m not thinking this applies as much to portrait photography, but anyway here are my thoughts!

One thing I aim for when I’m editing is to have the photo leave the editing process looking exactly as the…Read more

the feeling I am trying to convey with the image

capture a particular feeling or moment

I guess if the motive for taking a picture is to capture the feeling or emotion in a particular scene, editing out distractions or adding certain effects for enhancement would be fine.

I like to keep my images looking…

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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