Jamie Parfitt

THAT is a good picture, Silas!

I like the middle photo, with the ice-covered branch over the dark clothing. The young woman seems to be imagining that she is in a cathedral. 🙂

Thanks for the quick answer, Ben! We will have to take a look at it tomorrow. Naomi loves to take pictures with spaces left for verses. This will be a fun assignment for everyone! Actually, that doesn’t sound quite reverent. I mean that it will be pleasant to mesh photography skills with thinking deeper about what the verses mean and how we can…[Read more]

I hope this hasn’t been covered already, but how do we know we have created 16:9? Is that a setting in Lightroom? ~ momparfitt

Thanks for your comments. This is the original, unedited file. ~ Naomi

I really like the second (edited) picture! Especially how you brought out the tree on the right. You framed that side of the picture really nicely with that! As I have never taken pictures of star trails, I have no experience with that kind of photography, but I’ve always wanted to shoot some long exposures of the sky! On second look at the…[Read more]

By the way, thanks James for this group photo that you did at the VA FEW. 🙂

Hello Everyone,

James was able to help me get this working. I changed my account email to be my gmail address. Then I found that I could log in and watch the webinar without actually being on YouTube. I don’t like YouTube because of all the images that popup on the side. But He had to show me that there is a way to make the chat box pop out. Then…[Read more]

Hey James, We DID watch! We tried to reply, but it said we had to make a channel. I also emailed you twice, but I don’t think you have received that yet. Thanks for the tips for Naomi. We replied that the grassy bush (or bushy grass) was actually as tall as the van, so there was no getting higher, though that sounds like the best improvement. We…[Read more]

Thank you, James, for editing the posts. I know there was no harm intended. I have had people point things out to me over the years and I am glad they cared enough to do that. “Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.” (Prov. 27:17)

Keep up the good work, everyone!

My random thoughts:

I like Lydia’s flower because it is not only partly in focus, but it is also bright. Our pastor sends out a daily verse that he receives from somewhere and my constant complaint about the background photos is that they are sort of muddy in color. I’m sure they are trying to make the verse stand out, but the blah background is…[Read more]

I love the PURPLE photo, too! No one is commenting on it, but it is very nice. Naomi said it could be a stock photo. She also thinks it would make a really nice verse picture. I like how the sun rays coming TOWARD the photographer (or picture viewer) also seem to be going THROUGH the layered “hills” toward the left. I didn’t word that well, but it…[Read more]

I need to clarify that my daughter Naomi took this picture. She put her name in the original post, but it doesn’t stand out. I certainly can’t take pictures that nice! We look forward to seeing it critiqued on the December 11 webinar. Thanks for the encouraging remarks so far!

I see that the picture that I uploaded looks yellower on the website than the original photo on our computer.

Does the moon really have that texture on it? The picture seems to have stipples all over it, like the skin of an orange. And sort of regular vertical dashes. What caused that? The filter would not have done that, would it?