Jamie Parfitt

I think I would Photoshop the wires out of the pictures of the Yamaha piano.

Mrs. Parfitt

One interesting thing about Naomi’s piano photos: She had to ask Annabelle and me to hold up a dark sheet in front of other things in the room in order to block the reflection of them. The highly-polished piano was like a mirror! The pedal harp in particular was “painted” all across the front. But holding up the sheet worked! Now I wish I had…[Read more]

Here are the last 4.

I guess I’m having problems uploading, so I’ll have to try these one at a time.

I was excited to see this assignment come out, no only because we happen to have a grand piano in our music room, but also because we recently purchased some music albums by the Ziesemer family, and have enjoyed listening to them.😁 Unfortunately, there is little space around our grand piano for it to look like it’s in a studio, but it was a good…[Read more]

I like the first one better because it is brighter. Also, after looking closer, I saw trash on the beach in the dimmer picture! I thought it was birds at first.

I like the bright second picture best. It looked like a galaxy, and it was pretty to me. I, too, felt like pushing things in from the edges or stepping back a little to include them. I actually don’t understand why it is called flat if it is supposed to have different heights. Anyway, just my two cents. ~ Mrs. Parfitt

Do the pictures need to be a certain size? I’m assuming that I should not include my watermark on them.
~Naomi

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]