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Wonderful image Elin! Congratulations.

You have – no – dilemma Rob…. Just remember, if it’s online… give NO response because any response ‘you make’ will only cause ‘you’ more aggravation in that you are still actively in the conversation in you mind. Just like your original post at the beginning, I feel you are – still – having the conversation in your mind.  Is it, or was it,…[Read more]

Elin ( @elinlaxdal1 ) does this work —>  pússa kúk

Great images Charmaine.  But I really like the fly on the bridge of the lion’s nose in the second one.

Interesting discussion. Not sure if it’s meant to be or not, but I find two (2) questions that have been answered in various portions of the thread. That of “right – in camera” and that of “right – in photography”.

For my two cents, and I am ‘definitely not’ a purist… “right in camera” means that I have do “minimal to no” post processing after…[Read more]

Too cute!!

First and foremost…. Plan specific days for the two (or three) of you to go take pictures and then make sure you both follow through with doing it (life throws many curves so it’s easy to find reasons not to do things).

Then, I would start with introducing him to the ‘rudimentary’ or ‘very basic’ skills of composition so he can start taking…[Read more]

This response is refering to image resolution as I got sidetracked by looking at the size/dpi of the images. As Marty has already read and commented on it the original post (which I had deleted) I’m reposting.

As Beth has suggested using 1200 dpi of landscape and 900 dpi for portrait should work great.

I remember years ago I had ordered some…[Read more]

Thanx Marty.  Unfortunately (for me)  I just reread your original post and adjusted my comment above commenting purely on a watermark and not resolution.

So… I will be rewriting the comment above for others so they know what you’re referring to by the images.

testing resolutions….

The image is definitely salvagable Marty.

The big thing for me is the software you use as well how much work one wants to do.  The image below was done in LR 5.6 (very old, I kow) where I reduced the Contrast (evens out the overall tones of the image) then I reduced both the shadows and darks/blacks to a suitable level as well as reduced/brought…[Read more]

With regard to story telling… if your budget permits, you should have off-camera flash as it helps to provide shadows and will enhance your ability to tell a story. As well, some ‘light modifiers’ for the flash would help as well.

Having the flash ‘straight on’ to the subject (as in this image) removes most shadow which limit the story telling…[Read more]

Your original version is still my favourite Jim.

With the focal length at 24mm….

Possibly take about — 25 paces/steps closer — to the two rocks would have given about the same field of view to where it is now.

Or… positioning yourself about 5 steps — back — from the two rocks would have yielded about the same view.

Either way… taking the image set your focal length to 24mm. With…[Read more]

Wonderful shot Elin!

I would crop out the bottom 2/3’s of the bottle as well (just below the lable).  This places more visual weight on the plant.  You could even crop the bottle higher if you wished.

When it comes to cropping – and especially with images such as this one with no definitive horizontal or vertical line – I will often experiment with ‘transform’ in LR as I’m cropping.

As I try a crop, I’ll move it around slightly in the image for a placement that suits my eyes, as well as… experiment with rotating the image 90 degrees either…[Read more]

Thank you Tersha.  There is a few inches of loose dirt above the hard ground which helps minimalize rider injuries when they are bucked off the animals.

Thank you Federica.

Thank you Dahlia.