Golden Hour Winner!

First, off, I would like to apologize for the mixed-up-ness of this blog lately. As human's we all have our shortcomings sometimes, but still, that is not acceptable. We will try our best to keep things running smoothly, but I make no promises! ;)

We have thought through our schedule again, and we are going to try posting assignments every other week, and on the in-between weeks announce the winners of the previously closed assignment. You will still have two weeks to enter each assignment. :)

Today we will be announcing the winner of the Golden Hour assignment. Rachel will be posting our next assignment so be on the look out for it! :)

This week we just couldn't decide one winner, so we shall have a winner and a runner up!!!

The winner is Emily Grace from Photography By Emily Grace I would encourage everyone to go check out her amazing pictures! :) Congratulations, Emily Grace!!! :D



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The runner up this week is Mary Katherine from This Is Just My Temporary Home!!! Mary Katherine has awesome pictures on her blog, you should definitely go take a look! :) Congratulations, Mary Katherine!!! :D
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Congratulations again girls, these buttons are for you to put on your blogs! :)
-Emily

Winners!!!!!!! :D

I know this post with the winners for the assignment of "Doesn't Quite Belong" and "Coffee" assignment is a little late, but we have been working out different things with the blog and didn't have time! So here we are! Okay, you ready to here the winners?! Are you excited!? The winner for "Doesn't Quite Belong" is.................(drum roll, please?!)
SARAH!!!!! From http://thisismyfathersworld2.blogspot.com/!!! Congratulation Sarah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your picture is hilarious! :) We all love it!!! :)

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Okay, you guys ready to hear the next winner for the "Coffee" challenge?! I sure am!!! Okay you ready?! Here we go! The winner is..............................................................

GRACE!!!!!!!
From http://gracy-girl.blogspot.com/!!!! Congratulation Grace!!! I'm so happy for you!!! :D You're picture was perfect! I mean, you couldn't get much more coffee like!! I mean those coffee beans looks so cool I can almost smell coffee!!! Haha!! Great job Grace!! :D

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And to all the others who entered these two challenges thanks for entering!!! All your pictures were great!! And we love them all!! So thanks for entering!!!!!!!! Well, hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow!!! God bless!!!



A Servant 4 Christ,

Lizzie

Weekly Assignment: Golden Hour

Hello Everyone! I am really excited about this week's assignment, golden hour is one of my favorite times for photography! Golden hour is the hour proceeding sunrise, and preceding sunset, the sun is not harsh, and it produces beautiful lighting for pictures. :)

1. The picture you submit must be taken by you between November 9, and November 23, 2011. The Linky will close Wednesday Nov. 23, so make sure you link up before then.

2. You may only enter one picture per contest, if you have more than one in your post, please specify which one you are entering.

3. If at all possible, list settings used to take it. (Camera, lens, date taken, time (even if vague, early afternoon, late evening, etc), ISO, shutter speed, and aperture.) You can find most of this info in the properties of your picture if you forget what settings you used.

4. Editing is allowed, but if you choose to edit your picture please post the original too. Please tell us what you did to edit your picture, also! :)

5. If you don't have a blog, email one of us (our emails can be found on the 'About Us' page) and we will post it/link it up for you!

Today was another dreary rainy day, so I couldn't take a picture for you all this morning, but to our great excitement, it has now turned into the first snow of this winter!!! :D I love snow!


Since I couldn't get a golden hour picture, I'll post one from my archives, and as soon as I can, I'll replace it with one I take during the next two weeks. :)

I took this at camp in the beginning of October. SOOC.

Camera/Lens: Canon EOS Rebel T2i with 18-55mm Kit Lens

Date/Time Taken: October 8, 2011 Golden Hour

ISO: 400

Shutter Speed: 1/125

Aperture: 4.5

We're working on getting the winner's annouced for the past assignments, so stay tuned to see who wins! 

I hope you all have a lovely rest of the week!

-Emily

Photography, Baking, and My Life

Weekly Assignment: Coffee. (November 3 - November 18, 2011)

Hello there!! Hope you are having a great week!! :)
The assignment for this week is Coffee.
Think about what you want to get across in your shot: coffee as a social time, the aroma, the colors and tones, the process of making it, part of a busy day, etc.

1. The picture you submit must be taken by you between November 3, and November 18, 2011. The Linky will close Wednesday Nov. 17, so make sure you link up before then.

2. You may only enter one picture per contest, if you have more than one in your post, please specify which one you are entering.

3. If at all possible, list settings used to take it. (Camera, lens, date taken, time (even if vague, early afternoon, late evening, etc), ISO, shutter speed, and aperture.) You can find most of this info in the properties of your picture if you forget what settings you used.

4. Editing is allowed, but if you choose to edit your picture please post the original too. Please tell us what you did to edit your picture, also! :)

5. If you don't have a blog, email one of us (our emails can be found on the 'About Us' page) and we will post it/link it up for you!

My Assignment for this week:
Edited. How I edited it is I turned the contrast almost all the way, then I turned the color temperature all the way. So yeah :)

Original.

Well, I hope you have an awesome rest of the week!!! God bless you on your journey towards Him!

A Servant 4 Christ, Lizzie

Weekly assignment: Shadows

hello everyone! :)
Rachel here, So far, my first post... should be interesting! Bare with me while i go along.. :P
The assignment for this week is Shadows.

Rules

1. The picture you submit must be taken by you between October 17 and Oct. , 2011. The Linky will close Oct. 25, so make sure you link up before then!

2. You may only enter one picture per contest, if you have more than one in your post please specify which one you are entering.

3. If possible, list the settings used to take it. (Camera, lens, date taken, time (even if vague, early afternoon, late evening, ect), ISO, shutter speed, and aperture.) You can find most of this info in the properties of your picture if you foget what settings you used.

4. Editing is allowed, but if you choose to edit your picture please post the original too. Please tell us what you did to edit your picture, also! :)

5. If you don't have a blog, email one of us (our emails can be found on the "About Us" page) and we will post it/link it up to you!!!!

Here is my assignment:

 Original

Camera: Nikon SLR D3000
Lens: Kit lens
Edit: I messed with sharpening, contrast, gamma and back light.

My edit. :)

I know you can't really see alot of dramtic changes.. but hey. I don't take alot of photos with the shadow.. haha

Now.. Go and link up!

Thanks a bunch!
[Rachel]

Weekly Assignment: Abstract

Hello there!!
This week's assignment is Abstract.
One item a different shape, size or color than everything else, one person that stands out in a crowd, ect. Use your imagination! This is a creative assignment, but always keep in mind the technical things that make your image a good one!

1. The picture you submit must be taken by you between October 19 and November 2, 2011. The Linky will close Oct. 25, so make sure you link up before then!

2. You may only enter one picture per contest, if you have more than one in your post please specify which one you are entering.

3. If possible, list the settings used to take it. (Camera, lens, date taken, time (even if vague, early afternoon, late evening, ect), ISO, shutter speed, and aperture.) You can find most of this info in the properties of your picture if you foget what settings you used.

4. Editing is allowed, but if you choose to edit your picture please post the original too. Please tell us what you did to edit your picture, also! :)

5. If you don't have a blog, email one of us (our emails can be found on the "About Us" page) and we will post it/link it up to you!!!!

Here is my picture:

In picnik I changed the colors/exposure/contrast around some. 

Canon T2i with 18-55mm kit lens.

f-stop 5.6

shutter speed 1/20

ISO-1600

focal length 55mm

I took this tonight, inside with the lights on.

This is the original picture:

If you have no idea what to take a picture of that's abstract, google it, and you'll find lots of ideas. (That's what I did! :)

Don't forget you can still link up to last week's assignment, if you haven't already! :)

-Emily-

Weekly Assignment: Doesn't Quite Belong (October 12- October 26, 2011)

Hello there!!
This week's assignment is Doesn't have to Quite Belong.
One item a different shape, size or color than everything else, one person that stands out in a crowd, ect. Use your imagination! This is a creative assignment, but always keep in mind the technical things that make your image a good one!

1. The picture you submit must be taken by you between October 12 and Oct. 26, 2011. The Linky will close Oct. 25, so make sure you link up before then!

2. You may only enter one picture per contest, if you have more than one in your post please specify which one you are entering.

3. If possible, list the settings used to take it. (Camera, lens, date taken, time (even if vague, early afternoon, late evening, ect), ISO, shutter speed, and aperture.) You can find most of this info in the properties of your picture if you foget what settings you used.

4. Editing is allowed, but if you choose to edit your picture please post the original too. Please tell us what you did to edit your picture, also! :)

5. If you don't have a blog, email one of us (our emails can be found on the "About Us" page) and we will post it/link it up to you!!!!

Here is my assignment:


Edited one! Now it is kinda hard to explain what I did to edit this photo for it wasn't that much. I just turned the contrast to it's fullest :) haha!! :) So not much I did to edit it :)

Original

Well, I hope you are having a splendid day!! God bless!!

A Servant 4 Christ, Lizzie