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I made the switch from film photography (many, many years ago) to digital last year. I have really enjoyed what you can do with a modern digital camera. This site is a great resource for information and help. It's also a great way to show off, I mean share, your photos.

The colorize filter is very iffy. What looks like a solid dark blue or black dress in B&W will end up various shades of dark blue to maroon. There are sections of a scene that end up gray versus the color assigned to other sections of the same object without any perceptible delineation. I am...

No, I didn't. Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. I'm sure that since the algorithms must try and differentiate between particulars of the original image, and defects from age, damage and poor photography when the picture was taken, there certainly are times when substantive, and...

I've played around with a few more old photos. Some do much better than others. Here's one of my mother. Before: It's in pretty good shape, but very soft and lacking in resolution. Here it is after running through the old photo restoration. And just for fun, I ran it through colorize...

Yes, I had read a couple of reviews complaining of them being stiff. I also read a few that disassembled and regreased them. I'm fairly handy, so I figured I could fix that if it were a problem. Right now I find the tilt to be very smooth and easy. The pan is very smooth, but seems a tad...

It's the Neweer "Professional" model. Amazon Yes, it's not one of the high end gimbals. I mounted it on my old Bogen 3021, and put the 200-500 F5.6 Nikkor lens on it with my Z5 and adapter. I had to play around just a little with the placement of the arca swiss style mounting plate. Got...

There is nothing wrong with using the scene modes. I would say that it's a good idea to keep an eye on what the camera is doing and make inputs as necessary. I find that it is easier to monitor and change when in aperture, shutter or manual mode. YMMV Just like driving a manual transmission, it...

My understanding of the scene modes is they affect exposure only. They will choose what the camera decides is an appropriate combo of aperture and shutter speed, weighted toward the type of scene selected. You can adjust exposure post processing, although there are limits. I normally consider I...

I'm with Fred on this. I have Lightroom/PS. They are great programs. I don't use the cloud, I just export them to my hard drive organized by location and date in different folders, with a couple kitchen drawer folders for times I just take a couple shots instead of an outing with lots of pics...

Whatever system you end up using, be sure and have backups. My daughter lost a lot of her pictures this year when her hard drive crashed. I'm sure you know this, but it's easy to get complacent about backups.

Well, to be honest, PS did almost all the work.

If you look closely you can also see a lever action rifle, probably a Winchester, propped against the cabin wall, next to the lynx pelt.

He was born in the late 1890s and would have been around 20 when drafted. Hard to pin down his age from the photo, but around 20 fits. The copy I have has an overlaid criss cross pattern. I'm wondering if it was stored with cloth, or something else in contact and it put a pattern onto the...

Well, he was working as a cowboy there when he was drafted for WWI. They sent everyone home after he had been there a few weeks due to the Spanish flu. Everyone in the family says this was taken around the time he was drafted. Kodak introduce the Brownie in 1900, so it's quite possible that was...

This is the scan of a photo. I am sure that the photo I scanned was a photographic copy of the original. It's likely my dad made the copy in the 60s or 70s, and the original was either lost, or is somewhere in a relative's closet. I would love to get a hold of the original, it is a really neat...

Here is the result from running it at 100% enhancement, and 100% facial enhancement. No other edits made. There are only a few options to choose from with this filter. I might try backing off on the facial enhancement and see how it compares. I think the face in the first iteration, and the...

I assume you used topaz on those. It really took the first photo up a notch. I need to play around with the filter in PS. The enhancement slider was only on about 50%. I haven't tried it on higher enhancement due to it taking a while to process, and I've had a couple of crashes. I may not have...

OK, I was able to get the picture that failed to work. I had done some work on the image in Lightroom, so I found the original unedited file and ran that. It worked. Wasn't as good as I hoped, but a definite improvement. Original: My grandfather working as a cowboy just prior to WWI...

I finally installed Photoshop yesterday and have been playing around with it. While looking for tutorials I ran across a reference to this filter. It's a beta, but I wanted to try it as my wife is into genealogy. Good news and bad news. I tried it on three photos. It failed on two of them, but...