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Vultures are by far the most common raptor I see flying. But they also are soaring at the highest altitude of any bird except migrating geese. Red-tail hawk is nearly as common but typically observed perched on utility poles. The spot to photograph turkey vultures in southern Wisconsin is Lodi...

I mostly stay aware that setting things to the extreme maximum or minimum will drop the quality or performance in some way. I especially might try to avoid lowest f-stop at maximum zoom. But sometimes you have to do it.

I think you have reinforced there are infinite ways to photograph a scene, and dozens that are good. I cannot say there is a bad one.

There is an infrared LED on the "front" of the remote. It should be pointed to the camera to operate. If you set the camera to LiveView, the rear LCD screen will be what the sensor sees. So aim the remote LED at the lens from the front side and look at the rear screen. The LED should light up or...

Troubleshooting requires starting with the ridiculously stupid things and move down the list getting progressively more expensive for repair options. We here only have the 2 sentences you wrote to work with. So given that... Is the IR sensor in front of the camera blocked in any way? Perhaps...

It is likely from the combining of the 2 images. The starless version is very detailed. Trying to tame down the number of stars visible in the overlay forces a higher-contrast to things.

I have been watching videos for processing by removing the stars with Starnet++. I revisited my image of Andromeda from December. I added Starnet into the process. I had to move the operation to my laptop PC as the CPU in my main PC is too old to handle Starnet (discovered the hard way). So this...

Did you attempt to push the shutter release button yet? I would try that 1st then try removing the battery and press-hold the shutter-release for 30 seconds to get the capacitors to discharge. Then put a charged battery back in and try pressing the shutter again if needed. That is about as far...

I was already wondering with the first photo what it would look like in sepia-tone. I liked what you had to work with better on the 2nd b/w image. So here is me taking liberty. I sharpened some, and I added local contrast. Then I changed to sepia and I like it. I think it bridges the b/w and the...

I can see you went for maximum separation from the background by narrowing the depth of field. But in my mind it would benefit from more depth so the fuzzy branches would look sharper. Then the sharp/soft elements would be the separation. It just looks so soft in the middle of the subject and...

You have competition from Gavin Hardcastle the past couple of weeks. He has been posting videos from a trip to Texas bayou country.

Bill, I've shared some of my workflow before. I take the "starving artist" approach and only use freeware. I am just a hobbyist after all, not selling anything really. I shoot Raw+JPEG mode and save Raw to card 1 and JPG to card 2. This method can work with JPEG only workflow also. I import and...

I am looking at this device lately. https://www.valoi.co/easy35 It is not so specific with filter threads since it comes with adapters to fit. Comes with a film negative holder (which is what I'm interested in) and a 35mm slide holder is available as an add-on. It has it's own light source...

D3100 user manual can be downloaded here: https://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/products/19/D3100.html Pages 45-46: Rotate the Live View switch on Choose a focus mode with the "i" button at the lower left corner of the back Choose and AF Area mode as described on page 38 Focus (perhaps you...

Shot in the dark since I cannot see your camera settings. Is there a lever or slide switch by the Live View control for changing to video? Perhaps set the mode dial to Auto. Unless that is where you change to video mode. I do know that generation requires you to change from photo to video mode.

And you did it without a bigger camera! 😁

I am home now and have poked around in the Z5 Reference manual (the one that would hurt if you dropped on your toes). The Z5 does indeed support Nikon CLS just like the older DSLRs. But you need need an SB-800 or better to be the master flash in the hotshoe. Looks like Nikon really intended for...

In reply to your SB-400 question, it cannot be used as a master or remote flash with Nikon CLS. I have one of those also that came before my SB-600.

Two options. Both require buying more stuff. SB-600 when it was introduced 18 or so years ago could be controlled remotely via the Nikon CLS which uses encoded flashes from a master flash to control a remote. In those days most DSLRs had a pop-up flash that could be the master. Or the even more...

I can confirm, filter thread is 95mm. You can consider measuring the outside diameter of the lens hood and try a universal-fit telescope filter.