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Congrats to the winners - and kudos to @cwgrizz for stepping aside since there was a 3-way tie. :encouragement:

@STM would you please edit your post and list the EXIF? At a minimum, the date and camera model - and if possible, the aperture and shutter speed. Thanks!

"Shapes" Please vote for your choice of this week's Weekly Photo Challenge theme. The voting round will remain open for 3 days. In the event of a tie, the Weekly Photo Challenge Team will select a final winner. The winner of each challenge will select the topic for the next challenge...

And unfortunately that seems to be true. While it works well in some situations, it is unreliable especially for subjects further away. What I hadn't realized is my first photos with this combo offered me subjects that were somewhat close. But when I went back through images taken after getting...

Here is one from yesterday's outing with the 300mm f/4 PF coupled with the Nikon 1.7x TC. No cropping was applied. I was less than 15 feet away so my depth of field is less than 1" - which is why the feathers on the far side are blurred. Was aiming to keep the feathers in the foreground in...

By the way, here is one of my car photos that was hilarious. I rotated the CP filter, and much to my surprise, the windows suddenly became multicolored. I showed the image to the owners. They said this is a genuine racing car, and the windows are made out of something more like Plexiglas. Part...

Twice deleted, @STM - maybe you tried to edit it but clicked the wrong button? :confused:

I even went out one last time with the 300mm f/4 PF and the 1.7x TC, but almost everything was out of focus. So I swapped out the 300mm f/4 PF for the 300mm f/4 non-VR lens coupled with the TC. Wow, it is heavy compared with the PF. Since there isn't any VR, I made sure to increase my shutter...

"Food (Pasta)" Please vote for your choice of this week's Weekly Photo Challenge theme. The voting round will remain open for 3 days. In the event of a tie, the Weekly Photo Challenge Team will select a final winner. The winner of each challenge will select the topic for the next challenge...

@Whiskeyman keep watch of how the $100 savings is offered or stated. I was on the fence for a while. Then when the $100 instant rebate was supposed to end by June 30th, I asked Jake if it was a good price. He said yes so after a couple more days sitting on the fence, I decided to get off...

@TwistedThrottle Bob Blaylock you are free to post your images again by tonight's cutoff time. There wasn't anything wrong with TT's entry. It was simply an image without any comment. Bob, you aren't permitted to give your opinion of mask wearing or calling people dumb or stupid who hold a...

Just a heads up that when you hyperlink a user's name, you have to type their names out exactly as they appear on the forum. Otherwise, you might tag the wrong person. @FredKingston @Dawg Pics

Here are a few samples from this afternoon. No Shake Reduction was utilized. With all these, the focus point was on their faces - and possibly recomposed once focus was achieved (and yes, the BBF was first locked then let go to recompose). These first two were pretty good as far as sharpness...

Pics or it didn't happen. :beguiled: Here is one of the last images I shot this afternoon with Sport VR which is my preferred choice of VR. Cropped slightly. I was reasonably close - hence the slight crop. But being close means there is a shallower Dof - so definitely a good test. The only...

Today I went out with my previous 300mm f/4 AF-S (non-VR) and the refurbished 1.7x TC. I increased my shutter speed since this combo is both longer and a decent amount heavier. Both images were taken from the seat of my SUV. Most of the images were pretty good. A couple were slightly soft - but...

Came across the first wind turbine I've seen in our area. Some people have solar panels on their roofs, and even Waste Management (trash company) has a field of solar panels. I wouldn't be surprised to see more of these cropping up. From what I've read, one wind turbine can harness more energy...

All I can say is I really missed this opportunity. :mad: Knowing wildlife is hard to find during our heatwave, I went in search of geese armed with a different 1.7x Nikon TC. Geese happen to be the only wildlife I see when it is so darned hot. So I saw a bird flying overhead with a white head...

Here are two that I decided to process. With the one below, I hit my ISO cap of 4000 because my shutter speed was so high. At times when the ducks were preening, their heads moved pretty fast. This one was in total shade, too. I wound up having to raise my exposure in post processing to...

For the past few months, I've mentioned how my refurbished 1.7x TC coupled with my 300mm f/4 PF was stellar until I removed the TC from my camera before being put back on. Then suddenly my images missed focus - mostly being soft and slightly out of focus. And there was some front focusing going...

Use an aperture that will allow you to have a decent amount of DoF, and focus 1/3 of the way into your scene. There is a paid app for phones called Simple Depth of Field. You enter your camera model, focal length, aperture, and distance, and it will display the amount of feet or meters that will...