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Looking at the sample image, It is not at all apparent that this is anything other than nine different geese. We can only take your word that there were only five geese, with some photographic trick to make it look like there were more. It seems to me that an important element of...

This was not at all an easy challenge to come up with anything to fit the theme. I'm not completely happy with my entry, but it seems that this time around, just having anything to enter that can be argued to fit the theme puts me ahead of everyone else so far. So, here's a multiplicity of...

This is probably one of those items where there's really not any good reason to buy the Nikon-branded version over a cheap aftermarket knockoff. Some time last year, I had the fortune to catch a great deal on a Targus-branded remote, that I guess was being discontinued. Nominally priced at...

The settings are stored in the EXIF data in each picture. In fact, since you've put them on Flickr, you can easily see these settings there. Just open up one picture, scroll down, you'll see a picture of a camera, along with a bit of text stating that it was a D3300; and below that, the other...

When I saw the theme title, all I could think about was the classic Cole Porter song; mostly the first verse. In olden days a glimpse of stocking, Was looked on as something shocking. Now heaven knows, anything goes… Thanks to my wife, @Seanette, for providing the legs to fill out the...

Here's where your camera focused. And there, I think, is your problem. You're using Auto-area mode, in which the camera tries to decide what you want it to focus on, and in this case, it chose foolishly. I suggest that you set it to single-point focus mode, and make sure that point is on...

If this is the same 18-55mm lens that came with my D3200, then it doesn't even have an infinity focus mark. And worse, if you set it to manual focus and turn it all the way in that direction, it actually goes past infinity; unlike all my very old lenses, where the hard stop is at infinity. Out...

On my D3200, at least, and I would assume the D3300 behaves the same, “sport” mode defaults to the “continuous” shooting mode rather than the “single frame” mode. If you hold the shutter button down, while in this mode, it will keep shooting as fast as it can. The second button from the...

Second Entry. Stars In Her Eyes…

Last December, as I was taking some pictures out my front door, with my ancient Vivitar 85-205 mounted on my D3200, and intending to make an adjustment to the tripod, I hit the quick-release lever by mistake, sending my camera and lens crashing to the hard floor below. Aside from some...

To add my own attempt to help someone make sense of all this. A term that I only ever recently heard was “exposure triangle”, referring to the three parameters that set the overall exposure level in a camera—Shutter speed, lens aperture size, and film/sensor sensitivity. For a given amount...

I haven't had any such sort of problem with models. For this model tank, for example, although it can move pretty well, there's no problem getting it to stay put to be photographed. This model submarine was a bit tricker, since it was in water and tended to drift slowly, even when it...

You can even see that with a good set of binoculars*. I even have some pictures I took with my camera, where the nebula is discernable. Not so much in this one, as it was very low in the sky, and somewhat lost in the light pollution. I wouldn't say that that's the most interesting thing...

The Constellation Orion. I'm not even going to try to figure out the size of the entire constellation. My main thoughts are with that reddish star, near the left edge of this picture. That's Betelgeuse. It may not look like much, in this picture, but it is one of the largest stars known...

First Entry. Look at the shape of the catchlights in her eyes…

And entry #3, also from William Land Park…

Entry #2, also from William Land Park…

Entry #1 No beach, anywhere near me, and no real vacation, but today, I went to William Land Park, and took a bunch of pictures. This is the closest to what I had in mind as an entry for this challenge…

Here's the proof. First, a picture as my D3200 created it as a .JPG, and next, an HDR image created from just that one same shot, using the method that I described above. In the first image, you can see that there is detail lost in the highlights, near the upper right of the structure, and...