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Last-minute entry. I was coming up dry on ideas for this challenge, untill less than an hour ago, when I happened to notice this brightly-colored pipe bender against a dull-blue wall, in my classroom. It just took a bit of boosting the saturation and contrast, and some tweaking of the color...

I say again that the link which you provided earlier says nothing about non-AI lenses. It does not include them “clubbed together” with AI lenses. All the lens types mentioned at that link are AI lenses. It lists the varieties of non-CPU lenses that are compatible with the D3000, all of which...

One thing I have to say on the subject is that the 18-55mm “kit lens” that came with my D3200—probably similar to the one that came with your D5300—is almost completely useless for this application, due to the inability to precisely set the focus manually at infinity. I imagine that the same is...

Re: Weekly challenge aug 13 -20 This is actually a recreation of a photograph I took some time ago. This time, because my wife had the car, and I had to wait for her to get home from work with it, it was dark when I took the picture, which seems to have made for a more dramatic effect than the...

This looks like there's a big field of grass here, doesn't it? Nothing of the sort. This is a grass strip in a parking lot, no more than about three or four feet wide. I was arriving here, just as the sun was coming over the horizon. I crouched down very low, to catch the rising sun in the...

Nikon claims that no DSLR other than their DF model can use non-AI lenses. My D3200, the three lenses pictured below, and I, very much disagree with Nikon on this point. These are all late 1960s or early 1970s vintage lenses, and all of them work just fine on my D3200, albeit with some obvious...

Second entry. When I saw the theme, “colorful bokeh”, I immediately thought of flowers. But then that was immediately followed by the thought that that's what everyone else would think of, and what appears to have been a correct anticipation that flowers would quickly become an overused...

Apparently, the problem with the other thread had to do with how it was named. Let's see if avoiding any non-ASCII characters in the name works around the bug in the forum software that caused it.

See http://nikonites.com/learning-photography/24694-drip%E2%80%A6drip%E2%80%A6drip%E2%80%A6drip%E2%80%A6drip%E2%80%A6.html A baker's dozen of pictures in the OP, were visible while I was previewing before I saved the post. After I saved it, the pictures wouldn't display. The forum produces...

Some colorful wrapped candy, scattered on my bed. Ancient non-AI Vivitar 85-205mm ƒ3.8 Tele-Zoom lens, zoomed to about 140mm. 1/4 of a second, ƒ3.8, ISO 100

I was thinking of this theme as I was driving to school this morning. I had taken notice of a number of abandoned or otherwise obsolete structures along the way, and thought to photograph some of them for an entry to this challenge. Unfortunately, nearly all of them are not anywhere near a...

Allie, stuck indoors, contemplating the world outside, just beyond the window. Taken using my ancient (late 1960s or early 1970s vintage) 50mm ƒ1.4 non-AI Nikkor, wide-open, with a heart-shaped cutout in front of it to shape the bokeh. 1/125 of a second, ISO 100.

If the challenge involves a specified theme, then shouldn't the elements in the image that relate to that theme, at least, be something that was photographed, rather than artificially-generated? In the image under discussion, there's a human figure that was probably photographed, and a...

Here's my entry—not as big a stretch as I thought I'd have to make. I was thinking I might use my car's engine, or an arrangement of a gun and ammunition—things that use fire to operate, but where the fire isn't really apparent. Then I thought of this butane-powered soldering iron. Though...

My tip for photographing birds… Let the bird out of her cage. Though it may be easier to keep her in one place while she is inside the cage, you get much better pictures if she's outside of it, even if you have to chase her around your home a bit to get those pictures. Here, Ava helps me...