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To me, the moon is much more interesting viewed as a moving object. Attached the D800 to a Maksutov-Cassegrain, making it efffectively a 1,500 mm lens. You can clearly see waves of atmosphere changing the moon's appearance, and some late night birds fly across the moon's face a few times...

Hope you don't mind, but I had a go at your first pic, too. When I blow a shot, I just try to make it look old-timey, as if that were the intent all along.

Here's the AF calibration settings menu. See how the camera is at the bottom, and attempting to move the focus closer to the camera makes it a negative number. If you adjusted with a plus number, you may have pushed the focal point behind your subject. D'oh! I just realized you may have been...

See, even Ansel Adams practiced on still subjects...

I got hit with Cryptowall 3.0, a new strain of "Ransomware" that hijacks your PC until you pay a fine over the internet. I got rid of the virus easily enough, but not until it had encrypted all of the pictures and folders that were on my PC desktop. The idea is that I could pay a $500 ransom...

Gotta keep up with Pentax

The Rokinon (Samyang) 14mm is a manual focus FX lens with 114 degree field of view. In super-wide situations, AF should not really be a consideration because almost everything is focused close to infinity. One weekend at the beach with a bunch of drunk professionals, I pulled out the 14mm for...

A professional acquaintance asked me to shoot some business portraits. He developed a cool web-based app that lets you access your encrypted desktop from any device, any place in the world. I agreed to shoot for free just to get some experience. Please give me your serious constructive...

I can't help with advertising photos, but if they plan to sell on Amazon and other websites like that, you need a totally blank white background. A light box like this will help: MyStudio PS5 PortaStudio Portable Photo Studio with 5000K PS5 or this Impact Two-Light Digital Light Shed Kit -...

Wow, if you've never been to NYC, you're in for a treat. A hot treat in August, though. I'm sure the workshop will know the best places to go, but if you get a chance to go to B&H Photo Superstore, it's a fun experience, just to see how they handle inventory after a sale. Not open on...

I got a used Nikon 105mm 2.8 VR Macro lens off Craigslist for $500, the top of your spending range.

I took a great videography class in Atlanta yesterday. Ray Roman makes these huge cinematic wedding videos. Capture Cinematic Weddings He uses DSLRs exclusively, except on his drone. Even when shooting outside at a beach wedding, he ignores the conventional wisdom of "1/50th shutter speed at...

I shot "ISO-less" last night at a wine bar. It was a very low-light situation. The RAW files interpreted by Adobe were much different than the JPEGs created by the camera. I think I left the camera on ISO 400, subscribing to the theory that it's okay to use gain to push it a little to the...

ETA: (this looks too contrasty once it's posted.) Same idea, just a tighter crop and better levels.

You were right, J-see. Setting the WB manually made a big difference. These shots were made with the same shutter/aperture, but with ISO four stops apart. In ACR, I upped the exposure on the ASA 100 shot by exactly four stops. These extreme crops are essentially identical. Note this only...

Well, J-see, my own quickie experiments don't prove you dead wrong, but they don't prove you right. Here are two shots, from a tripod, shot on Manual at 1/50th of a second, F5. One was shot at ISO 100 (and thus very underexposed in every way that we usually mean it), and the other was shot at...

Okay, I understand your point, J-see. You say that, shutter speed and aperture being the same, it doesn't matter what ISO you shoot because for higher ISOs the camera is only doing a software adjustment, and you can do that same thing in post. In fact, your computer processor and software are...

Can you recommend a good quality waterproof bag to store light camera gear (one DSLR and large lens)? I get the chance to sail from NC to Bermuda on a 34 foot boat in May. We did this 12 years ago, and it was great, but last time we ruined several cameras that got hit by salt spray. (One...

I saw this in another Nikon forum, and it worked so well it's worth sharing. I have the Focal software, and it's slow to use and a hassle to set up. For this method, you don't even need to take any pictures. For beginners, high-end Nikon bodies have a feature in the set-up menu called "AF...

It's a gloomy Sunday here, so I got this idea from Googling "Rainy Day Indoor Photography Ideas." To give you a sense of scale, the water drop is coming out of a standard eye-dropper. New (to me) D800 with the Nikon 105mm 2.8 macro prime and a Mecablitz speedlight on-camera pointed directly at...