Search results

Our county closed the county parks with our township following suit closing the township parks. Thankfully the township reopened township parks but are still trying to stress the importance of social distancing. This was from yesterday.

This is getting to be a royal pain! Today I stopped at the park looking for a few birds. Saw some robins, red-winged blackbirds, and geese. Almost everything was in focus like this image. This didn't even require PCC shake reduction which has been standard since the problem began. The I stopped...

No, I haven't done that yet. I've used the exact same settings as when it first arrived. This is from the very first time I used it. And in the one below, I opened up all the way. It still shows a great deal of detail. But lately I've been discarding almost everything I shoot with it even...

I am very disappointed with this 1.7x teleconverter. Today I used it to photograph the Blue Angels - although they were pretty far away. All of the images wound up being very soft. A little bit of a crop to this image along the same lines as other crops I've done. Not even Shake Reduction could...

Every once in a while, the mods get a prompt for a new thread by a guest. Usually that means a member hasn't logged into their account. Please be sure to log in before you post new threads. We don't approve threads by guests even if you are bonafide member. Since we aren't given any member info...

Hey, Jake. I pay $9.99 and this is what's included with my subscription.

Do you have some type of rocket blower? This one is good because it has a filter on the back end to prevent sucking in dust. Your spot might come off just by using this type of blower. Be sure not to insert the tip inside the body. There are online videos on how to use them...

Photography Talk posted a video about the app My Sunset and how it factors in weather conditions to possibly come up with better times for sunrise and sunset photo ops. Of course it isn't going to be 100% accurate, but looking at the forecast over the next 6 days, Friday morning at 6:18am might...

#1 NOT an entry - just want to get the creative juices flowing. Macro and close-up photography with a larger aperture and longer focal lengths lend themselves very well to Selective Focus (blurred background bokeh). With macro, the closer you are, the more you can stop down and still have a...

I don't know if it is all of your images, Marilynne, but this one from the gallery has EXIF embedded into the file.

Pennsylvania Magazine is having a photo contest - the submission deadline is April 15th. @jdeg @Eduard @BackdoorArts not sure if you have anything you'd like to submit. https://pa-mag.com/2020photo/

Just read this on FB - the Nikon School is offering their online classes for free for the month of April. I attended one in person over 20 years ago and felt it was a valuable learning experience. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/2/21204243/nikon-free-photography-classes-april

I don't know how many of you have seen the photos circulating on Facebook of the squirrel sitting at a picnic table, but someone made this for Wilson. I just set it up this afternoon and already it is in use. https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/guy-builds-tiny-picnic-table-for-squirrels

Due to my frustration yesterday, I guess I hadn't looked through the entire folder of images very carefully. At some point, I vaguely remember changing my settings - one of which was switching to AF-S with single point. That made a noticeable difference although there were still a few photos...

I am still trying to identify the cause of the soft focus. Today I had an amazing opportunity to photograph a red-tailed hawk with its prey. I was literally 20 feet or so away and shot well over 100 images. I'm lucky if I have 5 in focus enough to salvage. This image is cropped quite a bit. It...

*Not an entry* Several parking lots for essential stores have latex gloves and wipes strewn all over because people won't take them to a nearby trashcan. :mad:

This morning I was about to add some peanuts to the squirrel feeder when I looked out the window. Not sure if this squirrel is Wilson, but it stayed like that while eating. Instead of sitting on the platform and dropping the shells outside the feeder, it is leaving the shells inside. Below is...

I'm still trying to identify the cause of my slightly soft images. Even when shooting a stationary subject in continuous (before my buffer fills), most images in the series seem to miss focus. I'm lucky if 1 in 10 photos is in focus. It definitely isn't the camera body. This happens on 3...

"Composition" Despite our current situation in today's world, this was going to be my topic anyway. You can choose your own genre of photography (macro, landscape, wildlife, etc) and shoot any subject you choose. When you post an image, you MUST state a Rule of Composition you used when...