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OK, so this may make the most sense to me, so help me to understand. When you say, "Create as many videos as you want if you do not upload them", what constitutes an "upload"? Is it a share to social media or is it the rendering of the video file either to social media or your hard drive? If...

Folks, Do me a favor and go into your Creative Cloud desktop app and tell me what you see listed in the "Included in your Subscription" section. Specifically I'm wondering if Premier Rush is listed there with an INSTALL button or if it's in the "Trials" section below it. For me it was in the...

I've been doing a musical project with a friend from the UK. He sent a video of him playing a song and asked me to shoot video of me as I add several instruments to it. He's assembling them in Adobe Premier Pro and I contemplated biting the bullet and giving it a try. When I went to price it...

ISO 4000 and 1/1000s in low light for the first. The D500 did its job locking in and the 500mm f5.6pf is a brilliant lens, but the rest is only possible because of how good Topaz Denoise AI is, as I said in this thread. I have one that was at "bird settings" (1/1600s f7.1) that's about a stop...

If the last 3 days are any indication we've got a Red Fox living somewhere nearby (possibly in the field behind our house), and our bird and squirrel infested backyard seems to be on its daily food patrol route. I've occasionally seen it dart across the yard behind an anxious squirrel but for...

The key to adding blur is first understanding how it works as each is different (motion, Gaussian, lens), and then to know how to avoid applying it to the areas you don't want it. For that you need really good masking. When I have time I'll put something detailed together, but in the meantime...

Here ya go... After this I saved it and cropped in Lightroom and applied a few more color and lighting updates to finish.

And for the curious, this is what I mean by weird pixelization - you can see it toward the tip of the nose... What I do here is just mask out the pixelated area and bring back the original for just that area (it would be nice if you could somehow do this in the tool as it's applied). Also...

I've said it here before but I wanted to once again mention how good Topaz Denoise AI is. Yesterday, as I was sitting down to some Corned Beef and Cabbage, I looked out the kitchen window and saw a Red Fox coming over the rock wall in the backyard. I jumped up, grabbed the D500 with 500mm pf...

Been a while. Here's a pair of Burrowing Owls from Cape Coral, FL that I shot in 2016. Didn't have the D500 yet so it was shot with the D750 so I lost some of the focal length of the 150-600mm here. I believe I tried processing it back then and wasn't happy with the results, but a friend...

With a mirrorless focusing with the sensor your days of focus tuning are indeed done. Nikon's yet to make one that'll keep up with my D500 for birding, but when they do I'll be looking to switch. Wanted to dig into some of my 300mm + 1.7x images and see what I had. Some of them are real sharp...

So a couple of things. First, you're wide open at f6.7 so if it's gonna be soft with the 1.7x it's going to be there. But these really aren't that bad. I was using the 1.7x on rare occasion with the 300mm but I just wasn't crazy about the details I'd lose so if I put a TC on it would be the 1.4x...

Not quoting but I'll try and tag. @hark, Nikon doesn't make a "professional" DX camera. Seriously, my D610 is worth more NPS points in terms of bodies than my D500's. It's ridiculous that it's not categorized as one because it is, but there you have it. Canon's equivalent is (I believe) the 7D...

Went in the other direction this time. Movin' Up To The Big Kids' Table

As the kids say, or said at some point before I got old, "It's been a hella busy day". So I haven't had time to dig deep today. But I did happen upon an image that plays into the whole hawk identification thing that @hark started. This is an adult Sharp-shinned Hawk (on the newel post of a...

Here are 3 more that should give you a good look at it from a few sides... We live right about at the top of the Red-shouldered Hawk's year-round habitat, though with temps warming those lines are shifting, but you can definitely find them throughout the lands east of the Mississippi...

First off, yes, I changed my forum name since Backdoor Arts is how I (almost) do business and the old name doesn't really mean much 7 years down the road. RIP the Backdoorhippie. OK, so what is this? It's a combination of a commitment to myself to actually finish processing photos that have sat...

So Nikon announced the D780 today. I've been shooting with the D750 since it came out and from what I'm seeing there's not a lot here that makes me say, "Wow, I need to upgrade to that!!", that wouldn't have already seen me spend the same kind of money on a Z6/7. Even in their promo materials...

@mikew or anyone else out there with this camera, a friend of mine just picked up a Z50 and let's just say that she's tech challenged. She's looking for good tutorials on the Z50's focus modes as well as videos/articles on how best to set up the camera. I could walk her through some of it over...