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I love the low level of noise at higher ISO's on my D600, but I have to say I love it even more with the use of the Nik Dfine 2.0 noise reduction tool. I was shooting some street performers last night at Bethlehem Musikfest and as I processed them this morning I was once again blown away by the...

We brought Mom back to NJ on Friday for my Dad's burial (tomorrow). We live in the rural NW part of the state, and this week was our local county fair, which feature a hot air balloon launch on weekend evenings. My Mom has always loved them, and when we were growing up in the central part of...

Read this yesterday and am looking forward to the details behind this. I'm guessing "free" would be for the original owner and not on used equipment, but if it is on any Sigma lens then these guys are making a huge play against both Canon and Nikon. I have yet to own a Sigma lens that I wasn't...

As mentioned in my 365 thread my Father has been dealing with some health issues. This morning his heart gave out on him and he passed quietly from this life. I'm thankful that my brother and I were able to spend time with him this past week and a half, and that he didn't suffer long. I'm...

Bethlehem Musikfest is coming up in just over a week and since I sold my 28-300mm earlier this year I find myself woefully unprepared for it in the lens department. I've been convinced for some time that while the 70-200mm f2.8 is an amazing lens, the weight and cost just don't make sense to me...

Kodiak, I absolutely understand what you're saying, and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out precisely what I wanted to show in these photos, which ultimately became the intricacy of a newly emerged creature. Let's use the bottom photo as the example for discussion purposes since this is...

I posted one of these on my 365 Thread, but I thought it was worth posting as a set. We had a sextet of Black and Yellow Swallowtail Caterpillars invade our herb garden two weeks back. Five of them disappeared, either entering the food chain or wandering off to pupate somewhere we couldn't...

It's not just you, Marilynne, there's no overlap that I can find. A quick play in Photoshop and I could sort of do it manually. If I had full res and time I could make is so it blended almost perfectly, but there's no way it would do it on its own.

No, you don't get the full warranty, but you will likely never deal with the oil/dust issue, and if you fork over an extra $10 for the VIP membership you'll get a 15 month warranty on this bad boy. This is one smoking deal!! Refurbished Nikon D600 DSLR Camera Kit with 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED...

Does anyone here us custom camera profiles for their RAW file processing with Lightroom 5 and/or Camera RAW 7.3? My brother profiled my D7000 for IR and sent me the profile. I've added to the camera profile folder as instructed in the Adobe forums but it doesn't seem to be picking it up when I...

When in doubt go rule of thirds and stick that boat on the line of the right 1/3 quadrant and crop from the upper left until you get the clouds forming the boundary for the bottom third (ignore the stuff you scribbled - you want that there).

These things come up all the time, and get answered repeatedly, so perhaps a sticky with articles relating to how FX and DX are different is warranted, either here or in the Learning Photography forum? This is a well explained synopsis on the differences you can expect between the two types of...

Elsewhere in this forum I posted a review of my MeFOTO RoadTrip tripod (which I love). A couple days later I get a nice email from Marisa Gertz, who writes a blog for their website, thanking me for the review and asking if I'd be willing to be the subject of one of their photographer blogs. I...

Here's a screenshot from another thread. When I open it, it goes directly to the first unread thread, and then refreshes and sends me to the bottom of the page. I scroll to the top and the first 5 posts are gone (it says Displaying 31-55, and starts with post #36).

It seems that I'm having an occasional issue when I view older threads, even those I've never read. When I click on the thread it opens up to the first post, but 5 seconds later, with the first auto-reload, the first several posts under the thread disappear and I cannot go back to #1. I reload...

Saw this posted on Nikon Rumors this morning. An 18-35mm fixed f1.8 is pretty freaking amazing, particularly when you consider it's under $1000 (B&H has it listed at $799 pre-order). Works with the Sigma's USB Dock, so you can fine tune it to your camera. I've gotten out of the DX game, but...

...for IR Conversion!! I debated long and hard over whether to do this. Having heard some minor horror stories regarding being able to set White Balance with Nikon bodies I've been hesitant. But after reading this article on a D7100 IR conversion I traded emails with both the author and the...

Nice write-up by the folks at PhotographyLife.com. A lot of people ask about which software they should buy and this write-up does a great job pointing at the strengths and uses of each. There's also a comparison of PS and PSE on the site which drills down nicely into whether or not you need...

Just went to edit my first image in LR5 and when I went to send it to Photoshop I get the following message... Like all Adobe error messages, it's absolutely unclear as to what my choices mean, and worse yet, there are no updates that I can actually apply that are available yet. At least...

If you like to learn by looking at what others have done, there's a thing called TEN Collection where 10 artists go through 10 Photoshop artworks in 10 months, and on one day each month (the 10th) you can download the PSD file royalty free. This will allow you to look at exactly what this guy...