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I bought my first Nikon (D3100) early 2013 and set it to jpeg fine. I did lots of macro with it and ended up with some spectacular results. At the beginning of June, I decided to upgrade to a D3300 and made the decision to buy a big memory card (64GB) and shoot in RAW. I mostly do wildlife...

Why, when I come to the site, do I only see the Sub Forums? If I want to get onto any of the other sections, I need to open my profile and choose one of my previous posts. Has there been a change while I've been away?

Has anyone else here bought a computer from Dell? And if so, how were your dealings with them? My saga begins a few months ago when my 2 HP laptops began developing faults. The one on which I store my photos suddenly lost partitions on the hard drive and I installed a new HD with Linux. Then...

I have been trying all evening to upload a photo but have no istyle or upload icons at the top of the quick or advanced reply windows. However, there are other members who are aqble to upload photos. What is going on?

Why is it that some threads on this forum throw up copyright protection windows whenever one wants to view the full-size image? I've just posted a couple of photos on the "trains" thread and yet it takes 3 attempts to show the photo in full size. If I post my photos at 1024 pixels it's because...

Looking at the various macro/insect/spider threads, I am amazed at how different my photos seem to be from almost everyone elses. I basically don't use flash, as I prefer to use natural light, and do everything handheld. As I take most of my photos from about 2 inches away, I work with ISO at...

100 years ago today occurred one of the first battles of the 1st World War in the small village in which I live. It was never supposed to happen. Lagarde, a small village of around 500 inhabitants (about 200 today) was just inside the portion of Lorraine held by the Germans since the war of...

Do you ever feel ashamed when you admit to people that you only have a D3100? I must admit that I adore telling people I have an entry-level, general public camera that is the cheapest Nikon DSLR you can buy. I just love the look on their faces when they see the macro photos I have taken with...

This is a slightly modified version of a post on the Insects thread to eliminate a couple of annoying details. Lasiocampa quercus. This female Oak Eggar moth was in danger of being steam cleaned and had to be moved. As it was during the day, she was more or less asleep and didn't want to let...

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Okay, not just birds, but any creature you have photographed sitting on your hand. There is something totally amazing and humbling when a wild creature, which it would be so easy to kill, shows enough trust in you to sit on your hand while you take photos of it. These are, or should be...

This should originally have gone in the spiders thread but I put off posting it as I considered it one zebra spider shot too many. However, I just love this little creature and decided to get feedback from the non-arachnophile members. It was sitting on the door of my camper van, hence the...

I discovered yesterday that there is a colony of about 15 bats living inside the wall of the workshop where I work. Being nocturnal, they fly out of their roost at about 10 PM, so in low light. To make matters worse, the entrance is 16 feet above ground level. I climbed up a ladder this evening...

Anything to do with navigable rivers and canals. First up; Arzviller Tunnel entrance, Marne-Rhine Canal, France.

Would it be possible for the mods to either make this thread a sticky in the "Learning Photography" forum or transfer it into 'Wildlife" where it rightfully belongs? It is the most used thread in LP (apart from Flowers, which is a sticky) and I'm sure that newcomers have difficulty finding it...

Is it possible for a computer to create art? Many have tried and many more will follow, installing algorithms to produce random images. However, is it possible for a computer to produce art without any human input at all? Technically no but my laptop met one of those strange conditions generally...

I thought it would be fun to start a thread where people can post photos of the seemingly ridiculous things they come across in everyday life. The sort of things which make you wonder how anyone could have done it and who ordered it in the first place and have you grabbing for your camera to...

For those of us old enough to remember the early days of Photoshop, it was memorable for two things: firstly it was horribly expensive and secondly it had filters. I was first introduced to it when given a pirated version of PS3 in 99 but quickly became legal when I received 5.5 bundled with a...

I suppose like many on the forum, I only want my best shots to be posted and have put aside fairly decent photos because they don't fit the 100% criterium. By that I mean photos which look great at 50 or 66% in Photoshop but which, at 100%, show signs of being out of focus. Are we being paranoid...

I had originally intended to post a blog to celebrate my first 6 months on Nikonites but, as today is somewhat miserable outside and not conducive to constructive photography, I decided to advance matters by one month on this, the 5th "mensiversary" (::what::) of my arrival on the forum. Back...