Caysnowman Loc: MN & SC

Great work again Linda. I especially appreciate the long shots showing what the subjects appeared like with minimum zoom. Would you consider posting a shot or two without PP? You have a special talent in that area; just curious what the shots look like "nakkid" :?

Thanks

Bill

titan1 Loc: SC Lowcountry

What is chromatic abortion???

CHOLLY Loc: THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE!

GOOGLE is your friend.... :mrgreen:


http://photographylife.com/what-is-chromatic-aberration

;)

titan1 Loc: SC Lowcountry

NOPE! that's not it....Google isn't your friend....:mrgreen:

runakid Loc: Shelbyville, TN

Your camera is not "recognizing" [don't know the correct term] your lens. You can't have been shooting at f0. I ad the same problem with my first D7000. ISO 400 should do the trick.

Dan L Loc: Wisconsin

You could also try to adjust your diopter, how I adjusted mine was to defocus the lens in a clear sky and then adjust the diopter and look through the view screen watching the focus markers get sharper or out of focus. Next in the camera's menu enter the specifics of the lens. You will have to find the appropriate location for this. Setting your white balance if you do not have a grey card with you, you can do what I did for a summer of shooting is to use a grey bark tree. I would fill the frame of the tree make sure exposure was within a couple of clicks from zero, sun at my back or off slightly so I didn't cast a shadow and then take the white balance picture. Just a note this process did not work for me at dusk. I had to take the white balance picture in the shadow of the tree. Since you have a tripod you can use live view when shooting the picture and enlarge the LCD screen to check for sharpness and as others stated take a few pictures under exposed and over - use your multiple exposer compensation. Plus your ISO is way too high, 200 to 800 is good. Experiment - have fun! and shoot raw files.

Bruce with a Canon Loc: Islip

enviable capture!

runakid Loc: Shelbyville, TN

But if you see her data - it shows F0. There is something going on between the camera and lens.

runakid Loc: Shelbyville, TN

But if you see her data - it shows F0. There is something going on between the camera and lens.

RBSinTo Loc: Toronto, Canada

I'm at a loss to understand why less knowledge is considered a virtue, and why you would think that something like the f16 rule has somehow become obsolete in the "Digital Age".
I was taught it back in 1977 when I first started photographing, and have used it, along with the meters in those of my cameras that have them, and my hand-held incident meter up to the present day.
I should explain that I don't use Digital Cameras but rather manual focus Film cameras including meterless Nikon rangefinders from the late 1950s, and a meterless Nikon F from the early 1960's. I do have meters in my F2, FG, FM-2 and FA bodies and depending on the light use them, but much of the time I'll determine exposure using the f16 rule, unless the lighting is unusual.
As for using it in the Digital Age, I find it is a good check to ensure that camera settings are what one thinks they are.
Not too long ago I was about to take a photo using my FA in aperture-priority mode in bright, sunny conditions with an ISO of 100 and an aperture of 5.6 (which should have resulted in the meter selecting a shutter speed of 1/1000th (+/-). However, the camera indicated the shutter speed to be much slower, which I immediately knew was incorrect, and after checking my settings discovered that the camera strap had rubbed against the ISO ring and had changed it to a lower value. I made the correction and got the shot and the slide came back properly exposed.
If nothing else, this would be of value even to those shooting with the Latest and the Greatest Space-aged Digital bodies, as a check that settings were what the photographer thought they were.
Besides, with all the complicated inards to today's cameras whose to say that one couldn't find themself in a situation where the meter didn't work but the other functions did.
Knowing something about calculating exposure just might save the day.
More rather than less knowledge to me is never a bad thing.

mrjcall Loc: Woodfin, NC

An extensive treatise on exposure, but your egret photo highlights are totally blown out. Perhaps if you care to share your originals we would see otherwise, eh? :shock:

ImageCreator Loc: Northern California

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JOEADDOTTA Loc: Rotonda West,florlda

Set the camera to shade and drop the iso to 100.........Try it.