I finally “cut the cord” with my cable provider. One of the most frustrating things I do is take the shot of a lifetime and get nothing but tail feathers.
The second is trying to find something to watch on one of 200 channels. Sorry, but I am tired of paying to watch “Cup Cake Wars”, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”, “Little Housewife’s of Atlanta” and Bulgarian soccer. And I am paying to the tune of about $100 a month.
I also cut the landline. Don’t need it, the security system is cellular and all I got on the landline was 10 robo calls a day.
So now I have...
Netflix $10 a month.
Amazon Prime comes with my membership.
Hulu $7.99 a month.
Curiosity Stream $2.99 a month.
Grand total $21 a month for almost 500,000 movies and TV episodes.
Just wondering if anyone out there has done the same.

Two exposures - one for the window and one for the rest of the room. An XRite color checker passport will help with balancing the colors of the light - you can either blend manually or if your skills with Photoshop aren't up that level yet, you can always use ACR or Lightroom HDR merge.

Here is a detailed video on the ColorChecker. Pay particular attention to the dual-illuminant mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDtebpvATzc

Or you pick a time when the window light is less intense. In the old days we used blackout panels on the windows, but I used a small crew of 4 people to do a high end architectural shoot.

The blackout panels are still used extensively by film companies doing movie shoots.

Well I'm baffled! I have been using my 800mm mirror for about a year, Taki g great pictures! Although the construction quality of this lens needs improvement it does normally work well. I was at a "long boat" meet yesterday of Prep schools and thought I would surprise them with photos of the meet! I had nothing but trouble! My D5200 just would not work with the lens! All I got was white outs! When I came home a bit dejected, I went out in the back yard and took some good shots! I am thinking that the combination of bright sun and water did me in. I tried every setting of iso the camera offered (100-6400) but it didn't matter. Any suggestions? They are coming back in a few weeks! This is not a paying job, this is for the kids!

The mistake was in putting the film in checked baggage. ALWAYS CARY FILM ON IF YOU CAN'T INDEPENDENTLY SHIP IT HOME.

Baggage scanners for carry on luggage use lower energy xrays and MUCH lower doses to check for banned items. ZERO chance of exposing or over exposing your photographic film.

Even newer checked baggage scanners don't expose your film. But there is some older equipment in use that MAY cause a problem.

So if you have film and can't mail it home, carry it on, and let security do a hand search.