One thing I like about barns is usually they have large doors which can lend to very good framing. Lighting can be tough but it sounds like you can be tougher so go at it and have fun with it.

My first camera was given to me. Minolta X700, guess I'm old now. I have given away 4 cameras. I could have sold them or traded up for more gear. There is something about fostering a spark in someone else though that means more than that extra lens to me.

IMO this may be a case of a trickster. Some nefarious folk will use a sharp picture then blur it up stating the before and after are reversed. They do this to get paid for restoring photos. Looking at the example you have used there are shadows on the teeth from where braces may have been. The before does not look like there is enough resolution to gather that. Just my thoughts.

My first pet session. I planned on shooting "Jasper" at f1.4, f2.2, and f5.6 as I wasn't sure with the long nose how the DOF would look. I started at f1.4 and this pet never took a modeling (or Obedience) class and didn't allow for further shooting. My question is does the soft focus nose help draw to the eyes and make this pic work, or should I take some whiskey and advil and try again?

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I always thought I had a focusing problem. Blamed my lenses, blamed my eyes, then learned through UHH about shutter speed and lens length causing camera shake blurriness. Changed my settings and furthered my photography a great deal.

My friend has the Rp and there are settings for Automatic Exposure Bracketing or AEB that does it all in camera I believe. Search the internet for Canon EOS R and EOS RP Auto Exposure Bracketing and watch or read what you prefer. This will give you a HDR.

I typically find sunset pictures boring, but this! This is stupendous!

I had two 8tb Seagate Baracudas that both crapped out about 14 months each. Trying Western Digital now after some research.

Very neat work. I haven't been to Vale Or since 1976 when I lived there and I remember rodeo's and never saw bikers.

I have always shot both eyes open. Mostly as I learned doing candid event photography and have always used the other eye to watch for walking traffic coming into frame.

Glass plate negatives? How large are they?

Sullys Hill National Game Preserve near Devils Lake ND is an often overlooked area with few tourists. The mosquitoes shouldn't be out yet (unless it is unseasonably warm). It could be muddy because the snow usually melts in late April depending on weather.

When I was in High School, more than a few days ago, I was gifted a Minolta X700. I will never forget that. I would suggest talking to a School Counselor and ask if they know an individual student that would cherish it and not pawn it. My friends son was in an Alternative High School and showed some aspirations in photography. He was able to use the school equipment but I donated some gear to the kid so he would have it always at his disposal. Yes, he has won some photography contests. Yes, his outlook on life is less rebellious against the establishment, and yes he is going good places now and not jail.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. (I have tries Easeus btw and it got most but not all) A Christmas miracle happened though and I am saved. I shoot with my daughter and our backup system is we both shoot dual slots and at the end of a shoot we swap cards so I have hers, and she has mine. This shoot she left early due to illness and didn't think we had swapped. I thought we had but she could not find any more cards and I thought I was doomed. She was reorganizing her camera bag and found a card in a pocket she never puts cards in and it was the missing one.

I have a solid backup procedure, or so I thought, and after a series of multiple very unfortunate events, needless to say HELP! I purchased a data recovery program and successfully reinstated over 1500 deleted .nef files. A few hundred of them had the file but no exif data, which I can live with. Unfortunately, about 42 .nef files are unable to be opened. I then got a program, Stellar jpeg repair, which is supposed to go through the data and strip out the jpeg info which is in the raw file. It comes back but has the repaired jpeg at 0 bytes and unopenable. I have emailed them, but what I would like to know from the hoggers is, what recovery programs have people tried and succeeded with. Are there any recovery companies out there worth recommending in case this doesn't work?