Well here at 8:40 EST I have read 5 of 5 pages of this and nobody mentioned that Angel Adams made great photographs with the tools he had perfected and he will never be replicated. Honor that.

Thanks! Better put than I. I would add that the process you describe be should be fun and rewarding even though it loops forever. The one with camera effect is the principal reason I haven’t purchased a new camera in several years. A new camera would get in the way when I get in the red zone.

[quote=Linda From Maine]UHH Photo Gallery guidelines follow the same curious logic:

"Try to include the specifications of your gear and settings in the post accompanying the pictures. Stating aperture, shutter speed, ISO would be great. Even better would be to also include your body and lens specs. This really helps others learn what settings work in various scenarios."
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In the periodic main photography discussion topics about inclusion of exif in comments, there are many who want and who feel there's value. I am not one of those [/quote

When I got to this topic it was up to page 7 (on my view which has a handful of user ids blocked because they a jerks) before this response. I came back to here to respond because I respect Linda’s opinion and was surprised by her response. I think they print that because is the complete answer to the “How did the photographer do that?” question. Back to the 50’s the list would have been aperture, shutter speed, film and focal length. All the things the photographer selected. Same thing today. Film replaced by sensor size and ISO. (Period.) As in what not how or why. The photographer is totally responsible for these selections no matter how they picked set or why the photographer wanted these particular selections. These published selections are not advertised as a learning tool but I can’t see how they are harmful. They are probably useful for a photographer who is experienced in the art of trading off the three in order to achieve a particular effect and answer a true “How did he do that?”question.

My biggest worry is that many here think that there are some golden settings for a given situation/location. And many think that the settings you need to find are things like mode, auto ISO… and nothing could be further from the truth. It doesn’t matter a bit how you select the aperture, shutter speed and ISO. What matters is the result of the selection. Your camera is just acting as “smart” exposure meter. Auto ISO undoubtedly doesn’t do what you think it does. Just as ISO for digital is nowhere near what ISO is for film speed. But I choose to stay away from that as well avoid the discussion of focus all together. Auto ISO just allows the camera to act like there is a ISO priority mode. Finally, while my late wife was not at all enthusiastic about my hobby she would alway answer THE
question with “The camera didn’t take that picture Jack did,”

I much prefer the second and would suggest darkening the pointy rock between the deck and flowering bush. I find it quite distracting.

I see your WOW! And raise you a MOST EXCELLENT!!!!!!

ViewScan is a most excellent program! The only concern I have with it is I cannot understand how they can maintain such a broad based (hundreds of scanners supported) program and make enough profit to sustain human life. I first discovered it when Nikon gave up supporting my discontinued Coolscan scanner. Their program appears to include all the functionality of the original Nikon program. With Windows from XP (I think) through now Windows 11. Then repeat story with an Epson scanner. Same perfect result. When I bought it the license was good for all updates for a limited time with an option of lifetime options forever. Luckily I paid for the upgrade. Last time I checked the pricing structure was different and more expensive. In order to move the license to a new computer you need the date purchased and a serial number of some sort which, of course, I hadn’t recorded. So I emailed them and they replied where to find them in the register. A couple of years back I bought an Epson V850 flatbed scanner which comes with Epson software and Silverfast software which I installed but when I want to scan prints for example I just launch ViewScan and use it.

Don’t you find it is pathetic that there i nothing more clickable than the definition of a word or phrase. Get a dictionary.

Use PhotoPills

Post exposure is a good rational. I suspect it originated in the film industry. Postproduction is the closest hit from Webster’s Dictionary.

You have hit upon my standard technique. If you get a useless agent just hang up and dial again. Randomly picking agents might yield a winner. At least that is often better that dealing with a robot. In that case adding a stream of profanity to your command “AGENT” can be good therapy. Next step is to dump the vendor. Verizon, I don’t want to buy a *#&$@%g phone! You are out of my life. Of course, if you have to deal with a monopoly you have to probe their system for a crack their defenses. BTW Spectrum, I did not approval your acquisition of Time Warner Cable accounts!

As an email @comcast.net I presume. Then get an Gmail.com account and ignore them reading your email. Or send a link to a cloud account.

You didn’t know that camera manufacturers pay dearly to monopolize a big event? And I doubt the photographers really care which camera they use!

Consider Dumpster or better yet Landfill. Neither smells good so you wouldn’t visit without holding your nose.

I secretly suspect but definitely can’t prove that viewers and CODECs for OS just show a preview that is stored in the raw file. All files raw or jpeg have jpeg previews stored in the file. Even if set to store full sized raw images only the camera does all of its processing in order to display on the screen and stores the raw screen image as a lower resolution jpeg so you can view previous shots on the screen. The camera stores no images within the camera elsewhere. Just as it stores a screen ready thumbnail. I suppose a third party editor could replace the preview with an edited version but that is dangerous to the file format. By policy Adobe will not modify original raw files. A good move.

I bet this is will do it. A while back before, my bromance with my Wacom, I checked that box believing that “precision” would make it easier to control the mouse while editing. And it just went nuts! Precision NOT!