it's art so whatever works for you....my reaction was that the first one was awkward coming down the stairs seeming to lead with her vagina. most of the rest were for my tastes just a little too frank. The ones I did like were where hints of her sexuality escaped from the shirt, etc. It's a matter of preferred style and these struck me as too much frankness, too little style in the composition. The woman is attractive and the light is fine and all that but it was more of an inventory on the total nude shots than art. Just my two cents worth...and your style works for you then it is valid for you. Less so for me and we each might be right.

really nice. Love the last one especially of the two war birds from wwii

buy a very good quality sony dsc rx10 of the newest model you can afford and a couple batteries and you will never look back. It is slightly more substantial than the lumix fz tho their specs say otherwise. the big difference other than lens length on the fixed lenses is the sensor. I believe Sony's is what they call a stacked lens with much more modern wiring and which avoids some shadowing from sensor tiny lenses which pick up the light guided to it from the camera lens and get it directly to the sensor's processor cells which makes it faster and eliminates some tiny shadowing which makes the sensor give clearer net images than the panasonic. They are close and for casual photos the lens should be the decider. For quality, the sensor of the Sony wins hands down. I own both and have shot about 4,000 images with each. I have the fz1000 stored and carry the Sony rx10ii in the car for constant use. A close decision but the sensor did it when I looked very deeply at the same images taken with the two cameras. Must my opinion.

I have lightly used but new to me sony dsx rx10II and panasonic lumix fz1000. The specs say they are close and two things have after use decided me on which bridge to use. the differences are the lens in the case of the lumix is 400mm..later versions 600mm and the stacked sensor in the sony vs the non stacked sensor in the lumix. they are very close for the same lens zoom on photos and incredibly convenient for all the reasons you already know. However, overall, I prefer the image of the Sony as their stacked sensor gives you a crisper, net better sightly image. The focus speed of the lumix has let me shoot action photos very well, surprisingly well, actually. My nikon D4 and lenses stay home except for truly good photo needs in challenging conditions where the full frame sensor and speed of focus are superb in low light against either. I carry nowaday the Rx10 and for artsy better images that take more time to take since it is manual focusing a Sony a7 with adapter shooting old 35 year old canon fd lenses on it's full frame sensors. FF sensors are definitely better but a ff sensor bridge camera with a 200-400 range single fixed lens would likely be enough to put my dslr's away forever. Both Canon and Nikon are harvesting their dslr tech and only begrudgingly putting the same features into the range finder cameras. Sales of dslr's have plummeted. To buy new, not bridge today it would be a sony a7riii with lenses. I own my last dslr. In the meantime I get some really good images with the bridge cameras, either, but the nod goes to Sony slightly on image quality and clarity and the lens size to the lumix but I shoot the sony considering everything. I am going to shoot an indoors borzoi dog show in May in Gettysburg and will take the Nikon d and lenses for the work but probably also the two bridge cameras for toting around when not shooting the national borzoi specialty conformation show in the ring for candids. They are that good but with a full frame they would be hard to beat and canon and nikon are only doing it to try to catch up with Sony who has already done it with their a7riii or a9.

It sounds like what you really need is to thoroughly understand the interactions of the principles of aperature, lens speed and film speed and how they work with one another manually before you start branching out into sophisticated settings cameras. Many of the top end dslr people and cameras have a couple automatic settings but most, including me, shooting full frame nikon D4's or above and the canon equivilent shoot them with at least two of those plus zoom set and shot manually relying on autofocus and/or auto setting iso as a variable depending on what we are doing. To do that you have to know how all these things relate in detail. You'll learn that by shooting in manual mode and reading. Having someone else give you a set of numbers is just someone else's view of what a form of automatic is and won't let you adjust for what is actually in front of you in my view. You know enough to ask the questions but you might be skipping the knowledge step which I think is very important to do well with any camera you can set manually in part or in whole. My nikon d4 full frame camera must have 50 buttons it seems like and menus of choices that never end. It can get overwhelming but knowing the real basics of aperature, shutter speed and iso plus zoom are the absolute minimum basics to using many of these tools in my view anyway. I sure did not start out that way. Had a 3 x 5 card with the relationships in outline form on them. Now that card is ingrained on the back of my eyeballs after years I think! Have fun and do what feels good to you...I have a nikon D4, sony a7 II shooting canon fd lenses manually, a sony bridge dsc-rx10 mk2 and now a panasonic lumix fz1000ii. the last two I use and carry when traveling including airplanes, suv and my motorcycle. I do occasionally get confused as well as each is slightly different to operate.

you, sir, apparently cannot read the explanation for the photos taken with a bridge travel camera. If I had wanted to shoot it for Sports Illustrated I'd have done it with my Nikon D4 and pro lenses. My objective was quick travel photo and nothing else. Your objectives appear to be not to read and think about what you read. Up to you of course and thank you for your comment. I will give it exactly the consideration it deserves. That will take about 1.4 seconds. Sheesh.

Just below Richmond, va downtown is a place called Rockette's Landing..they have two sand beach volleyball courts and the dogs and I rode there today and I took some photos with my travel camera from above of the women pro's playing beach volleyball. You can probably figure out why I plan on becoming a fan of women's pro beach volleyball! Shot in ten minutes from the street one level above with my travel Sony DSCRX10Mk2 camera. Did a fair job considering it is a bridge camera. These are also compressed. We also visited Osborne boat landing below that on the James R. that flows through Richmond on the way to Hampton Roads and the ocean 110 miles downstream.

Fun to use such a capable travel camera shot on automatic and just lightened it up slightly on post processing.

Pretty good athletes and I approve of the costume they compete in! then we went and watched a family take off for a river ride from the boat landing....

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would be fun but a candid like this is a one off as I was in line with people behind my car...

I had it in the car when I drove through Hardy's (I think it was for a hot dog) and saw this smiling, happy clerk in the window taking my money and asked her if I could shoot her and did. she is so happy and has such pretty colored skin I was sort of fascinated with her. Shot quickly with the P automatic setting let Sony do the work. It's an in between but with good zeiss lens travel camera that is neither top end rangefinder like the sony a7riii or a9 or a top dslr digital but right in between the two. Quite an effective compromise as cameras go if you aren't making your living with photography.

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great clarity and definition with good lighting. I was just drawn to the lower right brighter than the other tooths for some ridiculous reason. It is such a good image and that tooth's whiter than the others on the bottom row just drew me to it as sort of out of synch. In this one case if this were a commercial head shot I would go ahead and photoshop it down to a duller roar so the eye does not really notice it but that is such a petty thing to notice on such an otherwise good shot. In fact, it is natural and her tooth but visually it struck me as slightly discordant and toned down this would be anybody's terrific head shot done professionally. good work either way.

absolutely fantastic photography. Superb job. Some of these shots are just without equal of such a natural thing as these wild animals...great job.

Nice shots...can you imagine the work to piece that whole opening together? I presume it is leaded glass?

that is nice work...as composition goes for the right eye nature is sometimes terrific. Good work.

actually, the fern shot is out in the james river national wildlife refuge so your characterization is quite probably very accurate. good knowledge. the first is a rough grass in my back yard at the edge where it becomes dirt under the trees. I was just trying my new sony bridge camera out...you guys are all quite knowledgeabe on the flora!

nice!