Posts for: pappleg
May 30, 2019 08:17:52 #
Does your old iMac have a Time Capsule backup device? If so, all you need to do is connect it to your new system and perform a Restore and it will pull the last backup from iCloud. Also, if as often recommended here, you used a separate external drive to store your photos and connect it to your new iMac all of your pics as well as the Lightroom cataloging of same will load. I did force myself before the install to do an extreme cull of my stored pics eliminating dupes and photos that really did not make the cut. Painful but I am glad I did it-went from just over 13k pics to 1,895. Good luck, Pat
May 19, 2019 08:53:00 #
You need a Lightning to USB3 adapter available from Apple or most major electronic stores ($40.00)
Pat
Pat
May 16, 2019 09:09:26 #
bleirer wrote:
They are almost identical on every measurement https://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Compare/Side-by-side/Nikon-Z7-versus-Nikon-D850___1270_1177
Except for the reason I switched to the Z7, weight, the 850 with 14-24 and 24-70 lenses is 6.61 lbs the Z7 with 14-30 and 24-70 is 3.49 lbs. I actually had the 810 and between it an the lenses my backpack weighed in at 22lbs; my current gear is 10.5lbs and at 71yrs there were places I simply could not go with former set-up.
Pat
May 3, 2019 22:17:04 #
fotoman150 wrote:
I like color photos with dark, rich colors and I a... (show quote)
Apr 26, 2019 11:49:12 #
If you really want to know how at least one Nat Geo Photographer "does it" check out The Great Courses website for at least three video courses by Nat Geo pros. Joel Sartore does two of them and they are extensive with 24 30 minute lessons on everything one can imagine. Good stuff!
Pat
Pat
Mar 31, 2019 10:55:20 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
I don't understand what happened but somewhere alo... (show quote)
If your camera has an articulating LCD consider getting a "Hoodman" which is a $40 rubber hood sized to fit 3.2" screens with a magnifying diopter adjustable lens that will give you an excellent view in many situations.
Pat
Mar 29, 2019 10:31:28 #
Here are two concerns identified to me by a computer security professional:
Avoid bulk emails containing manu addresses in either the To: or Cc: mode as many, even most, servers at institutions will invoke spam filters and divert or even delete emails with certain number of addresses (17 is frequent). The more important reason is that hacker troll for emails with a large # of addresses that can be viewed when To or Cc is used as they harvest and try to hack those email addresses. The way around this is to use Bcc: because every address is sent individually and hackers bypass those.
Pat
Avoid bulk emails containing manu addresses in either the To: or Cc: mode as many, even most, servers at institutions will invoke spam filters and divert or even delete emails with certain number of addresses (17 is frequent). The more important reason is that hacker troll for emails with a large # of addresses that can be viewed when To or Cc is used as they harvest and try to hack those email addresses. The way around this is to use Bcc: because every address is sent individually and hackers bypass those.
Pat
Mar 26, 2019 13:06:44 #
GENorkus wrote:
Is that a sling model?
I don't see a model designation on it. It is a single strap that goes across your body front and back and is supported by a single padded shoulder rest about 12" long and at the business end is a small carabiner type swivel to which a camera mount using a 1/4/20 thread and rubber washer. It is both solid and comfortable and much better than the factory straps that hang from your neck. Check them out at blackrapid.com. I believe I paid about $50.00 at a local shop.
Pat
Mar 26, 2019 10:33:23 #
GENorkus wrote:
Just wondering if anyone can suggest a backpack strap that doesn't rest on my left collerbone? Or maybe a pad?
(I just had a Pacemaker installed and have to watch out what rubs there for a length of time.)
(I just had a Pacemaker installed and have to watch out what rubs there for a length of time.)
You can get Black Rapid straps that rest on a single shoulder (right in your case) and the camera will rest against your left hip or side depending on the length you adjust it to leaving your left shoulder completely out of the equation.
Pat
Mar 21, 2019 11:25:25 #
Hi Folks, All of Baltimore is not "The Wire" as seen on HBO. While there are places in town where I would not take my camera and tripod Federal Hill from where I took my pic is not one of them.
Pat
Pat
Mar 21, 2019 10:15:47 #
Hamltnblue wrote:
Hello
I am practicing for my first city night shot. Here are the coordinates for google maps:
39.947228, -75.187457
It's the first time I'll be using long exposures outside of practicing at home.
The camera is a Nikon Z6 with 24-70 F4 Lens.
What would be good starter settings?
Any other suggestions would be appreciated as well.
Thanks,
Jim
I am practicing for my first city night shot. Here are the coordinates for google maps:
39.947228, -75.187457
It's the first time I'll be using long exposures outside of practicing at home.
The camera is a Nikon Z6 with 24-70 F4 Lens.
What would be good starter settings?
Any other suggestions would be appreciated as well.
Thanks,
Jim
Hi Jim, Following the lead of exposure guru Bryan Peterson night cityscapes are well served by metering "the dusky blue sky" by which he means the cloudless sky about an hour or so after full sunset when there is still a hint of blue in the darkened sky. Do not include any light sources. I followed his advice with the attached Baltimore skyline and it served me well. The moon was added as a layer in Photoshop after the fact. Used a Z7 and same lens as yours on 24mm. Try it.
Pat
Mar 20, 2019 10:55:54 #
Did exactly this 5 most ago. Had a 21" iMac wi 8gb RAM from 2011. Last fall I traded my Nikon D810 for the new Z7 and the change from 36mp to 45mp files was equivalent to putting molasses in my system. Using lightroom my slowest process was doing HDRs with three raw files with a base exposure plus two stops over and two stops under. It took 4-5 minutes with the D810 files and moved to 30-40 minutes with the Z7 files. In December I pulled the trigger on a new 27" iMac (the 3.1 Ghz model as I could add up to 64gb memory) . I stuck with the Fusion drive as I never had an issue with any previous Mac (had five over the years) and I did recently add a 2Tb SSD drive used exclusively for my photos. I configured the Mac with only 8Gb memory because I found that I could buy 32Gb of memory online from OWC(Other World Computing) for $325 less than Apple. It comes as 2 16Gb chips and is a piece of cake to install. If you do not already have one I would highly recommend the Apple Time Machine. It is a 2 or 3 TB hard drive with built in WiFi and automatic connection to iCloud. When installed it will automatically back up you entire system, including external hard drives, every ten minutes while operating your system. This item is no longer in production but the rep when I got my new system said Apple still had plenty of stock and still selling new units. Before I installed my new iMac I purged my full system of duplicates and unwanted files and did a final backup. When I set up the new Mac all I had to do was initiate a "Restore" from my Time Machine and in 40 minutes I was up and running. It screams- HDRs that took 30 minutes are now done in 30 seconds! Best move I made in years. Pat
picsman wrote:
Having been an Apple universe consumer I now need ... (show quote)
Mar 8, 2019 10:37:16 #
A major key to portraiture is the eyes, make sure your primary focus is there. You need either supplemental lighting (softened flash) or, at least, a reflector to get some light into those eyes producing a "catchlight" meaning a specular reflection of a lightsource in the eye. As others have noted your model has little or no animation in her facial expressions-every image is closed mouthed which makes for rather flat/boring subjects. Pat
Mar 7, 2019 10:08:38 #
Whenever the film plane(sensor plane in digital) is not perfectly squared to the subject one will get skewing (horizontal) and keystoneing (vertical). Most PP programs can fairly easily fix one or the other but both can be difficult in that most of the time the crop needed for corrections will cut into your main subject. In this particular image centering yourself on the window would eliminate the skew and you would only have to correct for the vertical keystone to make it architecturally accurate. Pat
Feb 28, 2019 09:28:42 #