I never used it , but I hear Photo mechanic is a great program for the first run through and culling.

Or make your own:)

Free printable cardboard lens hoods



www.lenshoods.co.uk/

OnDSnap,
I have the boomerang bracket for non battery griped camera, canon 5d and 7d.

I find that it is the most elegant solution for a flip bracket that I have ever used.

However, it is over priced (but so are RRS products). You would think for the price they would let you choose a custom plate instead of just the universal one. Also, the bottom plate DOES block the battery door and I can find no way to store the hex key on board as advertised. With that said, I do not regret the purchase.

ProMedia Gear has a web site with video expounding the virtues of the boomerang bracket if you want to check it out.

Your photo may be "a bit soft".
Stopping down a bit will give you more DOF.

You need to use a shorter shutter time, 1/30 at 62mm is to slow. 1/60 or 1/120 would have been better.

Of course you will need to raise your ISO.

But the most important thing, DO NOT SHOOT DOWN ON THE SUBJECT, that's photography 101.

Other than that, you have a nice "snap shot" of a nice old dog:)

ISO 800? It seems to me , if you wanted a "long" exposure you would lower the ISO instead of stopping down further.

One second @ iso 800.
Two seconds @ iso 400.
Four seconds @ iso 200.
Eight seconds @ iso 100.

The same sensor is NOT used for focusing and light capture ( unless perhaps only in "live" view.)

With a SLR camera the sensor is blocked by the "reflex" mirror. The focusing and metering is done on an other "sensor" that is located in front of the mirror, in that pentaprism area.

Elements 14 IS photo shop. The name of the program is "Adobe Photoshop Elements 14". So PSE is a trimmed down PS. PSE has a few less tools, (such as the pen tool), and only works in 8 bit as apposed to 14 or 16 bit.

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I disagree, the glue joint is two 1/4 X 1.50"?end grains, no screws. I would not put my camera on it.

It was not MY intention to criticize his handy work, but I would hate to have his camera go crashing to the ground.

This looks like a waste of money. If you are interested in selling stock photos, go to a stock photography sight,(such as shutterstock.com) and read the tutorials that they offer.

Keep in mind the pay out is usually 25 cents per down load, but hey, a quarter here and a quarter there after a while adds up the a couple of bucks:)

It looks as if this is made out of wood. If it is I would not mount my camera to it. The joint at the "L" in very weak.

That is the one good thing a UV. filter is good for.
You can super glue a scrap of nylon to the edge of the filter. Or just smear some petroleum jelly on the filter, leave the center spot open. The UV. filter can be cleaned with soap and water.

Back in the film days they had all sorts of soft focus filters, a person could go broke trying to find that "Special" one. Now with digital it is easer to do it in post.

Put some peanuts inside of the lens hood, have a very patient person hold the camera, wait for the curious squirrel to check out camera, take the picture:) Do note, the photographer that took the picture is not the person in the photo.

This will keep your hind sight at 20/20:)

It was Photoshoped. It originally read Free Retinal photography. But it is funny.