Thanks! And all this time I have been stepping on the cable release with my big toe. No wonder why my photos are not selling. Many thanks for the tip :)

In all the places you visit, look on their walls for decoration and art. Most have none. Case in point, I like to frequent coffee shops with select brews of the week. Photograph settings that would be appropriate to that business. For fun I photographed coffee using their mugs for sale, their logos, etc. I made a whole professional book of coffee art using MPIX. I have sold a ton of these large prints. If you can mask well and composite as we do in advertising, the sky is the limit.

That is what they say. Those who can't make it in business or an activity teach.

I purchased the 80D for its superb video capture qualities and auto focus capabilities. I have always been a Canon 1D and 5D user, but the tap screen focus feature and the lightweight 2.3 pounds as compared with 7 pounds with my 1DX with battery grip, placing this little camera on a Glidecam is a breeze. With 60 fps capability it will shoot slow motion. I don't use it for stills because of the crop censor, but I hear the ability to tap focus for wildlife is a game changer. Video quality is excellent.

I purchased mine refurbished direct from the Canon factory with the 18-35 lens for $799-one year warranty and not a smudge on the camera. Everything and I mean everything was brand new with 20 exposures on the censor. I picked up a pristine 10mm lens on Ebay for $200 so that I could use it for real estate. It is a crop censor camera with a 1.6 factor so the 10mm lens is the equivalent to the 16-35 full frame censor camera lens.

Waste of time. Every guide throws sand up into the air so that the rays of light are visible from top to floor.

Just bring a camera air brush and a can of aerosol air spray to clean off your camera and lens upon exiting and prior to changing lenses. Shoot with a 16-35mm f2.8 lens for ff censor cameras and 10-18mm lens for crop censor cameras for best results.

My guess is that Windows 7 cannot handle 16 bit Photography.

Same issue with MAC-we need Sierra. Best to upgrade in order to use the new features in LR and PS.

Disagree completely. It is concentrating on where photography is used to sell products and services. Commercial business needs visual images to sell products from the web to printed publications. They are willing to pay a fair price for your services. And your photography better be top notch—50%

Selling portraits, events and weddings, you will not see those people for years.

Having retired from flexible packaging sales, I kept my photography and design business going now full time. Mainly I shoot an average of 2 homes per day at $300 each. As a licensed drone pilot I make $300-$700 per session averaging 3 per week.

People are too cheap these days to buy portraits and prints. I shoot them but they are a pain in the arse. You have to shoot niche markets and provide photos that companies can use to sell product, homes, shopping centers etc. That is the key to making money. Everything else is infrequent fluff that will not pay the bills. Closing my studio was the smartest thing I have done in the short term.

Now that video DSLRs have evolved, shooting commercial real estate and company business commercials are bringing in good money. However you need a lot of experience with Lightroom, Photoshop and Premier Pro to compete and produce quality work.

Exactly—it is just a point and shoot—no knowledge required. I use the cell phone to document the condition problem items, ideas for paintings, and occasional video.

I purchased the IPhone 6s without image stabilization which conflicts with the DJI Gimbal with image stabilization to make video. Indoor quality is extremely poor and outdoor quality cannot compare to the 1D or 5D cameras. And you are right. For the web the images are OK but for TV size they are a blurry mess.

Like I said if you can read..."both approaches may work." Everyone gets lucky sometime. When I am on an assignment or shoot, I can't afford the "get lucky approach." If you are being observed by the client, the more organized you are with planning, the better chance the client will use your services again. If you do not sell your photography or photography services, don't worry about it. The issue isn't worth debating. If you like your photography that is what counts. Selling images is a whole different world.

Last of Sept thru 10 October is usually prime time. Last year they had a warm summer and fall and color was late--as of 7 October color had not changed in Jackson. There are several sights to see, but 3 to 4 days can be filled with several locations. Oxbow Bend, just inside Yellowstone park about 40 miles from Yellowstone, is a must. For about 7 days this location will be in peak color, and it turns color and loses its leaves well before most other locations. It took me 3 visits to get these photos, could have purchased them, but I wanted medium format camera images for large prints.

Schwabacher Landing is a great place to take shots any time of the year, but when the trees are in color, the images are far more unique. There is the standard Mormon Row cabin on Antelope Road that everyone seems to like shooting. For me I found this cabin off the beaten path, but it is nothing I would hang on the wall. I use it as background for models.

Of course there is Yellowstone Park if you have not been there.

If I ever go back, I think I will take the safari tour in the back country. They give you a 600mm lens to use with your camera (Nikon/Canon) and tour the back country for wildlife. After you have been there once, it is a pretty boring location unless you are really after a special image capture yourself. Weather ranges from rain and snow to a sunny 42 to 52 degrees. Bring rain gear for your camera and person, and don't be surprised if it rains or snows your entire stay.

That is the difference between a serious pro photographer and all the rookies and hobbyists out there. And for them a cell phone is certainly good enough — they never sell any photographs anyway.

When working on settings and assignments we use the Lumos app to tell us where the sun will be at any time for any address in the world. From there we plan our shots for the time of day.

I guess it is the difference with a wedding photographer scouting out the location for the time of the wedding, planning the photographs etc. versus the rookie that shows up with a cell phone and hopes to get lucky with volume. Both approaches may work, but I will put my money on the pro.

For a snapshot 5x7 it will be hard to tell depending upon the subject and setting. Try enlarging the photo and you will remove all doubt.

If you spent big money to fly out to the Tetons only to be shut down by Bummer, you would not have appreciated the vindictive politics of the situation either...just saying. There was no reason to shut down the parks whatsoever!!

One 80 year old lady always wanted to see Yellowstone. He shut down all the parks for the seniors. Felt so sorry for her.

Not to berate cell phone pics but I have never seen any planned photos coming out of that device-just impulsive spur of the moment captures (snap shots).

Really learning photography is knowing how to stage and shape light, blur the background, use the sun for a backlight and overpower the sun with light or high speed sync, etc. I only use a cell phone to capture items I intend to paint in which case the image can be less than stellar. I don’t care how many pixels the camera has, the size of the censor determines the quality of the print. The difference between a Drone camera with a cell phone censor and the newer ones with the full frame DSLR censors is just amazing.