thanks everyone for the compliments

The first waterfall I came to required a graduated ND in addition to a ND. I spent some time this week looking at square NDs, and its tough to find something that will work the way I want it and not break the bank.

Here is my first shot at using ND filters. I currently have an 82mm variable ND filter, but want to move to square filters. Is there a square filter holder out there that will allow me to use my current circular filter?

Bushkill Falls, PA

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A sub-adult eagle got too close to the nest, and current residents engaged in a chase to get rid of the unwanted company.

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I used to own this lens and loved it. It always gave me nice sharp photos. However, I decided I wanted to start using it during the day, and since my vision doesnt correct to 20/20 using a manual focus lens was out of the question. I replaced it with a Tokina 11-16 and love that lens too.

You can go wrong with either lens

I just came back from several national parks and was amazed at the number of selfie sticks. What amazes me is the couples doing selfies..especially in 6 months they would have fired that girlfriend/boyfriend and then they are stuck with all the pictures of them because that is all the pics they took on vacation.

I was at horseshoe curve in AZ, no one around for 50-60 ft, had some Chinese folks walk up and ask me to move so that they could do a selfie....I told them they could wait until I was done.

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Very nice Sonny!

We stayed in Brian Head while we were out in that area. I loved Cedar Breaks especially for the night photography. 11,000ft gets you above quite a bit of atmospheric noise

Get the photography tour in the upper canyon. They will hold the people back so you have clean photos. The photo tours also go thru during the peak time for light

http://www.markinthehv.com/Antelope-Canyon/

I use the 7d mk ii with a Tamron 150-600 for BIF. In the beginning I too had marginal photos with once in a while a great keeper would make it through (by accident I think). The turning point for me was to microadjust my 150-600. I found that my lens was front focusing on me. Once I made these corrections, my sharpness really went through the ceiling.

I use 1/1600, f/7.1-F/9 and auto ISO. I turn off the VC on the lens because at 1/1600 its not really an issue. I also set the lens to only focus beyond 15 meters (this helps speed things up a bit). This seems to be my sweet spot. The other thing to look at would be the auto focus settings. What are you using? I use case 1 or 2, and expanded center points. I really have not had very good luck using more focus points as I can never get the focus where I wanted it.

Here is one of my BIF shots with the settings that I normally use. Once I microadjusted my lens, shots like this are pretty much the norm now

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We just came back from that area....Lots of things to do, but as the poster above alluded to, weather at the higher elevations is a factor. There's the Virgin River gorge, Bryce, Escalante-Grand Staircase, Monument Valley, Antelope Canyon, Canyonlands to name some. North Rim of the Grand Canyon will be closed, so that one is out. I have seen some killer winter pics coming out of Bryce, and I would have to say, Bryce was probably my favorite from the whole trip.

Thanks Craig

I might have been sleeping in his spot! Thank goodness mommy didnt come around :)

Two hours north of NYC, you would be in the Hudson Valley/Catskill Mountain region. Very beautiful with lots to do. A real nice change from the hustle of NYC

We hadnt even gotten to the breakfast part. Apparently he was waiting for me to hand him the menu!