And once again, people were taking their luggage with them as they evacuated.

This was my "back yard" view until Irma took the boat I was living on (not the shrimp boat). The sunsets never failed to inspire.

I may never get that view back, but I won't ever forget it either.

One of the things I battled experimenting with BBF is a tendency to "let go" just before I activate the shutter. I have no idea why I do it, but I've missed quite a few shots that way. There are also times I actually I forget to, when I WANT to let go, to keep my focus on an subject that isn't necessarily dead center in the frame. I'm still practicing, but in the end, I believe it's going to be worthwhile.

What's more frustrating than getting used to BBF is actually making the best use of the focus modes of my 80D. It always seems to want to focus on something other than what I want it to focus on.

If the edited versions are targeted to be printed on canvas as a "painting", they are fine. They are no longer "photographs", rather digital art.

Off to work.....

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All thoughts well taken. I'm not happy with the perspective in any of the shots and have been playing with dxo perspective some today with decent results. My goal here was to see what i could do with ambient light. If i get into this, I'll improve my arsenal. I made shots with lights on, and of, because I've read that both are awesome, and both are horrible. I like the lights on in this home as they warm it up a bit, and i like the lights with the exposed filaments. This was a 5 bracket shot. As i get better at indoor exposure, I'd like to get to three for quicker post.

I tried Photoshop's warping, but it's tedious and tries to think for you a bit much. Dxo, so far, is working better.

This will take some time to learn, as anything does, but it's so much better than the phone snaps I see in rental and sales listings... We all have to start somewhere.

The food news is that this is a friend that will let me take what I learn and re-shoot the same home so i can compare apples to apples as i change up my technique. Yep, I'm a long way from shooting for Better Homes and Gardens, but we all start somewhere.

3&7 for me....

I recently did a real estate shoot, my first, for a friend that has a VRBO rental. I wanted to try out a technique to see if I was interested in doing it as paid work, and her marketing photos were pretty bad, the home is newly remodeled and beautifully staged, so great fit.....

So, now she's building another home for the same purpose, It is nearly a complete knock down of a typical 50's Florida house. I suggested she make a "story book" to leave in the house for her guests that show the process of how the place they were staying in got there. She likes the idea and asked me to price it for her. This leaves me with a couple of questions:

The home is currently completely open, no roof, few walls, very raw. How should I photograph the place to make the captures interesting? Should I go with high noon, or a more shadowy time? I know there is no science here, but I figured there would be some Hogs out there that have shot construction.

The second question is what tool(s) to use to make the photo book? I have just started to explore Lightrooms capabilities, but only for a few minutes so far. I have not looked into other options at this point, and am hoping for some guidance on what to stay away from, or if there is a stand-out solution to make a coffee table book type product.

Thank you in advance,
-Ed G.

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Just WOW!

So Trump is now killing horses! Just damn!

Pluto can be setup to trigger by motion or by laser (beam breaking). I have not tried these in situation similar to yours but based on reading and experimentation I don't believe any motion sensor is going to be adequately consistent. Breaking a beam might work but it will take some experimenting to get the setup right. For example if there beam is at the focus point, you'll probably miss some shots sure to lag. If you set the beam a bit back to account for any camera or trigger lag, the moving "object" will arrive at the focus point as the shutter is released.

Also, i have found that it doesn't work with some, probably older, software. One of the PS plug-ins I have installed comes up unreadably small. I believe it's the old version of NIK I downloaded.

Awesome!

It's in your Windows settings/display settings. There, you can choose your resolution and a percentage to increase text size.

I tried center weighted, and that's where I kept catching stuff on the periphery. I got some good shots with manual focus set on the "flower" of the feeder, but as you described missed many just outside of that range. I'll try center point and hand holding, I was using a tripod and remote trigger to get close.

Thank you for the reply,
-Ed G.