I would think that the photos in the card hold special meanings or memories for the family, which is probably the reason they were chosen.
Beautiful animals! We had 5 growing up, over the years, 3 females and 2 males. Best family dogs we've ever had.
grandpaw wrote:
I am going to share the settings I use for most of my wildlife photos. I have three cameras, a Nikon D7000, Nikon D600, and my Nikon D500. The D500 is what I use about 95% of the time and the lenses I use are a Nikon 70-200VR F2.8 and add a 2x extender sometimes for more reach. I also use my Tamron 150-600mm a lot and both of these lenses are the original versions. I normally shoot in “Aperture Priority Mode” because controlling the depth of field is very important to the look I like and my style of photography. Most of my images are shot at f8 or F9 depending on the distance to the subject being photographed. The longer the distance the more depth of field you will get and the closer the distance the less depth of field you will see.
I am sharing this information and I will add that it works for me and my style of shooting and may or may not work for you. The first thing I do is set my ISO to 500 and make sure my camera is on aperture priority. If the subject is close by I use F9 and for further away subjects I use F8 to get me the depth of field I am looking for. This combination gives me the needed shutter speed for just about anything I wish to photograph. Often I will have a minus 1/3 to one full stop of exposure compensation. I try to get a background that is not busy and with the shallow depth of field I get, this combination makes my subjects stand out from the background and look more like a portrait. These settings are NOT a one size fits all group of settings but do work well for me. I will add that I have extremely steady hands and that plays in to the settings I choose to use. I might add that I shoot almost everything hand held and seldom use a tripod.
Your camera, shooting technique, shooting situation, lens and experience all play into what settings will work for you. Remember that these settings work for me using my experience, my equipment and knowledge of my equipment and is not meant to say that this will also work for you. This is just meant as another option you can try and see if it works for you.
If you check the EXIF data on some of my pictures and it does not match this, please don’t waste your time pointing it out to me. These are general settings that I use and work for most of my photography.
If you find this helpful, thats great and if not just disregard this post and do it your way. Grandpaw
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Thank you. I learn so much from others posts. I'm still learning the ins and outs of my Nikon. It's sometimes nice to have a starting point. It can always be tweaked to get desired results if needed.
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Linda From Maine wrote:
A lot of what inexperienced photographers think of as guesswork is really just a matter of buckling down and learning how the camera works.
Thanks Linda,
Part of my "buckling down" is putting images here and looking for directions as to where to start with my practice. Is that not what the purpose is here? I would not consider my learning haphazard, but with practice comes questions....
I also learn as you do. Sometimes you just need a starting point or someone with experience to give their insight. I have a learning disability and just reading books and manuals are of no help. I have taken photos of still objects at the same distance with different settings to try and get a better understanding of things. This does help but because I can not get out and use my camera as often as I would like, I tend to forget things I have learned. I come here and learn so much from people's questions. Especially when there is a photograph so I can see what is right or wrong.
Because they may ride with someone after banking hours. Maybe they don't want to give out their pin to anyone. They are blind, not helpless. Seeing impaired do have social lives just as everyone else.
newtoyou wrote:
Maybe he is just knowledgeable, I notice that knowledgeable people get labeled as strange quite often.We are ALL strange in our own way. I am called a know it all. I understand that, considering where it comes from.And the uncle's I loved are now dead. Glad I visited them while they weren,'t.
You are correct. He is very knowledgeable in a wide variety of subjects. I was joking when I called him weird. It is a family joke. Rest assured, I see him quite often. He comes up to Michigan several times a year. We are a close family. We never take family for granted.
My uncle lives in Lubbock and says it is a Pisaurina mira. Also known as a Nursery Web Spider with a center line pattern. He's always been strange because he actually enjoys spiders. Must be why I don't visit him!
dirtpusher wrote:
Glad to hear it .
A flying buddy gandchild is Autistic with CBD oil. It hard to believe it the same child. He no longer has those involuntary tic movements.
That is great!
Hopefully, one day soon, it will be available to all who need it.
Hal81 wrote:
I don't care much about the fools want to fog up their brain with the weed or alcohol. It wont make your troubles go away just make it so you are no longer in control.
My husband is permanently disabled due to painful nerve damage in his back. Surgery has further damaged his nerves. To give an idea of his pain level, if I wash clothes while he is awake, the vibration of the spin cycle can bring tears to his eyes from 2 rooms away. He is currently on Fentanyl pain patches. This helps keep the pain levels tolerable, as long as he is not moving around too much. He also has Oxycotin for breakthrough pain. He knows he is dependent on the patches and will be for the rest of his life. He is terrified of becoming dependent on pills also. If he uses marijuana when he starts to really hurt, he can avoid the pills. Before it became legal for medical use, he would use 45-60 pills a month for pain. After he got his card, he may use 10-20 a month. He's not a fool fogging up his brain. Just a man who became disabled at 27 and finally 16 years later has found a little relief. Not all users are stoners.
Here are some true facts from a family member that does foster care.
The children are kept in common areas (large rooms) during the day.
The workers are not allowed to interact with the children. (pick them up, offer comfort)
They are telling children that their parents put them in this situation because they do not care about them. That is when they are given an explanation at all.
They are actively seeking foster homes for these children.
They are trying to entice foster parents by allowing them to choose any age or gender.
The government is paying $50 a day to foster these children. They only pay $17 for our own children in foster care.
The government also pays for a social worker to drive to each foster home pick the child up and drive them to a special school just for them. They can not go to regular school because they are prisoner detainees.
These are facts given to her by the social workers assigned to the children.
That's great advice. Especially it you are relatively new to DSLR cameras.
Bill_de wrote:
David,
If you had your location in your profile you might get some suggestions for local assistance. In Delaware they were offering a class specifically designed to teach people what the controls were for on DSLRs. It wasn't a photography class, it was a camera class. I don't recall if it was the library or local technical college that offered it.
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David, the original poster stated his location in his post. He lives in the north suburbs of Houston.
When I first got my camera, I chose a stationary object, put it on a table, put the camera on a tripod a certain distance away and switched to manual. I first took pics adjusting aperture, taking notes on each one. Then I moved on to shutter speed and ISO. After a while, I came to understand the settings better and how changing one would effect the others. If I had a question at the time, I would do a search here and on Google.
Like you, I learn better hands on, rather than reading. Since I had no one to help me (no time for camera clubs, or money to mount photos for them every month) I found this approach helpful.
Michael feather Frame wrote:
Thankyou twinhearts , yes inside a Amarillis . . . feather
I love this original one too. The cropped one just pops and is so vibrant, but this one is just as eye catching.
What a great photo! Is he inside a flower?