Thank you all. It’s an annoying problem and particularly so when it effects a job and Nikon can’t seem to locate and repair the problem.
My 17-35 went back to Nikon, but they couldn’t make it misbehave. It worked for about a day after it came back, but started intermittent failure to focus on single after that. The curious part of it is none of the problem lenses have ever failed to focus on continuous.
No, I can try to focus on a high contrast part of the subject and it still won’t focus. Cleaning the lens contacts doesn’t help. I have Nikon lenses from the 14-28mm to the 200-500mm and they all focus without a problem. It has me puzzled and frustrated.
The third lens mentioned should have been an 18-200mm.
I have a 17-35mm F2.8, a 28-300mm, and an 28-200mm Nikkor that stop focusing but only in single focus mode. This happens with multiple camera bodies, two D500 bodies and a D850. If you rack the Manuel focus ring back and forth it starts focusing again on single...for a while.
Is anyone else having a similar problem?
The smoke from many fires was particularly bad in Colorado this summer and severely detracted from normal visibility.
This thread reminded my of a class debate in a photography class I took in college. A photograph of a stream that had a distracting small log in it was being discussed. The debate was over whether it would have been unethical to alter ‘reality’ by removing the log. The professor interrupted saying photography qua photography. The photograph stands on its own. Either it’s a great photo or it isn’t.
#1 is a great photo. It conveys a feeling and a mood. Well done!
Depending on where you are, a $1 Million house may be a mansion or a bungalow. If it is a house with large rooms you may want to consider multiple flashes with a radio trigger to allow you to have accent lights. I like having my main light bounced off of the juncture of the ceiling and wall behind where I'm standing. If you have enough power from your strobe(s) get as close to f/8 as you can because you are going to want substantial depth of field. Try slower shutter speeds as needed to take advantage of the ambient light. It's much harder to get a pleasing result if you are depending completely on strobes. Watch our for reflections of your strobe on windows and mirrors. Personally, I shoot mostly between 24mm and 17mm with a full frame camera for most interior shots. Interior staging is important. Flowers on the table, table set for dinner, a fruit bowl in the kitchen, a plate of cookies, a bottle of wine and a block of cheese on a cutting board, etc. Rooms should be neat and picked up without clutter. Remember you are photographing the room, not something in the room, and are trying to create an inviting atmosphere that will make people feel comfortable. Color balance is something that you need to pay attention to...too cold a color balance can be a serious problem.
My go to lens for exterior shots was a 35mm PC lens in the film days, but with Lightroom's ability to correct perspective this isn't so important today. If the house has an attractive view that you want to show, set your exposure so that the the outside is one stop over exposed so detail is visible but it doesn't look like a photograph hanging on the wall.
Most importantly, practice before you shoot a job. There are a lot of tricks to get the proper result and you are going to have to figure out what works for you. Be grateful that you are shooting digital rather than film, we now have the ability to correct and improve on the original image that we didn't have when shooting color negative film.
Hopefully this will address the stability problems I've been encountering with multiple crashes a day since the previous update.
After several days of seminars we needed some fresh air and took the back roads and were doing some exploring in the Capitol Reef area. We saw an interesting dirt road and were exploring it when we came across an old structure that looked interesting. I’d guess it’s still used intermittently to hold and shelter horses.
My wife and I took a turn off of the main road on our way back from Photoshop World in Las Vegas in 2009...
They aren’t easy critters to get close to.
It was a photo I’d previsualized years in advance of when I finally took the photograph. So, in that sense, it had been a dream for quite awhile.
. Double post. Sorry about that.