I agree with everything you said, except the image stabilization part. If he is able to maintain 1/1000 sec shutter speed (or above 1/500th), I would stay away from the image stabilization. He would be shooting at a fast enough shutter speed (easily) with his 200mm zoom. Image Stabilization in the case of dynamic sports, such as Lacrosse, may actually increase blur. His owners manual, Page 41 states that it should be used for static images.

JCam, Thanks, I didn't know that option was available (Opening JPG's in RAW format).

Btw, I also have haze removal in Elements 15, and use it quite often. What a change it made in your photo!

I have a ReadyShare USB flash drive on my Netgear AC1750 (C6300) router/modem. I use an Apple App on my iPhone and iPad that allows me to transfer to and from the ReadyShare drive (from anywhere I have internet access). My PC looks at the ReadyShare drive just like a regular drive that I can transfer to and from. Just another way of doing it.

Your cropping looks much better than what I had done.

Exactly! If nothing else, they should be able to tell people what dimensions to use when submitting a photo.

It appears they are using the size as follows: 360 wide, and 368 high. Your original picture is showing as 600 wide by 400 high. If you can scale your picture to match their scale (720w x 736h for instance), you should be good to go.

I re-scaled your picture by setting the height to 368, then cropped the canvas to 360 wide, Hope you don't mind, but this my result.

It's been a long time since I've done web pages, but it looks like they made the spot for the picture a set size, and it's fitting the picture into that size. If they can tell you the placeholder size, you should be able to crop it to fit with no distortion. Or when you look at the source file of their web page it should have something similar to this:

<img alt="Corvettes owned by CCCC members parked in front of the National Corvette Musuem in Bowling Green, Kentucky."
src="images/cccc_ncm.jpg" width="100%" />

The above line tells the jpg "images/cccc_ncm.jpg" to maintain 100% width. In the code for your customer's page, I am thinking it is a more defined size (ie: 100 wide x 200 high, making your picture distort.

Just a guess, as I said, it's been awhile...

Very nice! As Minnie's said, the composition and context are great! I'd look for a contest to enter this one into!

Very nice captures!

Check your other settings also, ISO,shutter speed, aperture, Vivid/Standard/Sharpness/etc...

As a note, my D5500 seems to shoot softer images, less sharp, than I would sometimes like.

If you are changing the file structure on the SD card that goes back in the camera, the camera will not know where the pictures are located. That's what it sounds like you are doing. My Nikon for instance is looking for a folder called "D5500" that the pictures are located in. If I add a picture from my computer to that folder, the camera/SD card shouldn't be able to see the file if it is a file name it is not expecting to see.

I like that one also. Both shot at 1/500th and it really captured the water droplets.

Took our dog to Higgins Lake (Northern Michigan), at the State Park dog beach. She really enjoys it!

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