It says "Posing App" on the icon I touch the icon and up pops the title page: "Posing App" "The Posing Guide for Photographers and models"

You are talking about a telescope, I think, with a camera attached...ok it's just another type of lens...you can buy some quite good table top telescopes like Questar (?) that you attach a camera to...you may not see the license plate, but you will get a great butt shot. (shift to visual)

I give up, why not?

That kid will go far in life, he has more common sense than anybody else.

You just described heaven. It never really existed....did it? Just an imaginary figment.

There is a free app I got for my smartphone to use in the field which shows with simple outline drawings a few dozen positions of male, female, couples, head, body, etc. to get you going. I don't remember where I downloaded it from but I keep coming across it online, a little googling time should turn it up or something similar-google play store has all the apps, I also keep a copy on my PC. I was doing a figure shoot in the woods and the subject said how should I pose and I just whipped out my smartphone and showed her some positions.

This should trigger a lot of pages. I personally am delighted and hope Nikon's next 5000 series (affordable) camera tries to beat them with 55megapixels, but I have always heard a roar in the background about more megapixels don't mean a better photo. Nikon blew Canon away for a while with 24megapixels. It is like Canon came up with an H bomb against Nikon's old A bomb.

I did not like the live view the first time I encountered it with a point and shoot. It gave a very poor quality image for one thing. It was very awkward to use. Then I noticed live view coming to DSLR. It was a little better quality, but still no big deal. Then I got a D5200 because of the auto exposure bracketing and found it is one of the rare cameras with a flip screen. Now why did they do that?! Then I noticed that all the hard angle shots that I couldn't make before because I couldn't get my face up to the viewfinder were now easy. I became one with the articulated (flip) screen. Any other kind just won't do. I now feel I would not buy a camera without one if I could help it. Why break your neck trying to take a picture? You just can't justify a viewfinder any more except that "It is what I am used to" We used to be used to living in caves also. Oh, there is lot of improvements to make, sometimes I have to turn off live view because certain specs aren't visible on the live screen, but it is a pain in the neck, literally. If you are serious enough to use a tripod as a matter of course,(and we are all serious photographers here at UHH, right?) "holding the camera at arms length" to take a picture doesn't really hold water as a criticism. I still get hecklers about a tripod: "Whatsa matter, can't hold the camera still?" Idiots.

Great effect, that reflection gives it a surreal look, or maybe like a superhero...one of the X-men. My OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) wants me to align those reflections so they are perfectly horizontal.

Propositional Theory: When you use Raw, like Nef(Nikon) Cr2(Canon), Dng(Generic) you may have a greater range of fine tuning than is possible with jpegs when you use the tone mapping /details enhancer sliders of an HDR processor like Photomatix. Since the jpegs are supposedly 'clipped' versions of the original Raw files, the dynamic range of the HDR would be clipped too. Anybody tried both methods with the same photograph and have an opinion or something to post for the rest of us to critique? I have been meaning to try this but haven't been able to get around to it, maybe some else has the time?

I have a D5200 and was thinking of upgrading to the 7100 just because of the ability to fine tune the auto focus and a few other minor things like more brackets in AEB maybe, but when I found out it didn't have the flip out (I think it is called "articulated") screen I said no way hosay. I had not expected it on the 5200 but I quickly found a thousand ways of making taking photos easy. It is like having a 360 degree (almost) periscope or something, you can avoid jumping, bending twisting, leaning to get to the viewfinder or just seeing the screen at a right angle. I was in my car once and was able to take a picture behind me without turning around, a closeup of a dandelion seed pod without laying on the ground, etc etc. I don't understand why this most amazing feature does not come on every top line camera, but it is almost like one of a kind. Get the 5500 unless the 7100 has some unique feature that is great for your particular style.(Don't know how that smiley face got in there)

The changing speed of the dancer (she hesitates a few times, the motion is not the same speed as in the google sample) makes the legs more definite in spots, not separate shots.

The blur on the head is a single blur all the way through, plus the one trailing off the foot in the air kill the multiple exposure theory. All blurs show one continual motion with no breaks. Separate lighting spotlighting the blur area and the end spot, but all one shot with rear curtain synch. See rear curtain synch sample I included in my other answer.

The rear sync flash (Ok, I googled RSF images and got this sample which I have attached, it is almost exactly the same, just not as good but almost) seems to jive with images I have seen using it... like with car head lights at night for instance...I don't think it is made up of different shots, the motion in the blur is too smooth, for instance the head is a continuous blur, and the trail blur on the foot in the air...you would have to reposition the model and it would break the continuity. Or the time between separate shots would break the continuity. Also, separate shots with different settings could not be done in the short period of time allowed by the quick motion of the dancer, you couldn't use your hands to change shutter speed while the dancer is in motion. . One other possibility goes to one shot with the model in motion, stopping at the end and then one separate bright flash to really freeze the final position, all done on one long exposure

ballet dancer

I don't know if you know this trick, use a duplicate layer for the effects, then use the transparency slider to let some of the original show through. Then, I like the effects on the train but I like them less on the background in the final version for instance. Another trick is to use the eraser tool set to a low opacity to gently erase parts of a layer to let the last layer show through. Or use the quick selection tool (all these with Photoshop, not familiar with lightroom) to outline just the train for instance. Then the selection can be inversed to just work on the background.