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I'm trying to move over to shooting in manual.
First off, I know there is an abundance of information relating to learning how to shoot in manual mode, but I'm looking for the condensed version in one place.
I'm hoping that one of the UHH members has felt the same way and can direct me to a great book or other write-up that can take me through the steps. I'd like to be able to learn how to use the camera's Histogram feature to improve my skills.
I own the Canon T3-I, the Speedlite 430 EX II and would like to eventually be able to just pick up the camera and quickly set it to the best settings.

Can you help?

Bill

I have recently switched to bb focusing (Canon 5D MK IV). Genrerally i find it very convenient, but I am having an issue if I use either an electronic or cable remote) They seem to be linked to the conventional shutter button and if I uses bb and try to reframe I have to hold down the AF ON button which seems to defeat the purpose behind using the remote release. I could change back to shutter release when I am on a tripod, but for now at least I prefer to use one method. Suggestions?

Thanks.

IGW

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Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

If you agree , pass it on.
If you can read this - Thank a teacher!

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That's probably not going to work since you need the raw file. I did not post that. There will be no blinkies for a JPEG. It is already limited to a range of 0-255 for each color.

Here is the next best thing. In this case I lowered the exposure slider to get rid of the highlight warnings in the editor. Then I brought back the shadows. This may not be the exact procedure I used on the JPEG I posted earlier. It may have had less exposure reduction and some highlight recovery instead but I did this just for practice.

The highlights I was looking at are in the path in the center of the image.

I feel the need to replace the very wobbly tripod I have. :)
It needs to be able to take my Canon EOS 550 and a 300mm lens.
In summer I want to try my hand at some star photos, but without the rotation stuff. (Can't afford that atm) Still, eventually I might.
I kinda don't know which head I'd like / need, and what the good makes are. I'm leaning toward a ball head, but I don't know why lol.
I don't want to spend a huge amount (preferably under $100, but that might not be feasible unless second hand -- which would be okay)
I want to be able to go low down, as well as my (eye) height (I'm 5'2). Doesn't have to split off into a mono pod, I got one of those too.

So...suggestions?

Key point: this is not a rescue.

Rather, a real-life demonstration of the entire purpose of shooting in RAW using ETTR / EBTR techniques.

But, it also shows the need for extensive computer / post-processing work associated with shooting RAW using these techniques. There's no <auto> button that will "recover" the original from the post at the top. Rather, the experienced RAW photographer will shoot using these techniques with the intention of post processing the results. The RAW photographer will typically need to adjust the exposure back to the left (down) by 0.5 to 2.0 before beginning any editing typical of a 'proper' exposure using all the data as captured by the sensor.

Getting useful details of the highly reflective snow "right in the camera" is highly unlikely, regardless of JPEG or RAW. An alternative approach is letting the camera meter the snow as grey and add whites and / or exposure in Post. A middle ground with JPEG is to expose to the right as far as possible to capture white (whiter) snow without blowing highlights and post process from there.

I***t. You answered my question with a question, and now are demanding that I answer your question first.

Here, let's cut to the chase. I'll take the word of sitting federal judges over yours any time. Federal judges would not block EOs unless they had reasonable expectation that the EO would not pass constitutional or legal muster.

Federal judge puts temporary hold on Trump's immigration order nationwide
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-439916-1.html

A US judge on Friday imposed a nationwide hold on President Donald Trump's ban on travelers and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries, siding with two states that had challenged the executive order that has launched legal battles across the country

US District Judge James Robart in Seattle ruled that Washington state and Minnesota had standing to challenge Trump's order, which government lawyers disputed, and said they showed their case was likely to succeed. About 60,000 people from the affected countries had their visas cancelled.

"The state has met its burden in demonstrating immediate and irreparable injury," Robart said. "This TRO (temporary restraining order) is granted on a nationwide basis ..."