All good suggestions so far. Be at the beach at sunset, easiest spot would be the end of Manatee Ave. Also check out City Pier and Rod & Reel Pier. Bridge St and it's pier can be scenic (find the love rock on the pier). The end of Coquina Beach by the bridge, and Beer Can Island. Robinson Preserve is good for bird shots.

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I use BBF. If i dont use it, it doesn't focus.

Hoggers. Hobbyist here. Newish owner of a Canon R7. As a favor, today I am taking pictures of a family on the beach. I had a Canon T7i, that had a built in flash that i could set to use for fill-in flash. The R7 does not have a flash, so i purchased a Speedlite 270exii. The pics will be shot in the mid-afternoon, with most likely the sun to their back causing shadows. I want to shoot some of the pics on Av as to get the background blurry, and have the fill-in flash because of the sun position. I cannot find a way for the flash to fire on Av (without it being dark). If i set it to the 'portrait' or 'group' mode, it will fire, but not on Av. Can anyone with a 'R' unit help. I searched both manuals and cannot find a clear cut 'do this' for a fill-in flash situation.

Thanks in advance for any help.

The screen is open, away from the camera in a1, its closed in a2.

I bought the R7 this past spring, and have the Tamron 18-400. I purchased the Canon with the adaptor needed, and they work great together. Use mostly for youth football, and it has great quality and reach from the school bleachers. However, weight wise, the adaptor, lense, and camera is a fair amount of weight. I use a monopod to help with the weight when I'm using the camera for several hours.

No focusing issue, my only complaint is that with the adapter, it is lengthly, but for that kind of shooting, i use a monopod to help stabilize it. I also use back button single spot focusing. Since my 7 came with the kit 18-150, which is much lighter than the 18-400, the 18-150 may become my walk-around lens, saving the 400 for long range sports and nature.

I have both the R7 and the Tamron 18-400. Used it to take action shots of youth football. Took great images, even zoomed to 300mm. This is one of the 300mm shots.

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An abandoned quarry loading tower.

quarry tower

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I bought the kit already having a 18-135. I found the 18-150 better and lighter. Selling the 18-135 with the 7ti.

After it finishes editing, on the save window, there are the choice boxes for format, save to oroginal folder, etc.

You have to set it up to 'save' where and how you wish. Mine save as 'img_1234-topaz', and saved to the folder it came from (or choose another location. You also can choose the file format type to save, original, jpg, png, tiff.

I went into Photo AI thru Photoshop, and PAI then sent it back to photoshop. When i went into PAI directly, it sent it to the folder i got the image from.

I was up to date on the 3 programs, but I noticed that I was a month away from my script expiring, so I went ahead and renewed at the offered discount. After renewing, THEN..... the link to Photo AI displayed. Toyed around with it and it seemed pretty good. Def better/quicker than using sharpen then denoise. Had to click on the 'Stong' denoise on a couple of low light images rather than normal, and that improved the images more than I had originally improved them.

I would image that with Photo AI only showing in Photoshop and LRC and not LR is a choice Topaz makes and is not on the Adobe end?

I'm sure its me....I already have the Topaz products, sharpen, denoise and giga. Going onto the web site, I see no link to download just Photo AI as a seperate download, nor where the 'Face Correction' plug in would be.

That would be I-75.