You need an external meter any time you are trying to adjust multiple light sources. Most photographers may never have this need.

Wow! at $50 I'll bet they never mail a check. You would be much better off just entering photo contests.

I have heard it said many times, the best way to make money in stock photography is to take all the photos you can of whatever makes you happy then when you have all the photos you want, sell your camera.

I hope you didn't tell them you made $1.35 from that photo because by my calculations you will need to sell 2 more photos before you get paid. :x

What a rip-off. I wonder what the calendar publisher paid for the photo?

Well, yes... pretty much.

When bracketing, you get 3 or more photos. In HDR the camera takes 3 or more photos and processes them to spit out 1 photo that is the result of the 3 merged photos.

HDR in camera just means the camera does the work for you. If you don't have that feature you can still bracket multiple shots and merge them with software.

Again, it would appear you do not refute what I am saying.

What do you call someone who abandons the facts and rather than backing up arguments with verifiable examples decides the best option is to resort to name calling?

Hi Bob, and welcome.

The T5i is an excellent camera. If you are in the mood to save some cash you can pick up the T4i that is almost identical for less money. Other than a name change, they didn't make a lot of changes between the 4&5 and none that are worth the extra money.

As far a stock photography, you plan to take the same photos that everyone else takes & submits. The market is flooded with your subjects. Most stock agencies tell you to not even bother sending photos of sunsets, flowers, or landscapes. You will need to come up with some unique ideas and make your work really stand out. No matter what you submit you are competing with thousands of similar photos and just based on the volume of images available a customer seeing your work is luck of the draw.
Many stock agencies pay a dollar or less if you sell a photo ond often won't send a check until you have $10 or more in your account. Some of them are very good at writing the rules so you will never get paid at all.
It is a numbers game. If you can submit many thousands of images you might make a little money.

I hope you sell this to someone. I have a 35mm darkroom I have been trying to sell for a year. I feel I learned more about photography by working in the darkroom than anything else I could have done.

I refuse to throw mine in the dumpster. Someone with a passion for photography who really wants to learn the art starting at the most basic level will learn from it and enjoy it some day. Until then, I will just keep sorting through all the full auto DSLR users until I find someone with the artistic passion to be worthy of owning my old darkroom equipment.

Good luck selling your equipment and don't give up and throw it away. Someone out there needs it.

OK, I'm sorry I started everyone down this path and sincerely appoligize to you, Michael.

This is posted in the appropriate area, is not spam, and is a nice product. Everyone sould be free to sell their products without these rude comments and I admit I posted the first one.

I wish I could go back and delete my post and everyone else would do the same but it does not appear possible.

I hope everyone will evaluate this decal on it's own merits. I believe the larger one would look great on the front door of a photo studio.

So you agree they are advancing their agenda. Thank you.

As for the majority, they are advancing nothing, just trying to maintain stasis. It is the homosexual minority who are displaying the hatred and trying to force others to accept what they believe.

I doubt you can prove this. I think a homosexual muslim would be much more likely to be a suicide bomber.

Anyway, I know about the 72 virgins thing but are you sure the 72 virgins are women?

They DON'T want to force them to do it. They want to make an example of them, destroy them, and force others to bend to their will under the threat of suffering the same fate. They NEED these business owners to turn them away because if they don't get turned away they are unable to advance their agenda.

It has never been about the service not being available to them somewhere else. It is about the fight.

Yeah, that happens.

The light meter isn't going to help you much in this situation. It will work just like the one you already have in your camera. Maybe you are in evaluative metering when you should be spot metering. Try all the different metering modes and find out what one works for you.
As a last resort you could just shoot n chimp in manual mode until you get your settings locked in. (Just change 1 at a time)

That is very true. People are only forced to accept the non-christian agenda.

I think that is what bothers most people. Equality should be equality but some groups are more equal than others.

Don't be scared to use manual. There are only 3 settings and 1 or 2 of those is usually dictated by your environment or requirements sometimes just leaving you with 1 to play with.

I don't shoot birds but I am guessing maybe 1/1000 to stop motion. If you get blur go faster. ISO is a gimme - set for maybe 100 and change it if you run out of range in your other settings. That leaves you with aperture to play with. Once you get it set you are set until the light changes and you won't have any surprises.

If you are using auto anything your settings are going to be changing without you knowing and they don't always change in the right direction. If you add a flash in the mix you are going to be chasing auto settings all ofer the place.
Auto (Av, Tv) is good when light conditions are changing really fast and you can't keep up. Full auto is only for when you have no idea what you are doing or just want snapshots and don't care about depth of field or motion blur or maybe you just like surprises.

Each setting has it's function and tradeoffs. In manual you choose what you want to give up to get something else.

Shutter - stop motion
Aperture - Depth of field
ISO - noise/grain

Have fun and remember it doesn't cost anything to practice / experiment.

Those currently making money on stock have tens of thousands of photos listed. They get sold because the odds of their photos being seen is higer and it is their profession so they know exactly what sells.

You could also win the lottery by playing all the numbers.