SUCCESS!!!

I'd had trouble with a very low profile Breakthrough 77mm CPL on my 24-120 Nikkor getting stuck. I'd taken it to my local camera shop a few months ago, and they removed it for me, but it got stuck again. Today I finally had success in removing it, with a rubber band and my cheap filter wrench (which I'd thought was broken, but suddenly appeared unbroken).

I think the key was putting the 1/4 inch wide rubber band around the filter, placed so that the edge of the band indicated where the edge of the non-moving half of the filter was. Then, the wrench got traction as it never had before, and the filter came loose.

I have thought most of your graphics were interesting, but this one grabs me much more than the others I've seen. A pretty spectacular result.

Wow, I love it, Jack. When I downloaded it, to see it better, it was cropped by my small browser window, and I think I loved that even more. (You said one could mess with it if they told you how. I don't take any credit here; it was simply dumb luck.)

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Great idea! But be sure to include the exif when you post the results!

Why can't someone profit from information about a target range of shutter speeds for blurry waterfalls, and use examples as a takeoff for their own test shots? If a successful image uses 1/x secs shutter speed, I'd know I probably didn't have to look at 1/10x. I've only been pursuing photography for about 70 years, the first twenty or so with a handheld meter, but I've only very rarely sought to shoot a blurry waterfall, so that sort of information would give me a starting point for my own investigations. And, again, what exactly is the harm?

Amen, my brother.

I certainly know why I liked the results the other photographer got, and why I liked the results that I got, but I've no idea what the other photographer was thinking. You have to understand: I'm getting on in years, and my mind-reading faculties have slowly deteriorated to virtually nothing.

I wonder if that OXO would work on my Breakthrough 77mm X4 Circular Polarizer; it is stuck again!

The Sensei filter wrenches failed - both of them broke as I tried to loosen this thing. (The guy at the camera shop evidently had no trouble last time.)

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I know I'll regret it, but I'll step in.

I can recall reviewing several lovely images of a photographer whose name I cannot recall, all of which were shot at f/22. I can recall being taught that, at f/22, one runs the risk of diffraction ruining the result, so I avoided it. Having reviewed this photographer's examples, I decided to give f/22 ... and, yes, even f/32 ... a try. The results have often been quite satisfying. I, of course, have no idea why that photographer chose f/22, and I don't give a rat's refuse. Still, I learned a lesson I have found useful, though I am nearly 150% certain others here will say I have erred.

Nice advice, except that, typically, I don't have that option when I see a photo in a magazine.

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Interesting, Unca B. I'm curious about your color choices. I see a nice hint of the Dr. Pepper maroon color in the sign, some metallic blueish in the right headlight, and just a hint of yellow in the clouds. I assume those bricks still have some color, as does the sky. How did you decide which colors to include and which to leave out?

Lucky indeed!

OK, I'll bite: what the devil is Beveled?