I take my Nikon camera and cell phone everywhere. I often run into what I think might be a good shot. I always ask permision to take someone's picture.
Here is what I am now dealing with: Recenty two older women ( ages 81 ans 92) asked me to take their photos for a project they were doing. I replied "Sure", They came to my home where i have some plain background set ups.
The shoot went well. They wanted themselves in a very close up pose cheek to cheek.
One of them came with me to get it printed. She was very happy with way it prints came out. She framed it herself and put it on display at our City Hall Art Gallery. The other lady is now very angry with me for making her look old.
She is 92 and does have some lines on her face. Now she is ending our friendship,
I did tell these women that I do not do much photo shop stuff except cropping. The 81 year old is OK with the photo.
What can I do ?
we know most people are NOT satisfied with the way they look in photos.

I love New Mexico and visited Albuquerque with my two grown sons, to revive a previous annular eclipse visit to upstate NY in the 1980s. I had a 5 inch reflector telescope with a Hasselblad camera. As the eclipse came to full, I squeezed the cable release...nothing. My 7 year old said..."Dad". Tried again. Nothing. He said...again "Dad." Then he pointed to the camera - I failed to remove the protector screen. Removed it. Got it. Thanks to Nathan. This time is was easier. 16 stop filter, Fujifilm XT-4 with 100-400 mm lens with 1.4x multiplier. OK got some pix and arranged in sequence....but Albuquerque and New Mexico had much more to offer and here is some. Also great Mexican food in neighborhood joints!

I put the Tamron 150-500mm tele on my Sony a6000 crop sensor. I can get photos in S, A, and Automatic modes...but nothing in Manual mode. What am I doing wrong? What settings do I need to change? This is to be my setup for shooting the Annular Solar Eclipse next week. I will need to set focus in advance. There are choices on the lens barrel---VC modes, VC on/off, and AF/MF. (I will use ND100000 filter then. And not look through viewfinder.) I searched 'net. Could not find any answers to this dilemma!

Thanks.

Diane

I am preparing to photograph the annular solar eclipse in Cortez, CO, next week. Plan to use Tamron 150-500 on Sony a6000. With a ICE ND100000 filter—16.5. Will this be adequate sensor protection? I will only use LCD screen, not look through eyepiece, so I do not understand if electronic viewfinder will be activated. ND use is not advised for optical viewfinders. The Sony is, of course, mirrorless. I just heard of ND1000000 (6 zeroes = 20), but could not obtain one now in time for the trip. Am hoping my brand new ICE ND100000 will do the job. The literature and sales sites have seemed contradictory and misleading. I am exhausted with researching this. Thanks.

I'm planning on using a couple of ND 100000 filters, a 55mm and 67mm, on my two set-ups for this Saturday's annular eclipse. And yes, since these are actual 'Neutral Density' filters, so the resulting image of the Sun will be white.

For a much more in-depth discussion of this and other issues related to photographing the up-coming eclipses (the one next week and the total eclipse in April 2024), I've got another thread that you might be interested in:

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-785225-1.html