Beautiful shot!

Number 3!

Love this kind of info. Great photo you took of Woodward Avenue.

SWEET!

Been there done that. I once did a small album of shots called "Almost ...". Each shot was captioned, such as, almost an eagle, almost a huge buck, etc. Got a few giggles from family. Many had a portion of the critter as it left the frame.

I agree, I really like the extra-wide angle.

Thank you, I couldn't believe it waited there while I went in the house and got my Canon and my 100-400.

I agree, thanks for the feedback. Good to know that in a moment where there's no time to go for my Canon; I can still get a decent image.

Interesting, adding a real optical zoom to the phone lens. I'll have to try that with my spotting scope just for grins.

Upon arriving home from grocery shopping I spotted this hawk perched at the edge of the woods at the end of our street. I put the car in park, got out and was able to get about 25 feet from it by using my neighbors truck as a shield until I was ready to shoot a few images with my phone. I figured that was my only chance before he was off to another perch. But I went inside and grabbed my real camera and put the 100-400 on it. I again used the truck to get to the same vantage point. I am posting the original image and a crop of same from both cameras, Samsung S22 Ultra set to 10X zoom and my Canon 80D with aforementioned 100-400 EF lens. Here are the results. From my point of view, the Samsung did a nice job on 10X zoom, but there is no comparison to the image from the 80D. You can judge for yourselves. The first two images are the uncropped versions from, first the 80D and second, the Samsung phone. The third and fourth images are crops from both.

I have taken up woodburning, and have been revisiting my archived images for subjects to reproduce that are my original images as opposed to using something found on the internet.

Clever caption and great shot.

Gorgeous! Love those lighthouses!

I would agree that using manual mode is not as prevalent as it once was because the auto modes offer some control and the cameras are much better than ever. However, to call it outdated is a gross overstatement. I work for a friend who is a franchise owner of a photography business that does primarily sports and school events. We shoot only on manual after using a light meter to set the initial lighting, then adjust up or down an f-stop as needed. Works beautifully and quickly when you have a line of parents waiting to have their child's photo taken.

The only thing I'll suggest without knowing more specifics is this: If you use the extra-wide lens put any heavy people inside the group. Avoid putting them on the perimeter because the wide lens will quite often add pounds to anyone on the outside of the grouping. That's where you want the slender people so that you don't make anyone feel bad about themselves. I was given this tip before I did my first wedding years ago and it was very helpful throughout the years.