I am not sure what you are saying.

No, not at all. Check out my images in a post above. One of the things I love about the 360 camera is I can take 1 image and manipulate it about 5-6 different ways.

I have the Insta 360 x3. This is my third 360 camera. I love it. I have taken it all over, Africa, Cuba, Italy, Iceland. It is fun to play with. While I am good with a single image, I am still trying to master videos.

Here are a few of my images.

Ok. It would be so fun.
another fun location is Cape Cod. I stayed in Hyannis for a PPA conference and it was a great location.

Long Island is another location. I live about 10 minutes from a Ukranian Monastery. It is an old Gold Coast mansion, they have a retreat house we could rent.

I love this idea. I would be willing to attend, depending on when and where. I can teach some photoshop stuff & using my 360 camera.

I completely agree with your suggestion. I have been to Africa 3 times, Tanzania, Namibia and Kenya. I loved them all but I think Kenya was my favorite. We did try different locations for the migration across the river but it never worked out. We did pay for an off road pass in Kenya, which was a huge bonus. We watched the 5 cheetah brothers sleeping for a few hours. When they finally got up and went for a kill, one of the brothers got a kill and all the guides in trucks surrounded him. The others couldn't even get past the trucks. Since we had an off road pass, we were able to open a spot for the other 4 to see where the one with the kill was. Some of the guides are just not wildlife friendly and will try to disrupt the animals.

I was with Federico Veronesi, a very well known young Italian man who lives in Nairobi. He has his own tent at the private mara bush camp and his own customized truck. I have remained friends with our guide, Arnold, for the past 3 years. He works for Sunworld safaris. He knows exactly where the animals are, he lives there. He knows the behaviors and the locations. I highly recommend them.

There are many tours to Africa, if I were to go again, I would chose one that lives and works there, instead of one that goes a few times a year.

I have many youtube videos. Here is the link, scroll down to the Africa shows.

https://www.youtube.com/@RoniChastainNY/videos

https://youtu.be/BdJrnLtotN0
https://youtu.be/jcTm_cOO5RA
https://youtu.be/RDNmx2FWIWw

[quote=jerryc41. And we wonder why photographers in general are given a hard time.[/quote]

I live on Long Island. The snowy owls come to Jones Beach in the winter months. They hunt at night and sleep during the day. It never disapppoints to see photographers with LONG lenses & tripods, trying to flush the owls to get them in flight.

This past winter I saw one, the bird flew, and several guys with the long lenses & tripods climbed over the signs that say *don't walk on the dunes* My friend and I called the DEC (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation) to report them. Many have ruined different areas on Long Island. There is a lavender farm out east. I used to go there, there was no charge to get into the fields. I always bought Lavender. Then some guys came in a van with their cameras, tripods and models. The farm started to charge more.

It certainly ruins it for other photographers.

In Bridge you can have ratings. You can find this in the edit>preferences.

I only use Bridge. I have been using photoshop/bridge before Adobe came out with Lightroom. It never was easy for me to switch. I could not understand going from Lightroom to Photoshop and back to Lightroom.
All my raw images are in Bridge. If I make changes in Photoshop and save it as a jpeg I can always go back to the original raw image. Just right click on image>Develop settings>clear settings.

Shooter41.

Check your graphic card.

Nikon1201 wrote,

I contacted Topaz Labs and they said any graphic card released in the last 7 years will run all Topaz software.
Nikon1201

Shooter,
I am sorry but I cannot help you with your computer/topaz issue. You can try to go to youtube or email Topaz to see if that can help you.
Check your computer to see if it has the correct configeration for the product.

\


Thanks for the kind words. I have done many, many slide shows. I like the ones I am currently doing best. It shows off my images without making the slide shows to long.

Hi,
Here is a ProShow Producer show I did 6 years ago. I did use transitions, when I presented this at libraries and camera clubs, most said they felt the transitions were distracting from the images.

https://youtu.be/OVjw-VjeH40

Photopia is very similar to ProShow Producer. It has the transitions you prefer, large selection of music and works great.

https://photopia.nl/photopia-director/

In the early years of me using Proshow Producer, I did use the different transitions. The feedback that I got was that it was too distracting from the images. I have done these kinds of shows for many different camera clubs. I want people who view these to focus on the images, not on the transitions. It was a choice I made to keep it simple.

What's new in Topaz Photo AI v1.2.10

Topaz Photo AI v1.2.10 introduces significantly improved raw rendering and a Preferences panel with new customization options—along with many other overall improvements and fixes. We'll keep making Topaz Photo AI better for you!

PM me for discount codes.