These are all utterly amazing

About the D850 being poor with noise and low light, pffft. Its low-light/ ISO capabilities are a huge reason why I bought it.

Here's a nearly-straight-out-of-camera fireworks shot (I tweaked the purples for a little more pop but that's it). Look at how terribly noisy that sky is. D850, 105mm @ f4, 1/160, ISO 3200.

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Comments ala this one show why scamming is so lucrative. "I got paid, I'm good!" No, you're not - Paypal rules give a buyer a full 6 months to contest a purchase, and you must have tracking that shows you shipped to a verified address on the buyer's account for the protection to be in place. Paypal can deduct funds from your account (your actual bank account or credit card) regardless of whether or not you have "funds" in your PP account. It's not like going to an actual bank and moving your money from checking to savings, it's all electronic and they have the authority to pull funds to avoid fraud as necessary.

Scammers know all this (at least the good ones do), their victims do not.

These are excellent!

I admit I only read through the first page of replies to this, but because it strikes home, I'm jumping in now:

Don't give up on it, take your time, and grow in to your camera. There's a reason you got it instead of another point-n-shoot. Find out those reasons and accept that there's a learning curve.

FWIW, a few years ago I started with a Canon T5i, not terribly different from your 5600. Once I got comfortable with the basics of photography, I learned where the limits of the T5i were and since I wanted to do things it couldn't, I sold it and put the funds toward a better body. Unfortunately, I held on to my 100mm macro and when it was stolen I had nothing really holding me to the Canon line. I had a 5DmIV in mind as my replacement, but given the capabilities of a D850 for basically the same price I opted to move over to Nikon.

I knew the basics but learning a new camera, new format (full vs crop), and such took a good amount of time. I'm comfortable with it now but know I still have a long way to go before I reach its limits. If I ever do. And that's cool.

I could go by social media likes but the one that comes to mind first was done just a couple days ago:

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I wanna see your professor's math:


1976 to 2019: 43 years

365 days per year

10 photos per day

(43 x 365 x 10) + (4 x 11 leap years x 10) = about 157,000.

By that, my D850 is gonna last me a LONG time. I'm just about to its 1 yr old point and it's only at 3500 actuations.

(21 million photos in those years is around 500,000 a year, or about 1350 photos per day. That's 100/ hour for most folks' normal waking hours sans eating and shower breaks.)

Tiger beetle

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Got the original available for download?

Happy 4th, all.

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I think she's great, but then I'm still in my 30s.

I like the soft look of the first, and interestingly it's my favorite of the set.

A second idea here is to take a bunch of identically exposed images and stack them, it would rule out if its your filter or if its water busting over a rock.

I love a good dance shoot.

I really, really like 3, 4, and 5. Nice composition and invoked feeling.

A millenial here -

And I say Nikon or Canon!! :D

In seriousness though, my first smartphone was a Note 4 and it had an excellent camera with adjustable settings. I loved it. Last weekend a buddy and I went up north to Tettegouche State Park and his iFohn (sorry, I'm a Samsung/ Android guy) spat out some really nice images. The latest Sammy cameras have been great too.

Given that you have to use what it's attached to, get a phone first, camera second - or Canon/ Nikon/ Sony/ Fuji/ etc first, LG flipper second and put your money in to glass for the first.