What an wonderfully amazing thing to happen. To whoever this person who gifted you this camera, thank you for reminding us of the good in this world.
Nice photo. The arson fire was in January 2017. We had just closed on our house in Victoria. A huge turnout came to the community service on Airline Road in support of the Islamic Center. We were so proud of Victoria.
Sad t oday, but the shadow right below her butt completely ruins this one for me.
Several years ago, I bought the adapter from B&H to mate my lenses from my Minolta SRT-101 to my Nikon D5300. All the lenses worked fine but you have to treat them as manual. Exposure wasn’t that hard for me but focusing was tricky. Of course, over the years since, I acquired Nikon lenses, so I live in the “automatic” modern world now. But the one old lens I still use very occasionally is a 600 mm with a 2X extender and I do fine with it.
The bottom line from my experience is that if you remember the basics and can judge exposure those old lenses do work on Nikons. Of course, YMMV.
I suggest you look at model mayhem. I have a membership although I am not using it much. It's reasonably priced. I found 45 female models and 13 male models in Tulsa. I am not familiar enough with Tulsa to access any suburb/nearby towns, but you can do so.
One Model Place is a waste of time and money. So is Muse Cube.
You might also contact college art departments and art schools.
Windows 10 has support until sometime in 2025, as I understand it. I am sticking with it until then and go from there. Maybe some apps now for windows will be written for other OSes like Linux. Or maybe I’ll run a VM for Windows 10 under a Linux box. Who knows what three years will bring in technology?
My 11-year-old laptop lacks the capability for my 5Ghz wifi signal, so it's always on the 2.4Ghz band in the house. You might check that as well as the other good advice in the eariler posts.
I appreciate that my phone can take decent photos and sometimes it’s what I need at the time. But I didn’t base my decision for my new 5G phone on its photographic capabilities. I chose it for a variety of other features, such as storage, version of Android, earphone jack and similarity to my previous LG model. Basing a phone choice on the camera, something I wish Consumer Reports didn’t emphasize so much, just isn’t my jam.
My $0.02 and YMMV.
I gifted my wife this camera a couple of years ago to help her with her passion for bird photography. While it’s an incredible camera, it’s heavy and, to her, a little more complex than she wants. But I’ve never shot with it, so I can’t speak to that. On the other hand, a friend in the Texas Panhandle uses his for aviation photography —he is an expert and long time photojournalist who’s forgotten more than I’ll ever know — and he loves it. He posts amazing photos of aircraft flying at FL30 and higher.
Very nice. I have a photo of that engine on the Durango & Silverton back in 1977. I've been looking for the negative for years.
As much as I dislike feeling captive by the corporations, I stick with brand name for camera batteries and ink cartridges. It's born of sad experience and I like the peace of mind.
I regret wasting my money on ON1. I didn't find it user-friendly. Maybe I suffer confirmation bias toward PS. I'll stick with PS and consider it a lesson learned.
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The black electrical tape on the nipples is part of fetish wear, and it does have a purpose. If you see a model for example, who has pressure clips on their nipples then know that there are two stages to this. one is the placing of the clamps, the second is at the moment of the removal. Not know to any except those in the kink world, their is a heighted release of shock like pain when the pressure is released. It is not the application of the clamps, rather it is the release of that pressure that is what is sought. In BDSM play, often it is left to the clamped submissive to remove the clamped pressure. It is the exploration of this 'pain' that is the most critical for the SM relationship.
The use of tape on the nipple is just a variation on the nipple clamp.
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Man, you learn something everyday. Thanks, Tim.
As an artist, I find the coverage of the nipples in this, and in others this OP has shared, troublesome. It's like your audience is a middle school class and it's not. It's other artists.