Best results will be your 24-70. Unless you're a birder, then it's telephoto time.

Everything said is above is great. Weekends are awful at the park. We were there a few weeks ago, Friday was fine and Saturday.... we parked at 7am by the Mirror Lake trail and there were 3 cars in the lot. We finished our hike by around 11am and well, it was awful. No parking anywhere and tons of traffic in the valley loop. We ate lunch at our car and picked a nice group of older folks to take our spot. As planned we left and headed over to Hetch Hetchy and luckily found a spot.

Keep checking the Yosemite website. Mariposa Grove was/is closed due to storm damage.

There are 2 other groves in the park you can visit, Tuolumne Grove and Merced Grove. They're downhill to the groves and the back up to the parking lots. Merced has a small parking area and Tuolumne has a larger lot with bathrooms.

Grat work. B&W's are fantastic.

Bravo!

I'll be in Yosemite for the first time that weekend. After seeing this post, I started digging with Ephemeris.

Unfortunately we're leaving the morning of the 26th which means I'll be seeing if I can make a shot work back home in Sacramento.

I do get 98.2% moon on Sunday, that will leap out from behind Half Dome at roughly 8:30.

Can't wait.


Thanks!

Although the Nikon 10-20 is a well regarded little lens.....

Is your camera compatible with Nikon's AF-P lenses?

Some older Nikons won't even work with them, some you can't turn off the VR.

Shoot some pics, all in RAW.

1. Transfer files to hardrive in specific folder structure.
---like took a long drive somewhere, Roadtrips/California/Tahoe 2021-3-17

2. "Add" all shots to lightroom

3. Scroll through grid view in Library
---flag good stuff
---delete anything I don't like

4. Open images in develop panel

a.-make sure the profile is camera neutral (I like it, gives best starting point for me)

b.-fix obvious issues
--crop/straighten
--healing brush dust/dirt (sometimes depending on how much I'll work with the sky I may wait to heal dirst in the sky until later in the process)
--Transform panel any wierdness (aspect etc)

c.-Lens Correction
--remove chromatic aberration, adjust if auto needs more
--decide if profile correcton is needed (somtimes I like the distortion)

d.-Adjust white balance
--click auto to see what LR does, ctrl Z and then adjust to preference

e.-Make basic development changes
--click auto, see what LR does.
--keep LR settings, keep LR settings and modify, or ctrl z and start from scratch
--adjust highlights/shadows etc texture/clarity etc.

f.-Tone Curve
--add slight S curve for contrast

g.-HSL
--adjust all saturation as needed
--adjust lumninosity as needed

h.-Color Grading
--decide if my image needs it and fiddle with it. Generally it's warm up highlights and cool shadows for added contrast

i.-Adjustment Brushes
--apply graduated filters, radial filters, or adjustment brush masks.

j.-Sharpening
--Yup, I tend to do this last.

k.-create/add to a collection
--add to new collection, or in a collection set, or whatever
--apply color to collection
-red = still need to delete images, make decisions
-yellow = have a couple left to edit that I ahven't gotten to yet
-green = done, can export to JPG and do whatever with images

This is the basic workflow for most images. Anything that doesn't need;

-HDR combining brackets
-Fun time in Photoshop for advanced masking/processing/focus stacking

Thank you both! Just glad I could jump into a challenge during the deadline.

Alirighty! Still 3/6 by a few hours. I dug around in the collection and found one which to me just says "ceiling".

NY Public Library 2009 - Nikon d70, 18-55mm, ISO560, 1/30th

(Download)

As a noob to this site I totally agree.

I found this site through some odd web ad. "Send us your email and learn the secrets of photography!". Ugly hedgehog? How bad could this be?

I receive a daily email that gives me the highlights of the main photography discussion. Usually, by the time I get online, every post has a gazillion answers, and I have no reason to reply to them...but I skim them and also check the classifieds.

Not once did I ever think to click on the last little link on the home page titled "Sections". I thought it was just a redundant link that would put up every forum post in the order they were posted/replied to. Not another entire world of specialty sub-forums. Which I am now going to explore.

I stepped up from an old Samsung 21" 1080p to this;

ASUS ProArt Display PA278QV 27” WQHD (2560 x 1440) Monitor

It was the best bang for the buck that I could find reviews wise. Great screen size to work on editing details and it comes factory calibrated. Looks like it's $289 on Amazon right now.

At 27" running 1080p your just not getting the screen resolution that you need for a computer monitor at that size. Don't beleive the 4k hype either, you don't "need" to push 4k resolution until you go above 27".

Make sure that your computer can push that high a resolution. My PC has a R9 390 graphics card that easily pushes up that high. I had no idea the pica from D7000 looked that good.

Even as a sometimes gamer I find that a 60hz refresh rate is completely fine.

....and finally, if your happy with what you have, why upgrade?

This is all just my opinion. I did a bunch of Google research before stepping up from my old monitor.

I also love architectural details, the flow of curves, angels, intersecting lines, doors and so on. It was great to see a challenge that I was really excited about to motivate me to stop lurking and post on the forum.

Thanks for hosting!

Door in Berlin from 2016


The post office in Morris, Pennsylvania.


Random door in Prague, 2016.


Sometimes you go down the right steps and take the time to look back. Prague, 2016.


Doorway under construction. Budapest, 2016.


Building detail. Budapest, 2016.

Hello everyone,

I'm Wayne, a forty something lifetime hobby photographer. I started with a Pentax K1000 in art school, moved on to my father's Nikon F (yes, I still have it) and eventually joined the digital world with a D70 and now my trusty D7000.

I grew up in Philly, fell in love with New Jersey (and having a driveway), and now I find myself a new resident in California.

There's a lot of knowledge in this forum and I'm thrilled to be a member.

Cheers.

W.