I really like the dark one. I can feel the cool dampness of fall and winter coming!

I like #1 even though in #2 the door is more near a golden section line. In #2, that wall on the bottom foreground blocks off the door and it's distracting and desn't add anything. I want to go in that door and that wall is stopping me! In #1 I feel like I can stroll right in.

I use the hoods that came with my lenses. I bought the best lenses I could for their sharpness. Not putting a filter on them no matter how good or optical it is. I can add blurriness post but I can never get the sharpness back. I would rather chance buying a new lens than shoot for years with some filter on!

Thank you for posting the link. I downloaded both the firmware and lens control updates to my D7200. No problems so far. I have no idea how I'd be aware of these updates if I hadn't seen this post!

#1 took my breath away with those dark rays. I get light rays but never dark rays! Nice work.

I am also a former stereo photographer. I preferred to shoot slide film in a stereo revere which I still have. The camera was an antique when I got it so I have some more years I could still do stereo photography but it's an even smaller club now then when I got into it :(
I want to 2nd the notion of setting both cameras manually then trigger both with a remote you can fudge up a physical remote to release both cameras. I used to use the rail and 2 similar film camera bodies to shoot like this but I liked the slide film better.
For now I use the astronaut shuffle (take a shot on one foot, switch to the other and take the 2nd one) but anything in the wind or moving is blurred. Some lower end p&s cameras have a stereo function built in but I think it is interpolated. Good luck! Keep stereo photography alive!

Turned off anti vibration on my lens the day I got it..... Check all that stuff!

My best photos I tag "FAB" in lightroom and export them max size and I will slide show them on my tv with music. Just like an old fashion projection slide show! I even force my images to 16:9 so they look awesome on the tv. I never get tired of looking at my old photos. I gloat over them! Sometimes I'll slide show the last year's non-fab to reminisce on all the projects I did around the house. I keep everything other than FAB in year folders then they are all tagged with my own system too so I can bring up "dog" or "family". It's nice!

This type of on the side of the road shot, if I am without tripod, I will set the camera on the roof of the car (engine off). Acts as a bean bag if you want to squeeze out just a little more shutter time. Nice to have a bracket to take home anyway.

So glad you found a cooperative subject on your heavy equipment's last day out. Good luck with the lighter stuff!

Fantastic capture of light! I could look down that tunnel all day. Maybe I will....

Two 16x20 color prints I got done at a commercial lab I used to work at years ago were laminated and that gave a gloss finish. Is it possible to simply laminate the print you have to get the finish you want? Extra benefit is you can wipe it off easy :) It can go in a bare frame and doesn't even need glass. I preferred this for color prints but black and white ones I always did on matte paper and mounted under glass.

I only use aperture mode. I generally want either as much or the least depth of filed as possible. If my shutter speed is bad at the aperture I want, I'll change it or get a tripod or flash or possibly change the iso but the depth of filed is the first thing I decide on in a composition.

I don't want to see the spider(s) that did that but I'm glad you captured it. What neat photos! I used to get stuff like this on a massively smaller scale on a cut grass lawn but each web thing maybe a max of 5-6". I don't know what else it could be tho.

For me it was just an evolution. 15 or more years ago I was using a film camera but also loved computer graphics and messed around with them and started using photoshop when it came out. I don't even think there was a lightroom back then lol. Over the years I gradually switched to digital and kept using Photoshop out of force of habit. All the adobe apps are huge and expensive and the suite has changed over the years. They're not something you'd stumble over casually. It wasn't until about 3 years ago when I started exchanging photos with someone I met online gaming that I started using Lightroom and then only after being asked about 50 times why I didn't use it! Of course once I tried it, I immediately got it, having once had my own physical color darkroom. I never went back to Photoshop except to do something like remove power lines or something like that.