How are your Photos managed today? Do you use an application?
dw

I don't shot with Nikon but this shouldn't matter. switch to manual focus set the f-stop to f/11 and use fast shutter speed (1/250sec), focus on his face play around with the shutter speed and f-stop. Find a happy medium where your shutter speed is high enough to freeze the subject and the f-stop is low enough to maintain focus f/8 to f/16.
good luck

I am using Lightroom classic on my desktop.
All of a sudden my images turn B&W when imported or when I select a folder that I haven't opened since this started. I look at the history file in LR and it shows the file was converted to B&W before I opened it in Develop. I thought I enabled a preset or something. I can change them back by selecting color under the develop module or under quick develop>saved preset>color.

I lived in Bishop for ten years, making a lot of photos. Thanks for your input.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Thanks for your insight.
DW

Thanks for the info. Go info to look over before you go out and make photos.

Maybe you should take up golf, or some other hobby. I make photos because I enjoy them. Photoshop and Lightroom are my "darkroom" to turn a photo into a work of art.

I recently purchased the Sony a7R IV. It is a wonderful camera. There are an overwhelming number of setting combinations. I have a rock concert to shoot and I'm looking for a little help with the best setting to get the greatest number of "keepers" I am using a 70-200mm f/2.8 GM lens. I haven't decided if I will shoot APC 1.5 or full frame. I can use a monopod, no tripods. With my Canon full frame with the 70-200 f/4.5-5L lens I would set the ISA: 3200, Shutter: 1/125-500 and aperture: wide open. It's hit and miss at 1/125, better at 1/250 but lots of noise, hand held, in a concert environment. Someone out there must have a winning combination of settings for the Sony. Thanks guys and gals! DW

Personally I would keep the RAW files and delete the jpg. I recently started shooting both RAW&JPG. I have a Sony a7R IV, Large RAW files. I go through the jpg files because they open quicker than the RAW files. A typical shoot is 200-500 shots. I ID the best of the best and delete the rest of the JPG files. With those I can ID the best RAw files to work on. I keep all the RAW files except those I determine are bad, i.e. out of focus, etc. I will create a collection of the RAW files. Remember, you can always take a RAW file and create a JPG. But not the other way around. The RAW files contains all the information of the image. The jpg contains a fraction of that information. If you want to save disk space, delete the JPG files. You can always create another one from the RAW file.

I recently moved to Orange County. I love photographing In the Fall for the long shadows, the change in weather, etc. Where and what is your favorite place to photograph city, beach, landscape, etc, scenes?

Yeah, I have a two HDD NAS drive with two separate network drives and two 8TB HDD, one for my catalog and one for backup. I have so many redundancies built into my setup. I probably have 20TB of open HD space. The hardest part is keeping track of everything.

Thank you for your post. I should add I rented a Canon 5Ds R, for a month. The photos were fantastic. Tack sharp and plenty of room to crop and still have a very nice size after cropping. I usually shot a little wide for just that reason, room to crop.
d.wolfe

I have a gray card but find using something in the photo that I know is gray. Mostly I adjust to taste. I photographed a series of concerts to the local paper. The lighting for concerts is terrible. I used the microphone to set the white point for every show. The pictures came out consistent from all nine shows. It didn't matter if the performer was dark complected with a red and yellow spotlight. The white point came out perfect.
D.Wolfe

I have used Canon for 40+ years. My current camera is the EOS 1DS Mark III. I bought this new and love the camera. I shoot mostly landscapes. My photography today is changing and I need more dynamic range. The Canons maximum ISO is 3200 and there is a lot of noise to deal with. The Sony I have selected is the new Alpha 7R IV. I purchased two lenses, Both G master lenses. The Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS and the Sony SEL24-70mm GM. I expect the camera around Oct 15. Can someone tell me; am I going to be happy with the Sony? This has left a big hole in the coffers, so to those that use the earlier models of the Alpha 7R series, is there something you couldn't live without for your Sony camera?
PS... I am also looking at the Sony FE 16-35mm f/2.8 GM Wide-angle Zoom. Is this a good choice or is there something else I overlooked.
I respect everyone's opinion here. Canon users, please don't lambast me and tell me I have made a big mistake. The deed is done, I'm switching to Sony.
D.Wolfe