Chaplain Mark

Setting a $500.00 budget limit for a (new) camera is not realistic, and buying used is risky, IMHO. Secondly, why lug around a DSLR and a bunch of lenses, when so many compact mirrorless fixed-lens ...

Dutch, I had failed to report that on the second shot, I had put the camera in Manual mode and was watching the meter pretty closely which prompted me to set the higher ISO. As I mentioned in ...

Richard, Thanks for your reply, and it never occurred to me the flash might be not powerful enough to adequately illuminate the cat. My distance to the cat was just over 5 feet, so your reported ...

Hi, Howard, Thanks for your suggestion, and sorry it has taken me so long to reply...been really busy. The above grey white and black shooting sequence you suggested, is that just to observe and ...

Don, Thanks for that, I understand a little better now, the setback I dealt myself by shooting in Tv mode on that first underexposed shot. One thing I need to figure out is how the camera deals ...

This is a very compelling image.....good work...!!!

I would agree with this comment on sharpness. I find when I obsess over sharpness, I lose perspective on composition, light and timing. Indeed, some of my favorite shots are not truly genuinely sharp.

Stunning...!!!

Dutch, Right you are....thanks for reporting that. @everyone, thank you for your responses. I need to go and re-shoot my low-light flash cat portraits with the variables under tighter control, then ...

Hi, Dale, great to hear from you...!! The flash did  indeed fire on each of the shots, and these were taken in dim indoor light. My dismay was partly because even with the flash firing, the shot ...

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b_allan, thanks for your reply, My feeble understanding is that the meter is looking for a percentage of grey, with which to calculate the exposure, something to do with 18% grey, and I wasn't ...

I discovered this evening while attempting to shoot a flash portrait of my grey cat, my camera could not produce an adequately exposed frame. The below underexposed  frame was the brightest result ...

Saw this goofy bird milling around my neighborhood..... Shot from inside our car....

Thank you, Hawk, hopefully indeed others will contribute.... ---- Chaplain Mark ----- 'Tis better to have a camera and not need one than to need a camera and not have one.

Very nice, very scenic.....

Oh, I understand now...that makes sense, thanks!!

Andy, These shots look really nice, and the lack of sharpness you mentioned looks more like very shallow depth of field, more so than motion blur, in that on both flowers, the water droplets are ...

Andy, I really like that photo with its effect....everything about the shot says "age" Nice work..!!