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Thanks. The first picture really was just a matter of happenstance; so I can't say I intended to capture both birds in the frame. I was shooting at the Strawberry Plains Audubon Center in north ...

Ready to rumble! Peek-a-boo.

Thanks!

This hawk was near the Mississippi River in southwest Tennessee today.  It doesn't look (to me at least) like any of the usual suspects:  red-tailed or red-shouldered hawk.  Any ideas?

Thanks Morris.  It's helpful to know that you too have deviated from the recommended 50mm setting without losing any of the Better Beamer's flash-condensing effectiveness.  As for the aiming ...

I just got a Better Beamer for photographing small birds. I'm using it on a Godox V860IIN that is mounted on my camera hot shoe. I have two questions. First, when I set the flash zoom to the ...

Nice photo!  I like your cropping.  You might try cutting off a little bit of the sandy riverbed at the very bottom, just to see if you like that better.

Yeah, it is a lot of fun!  The picture below is unremarkable, but I do like being able to zoom in on my monitor to see the piper's ear plug.

I don't think so. What "much smaller camera" and "possibly" smaller lens do you have in mind? Setting aside pixel count, would the specific camera and lens you have in mind have matched the D850's ...

Exactly.  I crop heavily, so I can get the first picture below from the second.

The park is very crowded, but, in my experience, if you walk 15 minutes down any of the the great hiking trails, you'll leave 99% of the people behind. BTW, a CPL would be a good idea.  They don't ...

That sounds like a versatile solution. Eventually, I found a lens foot plate that I could screw the BR eye bolt into -- a plate that was long enough so the eye bolt did not interfere with tripod ...

Here are a few more domesticated flowers.  Thanks for starting this thread.  It's been great fun to see some stunning photos.

You posted this weirdly worded question as a joke, right?

I'm considering getting a largish digital picture frame (about 18 inches wide), and I'd appreciate any advice on brands and general satisfaction (or lack of satisfaction) with this means of ...

For most of the items they rent, they offer a purchase option.  You just go online to get a quote for the purchase.  If you like the price, you tell them you are going to keep the item, and they ...

As you may have seen on this forum, there are those who say it is almost never useful to  AF fine tune a lens, particularly a zoom lens.  But I'm not one of them.  Most of my primes were easily ...

Isn't this what you're asking for: https://www.dpreview.com/articles/2666934640/what-is-equivalence-and-why-should-i-care/3 https://www.dpreview.com/learn/2799100497/equivalence-in-a-nutshell

Two weeks ago, I rented the Tamron and its Nikon counterpart (the Nikon 24-70 f/2.8E ED AF-S VR) from lensrentals.com with the intention of keeping one of them, without regard to price.  I shot ...

Very good explanation. Thanks!