EdwardMH

I have a Nikon D500, My smallest lens is the 16-80 zoom. Will this work for imaging my sublimation products in a light box or should I invest in a special lens? Products range from coffee mug size up to 12”x18” glass panel photographs.

I shoot RAW move from card to computer cull the bad out in windows photo viewer, then the rest I put in lightroom for mor scrutiny, the ones I like I edit to the limits of my learning knowledge then export as jpg. 4

Thats pretty close to my setup, I LOVE Steve Perry’s videos and I now have all of his educational eBooks, and videos except those dealing with the new Nikon Z9. I am in the process of watching the Lightroom tutorial now., tonight I am going to try and calibrate my Monitor and printer…

Yes reversed to print on aluminum, if it were going on glass I would print normal. I know my photos are awful, As I said I am just starting to learn (I know not a legitimate excuse and I should be doing better) I only recently started trying to learn to shoot manual with auto ISO, I have so much to learn, all those wildlife photos were edited, posted to FB then downloaded from FB to my iPad, the originals look sharper and bettered color for some reason. actually the squirrel and owl were taken the same day about an hour apart in slightly different parts of the woods near sunset. And my first time shooting in the woods, I am still learning the setting and keep forgetting what does what. BUT I am trying 🙂

I am a disabled Veteran hoping to use photography and crafts as a means to ease my PTSD issues, I am new to real photography and a year ago I bought a Nikon D500 (Dream of Nikon Z9), Nikon PF500mm lens, and a Sigma 150-600mm zoom. I have a great desire to learn Wildlife photography most of all, I am also learning photo editing and sublimation at the same time. My dream is to get good enough to sell my wildlife photos sublimated on glass, aluminum, ceramic coasters, etc. How ever currently my printouts do not look like the images on my computer monitors PC or Mac Studio. I am using an Epson SC-F570 sublimation printer and I bought a Calibrite ColorChecker Display Plus, AND Studio calibration devices to try and fix the issue, they should arrive today. Any pointers on where to learn these things would be great.

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