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Yes, I've used it for years to batch process images taken in abysmal light. I like that it lets me decide where my files are and where they will go once processed. The PRIME noise reduction engine lets me shoot dimly lit field hockey games with an ancient camera. I also like how it renders colors for my images. One final bonus: it is not subscription based and I can decide when it's worth to upgrade - I just did: local adjustments seemed worth the money, previous upgrades seemed not. The new "Photo Lab" version is noticeably faster when running PRIME noise reduction - at least on my laptop.

In rare instaces my polarizing filter gets stuck. Without a filter wrench, sidewall of a tire, freezer, or similar available I resorted to a shoe lace. I wrapped my boot lace around the filter, tightened it by twisting the shoe lace (using a pencil) and gently turning the filter. After a bit of wiggling and turning it came of nicely.

A view of the Missouri River floodplain just north of Omaha, NE. I spent a brief day in the Midwest suffering from the intense 80-degree heat (it certainly felt like that after getting on a plane that morning in 40-degree Connecticut and doing fieldwork on some very sunny grassy hillsides). The image was taken in the early afternoon. I did very little to represent the warm, hazy mood of a warm spring day: I sharpened the foreground slightly and corrected a bit for vignetting to allow the eye to wander. Missouri River floodplain, Crescent, IA

False sunrise: last week we headed out to cape Cod bay to look for bio-luminescent waters. Unfortunately the tide was out and the waters were calm, so there was no bioluminescent glow. :-( This image was taken with a small table-top tripod (from RSS) placed on the railing of the boardwalk. the "sunrise" glow are probably the lights of nearby Wellfleet. OM-D E-M1 with 12-40mm 1/2.8. 60 sec exposure at f/2.8 and base ISO.

My 0.2 acre backyard has kept me busy for years. No, it is nowhere close to Monet's garden at Giverny. It's a deck, a crappy lawn, a swingset and sandbox for the kids, a few flowers, bushes ad trees. I might start a project taking one daily image of it.

Earthquake damaged bridge - Nepal.

Can you take a picture using the electronic shutter? Not sure whether it would help, but resetting the camera doesn't really cost you anything at this point. Taking the battery out and turning it on for a while helps for laptop computers when they get confused, it might work here as well. My E-M1 probably has some weird options where you can turn the rear screen and the EVF off, but is still should take a picture in that messed up configuration.

Why don't you use a scale in at least some of your images? That works well for me for images ranging from the outcrop-, hand sample-, to microscopic-scale. My students roll their eyes when they have to serve as walking scale bars (jokes are routinely made concerning the perfect five-foot student). For soil profiles and smaller outcrops I have a dedicated plastic cards (the better ones double as gray cards for color correction), and for microscopy work I use a calibrated slide. That skips over the scale typically encountered in macro photography (my work does not require many images on that scale that cannot be taken with a good scope), but I don't see why it wouldn't work. Photoshop or freeware such as NIH image then does the rest.

Would it be better to take numerous "short" exposures and stack them in Photoshop later? Might be worth a try.

The advantages of a snow day:

Funny enough, now a few hours later I can see the changes on my site too. Maybe it just takes forever.

Leslie, I had the same issue. I went from colorful bubbles to a gray background. Probably better that way.

I agree, photo.net seems to turn more into a "push editorial content.net" site. That starts at the home page, which used to be community and image centered, now wastes its prime real estate on a stock-photo and low-quality articles from photo.net editorial staff. I could go into more details (I did in an earlier draft), but after trying out the new site for a few days left me tired and not all that interested in it any longer. btw. The way to undo the ugly Christmas lights in my profile is about as straightforward as "finding the light switch in your new car - without a manual", right Glen? At least the hacked post on the front page is gone, but now you seem to have issues with your security certificates... :-(

Second time around: I guess once you cancel an upload you might as well start from scratch. <br> The paragraph breaks clearly didn't work. Let's see whether some generic html code might provide a workaround. Captions can't be placed below the image, so we better figure out what we want to say before we include an image. Growing pains, I hope, since elsewhere on this site we were assured that the software used was written "by the best in the business". :-) In any case, here's another shot from Langtang valley, with the "hand of man" mostly hidden in the shadows. :-)