JamesFarabaugh

It is absurd to imply that laws must be applied and enforced 100% objectively with no gray area. Aside from it being stupid, our justice system does not have the means to prosecute all, or even close to all, legal infractions. Applying and enforcing the law subjectively is not only right, it is absolutely necessary. But hey, if you want to raise taxes to afford the resources needed to prosecute and serve sentencing of all infractions please contact your legislators and demand a tax increase. No? Didn't think so.

 

The Trump administration's executive orders regarding illegal immigration policy, and the AG's "zero tolerance" policy are choosing to refocus the subjective enforcement of law heavily against illegal immigration, knowing full well that resource limitations will dictate that other criminal activity will go unenforced. They also know that family separation is a result of prosecuting illegal immigration, yet they still have decided that it is more important to prosecute than other criminal activity. There is no forcing of their hand; not by the Flores settlement or any law. Their policies alone have resulted in the large increase in family separations. Further, they have hinted that this is intentional, as an attempt to advance their will on immigration. In other words, they are using family separation as a pawn. That is despicable.

Gary, thanks. You force me to face my own demon - my tendency to shoot in a hurry. Most of my shooting is of the landscape/portrait/still type where I do have time to chimp. So I don't have much of an excuse when I get back to my computer and hate the work I did. I need to slow down and take the time to zoom in on the LCD and check my shots in detail rather than just the overall image. The same goes for checking settings before shooting. I have to admit that on more than one occasion I have ruined shots by getting in a hurry and not pausing to check my settings.

James, your advice was brilliant and I did exactly what you suggested. What I realized was that I could not necessarily detect the small blur from any shake on such small screen, especially if it’s dark, until it’s too late. But the time I might see such error on my computer, it will be too late!! That did it for me!

 

Mitch

 

I have a love/hate relationship with the display on the back of the camera. It can make a pig wearing lipstick look like Miss America. There's not much worse feeling than when you open that awesome shot up on the big screen and your heart drops when you see that it has shake, motion blur, or is not in focus.

I'm not familiar with the 28-135, but assuming you can turn IS off, try using that lens at around 70mm at maximum aperture, without IS to make sure you can still get sharp images. Of course the IQ won't be there, but that's not important for this experiment. If you can get by without IS on that slower lens then the 2.8 will be no problem.

I've noticed recently too that the camera seems to need a higher ISO than before. I used to shoot at 100 all the time, but now, that's hardly ever enough for even daylight shots.

Cattie

 

Forgive me if this is well below your level. In daylight you should be able to get proper exposure at f/16, 1/100s at ISO 100. If you get a fresh battery and you still cannot get a good exposure at these settings then something else is definitely wonky.

I still like PN. It is the only photography-minded community site I have found worth visiting. I am a low-volume contributor to say the least, but that has more to do with two little creatures that call me daddy than any shortcomings on PN's part. I joined somewhere around 2010 and am sad to see the sharp decline in activity since then. Given recent reports that the US has hit a record low birthrate, I suppose my own reason for diminished activity is not so for most others. For what it's worth, I'm on a handful of photo-minded Facebook groups, and while they have plenty of photo sharing activity, PN still has more discussion even in its ghost-town-esque state.

I use the Vello Wireless ShutterBoss (version II) with my 6D. My only complaint is the receiver eats batteries when not in use. It even arrived with a dead battery. So I remove the battery before I stow it in my camera bag. I see the version III has switched from a single CR2 to 2 AAA's. Perhaps they have taken care of the issue. Functionally it works without fail though it can be tricky to set up and use in the beginning until you become familiar with it.

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The inner workings, the "guts", not commonly seen by the masses.

Will we be autodirected to our timeline when we log in, or will we need to navigate to it?

Tilt screen would be a respectable upgrade, but the AF system is really where the 6D could use a bump. I would expect a modest increase in resolution maybe to 22-25 MP. I'll keep my 6D and continue to dream of owning a new piece of glass.

I'm sure you have visited Montezuma Pass in the Huachucas. If not, it is an amazing vantage point for sunsets, sunrises and thunderstorms. I've only been there once, but we were blessed with a beautiful afternoon of monsoon activity as a group of us from Tucson made our way from Sonoita down to the border, across the San Rafael valley, and over the pass into SV. I hope to make it back through there sometime soon. Cheers!

It seems to me that PN activity was in decline before 2.0 rolled out. It was especially noted in the Canon Thursday thread. When I first joined we would get 10-12 pages each week, and at that time you could only post one image. But the page count of that thread dwindled before 2.0, despite the photo allowance being upped to 3. Also, the new thread topics were more plentiful and diverse when I was new here. Now it's just no words threads and the older guys lamenting about how it (photo.net or photography in general) isn't like it used to be. Not much content to engage in nowadays. Oh look, there I go lamenting about the good ol' days. Lol.

 

Anyway, I keep hoping that the activity here is cyclical, and it's just going through a trough right now. I myself am in a photographic trough, as having two kids under 3 and a wife who works evenings makes it near impossible to devote any time to hobbies. I admit that I haven't explored much more than the forums since 2.0 (or is it 2.1?) went live, but I don't have any trouble navigating.

I shoot RAW because: I have an impatient wife who gets tired of waiting for me while I set up my shots when we are out on an adventure.

I shoot JPG because: I have an impatient wife who gets annoyed when I spend too much time in post and can't share our adventures with our friends on social media in a timely manner.

 

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Outbreak

Here's dumb luck. Synchronized motion blur.

<p>Hey John, welcome! I'm in Tucson as well.</p>

<p>David, it's amazing how some people react to "big fancy cameras". Though, in my experience, rather than stirring suspicion it just heightens everyone's expectations of my ability. My "big fancy camera" garners a lot of requests for event and portrait photography, which I am really not comfortable with.</p>

<p>More adventures than scrapes so far for me. Last August I got up at 2am on the peak of the Perseids with the idea of heading away from the city to shoot meteors. I had this vision that overlooking an active open pit copper mine would make for an interesting nightscape. So I picked up my dad in the middle of the night (he's such a sport) and off we went. They were cloudy skies over Tucson, but I was hoping we'd drive out from under them as we approached the mine a couple hours away. No such luck! In fact, it got a bit drizzly as we got to it. Undeterred, I made for the pit overlook on the side of the highway. Wouldn't you know it - there was no overlook anymore! Where you used to be able to see across the pit from the highway, now there's 20-foot high earthworks traversing the length of the mine property. Weather be damned, we weren't going to get the shot I had envisioned regardless. So we turned around and headed toward home with nary a shutter click. Along the way we did see that the clouds were breaking up, so we stopped and got our cameras out, but by then there wasn't much time before the sky started getting too bright and we never captured any meteors. We did see a nice sunrise that morning though.</p>

<p>This past Thursday we tried it again! Different destination this time - a picturesque mountain range in the desert northwest of the city, only an hour away this time. We got hung up (literally) three miles short of the destination. Heavy thunderstorms earlier in the week had washed out the dirt road. With a 4x4 pickup I thought "No problem! The low angle of the headlights makes all of the bumps and dips loom larger than they really are. We can make it across." Wrong! The truck got hung up on the bank of the wash with the front wheels down in the soft sandy wash and the rear wheels up on the road. We made some futile attempts to stack rocks under the wheels to give them something to grip, but forward or reverse, they just spun and the truck didn't budge. So we went ahead and started shooting from there. I did not get the mountain foreground I was after, but I did get some milky way and meteor shots that I'm pretty happy with as a beginner to astrophotography (I'll have to share one when I've processed it to my liking). Just about sunrise the border patrol came along and pulled us out. Just in time! By then the awakening mosquitoes had been alerted to our presence.</p>

<p>Who knows what adventure the Perseids will bring us next year! Hopefully my dad is still up for whatever. It's becoming a tradition.</p><div></div>

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<p>When it was announced, there seemed to be a lot of interest. A lot of questions, at least. At the time, it seemed a common plan was to post for-sale works at hi-res while keeping the rest of their portfolio low-res.</p>

<p>I uploaded some of my own for sale just to buy them for myself. The PNet price was a good bit lower than the price on the CPop web page, but still higher than Costco. It is not clear if the listed price through PNet already included the discount for buying my own work. Oddly, I was not given the gallery wrap option, even though CPop offers it on their standard site.</p>

<p>Members have been able to sell their photography through CanvasPop for 2+ years now. I'm just curious how it's going. Has anyone sold any works through this benefit, other than to themselves?</p>

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