ShunCheung

Meadowlark: by chance, I came across this image from a decade ago, 2014, captured with a Nikon D7100 and 80-400 AF-S VR zoom.

Don't see anything particularly wrong with that image. You have a bright window and a pretty dark room with dark furniture. The D750 may assume you want some details for the furniture in the room. It is a scene with very high contrast that requires manual control and perhaps some fill flash to brighten up the interior.

The south west part is correct. 😃 Since I know Rob is from the UK, I was searching the image for the AC outlets. There is one UK-style plug visible.

Note: Consider keeping uploads no larger than 1600 pixels on the long side when it matters, and sticking with 1000 pixels when the image feels no pain at that resolution. On data size/compression, try to keep things under 1mb, shooting for 600kb when you can stop there. Note that this includes photos hosted off-site (at Flickr, Photobucket, your own site, etc.). New to this thread? The general guidelines for these Wednesday threads are right here: https://www.photo.net/forums/topic/398109-guidelines-for-nikon-forum-wednesday-image-threads. For now, we're sticking with 1, 2, or 3 images per week as you see fit. This Forster's tern kept diving into the lake to catch worms, but apparently those worms were very slippery and fell back into the lake. The tern went in after them over and over, this giving me plenty of photo opportunities. Notice that in the second image, the worm split into two, and most of that fell back in.

Captured this @ 120 fps and got the moment.

My parents bought a Nikon EM back in 1979. It was one of the first budget film SLR that used the Nikon brand name, instead of Nikkormat or Nikomat. It shouldn't be surprising that the shutter has issues after some 40+ years. Not sure it is worthwhile to fix it. My father may still have his EM, but I haven't seen it in decades. Sorry I can't help you, but I wonder whether it is worthwhile to fix an EM.

Note: Consider keeping uploads no larger than 1600 pixels on the long side when it matters, and sticking with 1000 pixels when the image feels no pain at that resolution. On data size/compression, try to keep things under 1mb, shooting for 600kb when you can stop there. Note that this includes photos hosted off-site (at Flickr, Photobucket, your own site, etc.). New to this thread? The general guidelines for these Wednesday threads are right here: https://www.photo.net/forums/topic/398109-guidelines-for-nikon-forum-wednesday-image-threads. For now, we're sticking with 1, 2, or 3 images per week as you see fit. The same two types of birds as last week: brown pelican and snowy egret

Cormorant with catch

The problem with one subject out of focus is that the viewer's eyes are trying to resolve it, thus getting attention, but it is an image, not an actual person so that the eyes will not be able to resolve the focus. I find it particularly distracting when the subject that is closer to the camera is out of focus.

You can shoot f16 and still won't get both singers within depth of field. If your camera is on a tripod. you can merge two exposures with separate focus on each singer, but the background could be an issue if there is focus breathing.

Not bathing, but I have a video of a California Towhee attacking their own reflection off a car window and mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVqJK05tggE

Nice picture, but using the 135mm Plena @ f1.8 on two subjects will certainly have (at least) one of them totally out of focus. This is probably a perfect case to merge two different exposures, one with each subject in focus, since there is no overlap between the two singers.

Note: Consider keeping uploads no larger than 1600 pixels on the long side when it matters, and sticking with 1000 pixels when the image feels no pain at that resolution. On data size/compression, try to keep things under 1mb, shooting for 600kb when you can stop there. Note that this includes photos hosted off-site (at Flickr, Photobucket, your own site, etc.). New to this thread? The general guidelines for these Wednesday threads are right here: https://www.photo.net/forums/topic/398109-guidelines-for-nikon-forum-wednesday-image-threads. For now, we're sticking with 1, 2, or 3 images per week as you see fit. Two different fishing methods: The snowy egret is about to swallow a shrimp, but the brown pelican scopes up a lot of tiny fishes and swallows them all.