Going to be a long week and hope it's on time.

Sony 200-600

Nikon folks I need some help.

Have a d750 and testing out to do some star trails while in Cararact Canyon rafting in a few weeks.

Set up for 30s exposures. Interval setup with five seconds between shots. Set for 1 shot per interval, 120 intervals. Hit go. be

I get somewhere between 18-24 shots and then it just stops. Thought it might e the standby setting, changed that to infinity, still does the same thing.

I don't know what else it could be.

I know absolutely nil about cameras. My 12 year old wants one she can take videos of her puppy with, but I don't want to spend $500 on a camera for a beginner. I was thinking more around $150 or less.

BMo said:

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Going to be a long week and hope it's on time.

Sony 200-600

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After a week delay my order is in the warehouse but more importantly, they took my money this AM.

Awesome! Looking forward to testing that lens out next week at the Sony Kando Trip in Oregon (will also be testing out the new a7rIV).

AG 2000' said:

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Nikon folks I need some help.

Have a d750 and testing out to do some star trails while in Cararact Canyon rafting in a few weeks.

Set up for 30s exposures. Interval setup with five seconds between shots. Set for 1 shot per interval, 120 intervals. Hit go. be

I get somewhere between 18-24 shots and then it just stops. Thought it might e the standby setting, changed that to infinity, still does the same thing.

I don't know what else it could be.

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Figured this out, so nevermind on the ask.

It would be great to hear the "fix"?

Getting back into the photography hobby after a long absence.

What are the thoughts on Lightroom and the Adobe Creative Cloud? Let's assume I snap a minimum of 300 shots a week, is it appropriate?

BQ92 said:

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Getting back into the photography hobby after a long absence.

What are the thoughts on Lightroom and the Adobe Creative Cloud? Let's assume I snap a minimum of 300 shots a week, is it appropriate?

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I think the operative question is are you willing to pay for it?

I do.

dubi said:

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It would be great to hear the "fix"?

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I was using the interval timer setup in the camera.

I had set the intervals at 4 seconds thinking that would give the camera time to write to the card before starting another exposure.

After some experimenting though, changed the interval to 34 seconds. Then it worked.

So it seems like the interval is working in parallel to the exposure settings I had (30s per shot). Basically, it was trying to fire the trigger every four seconds, but couldn't because the exposure was running for thirty seconds.

The math also worked out on it -

When I was doing 120 exposures:

120 exposures x 4 second interval = 480 seconds to do the interval. Divided by 34s, was getting 14 shots in the set.

When I bumped it to 180 exposures, got 21 photos.

That interval setting is very counterintuitive, especially when married with the time exposure settings.

MonkeyKnifeFighter said:

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AG 2000' said:

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AG 2000' said:

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Nikon folks I need some help.

Have a d750 and testing out to do some star trails while in Cararact Canyon rafting in a few weeks.

Set up for 30s exposures. Interval setup with five seconds between shots. Set for 1 shot per interval, 120 intervals. Hit go. be

I get somewhere between 18-24 shots and then it just stops. Thought it might e the standby setting, changed that to infinity, still does the same thing.

I don't know what else it could be.

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Figured this out, so nevermind on the ask.

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Don't leave 5 second pauses, unless you want gaps in your trails. You want to take frames over and over, back to back.

Set your shutter drive mode to "continuous", as if you were going to shoot bursts at sports. Use a wired remote, and lock the button pressed down the whole time. With the long shutter speed, it'll just shoot 30 second exposures until you disengage the locked button to tell it to stop.

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Will try this out tonight too, thanks.

BQ92 said:

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Getting back into the photography hobby after a long absence.

What are the thoughts on Lightroom and the Adobe Creative Cloud? Let's assume I snap a minimum of 300 shots a week, is it appropriate?

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Buy PS Elements. Its 95% of Photoshop for $99. Its also frequently on sale at B&H Photo. I think I got the Elements and Premier bundle for $69 on black Friday.

If you find you need more or Elements is truely limiting your work, then look into ceative cloud.

I think there is also a good free editing software out there.

I've been trying to figure out how to do milky way/star photography but am having minimal luck.

I tried getting out in my back yard last night just to run some tests but the light pollution was a little too much. I was able to locate the milky way and snap some shots but nothing that turned out very well.

I've got a pretty basic setup so that may be the problem.

One thing everyone mentions is you need to focus your lens on infinity. What is my best course of action if none of my lenses have infinity marked on them?

Just get to a dark sky and don't worry about the infinity focus part?

If you can set up while there is still some light just try to focus on an object that's far out and then you should be in focus when you aim to the sky

First dabble with star trails, pretty happy with how it turned out. Annoyed with the plane trails but don't feel like editing them out.

I've almost gone to big bend a couple of times this summer but changed my mind last minute as I really wanted to go while the monsoon was producing storms in the area for lightning. I may try to go in the next couple of weekends though.

MBAR said:

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I've almost gone to big bend a couple of times this summer but changed my mind last minute as I really wanted to go while the monsoon was producing storms in the area for lightning. I may try to go in the next couple of weekends though.

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You might watch the forecast for the area. I was hoping for the same thing while I was there, but there were no storms the week I was there. I wanted to get some lightning as well, but no luck. Just HOT and dry. The last couple of years was better.

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MBAR said:

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I've almost gone to big bend a couple of times this summer but changed my mind last minute as I really wanted to go while the monsoon was producing storms in the area for lightning. I may try to go in the next couple of weekends though.

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You might watch the forecast for the area. I was hoping for the same thing while I was there, but there were no storms the week I was there. I wanted to get some lightning as well, but no luck. Just HOT and dry. The last couple of years was better.

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Yeah I've been watching the models pretty consistently. For awhile its had a big zero for precip through 200+ hours were they don't do very well anyway. But the same ridge that giving us 100+ here in SE TX is keeping it dry there.

Looks like there might be a chance about 10ish days out on the last weekend before the fall semester. Will be a fairly moonless then too.

I find myself watching the weather and moon all the time hoping for that perfect night sky.
Then I have to convince myself to make the drive out to dark skies "just" to take pictures for an hour or two and drive back -- can make for a long night, but its a lot of fun

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I would not buy PS elements. Just use lightroom

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You can't "buy" Lightroom. You have to subscribe. For an amateur, PSE will cover everything and not cost you $120/yr, year after year.

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TexasAggie_02 said:

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I would not buy PS elements. Just use lightroom

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You can't "buy" Lightroom. You have to subscribe. For an amateur, PSE will cover everything and not cost you $120/yr, year after year.

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A: I never said "buy", i said "use"
B: he/she said that they shoot 300 pics a week, so over 15k a year.

Elements is a cheap, watered down version of photoshop. I think that editing would be much easier in Lightroom

no matter what you get, there is going to be a learning curve. in the case of PSE, that learning curve is going to result in a wall where you will get nothing else out of it when it's limitations become apparent. You will then will just end up moving to something better anyways. Then you get to re-learn everything with a new program.

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IJones23 said:

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I know absolutely nil about cameras. My 12 year old wants one she can take videos of her puppy with, but I don't want to spend $500 on a camera for a beginner. I was thinking more around $150 or less.

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Used iPhone.

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Yeah, the iPhone has made the consumer level point and shoot obsolete. If she wants to really learn how to shoot, I'd recommend something like a Panasonic GH2 with a 25mm lens -- good video, good stills, has manual controls that she can learn on and auto controls when she just wants to shoot, cheap enough -- but it isn't 150 and if she likes it, she'll want a newer camera body like the GH5 ($$$) at some point. KEH should have the GH2 for an OK price. Don't hesitate to get a Bargain rated one. I still shoot my GH1 from time to time for stills.

If you get an iPhone, make sure it is a 6s or later.

I just love the creativity of this photographer! Link

Anyone have some advice for taking pictures of a house? I plan on using a 50 and a 12 (f/2's), and have read about lighting and angles, and have been taking notes on pictures that look great and those that suck. What are your tips?