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Shot shortly after midnight in southern Wisconsin: May 11, 2024

Looks like it's all about wifi connection security. Meh.

Before we get the forum littered with everyone's eclipse photos, how about we get a thread for them all? I have 2 to start with. However I only have begun going through my photos. I made mistakes, but I also did some stuff right. I was in Benton, Illinois for this one. Northeast of Carbondale...

After ending 2023 on a high note, let's drop the expectations down a bit to begin 2024. Unable to get a view of eagles in the fog at a new spot. Tried a landscape shot instead.

Looks like you want to update before it's too late. • Fixed an issue that in rare circumstances resulted in the camera failing to turn on if it had not been used for an extended period.

This image is only a proof-of-concept at this stage. I'm hoping to get pictures of the sun on another day with even more active sunspots. My idea here was to just do a sky replacement. Sun shot with a dark solar filter. And I did this manually with a photo I took of the sky at the same 600mm...

https://www.space.com/brian-may-launches-astrophotography-competition The subject is Solar System objects on this. We are in prime season for photographing Saturn and near prime for Jupiter. So I think somebody with a very nice Newtonian or other reflector telescope is going to walk away with...

It's astrophotography, but definitely not nightime or low-light. This is another practice run for next April's solar eclipse. I will do another run on a less-hot day and try to dial in my tracking telescope mount without having any stars to align to (besides the sun). This is with Z5, Sigma...

Walked outside to a business parking lot and found this hawk easily close enough to throw a rock at. I only had my cellphone or my Lumix DSC-ZS6 superzoom point-n-shoot. The Panasonic is much easier to shoot with, and the Leica lens zooms 12X. I keep it full-time in my go-bag that I normally...

What can I say. My older Sunpak tripod wanted to have a purpose again. This is a tripod that I had broken 6 years ago, sent in for warranty repair, and was inspired to at least replace the unstable pistol-grip head following that. I since bought a new tripod which I transplanted that...

This one is forecast to brighten to just naked-eye visible around the last week of January 2023. During this time it will appear in the sky to the north, right in there with the Big and Little Dippers. It may take a long telephoto lens to photograph it well. It will be less than half as bright...

Inspiration does not strike on regular basis, but when it does I'll share it here. January 1 trip to Prairie du Sac, WI.

It is Thanksgiving and I am running a little behind in my annual calendar creation. My Christmas gifts every year for family and coworkers is my own photo calendar. I did a quick search and I see @hark mentions having made custom calendars. I have used 4 different printers since 2010 for doing...

I have to admit I struggle still with some things with this camera. Two weeks ago I tried taking Milky Way photos, but rediscovered that you cannot use the intervalometer in manual mode. It rudely reminded me I needed to be in A or P mode to use the feature. I started a sequence in A mode as I...

I did a walk in downtown Chicago back in 2008. At the time I was shooting a D80 and using an older 24mm f/2.8D lens. Difference today is that I revisited the original Jpegs (this is before Raw processing for me) and worked them in RawTherapee. Originally I would have just made small adjustements...

Windmill farm near Fennimore, Wisconsin. Nikon Z5 + Carl Zeiss 15mm f/2.8 Distagon

Many of us have the Sigma 150-600mm C lens. It's one of the best value super-telephotos out there. For all of it's great points, it does have a shortcoming in the tripod foot. Literally, it's too short. Don't we just have to install a long Arca-Swiss quick-release plate and it's all good? Not...

Now that I have an extra-beefy tripod and ball-head, I am thinking once again about picking up a gimbal head. I think I last visited the idea seriously in 2018 when I decided on the big ball-head instead. Instead of the full swing-arm Wimberly-type, I think my Sirui K-40 ball-head can easily...

Starting this with a series taken near Darlington, WI. A storm front had recently moved through and I had dramatic clouds with sunshine.

This is a scene looking from the front parking area of a client location for me. I keep coming here and thinking I see a photo to take, but I just lose it in the viewfinder. Today I tried with my 15mm Zeiss lens. It was cloudy and sort of bland color today. I might be on to something with...