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Now that this site exists, how do we inspire activity? We've had one post each in Q&A and Gear Recommendations. Are there site-configuration changes that people are waiting for? (If so, just...
I am looking for a tripod that I can take hiking/backpacking. Features I would be looking for would be Light and compact. Steady enough to do hour-long time-lapses with. Does not need to be re...
I'm a moderator for Hardware Recommendations on SE, so I have some experience (and some strong opinions...) on this one. Let's go through your suggestions. Where can I buy this particular camera?...
Storm over Mesa Verde This was taken 16 Aug 2018 from the side of the highway a little west of Mancos Colorado. The storm clouds looked so dramatic that I stopped to take a picture.
Comet Neowise Groton Massachusetts, 20 July 2020, 22:19. 135 mm, full frame (24 x 36 mm) sensor, 4 seconds.
This is fixed and rolling out with the next build.
Taken just a few yards from my other photo, this shot from December 26, 2019 contrasts colorful streaks of dying daylight with the heavy brutalism of Lenox MARTA station and twin railroad tracks cu...
2020/08/07, shot from near Ottawa, ON. Canon Rebel T6 with 55-250 lens @ 180mm, ISO 100, f/18, 1/6 second Not the first "just the moon" photo posted here by any means, but certainly the first dece...
The focus now should be on building the site; we don't yet have much to moderate, after all. The admins (ArtOfCode, Luap42, and I) keep an eye on all sites to take care of administrative requests ...
What is the current situation with moderation? I wasn't sure if we had any moderators or modtools or similar things.
One thing you can do is blur the background further. This is achieved by having a lower f-stop (you can think of it as aperture). If you are using a cellphone, this is the same thing as portrait mo...
This is called a Deepam. I decided to take a photo of it (cuz I was bored), so here we go. Shutter speed: 1/200 ISO: 4000 apparently F-Stop: 5.6 Camera: Nikon D5000
Shutter speed Shutter speed is the inverse of exposure time: i.e. it measures how long the camera collects light. This is the parameter with most flexibility: most cameras support shutter speeds at...
Rules that are always applicable are as follows: One photo per answer, and no more than 5 answers per user per contest. Post only photos taken by yourself/person with you. All entries should inclu...
Thunderstorm over Mt Elden 18 Aug 2014 northeast of Flagstaff Arizona. I was on the east side of the ridge, so didn't get much warning about this thunderstorm coming from the west. A few minutes ...
I've been taking pictures with my phone and really enjoy it. I want to buy a more serious camera and get more into this hobby. These cameras seem to have a lot of buttons and dials. With my phone, ...
Questions that have many answers (4+?) have a table of contents that provides details of every answer: currently, the score and some first words. In the photo contests, wouldn't it be helpful if t...
Some time ago I asked a question about photographing flames without them ending up fuzzy and blurry. I took this picture during Chanukah 2020, using manual settings on my cell-phone camera, but ...
No. Dirt happens. Phones don't magically get dirty less than lenses of high end cameras. In fact, the opposite is true. Even a semi-serious camera lens has a cap or hood. This is a simple mech...
If your subjects are privy to what you are doing you could also add a large neutral grey board with a high contrast focus target at the same distance as your subjects that will be cut away from bo...
Rules that are always applicable are as follows: One photo per answer, and no more than 5 answers per user per contest. Post only photos taken by yourself/person with you. All entries should i...
I record the GPS locations of my pictures but for privacy and other reasons I would like to strip the EXIF data before I upload them online. Looking for a program that, Will process multiple im...
Butterfly on bracken, Muckross House (Killarney, Ireland), July 2017. Spotted on one of the paths a moderate way from the main house, shot with my Nikon D5300 and 70-300mm AF-S @ 300mm, f/5.6, IS...
Long skimmer (Orthetrum trinacria), Tancat de la Pipa, July 2017. Taken with my D5300 and 70-300mm AF-S @ 300mm, f/5.6, ISO 800, 1/2000 sec. A local privately owned nature reserve partnered with...
The image actually didn't come out this badly, I had to reduce the quality since I always shoot RAW. I took this in the morning, when I looked out my window and saw the sun behind the clouds. Sett...
