If you guys use photo editing software at all, you can get more details in the clouds if you drop your highlights.

Nice photos Jason!

Moving the conversation from the grind thread.

 Do you shoot in manual mode?

Most of the time.  It depends on what I’m doing. Every time I go out I learn something new. It can be frustrating when the moment passes and you didn’t get the shot because of inexperience. Landscapes I use a tripod and same for stars.  At least you can plan for most of these.  I used a stacking program a 4 or 5 years ago. Things may have improved since then.

Last year I was playing with time lapses and shutter speed. 70D doesn’t have a built in intervelometer so that can be interesting.

Nice photos Jason!

 

Moving the conversation from the grind thread.

 

 

Most of the time.  It depends on what I’m doing. Every time I go out I learn something new. It can be frustrating when the moment passes and you didn’t get the shot because of inexperience. Landscapes I use a tripod and same for stars.  At least you can plan for most of these.  I used a stacking program a 4 or 5 years ago. Things may have improved since then.

 

Last year I was playing with time lapses and shutter speed. 70D doesn’t have a built in intervelometer so that can be interesting.

Yes, I have been there. Or forgotten to change my settings and had people with blurry faces because my aperture was too wide.

I would love to try astrophotography. There's a guy local to me that shoots really cool pictures- Kevin Roylance. My problem is that I'm not really willing to drive around in the middle of the night, and we don't get out hiking as much as I'd like for landscapes.

Depending on the look you're going for you can do focus stacking or HDR edits. I'm personally not a lover of HDR but it has its applications.

One of the reasons that I upgraded my camera is that the low light performance wasn't great, I would get a fair amount of grain starting at ISO400. I'm looking forward to trying some of those techniques with this camera. From what I understand astrophotography can be a real guessing game of balancing your ISO and shutter interval.

I need to learn video editing. I shot a bunch of footage the last time we went to Hawaii with the intent to make a short video and never did it. So now I'm waiting til after our trip in February so that I can do both the old and new one during the same free trial of Adobe Premier Pro 

^^ YouTube.  Almost anything that you can think of is on there. How long is the Adobe Premiere subscription before it becomes obligatory?  I picked up Final Cut because I didn’t need another monthly payment (and didn’t want to learn another application).

 

I have learned quite a lot about Final Cut using YouTube

I can do a free 30 day trial with my lightroom/PS CC subscription. Then its a monthly fee i can remove at any time.

Mta- i use YouTube all the time for editing techniques

I agree, looks good.  I usually drop highlights and increase contrast in my photos.

Here's one that I took early today at work.  I dropped the highlights for this one as well, and used the Vivid filter on my iPhone.

(I was standing on top of a closed landfill when I took this photo, and the grass has grown over the final dirt cover of the old landfill trash.  When a landfill reaches maximum capacity, it closes, and must be inspected for 30 years after closure while also submitting quarterly methane monitoring and twice-a-year groundwater monitoring.  This particular landfill closed back in 1996.  I walked the slopes and checked for any leaking liquid, and I checked the groundwater/methane wells to make sure they were in good condition. Considering this spot used to be a landfill, it's quite scenic.)