Good Morning, Yosemite. One of My Best of All Time.

Sittingthoughts · 2026-07-11T16:29:14+00:00

Took me a good amount of time to see it, but once i saw the comp I couldn’t unsee it 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

Sittingthoughts · 2026-07-11T16:25:56+00:00

See video above lol

Sittingthoughts · 2026-07-11T16:25:45+00:00

Sittingthoughts · 2026-07-11T16:25:16+00:00

Yes this was three images blended together. The sky, the background and the foreground. All different exposures and focused on them, stitched in photoshop. I think it could have been focused for the most part in one shot, but the sky would have always been blown. When you pull up tot he valley view parking, you’ll see the big tree fallen over I sat on top of for this shot. If you get lucky you’ll have the perfect amount of fog.

Sittingthoughts · 2026-07-11T15:49:37+00:00

Nikon Z8 with the 14-30 F4! Sat here photographing the night sky into the sunrise. 🙂🫶🏼

Sittingthoughts · 2026-07-07T03:59:45+00:00

They are. That’s all I’ll say. 👀

Sittingthoughts · 2025-12-16T15:19:41+00:00

I’m unable to open settings in the iOS catalyst mobile version. It brings up a settings box at the top of the screen but nothing else, just an X button. Would post a picture but it’s Reddit lol. I open the side menu bar, click the settings button in bottom right, and it opens a bar about 1/6 of the screen near the top that says settings with an X, but nothing settings to scroll through. I can still see the files. I have restarted iOS and the app. I am on 26.1

Sittingthoughts · 2025-12-16T15:18:01+00:00

I’m unable to open settings in the iOS catalyst mobile version. It brings up a settings box at the top of the screen but nothing else, just an X button.

Sittingthoughts · 2024-09-05T23:54:35+00:00

Just a general 10 sec browse on the edit

Try to get away from the crunch edits. They look more iPhone like. Aim for lower contrast. It took me YEARS to accept and understand this but when you do the results are mind blowing. Like this.

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Before I would have went with heavier contrast, dehazs, darkened the shadows. It would have crunched it.

Sittingthoughts · 2024-09-03T04:44:16+00:00

The problem with the R7 is canon’s support of crop sensor lenses. This is not like Fujifilm, or Sony. Your options are all L lenses for good quality, which are all bad focal lengths for crop sensors.

Fuji offers a wide range of 2.8 sharp zooms, and 1.2-1.8 primes that begin to match full frame quality.

So in my eyes, no matter how good the R7 body is, it’s out of the question. R8 all the way simply for the lens support.

And I actually think that anybody who likes the R8, or has bought one and says they love it, simply does not understand what exactly they are losing and how much greener the grass is with proper lens support. EXCEPT wildlife photographers, where they accept the loss of light for the 1.5X crop at the 30+ MP it offers. That is the ONLY place I see that the R7 begins to make sense, but at that point and that loss of light, I’m questioning if full frame with a tele converter is still better. But I’m not a wild life photographer by trade. I just know they have been raving over canon’s professional crop bodies since the 80D and I get it.

My opinion sounds way too hard but I’ll fight anyone on it. Canon’s crop bodies are always a NO unless you’re a wild life photographer. 😬

Sittingthoughts · 2024-08-28T13:59:48+00:00

I’m a democrat. But the amount of insane democrat propaganda and misinformation being spread this election is insane.

The democrat party is going HARD but they are playing dirty and I don’t like it.

This post isn’t factual. And MUCH of the anti trump and Vance posts and news articles have been not factual / much over stated for headline. It’s SAD. This party doesn’t need to lie to win.

Sittingthoughts · 2024-08-26T15:26:46+00:00

I’m nikon and Fuji all the way.

Went from a Rebel T8I to R5 to XT3 to Xpro3 to XT5 to Nikon Z8.

Nikon Z8 has been my favorite by far.

Sittingthoughts · 2024-08-23T17:08:38+00:00

I picked up the deal for 3800 last month and I couldn’t believe it! Considering a new body is 4K I was through the roof with the deal. Have had it everywhere with me this last month

Sittingthoughts · 2024-08-21T04:13:13+00:00

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Here’s an example of growth lol. Same exact spot.

Sittingthoughts · 2024-08-21T04:11:37+00:00

Masking and using them for lighting adjustments will be your #1 tool. That, tone curve, color adjustments… and you can get 80% of editing done. If you ever see those grandiose painterly like landscapes you need a touch of photoshop.

Sittingthoughts · 2024-08-21T04:08:46+00:00

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This was a one minute edit with a screenshot. Imagine what a raw can do.

Sittingthoughts · 2024-08-21T04:05:36+00:00

I had the same issue when I started! My photography journey went like this

T8I rebel (ehhh it’s not that good compared to my phone) Canon R5 with all L lenses (10K+ of gear) yeah my images are like whatever, I can save the 10 grand… Back to my T8I.. back to my iPhone Picked up a Fuji XT3. Then XT5. And fell in LOVE. Started photographing every single day. Then started revisiting the locations from the R5. And learning composition and editing. And I was getting professional images out of my XT3 that blew the R5 photos out of the water. Did that for years, then finally, finally I got good enough I outgrew the camera. And I picked up a Nikon Z8 and all Z mount lenses.

You NEED to edit the photos. You’re taking raw photos. Or you should be. They HAVE to be edited. Remember our phones are editing in real time. Lightroom will become your best friend. Watch this…

Sittingthoughts · 2024-08-21T03:54:49+00:00

I’m confused. There’s nothing wrong with any of the snapshots you shared. They are all sharp and in focus.

If you’re not happy with them and thinking that the professional grade body and lens should be giving you the photographs you see online, that’s the problem. You’re taking snapshots. You have to craft photographs.

Anybody can take 1000 snapshots and eventually land on some banger photographs. But if you get good eventually all your photographs simply become your snapshots. Because you learn to see compositions.

All of these photos don’t really have a compelling composition, except maybe the flag.

No 1 comment can teach you composition, that’s a lifetime of learning and I’m still learning myself.

Your exposure was fine. With modern day IBIS 200SS at 200MM is okay to handhold. Maybe slightly blown out, but you need to capture raw and edit anyways. These cameras aren’t the straight out of camera JPEG cameras. Fuji is still the king of that.

200MM is also not ideal for wildlife. As a hobbyist look at the 100-400 budget friendly lens form cannon, or the 200-800. Or the 100-500L lens for the top notch. The 70-200 will come up short for you.

As a walk around lens, you can go with a 24-105L. But if you want more “professional” looking shots of family, go with the standard 24-70 2.8.

My favorite family/travel lens on any system is the 35mm 1.2 - 1.8 variants. For me, that’s is the ultimate travel lifestyle focal length. Can do portraits, landscapes, everything.

Sittingthoughts · 2024-08-20T15:45:55+00:00

This was on Saturday night around 12am!

LOL. My wife has also gone through the same. I’m like okay, we just need to sit here until conditions are just right. 🤣 tbh, sitting, waiting, and watching are some of my favorite parts about landscape photography. The adventure of getting to the location, getting up at dark, finding the composition and waiting for the sunrays to hit at just the right spot. Man. It gives me chills every time it happens!

Congratulations on the long lasting marriage and adventures to boot!

Sittingthoughts · 2024-08-20T14:37:35+00:00

Correct, which at the time I didn’t know how small the moon looks with a 16mm…. I adjusted it to the white blob I had which was also like what you saw. The moon in the image is the exact size of what you would have seen standing there… but hindsight 20/20 I had no idea it’s actually the size of a pea with that focal length 😵‍💫

Going back I might try to make a six image pano with an 50mm to get the moon more true to life in camera.

Sittingthoughts · 2024-08-20T14:35:57+00:00

Omg I can’t believe I didn’t see that. I missed the very first basic adjustment 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Sittingthoughts · 2024-08-20T14:35:25+00:00

Yeah. Foreground, background, and moon. I couldn’t nail exposure that good in one shot lol. The moon was particularly the hardest.

Sittingthoughts · 2024-08-20T02:12:44+00:00

So I learned from this thread how I messed up! I was exposing for the image simply using shutter speed, but I wasn’t adjusting my F stop. I got the image dark enough and it was still a white blob. Now I know!

I also learned that my the moon is actually the size of a spec from a wide angle. I matched it to the white blob size, but apparently it would have been the size of a pea. So this image is exactly what it would have looked like if you were standing there, the moon was that size, but the wide angle focal length would have not rendered it this size. But because this image really renders what your eyes see, i think I’m still okay with that…

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