Good question!

You mean “medicare for all”? As someone who’s old enough to qualify for medicare I have to point out that it’s not ‘single payer’. It’s really catastrophic medical-only insurance that you have to pay for. Many people think it’s free because you can opt to have it deducted automatically from your Social Security…

Only “Dance like no one’s watching...” did NOT come from Twain. It doesn’t even sound like him. It’s Clark and Leigh. I didn’t know that to start, but I’ve read enough Twain to have a “hunh?” reaction and go googling...

Color correction happens when it goes to the printer, so there’s no avoiding that when putting to paper. Might as well get it right.

If you’re like me and hauling a bunch of weight around (minimalist for me is a FF camera with a wide prime on it, zoom and fast portrait prime in the bag) Check out Op-Tech’s SOS (save our shoulders) strap. They’ve got a bit of ‘bounce in them and make the bag it’s attached to feel lighter (same idea as the Op-Tech…

Kind of tough to re-do composition after you take a shot, other than maybe crop. But I’m more about “holy shit, look at that! - and being able to share that, or, with compositional tools, lighting and selective focus, to be able to pull a viewer into seeing what I saw, and hopefully have the same reaction I did.…

I had my 85 f/1.4 AF-D grow legs and walk away :-(. I ended up buying one of the new 85 f/1.8 AF-Gs. DXO says it’s sharper than the D, but I still like the D better. Rose-colored hindsight? Clearly better coatings: I can point it at the sun (during sunset) and not get flare/ghosting or lose much contrast. I’ve been…

I’ve also got a 7000 and have not in 50K+ shots have seen splatter. Dirt, yes. Splatter, nope. Guess I got lucky. That was my first non-film Nikon. Picked it because it had an autofocus motor and I had AF-D lenses.

I’m an amateur, but I pretty much always do color correction - if only to choose a preset (I shoot with UniWB to get sort-of truthful histograms with RAW).

Right.

That would be an oil spot I missed (blush). It isn’t magic; you have to tell it what to repair. I had the healing brush the same diameter as the spots and just tapping on each one. Intelligent fill seems to also mean ‘feather edges’. Do you see one of the ones I did do?

Not the clone stamp of earlier versions of PS (pre5?), which the article author seemed to be referring to with “repeating pixels”. You can also rotate pixels from source to target in 6 dunno about earlier.

D600.

Thanks! The sun was going down, and I was rather taken with the reflection of the sundown light from the cloud to the lake.

Nothing full frame is exactly light. You can go mirrorless and save a bit but the lenses are still big/heavy.

D600. Nikon’s replacing the shutter under warranty - which they extended for this model (after that stonewalling debacle) essentially forever. I just started getting the splatter at 112K shots.

Why would you consider color correction to be ‘doctoring’? Camera sensors don’t work like eye/brain systems. The point of color correction is to make the photograph look the way the shot did to the photographer, so a bit more ‘true’.

Misattributions happen pretty often on the Internet - A. Lincoln

I’ve been doing it for 20+ years and no issues.

...an extensive campaign to try to discredit some of the journalists...