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My wife hardly knows the filters exist...but by default 4+ is selected

I am interested in how Matt sorts his. The one difference in our shooting is that when I take pictures in an attempt to get them at golden hour I might end up with 50 of the same shot. Normally many can work and until you process them it is hard to know. This is why my 3's aren't emptied...as I never finish the processing.

I do try to rate as fast as possible. Usually 400pics at a time, lol. Scroll through, rate & delete. Then I sort by 5 and start doing processing, if I have time leftover I do a few 4's to see if they can become 5's...although that is rare. The 3's I never get around to deleting, but could across all my pictures in seconds.

The other problem you will have is as you take better pictures you will look back and like less what you are shooting now.

There is. I use stars. 5 stars is exported, 4 I keep and 3 and below you can search for and delete. *I should add I cheat my own method and use a 1 star but only for 10 minutes as those get deleted instantly. Anything out of focus.

Type in a sentence so people can respond.

I haven't had that pickup in more than 7 years. Amps are long gone as well. And if you re-read I never said JL sucks, said that the price performance is retarded but of course you have the reading comprehension of a 6 year old so no surprise you fucked that up.

God you suck at the internet. I should have made this thread the day you joined. It'd be 500 pages by now.

ROFL

Also DO NOT use folders in light room. The year is acceptable, but also unecessary as that info is kept. You will notice at about 20,000 pictures though the software slows down and you should make a new catalog.

The reality is though if it isn't great you don't want to show it to anyone....and the anyone includes yourself. I am just not that mature in my shooting yet.

Simplify that one step further. Backup the WHOLE lightroom catalog to another location. Then just copy pictures you want onto Drive. I highly suggest using a flag or rating system. Deleting isn't really necessary although good practice. There are 2 schools of thoughts in cataloging pictures. Mark ONLY the ones you like and delete the shit or add one more flag in the middle. I use the latter approach. Garbage, Keep , Nice. The "keep" I generally use as a box in case one that I develop in the Nice category has a flaw that a secondary shot may not. Also a decent place for pictures of other peoples stuff that you don't want to delete today, but may never want to look at again. Any more than 3 choices in your rating system will fuck you. I actually think 2 is better....but the what if causes the engineer in me to keep too much.

If my ramblings don't make sense I can clarify, but of course the best is for you to shoot pictures at both settings and post them and compare. It becomes even more clear. Doing great so far btw. I like the creativity of the mirror focus btw.

I think you are starting to see why your questions further show a fixed focus lens is definitely the best way to start. You are going to skip years of nonsense photos since the lens is forcing you to think. Great choice and buy by the way

This then comes to the question you had while shopping and is now related to printing. If you are only viewing 1080p or under 8.5x11 pictures if you want more of your target in focus (ie the ears) just back up and then crop in post processing to get the close up. You may ask the logical question which is why not just use 1.8 or 2.0 instead to do the same. The answer is of course then you need a slower shutter speed as you will have 1 or 2 stops less light when you do that.

That is why I referenced an X or a cone. An optic is just that an optic, you can't change it's properties as it is what it is.

In other words if you put a 70-200mm 2.8 on a full frame and a crop and shoot the exact same picture at the same focal length on both the dof will be the same

You had a hard time searching since you searched for depth of field without reference to the actual target being shot. ie, is the assumption that you are closer to the subject but have the same field of view or a different one? For you this question was never a though since you cannot zoom, but the whole internet world gets confused once you add the zoom into the equation and can't discuss it logically. ie, the net thinks you were looking for a difference in dof using a 50mm for a headshot at X distance or a 70mm headshot at X+Y distance with the same overall picture. Then the answer is they are the same.

Your conclusion is right, but summarized in a way that is confusing. Perhaps easiest to explain without terminology, but with an analogy. Think of your focus as an X. At the center of the X you are dead nuts in focus at the edges you aren't. You are always at the left side of the X and the background always the right. You can stretch the X in either direction by walking closer or further away. In both cases the center of the X moves relative to the background. The further from the center you are the softer the focus. You can't however change the angle of the X differently on one side than the other. What this means in practice is that the closer you get to your subject the more the background will be out of focus (assuming that the subject to background are a fixed distance from each other). You can see this example in your pictures. The baby close up has ears that are out of focus, but the one of the ladies has all their ears in better focus and much more. This is why I recommended that you have them step further away from the background since you can't get closer to them without losing part of the shot.

Set Iso on Auto and choose manual mode. Then you can set your shutter, aperature and exposure. It will however shoot in this mode even if it shouldn't. So you have to pay a lot of attention.

I don't think subs smoke weed.

Nice, I've been enjoying my Escalade. Going to be sweet.

Board and identical are far from the same thing. Interesting that you have a brand boner for JL but don't seem to understand rudimentary anything regarding amplifiers.

My wife complains she is never in any of the pictures...

Same with the anti-paparazzi. Tell her she is going to get subjected to this a ton as that is the only way you will have the right shots to preserve your memories.