Ezra Morley

I have several Western Digital (WD) 2TB drives that haven’t given me any trouble with over the last several years. (At least one of them survived a house fire, and it’s still working! Obviously I don’t keep any critical data on it, but it’s good for a secondary backup.) Of course, I’m sure you can find folks who have had zero trouble with Seagate…[Read more]

You’re welcome! Sorry it’s such bad news though. 😐

I personally wouldn’t trust a drive that has failed for anything more than non-important duplicate backups. I definitely wouldn’t keep files on it that aren’t duplicated somewhere else.

Yep, beeping is usually a pretty serious issue. 🙁
@blessingscaptured, how much are your files worth to you? I’ve heard good things about https://www.300dollardatarecovery.com/ but thankfully I’ve never had to use their services yet.

@charlesiv do you have any experience with drives like this? I was going to suggest booting a LiveCD with…[Read more]

I don’t have time to give a full answer at the moment, but I will say this: keep it unplugged until you figure out what you’re going to do. Recuva is probably not what you need, but something a lot more powerful. Can you post a pic of the drive showing the name/model number?

Yep, I can imagine a 24mm would be fun to play around with! @dfrazer‘s suggestion is a good one if you want to experiment with macro. Another option if you want to go “super macro”, is to try reversing the lens! 24mm is wide enough that it should give you some pretty decent close-ups reversed. You might even be able to reverse and use extension…[Read more]

@buddingphotographer Would you be able to get me the link to download this photo? Thanks so much!

Here you go! https://files.lenspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/22180038/Knight-Oro-copy-more-grass.png

It’s my pleasure! Happy to help any time. 🙂 Glad you got it sorted out!

@blessingscaptured, I think you’re only getting the forum thumbnail. The actual photo is 2000px. Try downloading it straight from this link: https://files.lenspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/22141802/Knight-Oro.jpg
(or click one of the thumbnails to open the photo in the forum “lightbox” viewer, and then right-click and “Save image as…”)

You’re welcome, @hannah-f!
Thank you! I am so happy that people enjoy the snowflake shots, because I certainly do! God’s creation at that tiny scale is no less magnificent or incredible than a 29,000 foot high mountain or a 36,000 foot deep ocean trench. “The Lord God made them all”.
I was able to take a few snowflake shots this winter for the…[Read more]

Hi @hannah-f, if you have a macro lens already, you certainly will get better results by not reversing it. 🙂 The usual reason for reversing a lens is if it can’t focus close enough to the subject to obtain a nice close-up photo. Since a dedicated macro lens is optimized for focusing up close, there is no reason to reverse it.

(Another reason…[Read more]

You’re very welcome, @lenorascholl! Glad you got it figured out. 🙂

Hi, @lenorascholl, welcome to the forums! I’ll be happy to help you with resizing and creating lower resolution thumbnails for posting online. First we need to know what kind of computer you’re using, cause Windows and Mac computers use different software to accomplish that task. Do you know which one you have?

As a general rule, the quickest…[Read more]

@pistol-pete, don’t panic. 🙂 Try changing from Manual mode back to one of the automatic modes, and see if you can get a “normal” picture that shows everything correctly. Once you’ve established that your camera does indeed work properly, then you can proceed to try for a silhouette.

In order to make a silhouette, you’re going to need a fairly st…[Read more]

No. Just a clear protective filter

That is almost surely the problem. Try removing it, and the problem should be greatly diminished.

Thanks for the help! I figured out how to resize images by exporting them from Photos. I also downloaded GIMP and that works, so I should have all I need now!

That’s great! Happy to help. 🙂

It may not be very intuitive, but you can resize an image only when exporting it from the Photos app to your hard drive. Here’s a thread on the Apple forums about it. (Looks like you’ll have to click the little down arrow ‘↓’ in the Export dialog in order to see the option for “Size”)

If you already have a photo on your hard drive, you can r…[Read more]

Welcome to the forums, @samuelwest! Does your Macbook come with the “Photos” app? That might be the first thing to try. For other ideas, check out this post on the forums about editing software for Macs and this one about editing artwork.
Other editing software that is often recommended here on the forums includes:

• GIMP (free, but clunky to…

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@blessingscaptured, I respectfully disagree that your “falling leaf” photo looks fake. (I mean, yeah, as a photographer I know that it’s pretty much impossible to achieve all that in one photo…) But I think that the subtle “clues” (such as the leaves falling further away being blurred) help to make it a lot more realistic looking. I’d be proud…[Read more]

Perfect! That’s a start! Do keep us posted on your progress if you’d like. I, for one, am intensely interested in the results! I’d love to do some coding like that myself someday, but I have too many other irons in the fire right now. 🙂

You’re very welcome! I hope your fix is successful! Let us know what the results are. 🙂