Lenspiration | Nate Bergen | Activity https://www.lenspiration.com/members/nateb/activity/ Activity feed for Nate Bergen. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:12:33 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 b370352e5b531ad08c21fea7f23924f7 Nate Bergen's profile was updated https://www.lenspiration.com/activity/p/18172/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:18:06 -0400 0 330ffe8b68bfdfbd9b9ba5485e0ae9f9 Nate Bergen replied to the topic Shooting in Manual Mode in the forum Photography Q&A https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/shooting-in-manual-mode/#post-101417 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:21:11 -0400 You’re welcome, ma’am! Glad I could help!

(Btw, VR is called IS {or Image Stabilisation} in Canon’s terminology. {Almost every brand has their own term for it.} I just looked up the lenses you use. If I’m not mistaken, your 18-55mm has it, but you 75-300 doesn’t {feel free to correct me if I’m wrong}. Which is rather unfortunate, cuz it’s a lot…Read more

]]> aadd71a72efc77229e636d14268219bd Nate Bergen replied to the topic Shooting in Manual Mode in the forum Photography Q&A https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/shooting-in-manual-mode/#post-101415 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:54:45 -0400 Sorry, @loewfam, I didn’t see your comment before I posted mine. I guess it depends where you live. Here we have a lot of really sunny days, so 1/500 at f5.6 is often not an issue, but that might not be the case where @kansasgirl lives

]]> 6f3195d77a9627f9d37f64cc4a1999c7 Nate Bergen replied to the topic Shooting in Manual Mode in the forum Photography Q&A https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/shooting-in-manual-mode/#post-101414 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:37:02 -0400 Alright, I’m not sure then why your pics would be dark, cuz f/5.6 with a 1/500 shutter speed should often give you a good pic (assuming you do mostly outdoor shooting). Looking through some of the outdoor pics I took with my T6 (I use an EOS R now, but I was just looking at my T6 pics, since that would be more like the camera you use) and plenty o…Read more

]]> c888bdb22bacb693e5956cc64e61b51e Nate Bergen's profile was updated https://www.lenspiration.com/activity/p/18158/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:57:42 -0400 0 48790594f1a5ac43f7c8cfbbab61ace1 Nate Bergen replied to the topic Shooting in Manual Mode in the forum Photography Q&A https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/shooting-in-manual-mode/#post-101405 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:42:24 -0400 Hi! Without seeing the camera, it’s not quite as easy to know what you need to change, but what aperture and shutter speed do you use?

]]> 7202f2e261040433f127404d4c41a461 Nate Bergen replied to the topic Storage Hard drive in the forum Photography Q&A https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/storage-hard-drive/#post-100808 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:02:04 -0400 Would cloud storage interest you? I store my photos on iCloud (idk what kind of devices you use, but iCloud is really handy if you use Apple devices. Otherwise you’d want to use some other cloud). The disadvantage of cloud storage is that you have to pay a monthly subscription, so in the long run a hard drive (or DAS) would probably be cheaper i…Read more

]]> 6dd03a06f0fcbf5ff1921a564b3262fc Nate Bergen replied to the topic Need Help Deciding in the forum Photography Q&A https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/needing-help-deciding/#post-87759 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:54:32 -0400 Yes’m, glad to help!

]]> 453320e77b22187ab0f4443dcaffdf08 Nate Bergen replied to the topic Need Help Deciding in the forum Photography Q&A https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/needing-help-deciding/#post-87695 Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:42:04 -0400 I wouldn’t say so. I myself made the switch a little under a year ago and there are a few differences, but basically, there isn’t really any difference in how they operate. DSLRs have an optical viewfinder, whereas mirrorless have an electronic viewfinder, but I think that’s the main diff you’ll notice. Oh, come to think of it, the control…Read more

]]> 7f58c1fb687fb441a8e4279dda1dcf5d Nate Bergen replied to the topic Need Help Deciding in the forum Photography Q&A https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/needing-help-deciding/#post-87650 Mon, 24 Jun 2024 21:20:35 -0400 (A while after my last post I realised that I may have misinterpreted what you said, but whatever the case, you have my opinion there and I don’t think it’d take any guesswork to figure out what I think😊)

]]> 8909a1a19141bacf78ae1585d83b47f2 Nate Bergen replied to the topic Need Help Deciding in the forum Photography Q&A https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/needing-help-deciding/#post-87641 Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:03:19 -0400 All three are really good cameras, the best of them being the R6 (which you probably already know). So that’s obviously the one I’d recommend the most, but personally, I’d take an R8 before an RP

]]> e312b16ba3fb81e567666f491ebd4ecc Nate Bergen replied to the topic Need Help Deciding in the forum Photography Q&A https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/needing-help-deciding/#post-87635 Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:46:36 -0400 Hi there! I have a Canon EOS R and I really like it. Would totally recommend it, but what exactly are you looking for? There are quite a few cameras in the R line by now. Based on what you said in the last paragraph, I would assume you’d probably looking for an entry-level camera?

]]> d6175cffded96dd4e917dca764f9d726 Nate Bergen replied to the topic Affinity Photo 2 in the forum Photography Q&A https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/affinity-photo-2/#post-87288 Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:57:30 -0400 I use Luminar Neo, another program with the option of a perpetual license (and it’s got an 81% discount at present). I think you can use the program without a WiFi connection, but I’m not sure. I can’t remember that I’ve ever used it when my MacBook wasn’t connected, so I might be mistaken. But I’ll check it later on, during lunch break or af…Read more

]]> e561c7545227216ed0fb4a43030b799d Nate Bergen replied to the topic Pics of the sun in the forum Photo Critique https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/pics-of-the-sun/#post-86908 Thu, 16 May 2024 01:36:43 -0400 Thanks, @abigail16. Btw, I hope I didn’t sound to fault-finding in my first reply. I mentioned what I thought could be improved on, but failed to mention the strong points of your photo(s).🙈 But if I’d said what I liked about your photos, what I would have said would match closely with what Logan said, so I s’pose there’s not much point in me…Read more

]]> 4a219e1960e32bdf68685e60c8a6e64e Nate Bergen replied to the topic Pics of the sun in the forum Photo Critique https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/pics-of-the-sun/#post-86903 Wed, 15 May 2024 18:46:33 -0400 Thanks for the correction, @loganlamar. I’d forgotten about the aperture trick, never having used it myself. Although I’ve never used a sparkle filter either, I’ve seen pics taken using a sparkle filter and when I saw these pics I immediately assumed that’s what she used. But now that you mention it, I can see the difference, in the second pic at least

]]> a65ed6470c89587469924afcf429037b Nate Bergen replied to the topic Pics of the sun in the forum Photo Critique https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/pics-of-the-sun/#post-86872 Wed, 15 May 2024 02:22:26 -0400 Here are two pics I took. I must admit that the rays aren’t as even in my pics as they are in yours. 🙂

]]> 37793529fa62d1b4600a4d3991073e61 Nate Bergen replied to the topic Pics of the sun in the forum Photo Critique https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/pics-of-the-sun/#post-86871 Wed, 15 May 2024 00:44:07 -0400 Just stating my own opinion here, but I’d say that real sun rays look better than rays made with a sparkle filter. The rays look too artificial, if you know what I mean. I agree that sun rays look great, but imo they need to be real in order to look good. Don’t get me wrong, if you like the looks of sparkle filter sun rays, go for it. I don’t…Read more

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