Tracy Caffrey

Is this one okay?

Will this one work?

Hi - Will this one work? ISO 640 f 8.0 1/160 Thank you

Okay, thank you.

No, I have 3 that are good focus of the whole family. I usually just provide more than that so am going back through to double check I have nothing more. The siblings shots and individuals all I have enough that are in focus. I have never messed up a session like this before. ugh,

Okay last one I am trying to save from this family session where I messed up my settings and shot everything at 1/100 when I normally don't shoot that low. It's just the whole family images that I am struggling with . . . Thoughts?

1/100. I try not to shoot below 1/160 but somehow for this whole session it was at 1/100. I am so upset with myself. I knew something felt offf but didn't stop and take a minute to figure it out. ISO 1000. My f stop was too high as well. Settings just all wrong.

Hi - Help again . . I struggle with pixel peeping with family photos . . . I am use to seniors and close ups where it's easy to see OOF vs sharp focus. I just read your article on pixel peeping . . . is there a general rule of thumb though for family photos at a distance? I don't want to throw out good images because I am viewing too closely. What about the attached? 700x700 crop . . . my shutter speed was too slow compared to what I usually shot at plus had backlit situation. Before I throw it out I just wanted to double check. Noise is also an issue here . . . It's bascially SOOR but appliled a bit of noise but not enough yet.

Nuts, that's what I thought but love the image so wanted to double check. thanks

Attaching the 700x700 crop. Is this too soft focus to be useable? I love the image but don't want to get bit if they love it too and want it bigger than a proof print.

My iMac is running sluggish. I am thinking it's probably because I haven't updated in mmm years. I don't know how long because I am afraid something will go wrong and I will be worse off. So knowing the following, should I be apprehensive about it or just go ahead and get it done? Anything to know? IMac 27 inch, late 2013 3.2 GHz Inte Core i5 memort 8 GB 1600 MHZ DDR3 Running OS X 10.9.4 I am running CC 2015 (need to update that too) and LR mostly i have 3 G Drives plugged in as well Thank you!

I have a very, very old mac laptop. Can i plug it in to that to see if it will mount? Or does that cause issues as well?

MAC (Mac 0S X 10.9.4; 3.2 GHX Intel Core i5: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3) Is this caused because I haven't updated? I am afraid to update as I have heard about problems then with Photoshop, etc

Hi - My Western Digital external drive is not showing up in finder so I went into Disk Utility and it is listed but it's greyed out. So, I highlighted it and clicked to mount but it won't mount. I get an error that says "Mount Failed" The disk"My Book" could not be mounted. Try running First Aid on the disk and then retry mounting" Not sure what to do next as I don't know what running First Aid is . . .is it "verify disk"? Should I do that? I have tried unplugging and replugging back in and nothing. Thanks

What about a RAID System? Or should I just get two separate G Drives? The sales person offered up Western Digital as an option but now I worry about their reliability after reading the above