Delete the ones I don’t like. I mean I take a thousand pictures on a two week vacation. I’m never going to look at 1000 pictures in the future.

It will be narrowed down to about 75, rest are deleted. They have no value to me.

If you don’t, you’ll have a few 100 thousand photos down the road just taking up storage and never looked at.

I view as a dishonest sale and pass on it.

24-70mm any day for more useful.

Sounds like you have it covered. Good luck and have fun!

Too dark for the 70-200 f2.8? No, just too heavy and bulky. The event is not going to wait for you so you need to change lenses quickly so I was thinking light and can fit in a jacket pocket. Unless you have some way to be comfortable working with it. Or were you going on a second camera?

My other thought with this lens are lots of people and you may be close to them most of the time so you likely won’t get the benefit of most of the focal range of this lens. So all the weight for little use. Confirm it when scooping out of site imagining folks all over the place.

Sigma should be good between 20-24mm, probably 24 will get the most use as you don’t want folks looking too small.

Keep it simple as you’re in a low light situation.

Go manual with auto ISO, setting what your high limit will be for ISO.

This is a parade so there is going to be constant movement. It’s at walking speed so try 1/125 shutter speed. Or try walking backwards with the subject and using a slower shutter speed.

Aperture between f2 to 5.6 depending on depth of field needed as well as available light. It’s night time so accept some noise in your images and fix latter. Idea is to get the shot. Better one with some noise vs missing the shot.

Narrow your lens choices down two lens for low light usage and use your feet to make them work. Carry both on you, maybe one in a jacket pocket so you can switch easily. Too many lens, too many choices to make and too many missed shots.

You didn’t say what the wide angle was but I’d test it at the parade time and the location to see how it looks. 24mm or 35mm will work for close up shots, just use your feet to frame how you want.

Other lens might be the 85mm for portrait type shots. Forget the 50mm. 24/35mm & 85mm should have you covered for the distances involved.

Try to have fun!

Build a sand castle on the beach. Hopefully covers what your partner wants.

Both peak over a dune and look at something in between you as a surprise and you could still touch as it wouldn’t be in the photo. Only you would both know.

I’m in the hobby for me, not other people. The world and I has seen so many pictures it’s very hard to be unique enough to show interesting pictures. I see lots of beautiful pictures over the last 30 years but I’ve seen them before in so many cases.

I used to worry about it but decided photography is so much more than a picture, it’s about the experience of the getting and editing them.

So when a picture pops up on my 15" electronic picture frame, it brings back memories for me. I don’t care if it’s not something unique and different.

Those from trips that my wife and I really like, we print and hang them.

I’ve watched a lot of You Tube videos on a wide variety of photography genres to learn lots. One of the key takeaways is you’re not always going to get the shots you want and to take the time to enjoy the experience. Just don’t snap, snap, snap. And to be flexible to take pictures of something else and enjoy those pictures for yourself.

So I have my pictures on my hard drive, I put them on an SD card and load them on my picture frame. Straightforward, easy to do and maintain as I keep a folder on my PC for those I put on the frame.

For my most favorite pictures I’ll be getting them together and transferring them to my phone. If people ask me about my hobby, I can show them. Maybe 30 to 50 pictures that I’ll keep changing up. Because after that, nobody will look at them anyway as there’s just too many and as I said, they likely seen something similar before.

It’s allowed me to relax and renew my interest in the hobby again.

Nightscape Images related to using the Milky Way as a background for the image and other nightscape photography images.

Thomas Heaton is one for landscape but all you have to do is type ‘landscape’ on You Tube and you’ll find plenty of content and providers. They all have something to offer. Just pick a topic.

Well I use a 4 year old 15" Dell laptop & a 27" BenQ monitor.

I got the monitor two years ago when I retired and wished I had gotten it sooner. Makes a huge difference with editing, comparing before and after edits and side by side comparisons of virtual copies edited in different ways to see what I like best for the image.

I have been using editing programs similar to Lightroom since my first DX camera. But switched to Lightroom about 4 years back with my DX D5500 for its consistent upgrading and sticking with a single program to keep expanding my editing skills. Any editing question I have I can find on the Internet as so many use Lightroom.

For me, my goal is to continually get better with my compositions in camera, then to be able to edit them to how I saw them or try new styles with them.

You’ve already received lots of good advice.

Basically you want foreground, mid ground and background for the wide angle lens of your camera, if you can find it.

Research ‘composition for landscape’ on the Internet so you can learn more.

An article like this:

https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=543

For social media, expectation is are your photos unique, else you’re not going to influence anyone, no matter what gear you have.

Just something to keep in mind. “Why would anyone follow you” should be your question to yourself.

You should spend some time doing research on architecture photography.

Seems like you don’t know anything about it otherwise you would have decent time information already to your question.

You have the right thought to me. Break your style. Try new things, experiment, have fun.

Myself, I never really had a style as it is a pure hobby for me. I love taking pictures of any image that catches my eyes. Probably why I look at all kinds of genres so I can take what I see.

Hope you figure out something that works for you.

I don’t look to social media for inspiration.

I occasionally watch YouTube videos for information to refresh my knowledge or learn new things in different areas of photography that I generally don’t shoot. Plenty of the inspiration with learning.

Plus I have a list of over twenty sites where I live to take images on a wide variety of subjects, both day and night.

I run with the Nike slogan “Just do it.”

For $100? Absolutely nothing except a flash unit.

Even the cellphones that might do what you want will likely use its flash and cost over a grand. And if you at any of their images, they have a decent source of light

It’s night time, not daylight. You need light or long exposures to capture things in the dark.

Retired and I have known for a long time that it’s the person behind the camera that takes the great pictures and not the camera. A camera is nothing more than a tool and new ones just make your life easier so you spend more time with composition.

Example: I can do a focus stack hand held with my Z6 or I can carry a tripod around and manually do focus stacking. At my age, I don’t enjoy carrying the extra weight, particularly trying to walk and climb along trails. Newer cameras allow me to do a lot more hand held and save physical wear and tear on me.

I absolutely do not enjoy having to carry a lot of weight to take images. When I started out over 30 years ago, I constantly carried 3 prime lens with me along with a tripod a lot of times. Even then my body would ache.

So the folks you watch can be reverent about the old cameras but I look for stuff to make my life easier and enjoy my surroundings. Currently own a Z6 with no plans to update unless a new Nikon offers something that definitely makes things easier for me to get the shot.

Old gear can be fun but I prefer looking forwards.

Your topic is vague about lighting. And there is so much free information on the Internet and You Tube that I have no idea why you are referring to expensive tutorials.

You can search ’ Understanding light" to learn about light in general, “Event or Wedding Photography” for using flash or “Using flash” or even try “indoor photography” to see if anything pops up. There will usually be enough stuff that you’ll go from video to video or article to article to find all the tidbits needed for what you are trying to do.

Use Aperture priority mode with auto ISO and focus on composition.

Going manual mode creates a lot more unnecessary work with the constantly changing environment. You spend more time focusing on getting the right exposure vs focusing on the composition and miss the shot.

I know how my camera works and I’m quite comfortable using auto settings to reduce the work load.

I do use manual mode when I want a specific aperture and shutter speed combination but leave the camera on auto ISO. I adjust the lower limit of auto ISO to the shutter speed I’m using.

I also use manual mode with TTL flash for indoor shooting.

But 90% of my pictures are shot using aperture priority mode.

Absolutely, they let you fill the subject in your frame.

Cropping images equals resolution loss and noise. You want to avoid that if you can.

Nope, no need to write about it nor do I need a story for it.

An image is something that caught my eye and I took a photo of it. Could be anything in the composition.

Or it’s an image is something I planned for, like a picture of a lighthouse in the pitch dark with the Milky Way behind it.

And it’s not my “work”. It’s my “fun” / “enjoyment” and when I look at my older pictures, that’s what they bring to me. It’s what I do for fun. A hobby!